- Abbie, Andrew Arthur (1905 - 1976)
Elder Chair of Anatomy and Histology 1945 - 1970; Dean, Faculty of Medicine 1950 - 1952
- Aitchison, Gordon James (1918 - 2007?)
Lecturer 1946-1953; Senior Lecturer 1954-1962 [Physics]
- Andrewartha, Herbert George (1907 - 1992)
Reader in Animal Ecology 1954 - 1962; Professor of Zoology 1962 - 1972
- Atkinson, Nancy (1910 - 1999)
Reader in Industrial Microbiology 1961 - 1967; Reader, Department of Oral Biology 1967 - 1975
- Badger, Geoffrey Malcolm (1916 - 2002)
Professor of Organic Chemistry 1955 - 1964; Deputy Vice-Chancellor 1966 - 1967; Vice-Chancellor 1967-77; Research Professor of Organic Chemistry 1977 - 1979
- Barnes, Eric Stephen (1924 - 2000)
Elder Professor of Mathematics, 1959 - 1974; Deputy-Vice Chancellor 1975 - 1980; Professor of Pure Mathematics, 1981 - 1983.
- Basten, Henry Bolton (1903 - 1992)
Vice-Chancellor 1955 - 1962
- Beckwith, Athelstan Laurence Johnson (1930 - 2010)
Professor and Head of Department of Chemistry 1965 - 1980
- Bell, Diane (1943 - )
Honorary Visiting Research Fellow, Department of Anthropology 1996 -
- Bennett, John Henry (1926 - )
John Bennett held multiple positions at the University of Adelaide including Professor of Genetics 1956 - 1991 and Dean for the Faculty of Science 1962 - 1963.
- Bennetts, Luke
Associate Professor, School of Mathematical Sciences 2020 -
- Benson, William Noel (1885 - 1957)
Lecturer in mineralogy and petrology 1908
- Boas, Isaac Herbert (1878 - 1955)
Lecturer in geology and mineralogy 1901 -
- Bonython, Charles Warren (1916 - 2012)
Member of Council 1972 - 1982
- Bowie, John Hamilton (1938 - )
Professor of Organic Chemistry 1983 - 2012; Angas Chair of Chemistry 2008 - 2012; Dean, Faculty of Science 1981 - 1982; Pro-Vice-Chancellor 1989 - 1992
- Boyd, David Murray (1926 - 2016)
Inaugural Professor of Geophysics 1969 - 1992
- Bragg, William Henry (1862 - 1942)
Professor of Physics and Mathematics 1886 -1909
- Briggs, Basil Hugh (1923 - 1994)
- Senior Lecturer (and later Reader) in Physics 1962 - ?1988
- Brown, Gavin (1942 - 2010)
Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) 1992 - 1993; 1994 - 1996; Vice-Chancellor 1994 - 1996
- Browning, Thomas Oakley (1920 - 1998)
Senior Lecturer in Zoology 1953 - 1962; Waite Professor of Entomology 1963 - 1983
- Bruce, Michael Ian (1938 - )
Professor of Physical and Organic Chemistry 1973 - 1982; Angas Professor of Inorganic Chemistry 1982 - 2008
- Bull, Lionel Batley (1889 - 1978)
Lecturer in Biology 1930 - 1933
- Campbell, Thomas Draper (1893 - 1967)
Foundation Professor of Dentistry 1954 - 1958; Dean Faculty of Dentistry 1938 - 1958
- Carey, Alan Lawrence (1949 - )
Professor of Pure Mathematics 1993 - 2001; Dean, School of Mathematical and Computer Sciences 1997 - 2001
- Carver, John Henry (1926 - 2004)
John Carver was Professor of Physics at The University of Adelaide from 1961 to 1978.
Date: 1961 - 1978
- Champion de Crespigny, Constantine Trent (1882 - 1952)
Dean and Chief Examiner in medicine 1929 - 1948
- Chapman, Robert William (1866 - 1942)
Professor of Engineering 1901 - 1907 and 1920 - 1937; Professor of Mathematics and Mechanics 1910 - 1919
- Cleland, John Burton (1878 - 1971)
Marks Professor of Pathology 1920 - 1948
- Coates, John Hewlett (1932 - 2016)
Senior Lecturer, Department of Physical and Inorganic Chemistry 1964 - 1993
- Colquhoun, Thomas Talbot (1904 - 1981)
Thomas Colquhoun was a Lecturer in Botany and Biology at The University of Adelaide from 1929 to 1935.
Date: 1929 - 1935
- Cornish, Edwina Cecily (1955 - )
Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) 2000 - 2003; Professor of Biotechnology 2000 - 2003
- Cox, Barry J.
Senior Lecturer, School of Mathematics Sciences 2010 - 2020
- Culver, Robert (Bob) (1926 - 2009)
Associate Professor / Reader, Civil engineering 1990 - 1991; Reader 1966 - 1989; Senior Lecturer 1954 -1954; Lecturer 1949 - 1953.
- Davies, Peter O A L (1922 - 2008)
Peter Davies was a Lecturer and then Senior Lecturer in Fluid Mechanics at The University of Adelaide from 1950 - 1956.
Date: 1950 - 1956
- Donald, Colin Malcolm (1910 - 1985)
Professor of Agriculture 1954 - 1973; Honorary Research Associate 1973 - ?
- Dornwell, Edith Emily (1865 - 1945)
Received the Sir Thomas Elder Prize in Physiology 1883; first woman to graduate 1885
- Elliott, William Herdman (1925 - 2012)
Professor of Biochemistry 1965 - 1988
- Fincher, Geoffrey Bruce (1946 - )
Professor of Plant Science 1993 -2014
- Fowler, Laura Margaret (1868 - 1952)
First woman to graduate in medicine 1891
- Gécz, Jozef
Professor of Human Genetics 2009 - ; Chair in the Prevention of Childhood Disability 2016 - 2020
- Glaessner, Martin Fritz (1906 - 1989)
Martin Glaessner held multiple positions at The University of Adelaide in Geology and Palaeontology including Reader in Palaeontology (1952) and Emeritus Professor from 1972 until his death in 1989.
Date: 1950 - 1989
- Grant, Kerr (1878 - 1967)
Professor of Physics 1911 - 1948
- Green, Herbert Sydney (1920 - 1999)
Herbert Green was Professor of Mathematical Physics at the University of Adelaide 1951-1985.
Date: 1951 - 1985
- Hamilton, James Alexander Greer (1854 - 1925)
Member of Council 1897 - 1911; Lecturer in Gynaecology 1902 - 1920
- Hetzel, Basil Stuart (1922 - 2017)
Michell Professor of Medicine 1958 - 1968; Chancellor 1992 - 1998
- Hicks, Cedric Stanton (1892 - 1976)
Professor of Human Physiology and Pharmacology 1926-1958.
- Hone, Frank Sandland (1871 - 1951)
Member of Council 1920 - 1949
- Howchin, Walter (1845 - 1937)
Lecturer in Geology and Palaeontology 1902 - 1918; Honorary Professor 1918 -
- Hugo, Graeme John (1946 - 2015)
Professor of Geography, Department of Geographical and Environmental Studies 1992 - 2015; Head of Department of Geography 1992 - 1996
- Hurst, Charles Angas (1923 - 2011)
Professor of Mathematical Physics , 1964 - 1988; Pro-Vice-Chancellor, 1986 - 1988
- Huxley, Leonard George Holden (1902 - 1988)
Professor of Physics 1949 - 1960; Member of Council 1953 - 1960
- Johnston, Thomas Harvey (1881 - 1951)
Professor of Zoology, 1922 - 1951, Professor of Botany, 1928 - 1934
- Jolly, Norman William (1882 - 1954)
Professor of Forestry 1925 - 1926
- Jones, Frederic Wood (1879 - 1954)
Professor of Anatomy 1920 - 1927
- Jordan, Denis Oswald (1914 - 1982)
Professor of Inorganic Chemistry 1954 - 1955; Angas Professor of Physical and Inorganic Chemistry 1955 - 1979; Dean, Faculty of Science 1958 - 1959; Pro Vice-Chancellor 1974 - 1975
- Kerr, Allen (1926 - 2023)
Head, Department of Plant Pathology 1990 - 1991; Head, Department of Crop Protection 1991
- Kile, Benjamin
Executive Dean, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences 2019-
- Lamb, Horace (1849 - 1934)
Professor of Mathematics 1876 - 1885
- Lea, Arthur Mills (1868 - 1932)
Lecturer in Forest Entomology 1912 - 1924
- Lendon, Alfred Austin (1857? - 1935)
Lecturer in forensic medicine 1887 - 1891; Lecturer in Obstetrics and Diseases of Infancy 1901 - 1935
- Lothian, Thomas Robert Noel (Noel) (1915 - 2004)
Member of Council 1978 - 1982 and 1987
- Macbeth, Alexander Killen (1889 - 1957)
Professor of Chemistry 1928 - 1954.
- Macfarlane, Walter Victor (1913 - 1982)
Walter Macfarlane was Emeritus Professor at The University of Adelaide (1979 - ).
Date: 1964 - 1979
- Madigan, Cecil Thomas (1889 - 1947)
Lecturer in Geology 1922 - 1947
- Madsen, John Percival Vissing (1879 - 1969)
Lecturer in Mathematics and Physics 1901 - 1903; Lecturer in Electrical Engineering 1904 - 1909.
- Marshall, Ann (1909 - 2001)
Lecturer, Department of Geography 1958 - 1974
- Martin, Charles James (1866 - 1955)
Professor of Biochemistry and General Physiology 1931 - 1933
- Mawson, Douglas (1882 - 1958)
Lecturer in Mineralogy and Petrology 1905 - 1920; Professor of Geology 1920 - 1952
- McCracken, Kenneth Gordon (1933 - )
Professor of Physics 1966 - 1969
- McMillen, Isabella Caroline (1954 - )
Professor of Physiology and Head of the Department 1992 - 2005
- Melville, James (Jim) (1908 - 1984)
Member of Council 1958 -1978; Acting Deputy Vice-Chancellor 1974
- Mitchell, William (1861 - 1962)
Chancellor, 1942 - 1948; Vice-chancellor, 1916 - 1942; Hughes Professor of English language and literature and mental and moral philosophy, 1895 - 1922.
- Monro, Tanya Mary
Inaugural Professor of Photonics 2005 - 2014; Inaugural Director, Institute for Photonics and Advances Sensing ? - 2014
- Morton, Robert Kerford (1920 - 1963)
Professor of Biochemistry 1962 - 1963
- Newland, Henry Simpson (1873 - 1969)
Lecturer in surgery 1912 - 1938
- O'Kane, Mary Josephine (1954 - )
Vice-Chancellor 1996 - 2001; Professor of Electrical and Electronic Engineering 1992 - 2001
- Osborn, Theodore George Bentley (1887 - 1973)
Professor of Botany 1912 - 1928
- Paton, David Cleland
Head, Discipline of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology 2006 -
- Possingham, Hugh Philip (1962 - )
Foundation Chair and Head, Environmental Science 1995 - 1998; Professor and Head, Department of Applied and Molecular Ecology 1999 - 2000
- Potts, Renfrey Burnard (1925 - 2005)
Foundation Professor of Applied Mathematics 1959 - 1990
- Prescott, John Russell (1924 - 2011)
John Prescott was a Professor of Physics at the University of Adelaide
Date: 1971 - 1983
- Pring, Allan
Research Professor, Chemistry and Physics of Materials 2014 -
- Radcliffe, John Clive
Member of Council 2006 - 2014
- Rennie, Edward Henry (1852 - 1927)
Angas Professor of Chemistry 1885 - 1889; Dean of Science 1887; Member of Council 1889 - 1898 and 1909 - 1927
- Robertson, Rutherford Ness (1913 - 2001)
Professor of Botany 1962 - 1969
- Robertson, Sarah Anne
Professor of Reproductive Immunology 2010 - ; Director, Robinson Research Institute 2013 -
- Robertson, Thorburn Brailsford (1884 - 1930)
Professor of Physiology 1919 - 1926; Professor of Biochemistry and Physiology 1926 - 1930
- Rogers, Arthur Lionel (c. 1860 - 1939)
Arthur Rogers was a instrument maker at The University of Adelaide from 1889.
Date: 1889 -
- Rogers, George Ernest (1927 - 2021)
Professor (personal chair), Department of Biochemistry 1978 - 1992
- Rogers, Richard Sanders (c. 1861 - 1942)
Lecturer in Forensic Medicine 1919 - 1939
- Rogers, William Percy (1914 - 1997)
Professor of Parasitology 1962 - 1966; Professor of Zoology 1952 - 1962; Honorary Research Fellow 1980 - 1988
- Sharman, Geoffrey Bruce (1925 - 2015)
Lecturer in Zoology (1956 - 1958) then Senior Lecturer (1959 - 1961)
Date: 1956 - 1961
- Smith, Frank Andrew (Andrew) (1940 - )
Professor of Botany 1990 - ; Chairman, Department of Botany 1979 - 1982 and 1988; Associate Dean, Faculty of Science 1986 - 1987; Member of Council 1995 - 1997
- Smith, Sarah Elizabeth (Sally) (1941 - 2019)
Professor of Soil Science 1995 - 2006
- Spooner, Edgar Clynton Ross (1908 - 1976)
Professor of Mining and Metallurgy 1947 - 1962
- Stirling, Edward Charles (Ted) (1848 - 1919)
Professor of Physiology 1900 - 1919; Member of Council 1881 - 1919; Dean, Faculty of medicine 1908 - 1917
- Stranks, Donald Richard (1929 - 1986)
Professor of Inorganic Chemistry 1964 - 1977; Vice-Chancellor 1977 - 1986
- Strehlow, Theodor George Henry (1908 - 1978)
Reader in Australian Linguistics 1954 - 1970; personal Chair 1970 - 1974
- Tate, Ralph (1840 - 1901)
Inaugural Elder Chair of Natural Science 1875 - 1901
- Teale, Edmund Oswald
Edmund Teale was a Temporary Lecturer in Geology at The University of Adelaide in 1916.
Date: 1916
- Thomas, Anthony William (Tony) (1949 - )
Professor of Physics 1984 - 1989; Elder Professor of Physics 1990 - 2004; Head, Department of Physics and Mathematical Physics 1988 - 1991; Member of Council 1991 - 1997
- Tuck, Ernest Oliver (Ernie) (1939 - 2009)
Elder Professor of Applied Mathematics 1990 - 2002; Dean, Faculty of Mathematical and Computer Sciences 1993 - 1996
- Verco, Joseph Cooke (1851 - 1933)
Member of Council 1895 - 1902; Dean of the Faculty of Medicine 1919- 1921; Dean, Faculty of Dentistry 1921 - 1928
- Walker, Keith Forbes (1946 - 2016)
Associate Professor in Environmental Biology 1975 - 2007
- Wallace, Gordon (1958 - )
Member, Advisory Board, Mawson Institute (later Future Industries Institute) 2009 -
- Watson, Archibald (1849 - 1940)
Edler Professor of Anatomy 1885 - 1919
- Way, Edward Willis (c. 1847 - 1901)
Lecturer in clinical medicine 1886 - 1889; Lecturer in obstetrics 1886 - 1901
- Webb, Bruce Phillip (1926 - 2000)
Chancellor, 1998 - 2000
- Weigold, Erich (1937 - )
Professor of Physics 1978 - 1982
- Whittington, Ian David (1960 - 2014)
Principal Research Scientist and Associate Professor Department of Zoology 2006 - 2014
- Wilkinson, Herbert John (1891 - 1963)
Professor of Anatomy and Histology 1930 - 1936
- Williams, Michael (1935 - 2009)
Lecturer in Geography 1961 - 1978
- Williams, William David (1936 - )
Professor of Zoology 1975 - 1994
- Wilton, John Raymond (1884 - 1944)
Elder Professor of Mathematics 1919 -
- Wiskich, Joseph Tony (Joe) (1935 - )
Professor of Botany 1995 - 2000
- Womersley, Hugh Bryan Spencer (Bryan) (1922 - 2011)
Professor (personal chair), Department of Botany 1974 - 1987; Emeritus Professor 1987 - 2011
- Wood, Joseph Garnett (1900 - 1959)
Professor of Botany 1935 - 1959