Professor Emerita Dianne Yerbury, an Australian academic and university administrator, was the Vice-Chancellor of Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia from 1987 to 2005. She was Australia's first female Vice-Chancellor, and was also the longest serving Vice-Chancellor of Macquarie University. In 1987 she was also made Professor Emerita at the University of New South Wales. She was named the 2002 Telstra New South Wales Business Woman of the Year and from 2003-05 she held the positions of vice-president and president of the Australian Vice-Chancellors' Committee.