Editing University of Sydney (section)

=== Notable alumni ===
University of Sydney alumni have made significant contributions to both Australia and the world for the past {{age|1850|range=no}} years.

Notable alumni of Sydney include eight [[Prime Minister of Australia|prime ministers]], the most of any university, five [[Chief Justice of Australia|chief justices]] of the [[High Court of Australia|High Court]], four [[List of Australian Leaders of the Opposition|federal opposition leaders]], two [[Governor-General of Australia|governors-general]], nine [[Attorney-General of Australia|federal attorneys-general]], 13 [[Premier of New South Wales|premiers of New South Wales]] and 26 [[List of justices of the High Court of Australia|justices]] of the [[High Court of Australia|High Court]]—more than any other law school in Australia. The faculty has also produced 24 [[Rhodes Scholar]]s and several [[Gates Cambridge Scholarship|Gates Scholars]]. Internationally, alumni of Sydney Law School include the third president of the [[United Nations General Assembly]] and a president of the [[International Court of Justice]] (in each case, the only Australians to date to hold such positions).

The University of Sydney is associated with five [[Nobel Prize|Nobel laureates]]: in chemistry [[John Cornforth]] (alumnus; the only Nobel Laureate born in [[New South Wales]]) and [[Robert Robinson (organic chemist)|Robert Robinson]] (staff); in economics, [[John Harsanyi]] (alumnus); and in physiology or medicine, [[John Eccles (neurophysiologist)|John Eccles]] and [[Bernard Katz]] (both staff).
[[File:University of Sydney School of Physics (landscape).jpg|thumb|The [[University of Sydney School of Physics|School of Physics]]]]
The School of Physics has played an important role in the development of [[radio astronomy]] in particular:<ref>{{cite web |title=University of Sydney Hall of Fame |url=http://sydney.edu.au/science/about_us/fame.shtml |website=University of Sydney |access-date=25 September 2017 |archive-date=8 October 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171008022426/http://sydney.edu.au/science/about_us/fame.shtml |url-status=live}}</ref> [[Ruby Payne-Scott]] conducted the first [[interferometric]] observations in radio astronomy with the [[Sea interferometry|sea-cliff interferometer]] at [[Dover Heights, New South Wales|Dover Heights]]; alumnus [[Ronald N. Bracewell|Ron Bracewell]] proposed the [[nulling interferometer]] to image [[extrasolar planets]], made contributions to the theory of the [[Fourier Transform]] and [[X-ray tomography]], and proposed the idea of the [[Bracewell probe]] in [[SETI]]; and alumnus [[Bernard Mills]] led the construction of the [[Mills Cross Telescope]] and [[Molonglo Observatory Synthesis Telescope]] in the [[Australian Capital Territory|ACT]]. School of Physics alumnus and [[Crafoord Prize|Crafoord Laureate]] [[Edwin Ernest Salpeter|Edwin Salpeter]] discovered the form of the [[initial mass function]] of stars, the importance of [[Isotopes of beryllium|beryllium-8]] in [[triple-alpha process|stellar nuclear fusion]], and independently with [[Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich|Yakov Zel'dovich]] proposed the [[black hole]] [[accretion disk]] model of [[active galactic nuclei]]. The [[Apollo 14]] Mission Scientist [[Philip K. Chapman]] and the first Australian-born astronaut to fly in space [[Paul Scully-Power]] are both alumni of the university. [[Chaos theory]] pioneer and [[Crafoord Prize|Crafoord Laureate]] [[Robert May, Baron May of Oxford|Robert May]] is an alumnus of and former professor at the School of Physics, best known for his exploration of the [[logistic map]] [[Bifurcation theory|bifurcations]].

In the performing arts, notable alumni include soprano [[Joan Sutherland]]; Shakespearean actor [[John Bell (Australian actor)|John Bell]], producer and director [[Dolph Lundgren]]; and Bahraini–Sri Lankan actress [[Jacqueline Fernandez]].
In international politics, notable alumni include former chief minister of [[Uttar Pradesh]], [[Akhilesh Yadav]] and premier of [[British Columbia]], [[John Horgan]]. In community activism, notable alumni include [[Aboriginal Australian|Aboriginal]] activist [[Charles Perkins (Aboriginal activist)|Charlie Perkins]]; feminists [[Eva Cox]] and [[Germaine Greer]].