prominent u.s. alumni
| Mr John Ballen | (The University of New South Wales 1981); CEO, MFS Investments |
| Dr Marlene Oscar Berman | (The University of New England 1991); Professor of Psychiatry, Director, Laboratory of Neuropsychology and Director of the Behavioral Neuroscience Ph.D. Program, Boston University School of Medicine. |
| Dr John Brazil | (The University of Sydney 1980); President, Trinity University. |
| Dr George Crumb | (The University of Western Australia 1984); Pulitzer Prize Winning Composer; former BMI Composer-in-Residence, Blair School of Music, Vanderbilt University; Professor of Music Emeritus, University of Pennsylvania. |
| Professor Samuel Dash | (Monash University and The University of Melbourne, 1977); Professor of Law; Director, Institute of Criminal Law and Procedure, Georgetown University Law Center; Ethics Counsel to the Independent Counsel, 1994-98; Chief Counsel and Staff Director, Senate Watergate Committee, 1973-74. |
| Dr Cathy Davidson | (Monash University 1994); Vice Provost, Duke University; Ruth F. Devarney Professor of English, Duke University. |
| Dr John Hope Franklin | (The Australian National University 1960); Professor of History Emeritus, Duke University; Chair, President's Dialogue on Race, 1998-99. In 2007 John Hope Franklin received a Fulbright Alumni Association Lifetime Achievement Medal. |
| Dr Nathan Glazer | (Various, 1977); Professor of Education and Sociology Emeritus, Harvard University; Co-editor, The Public Interest (former member of Fulbright Scholarship Board). |
| Dr Ted Robert Gurr | (La Trobe University, 1981); University Research Professor and Founder and Director, Minorities at Risk Project, Center for International Development and Conflict Management, University of Maryland; Former President of International Studies Association. |
| Dr Joan Hoff | (Monash University, 1986); Professor of History, Montana State University- Bozeman; Visiting James Pinckney Harrison Professor of History, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg. |
| Dr Joshua Lederberg | (The University of Melbourne 1957); Nobel Prize for Medicine 1958; President Emeritus, Rockefeller University. |
| Ambassador Thomas R. Pickering | (The University of Melbourne 1954); Vice President, International Relations, Boeing Company; Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs, 1997-2000; U.S. Ambassador to Russia; India; U.S. Permanent Representative to the UN; Ambassador to Israel, El Salvador; Nigeria; Jordan. |
| Mr Raymond Vickers | (The University of Adelaide 1968); Senior Vice President and General Counsel, Edison Mission Energy |