- Aitchison, Gordon James (1918 - 2007?)
Senior Lecturer 1962-1966; Reader 1966-68 [Physics]
- Anderson, Brian David Outram (1941 - )
Professor of Systems Engineering 1981 - 1993; Head, Department of Systems Engineering 1982 - 1991; Director of the Research School of Information Sciences and Engineering 1994 - 2002; awarded Chancellor's Special Commendation and Medal 2004
- Anderson, John Stuart (1908 - 1990)
Visiting Fellow, Research School of Chemistry 1981 - 1990
- Asplund, Martin (1970 - )
Professor, Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics 2006 - 2007
- Bachor, Hans-Albert (1952 - )
Professor of Physics 1995 - 2011
- Barber, Michael Newton (1947 - )
Professor of Mathematics 1984 - 1993; Dean of the Faculty of Science 1990 - 1993
- Barnard, Amanda (1971 - )
Senior Professor of Computational Science and Deputy Director, School of Computing 2020 -
- Barwick, Richard Essex (Dick) (1929 - 2012)
Reader, Department of Zoology, School of General Studies 1969 - 1994
- Baxter, Rodney James (1940 - 2025)
Professor of Theoretical Physics 1981 - 2002
- Beckwith, Athelstan Laurence Johnson (1930 - 2010)
Professor of Organic Chemistry 1981 - 1995
- Bell, Genevieve (1967 - )
Florence Violet McKenzie Chair 2017 - ; Director, School of Cybernetics 2021 - 2023; Vice-Chancellor 2024 - 2025
- Bennett, Martin Arthur (1935 - )
Professor, Research School of Chemistry 1991 - 2000
- Bessell, Michael (1942 - )
Professor, College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences 1988 -
- Birbilis, Nick
Deputy Dean, College of Engineering and Computer Science 2018 -
- Birch, Arthur John (1915 - 1995)
Foundation Professor of Organic Chemistry 1967 - 1980; Dean, Research School of Chemistry 1967 - 1970 and 1973 - 1976
- Boardman, Norman Keith (Keith) (1926 - )
Member of Council 1979 - 1991
- Bok, Bart Jan (1906 - 1983)
Professor of Astronomy 1957 - 1966
- Booth, Hilary Susan (1956 - 2005)
Research Fellow, Centre for Bioinformation Science (CBiS) 2002 - 2005
- Boyden, Stephen Vickers
Professorial Fellow in Human Ecology, Centre for Resource and Environmental Studies 1965 - 1990
- Bradbury, James Howard (Howard) (1927 - 2016)
Retired as Reader in Chemistry 1988
- Brent, Richard Peirce (1946 - )
Foundation Professor of Computer Science 1978 - 1985; Professor and Head of the Computer Sciences Laboratory 2005 - 2010
- Brown, Timothy Carlisle (Tim) (1953 - )
Professor of Statistics 2002 - 2007; Dean, College of Science 2002 - 2007
- Bryce, Robert Aitken (Bob) (1940 - 2017)
Reader, Department of Mathematics 1983 - 2003
- Buchdahl, Hans Adolph (1919 - 2010)
Inaugural Professor of Theoretical Physics 1963 - 1985
- Campbell, Kenton Stewart Wall (1927 - 2017)
Dean, Faculty of Science 1978 - 1989; Professor of Geology 1982 - 1983
- Carey, Alan Lawrence (1949 - )
Director, Mathematics Sciences Institute 2002 - 2012
- Carr, Denis John (1915 - 2008)
Professor of Developmental Biology, Research School of Biological Sciences 1968 - 1980
- Carver, John Henry (1926 - 2004)
John Carver was a Professor of Physics and Director of the Research School of Physical Sciences at the Australian National University (ANU), in 1994 the ANU named a building after him at the Research School of Physical Sciences and Engineering.
Date: 1978 -
- Catcheside, David Guthrie (1907 - 1994)
Foundation Director, Research School of Biological Sciences 1964 - 1972
- Chappell, Bruce William (1936 - 2012)
Professor of Geology 1992 - 1997
- Chappell, John Michael Arthur (1940 - 2018)
Professor of Geomorphology and Quaternary Research 2002 - 2005
- Chubb, Ian William (1943 - )
Vice-Chancellor 2001 - 2011
- Compston, William (1931 - 2025)
Joined the Department of Geophysics 1961
- Coote, Michelle Louise
Professor of Chemistry 2011 -
- Craig, David Parker (1919 - 2015)
Foundation Professor of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry 1967 - 1984; Dean, Research School of Chemistry 1970 - 1973
- Crisp, Michael Douglas (Mike) (1950 - )
Head of School, Division of Botany and Zoology 2000 - 2004; Professor (personal char) 2004 -
- Crook, Keith Alan Waterhouse (1933 - 2020)
Visiting Fellow 2004 - 2017
- Curtis, David Roderick (1927 - 2017)
University Fellow 1993 - 1995
Date: 1954 - 1995
- Dopita, Michael Andrew (1946 - 2018)
Professor of Astronomy 1994 - ?2011
- Dracoulis, George Dennis (1944 - 2014)
Professor and Head, Department of Nuclear Physics, Research School of Physical Sciences and Engineering 1992 - 2009
- Eccles, John Carew (1903 - 1997)
Professor of Physiology 1951 - 1966.
- Edwards, Robert Edmund (1926 - 2020)
Professor of Mathematics, Institute of Advanced Studies1970 - 1986
- Eggen, Olin Jeuck (1919 - 1998)
Professor of Astronomy 1966 - 1977
- Elix, John Alan (Jack) (1941 - )
Lecturer (later Professor) in Chemistry 1967 - 2002
- Elliott, William Herdman (1925 - 2012)
Fellow and Professor of Biochemistry (personal chair) 1957 - 1965
- Ennor, Arnold Hughes (Hugh) (1912 - 1977)
Deputy Vice-Chancellor 1964 - 1967
- Evans, Denis James (1951 - )
Professor of Chemistry and Leader of the Liquid States Chemical Physics Group, Research School of Chemistry 1989 - ; Academic Director of the Australian National University Supercomputer Facility 1989 - 1992; Dean, Research School of Chemistry 1998 - 2007
- Farquhar, Graham Douglas (1947 - )
Distinguished Professor of Environmental Biology, Research School of Biological Sciences 2003 -
- Fenner, Frank John (1914 - 2010)
Director, Centre for Resource and Environmental Studies 1973 - 1979.
- Fletcher, Neville Horner (1930 - 2017)
Neville Fletcher was a Adjunct Professor (1990 - 1995) and later a Visiting Fellow (1995 onwards) at the Australian National University.
Date: 1990 - 2017
- Florey, Howard Walter (1898 - 1968)
Howard Florey was Chancellor of the Australian National University from 1965 until 1968.
Date: 1965 - 1968
- Gascoigne, Sidney Charles Bartholemew (1915 - 2010)
Reader 1951 - 1961; Assistant Director Research 1961 - 1967; Professor 1964 - 1980)
- Gibson, Frank William Ernest (1923 - 2008)
Fellow1989 - 1991
- Golson, Jack (1926 - 2023)
Foundation Professor of Prehistory, Research School of Pacific Studies 1969 - 1991
- Gottschalk, Alfred (1894 - 1973)
Honorary Fellow 1959 - 1963
- Green, David Headley (1936 - 2024)
Deputy Vice-Chancellor 1998; Director, School of Earth Sciences 1998 - 2001
- Hales, Anton Linder (1911 - 2006)
Foundation Director, Research School of Earth Sciences 1973 - 1978
- Hall, Peter Gavin (1951 - 2016)
Professor of Statistics 1988 - 1991
- Hannan, Edward James (1921 - 1994)
Professor of Statistics and Head, Department of Statistics, School of General Studies 1959 - 1970; Professor of Statistics, Institute of Advanced Studies 1971 - 1986; Head, Department of Statistics, Institute of Advanced Studies 1982 - 1985
- Hardham, Adrienne Ruth
Professor and Group Leader, Plant Cell Biology Group, Research School for Biological Sciences (RSBS) c1992 -
- Hayes, William (1913 - 1994)
Professor and Head of Genetics 1974 - 1978; Emeritus Professor of Genetics 1979 - 1994
- Heinsohn, Robert
Professor of Evolutionary and Conservation Biology, Fenner School of Environment and Society (at 2023)
- Hercus, Luise Anna (1926 - 2018)
Senior Lecturer (later Reader) in Sanskrit, Department of South Asian and Buddhist Studies 1969 - 1991
- Heyde, Christopher Charles (1939 - 2008)
School of Mathematical Sciences: Professor of Statistics 1992 - 2005 and Foundation Dean 1989 - 2002
- Horridge, George Adrian (Adrian) (1927 - 2024)
Professor of Neurobiology 1968 - 1993
- Huxley, Leonard George Holden (1902 - 1988)
Vice-Chancellor 1960 - 1967
- Hyde, Bruce Godfrey (1925 - 2014)
Professor of Inorganic Chemistry 1979 - 1990
- Isaev, Alexander (1964 - 2019)
Professor, Mathematical Sciences Institute 2014 - 2019
- Israelachvili, Jacob Nissim (1944 - 2018)
Senior (later Professorial Fellow), Institute of Advanced Studies 1977 - 1986; Head of the Department of Applied Mathematics 1984 - 1985
- Jaeger, John Conrad (1907 - 1979)
Professor of Geophysics 1951 - 1972
- Jagadish, Chennupati (1957 - )
Professor and Head of Semiconductor Optoelectronics and Nanotechnology Group 1999 - ; Distinguished Professor, Research School of Physics and Engineering 2009 -
- Jennings, Joseph Newell (Joe) (1916 - 1984)
Professorial fellow in Geomorphology 1966 - 1977
- Jones, Rhys Maengwyn (1941 - 2001)
Professor, Department of Archaeology and Natural History 1993 - 2001
- Kennett, Brian Leslie Norman (1948 - )
Professor of Seismology, Research School of Earth Sciences 1991 - ; Pro Vice-Chancellor and Chairman of the Board, Institute of Advanced Studies, 1994 - 1997
- Kovács, László György (Laci) (1936 - 2013)
Fellow (later Senior Fellow), Department of Mathematics 1963 - 2001
- Lambeck, Kurt (1941 - )
Professor of Geophysics, Research School of Earth Sciences 1977 - 2007; Director, Research School of Earth Sciences 1984 - 1992
- Lawrence, Peter (1921 - 1987)
Peter Lawrence worked at the Australian National University between 1948 and 1957.
Date: 1948 - 1957
- Le Couteur, Kenneth James (1920 - 2011)
Foundation Professor of Theoretical Physics, Institute of Advanced Studies 1956 - 1985
- Lehrer, Gustav Isaac (1947 - )
Professor and Head, Centre for Mathematics and its Applications 1996 - 1998
- Letham, David Stuart (Stuart) (1926 - 2025)
Professorial Fellow 1986 - 1991; Head of Plant Cell Biology 1988 - 1991
- Mahler, Kurt (1903 - 1988)
Professor of Mathematics, Institute of Advanced Studies 1963 - 1968
- Mander, Lewis Norman (Lew) (1939 - 2020)
Professor of Chemistry, Research School of Chemistry 1980 - 2002; Dean, Research School of chemistry 1981 - 1986 and 1992 - 1995
- Martin, Raymond Leslie (1926 - 2020)
Professor of Inorganic Chemistry 1972 - 1977; Dean, Research School of Chemistry, Institute of Advanced Studies 1976 - 1977
- McBryde, Isabel (1934 - )
Professor of Prehistory 1986 - 1994
- McClure-Griffiths, Naomi Melissa (1975 - )
Professor of Radio Astronomy, Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics 2015 -
- McDougall, Ian (1935 - 2018)
Professor, Research School of Earth Sciences 1991 - 2000
- McIntosh, Alan Gaius Ramsay (1942 - 2016)
Professor, School of Mathematical Sciences 1999 - 2014
- McKay, Brendan Damien (1951 - )
Professor of Computer Science 1998 -
- McKenzie, Florence Violet (1890 - 1982)
The Florence Violet McKenzie Chair was established in 2017
- McLennan, Ian Munro (1909 - 1998)
Member of Council 1955 - 1961
- Mercer, Geoffrey Norman (1962 - 2014)
Research Fellow, National Centre of Epidemiology and Population Health (NCEPH) 2009 - 2014
- Moore, John Barratt (1941 - 2013)
Professor, Department of Systems Engineering 1990 -
- Moran, Patrick Alfred Pierce (1917 - 1988)
Foundation Professor of Statistics 1952 - 1982; Honorary Visiting Fellow National Health and Medical Research Council Social Psychiatry Research Unit 1983 - 1988
- Mould, Jeremy Richard (1949 - )
Professor of Astronomy 1993 - c.2001; Director, Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics 1993 - c.2001
- Moyal, Jose Enrique (1910 - 1998)
Jose Moyal was a Reader in the Department of Statistics at the Institute of Advanced Studies based at the Australian National University (ANU) from 1958 until 1964. In 1977 the ANU awarded Jose Moyal an Honorary Doctorate in Science.
Date: 1958 - 1977
- Mulvaney, Derek John (John) (1925 - 2016)
Foundation Professor, Faculty of Arts 1971 - 1985
- Neeman, Amnon (1957 - )
Professor, Centre for Mathematics and its Applications, Mathematical Sciences Institute 2003 -
- Neumann, Bernhard Hermann (1909 - 2002)
Professor and Head, Department of Mathematics, Institute of Advanced Studies 1962 - 1974
- Neumann, Hanna (1914 - 1971)
Professor and Head of Department of Pure Mathematics, School of General Studies 1964 - 1971.
- Nichol, Lawrence Walter (1935 - 2015)
Vice-Chancellor 1988 - 1993; Chairman of the Board, Institute of Advanced Studies 1980 - 1985
- Ninham, Barry William (1936 - )
Foundation Professor and Head of Department of Applied Mathematics, Research School of Physical Sciences and Engineering 1971 - 2000
- Nix, Henry Allan (1937 - 2022)
Professor and Director, Centre for Resource and Environment Studies 1986 - 1999
- Oliphant, Marcus Laurence Elwin (1901 - 2000)
Director of the Research School of Physical Sciences (1950 - 1963); Professor of Physics and Ionised Gases (1950 - 1963); Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Advanced Studies (1964 - 1967).
- Osmond, Charles Barry (Barry) (1939 - )
Director, Research School of Biological Sciences 1991 - 1998
- Parker, Alan James (Jim) (1933 - 1982)
Professorial Fellow, Research School of Chemistry 1969 -1974
- Paterson, Mervyn Silas (1925 - 2020)
Mervyn Paterson has held multiple positions at the Australian National University within the Department of Geophysics and Geochemistry (1953 - 1987) and Research School of Earth Sciences (1987 - 1991). From 1991 onwards he became a Emeritus Professor.
Date: 1953 -
- Pryor, Lindsay Dixon (1915 - 1998)
Professor of Botany, School of General Studies 1958 - 1976
- Radom, Leo (1944 - )
Professor, Research School of Chemistry 1991 - 2003
- Raphael, Beverley (1934 - 2018)
Professor of Psychiatry and Addictive Medicine 2006 - 2017
- Raupach, Michael (1950 - 2015)
Director, Climate Change Institute 2014 - 2015
- Rickards, Rodney Warren (1934 - 2007)
Professorial Fellow 1968 - 1992; Professor, Research School of Chemistry 1992 - 2000
- Ringwood, Alfred Edward (Ted) (1930 - 1993)
Professor of Geophysics 1963 - 1967; Professor of Geochemistry 1967 - 1978; Director, Research School of Earth Sciences 1978 - 1983
- Robertson, David Stirling (1920 - 1999)
David Robertson was Fellow then Senior Fellow of the Research School of Physics at the Australian National University (1954 - 1964).
Date: 1954 - 1964
- Robertson, Rutherford Ness (1913 - 2001)
Director, Research School of Biological Sciences 1973 - 1978; Pro-Chancellor 1984 - 1986
- Robinson, Derek William (1935 - 2021)
Professor of Mathematics, Centre for Mathematics and its Applications 1982 - 2000
- Rodgers, Alexander William (1932 - 1997)
Professor of Astronomy 1974 - 1992
- Ross, Ian Gordon (1926 - 2006)
Professor of Chemistry 1968 - 1977; Dean, Faculty of Science 1972 - 1973; Deputy Vice-Chancellor 1977 - 1988; Pro Vice-Chancellor (Special Projects) 1989 - 1990
- Sackett, Penny D. (1956 - )
Director of the Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics 2002 - 2007
- Sambridge, Malcolm Scott
Professor of Seismology and Mathematical Geophysics, Research School of Earth Sciences 2008 - ; Head of Seismology and Mathematical Geophysics, Research School of Earth Sciences 2006 -- 2016
- Sargeson, Alan McLeod (1930 - 2008)
Professorial Fellow 1968 - 1978; Professor of Inorganic Chemistry 1978 - 1995
- Schmidt, Brian Paul (1967 - )
Distinguished Professor 2010 - ; Vice-Chancellor and President 2016 - 2023
- Scott, Susan M.
Professor of Theoretical Physics 2009 -
- Serjeantson, Susan Wyber (1946 - )
Director, Institute of Advanced Studies, and Deputy Vice-Chancellor 1994 - 1997
- Simon, Leon Melvyn (1945 - )
Professor of Mathematics 1981 - 1986
- Slatyer, Ralph Owen (1929 - 2012)
Professor of Biology, Research School of Biological Sciences 1967 - 1972; Distinguished Scholar in Residence, Research School of Biological Sciences 1993 -
- Snyder, Allan Whitenack (1940 - )
Distinguished Professor and Peter Karmel Chair of Science and the Mind 1997 - 2006; Foundation Director, Centre for the Mind 1997 - 2006
- Stanner, William Edward Hanley (Bill) (1905 - 1981)
Professor of Anthropology and Sociology, Institute of Advanced Studies 1964 - 1970; Member of Council 1965 - 1968
- Taylor, Stuart Ross (Ross) (1925 - 2021)
Professorial Fellow, Research School of Earth Sciences 1973 - 1990; Member of Council 1971 - 1976
- Titterton, Ernest William (1916 - 1990)
Foundation Professor of Nuclear Physics 1950 - 1968; Dean Research School of Physical Sciences 1966 - 1968; Director Research School of Physical Sciences 1968 - 1973; Professor of Nuclear Physics 1973 - 1981; Visiting Fellow, Department of Nuclear Physics 1981 - 1987
- Trudinger, Neil Sidney (1942 - )
Head, Department of Pure Mathematics 1973 - 1979; Dean, School of Mathematical Sciences 1992 - 2000 ; Director, Centre for Mathematical Analysis and its Application 1982 - 1990
- Turner, John Stewart (Stewart) (1930 - 2022)
Professor of Geophysical Fluid Dynamics, Research School of Earth Sciences 1975 - 1995
- Tyndale-Biscoe, Cecil Hugh (Hugh) (1929 - )
Reader in Zoology 1970 - 1975
- Walker, Brian Harrison (1940 - )
Member, Scientific Advisory Board, Research School of Biological Sciences 1995 - 1999
- Ward, Hugh Kingsley (1887 - 1972)
Member of Interim Council, 1948 - 1951; Member of Council, 1951 - 1953
- Weatherley, Alan Harold (1928 - 2012)
Reader in Zoology 1961 - 1973
- Weigold, Erich (1937 - )
Director, Research School of Physical Sciences and Engineering 1992 - 2002; Professor, Atomic and Molecular Physics Laboratories 2002 - 2008
- White, Frederick William George (1905 - 1994)
Member of Council 1960 - 1979
- White, John William (1937 - 2023)
Professor of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry 1985 - 2013; Pro-Vice-Chancellor and Chairman of the Board, Institute of Advanced Studies 1992 - 1994; Dean, Research School of Chemistry 1995 - 1998
- Williams, James Stanislaus (Jim) (1948 - )
Foundation Professor and Head, Department of Electronic Materials Engineering 1988 - 1998; Director, Research School of Physical Sciences and Engineering 2002 - 2012
- Wilson, Susan Ruth (1948 - 2020)
Professor of Statistical Science, Centre for Mathematics and its Applications 1994 - 2008; Director, Centre for Bioinformation Sciences 2001 - 2008
