King's Birthday Honours

Professor Katina D'Onise
Current titleholder
For significant service to public health through translational research, and policy and legislative reform.

The late Dr Arnold Gillespie
Former staff member
For significant service to medicine, particularly as an advocate for voluntary assisted dying.

Amanda Gordon 
B A 1977, B A (Hons) 1978
For significant service to psychology, and to the multicultural community.

Dr Geoffrey David Higgins 
M B B S 1977, Ph D (Med) 1992 
For significant service to medicine through clinical virology testing technology, and to microbiology.

Dr Colin Croft Twelftree
B D S 1967, B Sc (Dent)(Hons) 1974, M D S 1976
For significant service to orthodontics, to education, and to professional associations.

Alexander James Ward
LL B 1985
For significant service to the legal profession, and to the arts.

Gregory Lawrence Aldridge
Grad Dip App Psych 1989
For service to community health.

Alan Kimber Field
B A 1956, Dip Sec Ed 1958
For service to the community through music, and to education.

The late Graydon Read Henning
B Ec 1961, B A (Hons) 1964
For service to maritime history, and to tertiary education.

Major Kevin John Heyne 
M Proj Mgmt 2004
For meritorious service in the fields of safety, logistics and modernisation within the Australian Army Cadets.

Dr Richard David Johnson
Former University titleholder 
For service to medicine, and to hospital administration.

Rosemary (Rosie) Liston Johnston 
Grad Dip Psych 2021
For service to the arts, and to the community.

Raymond Hunter Kidd 
R D Oen 1949
For service to the arts as a patron, and to oenology.

Dr Pauline Margaret Morgan 
B Sc 1972, B A 1985, B A (Hons) 1987
For service to the Catholic Church of Australia, and to education.

Rabbi Jacqueline Ninio
B A (Jur) 1989, LL B 1991
For service to the Jewish community, and to interfaith organisations.

Joy Nugent 
Grad Cert Ber & Pall Couns 1999
For service to nursing, particularly to palliative care.

Reginald Ernest Palmer 
B A 1967, Dip Prim Ed 1967
For service to primary and secondary education.

Dr Jonathan Percy Howard Rogers
B D S 1976, Grad Cert Dent 1997
For service to dentistry in a range of roles.

Nanette (Nan) Gwendoline Sharp 
B Ed 1989, M Ed (Dis) 1992
For service to the community of southern Adelaide.

Caroline Mary Mealor
B A (Jur) 1991, LL B (Hons) 1993
For outstanding public service in providing strategic leadership and reforms in the Attorney-General’s Department.

Andrew Robert MacDonald 
Grad Cert Mgmt 2011, Grad Dip Bus Admin 2011, M B A 2012
For outstanding public service in local government providing strategic leadership during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Dr Stephanie Davis 
M B B S 2004
For outstanding public service through sustained leadership in supporting Australia’s primary health care system throughout and beyond the COVID-19 pandemic.

William Arthur Whitford 
M B A 2003
For outstanding public service in the financial sector.

View the full list of 2024 recipients.

View the list of past recipients.