List of University of Queensland people

This is a list of University of Queensland people. The University of Queensland has numerous notable alumni and faculty.

Notable alumni

Academia

Jock R. Anderson, agricultural economist at the World Bank; emeritus professor at the University of New England
Paul Brindley, professor of microbiology, immunology, and tropical medicine at George Washington University
Edward Byrne, Principal of King's College London; Vice-Chancellor of Monash University
Colin Clark, economist
Raymond Dart, anatomist and anthropologist, who discovered the first fossil of an Australopithecus africanus
Peter C. Doherty, immunologist, Nobel Prize recipient and former Australian of the Year
Joshua Gans, economist
Sam Hawgood, Chancellor of University of California, San Francisco
Dorothy Hill, palaeontologist, who was described as the "most distinguished scholar of the first 75 years of the University of Queensland"^[1]
Ove Hoegh-Guldberg, biologist and climate scientist known as a leading in the effects of climate change on coral reefs
Philip Hogg, Head of ACRF Centenary Cancer Research Center at the Centenary Institute
Donald Markwell, social scientist and Warden of Rhodes House
Michael McRobbie, 18th President of Indiana University
Dirk Moses, historian, professor of modern history at the University of Sydney, widely regarded as a leading expert on the history of genocide and ethnic cleansing, and on the history of colonialism
Adrian Pagan, economist
James Page, educationist
A. W. Pryor, physicist
Chandreshekhar Sonwane, Indian American Scientist
Professor Paul Thomas AM, founding Vice-Chancellor of University of the Sunshine Coast
Colin Murray Turbayne, Professor of Philosophy at University of Rochester and internationally recognized scholar on the works of George Berkeley^[2]
Chelsea Watego, Indigenous health researcher
Frank T. M. White, Foundation Professor, Mining and Metallurgical Engineering, University of Queensland; Macdonald Professor of Mining Engineering and Applied Geophysics, McGill University
Franklin White, public health scientist focused on capacity building for international and global health
Joy Wolfram, nanoscientist
Craig Steven Wright, computer scientist, one of the possible inventors of the Bitcoin digital currency
Patsy Yates, registered nurse specialized in palliative care, Distinguished Professor and Executive Dean of the Faculty of Health, Queensland University of Technology (Brisbane)

Arts

Thea Astley, writer and four times winner of the Miles Franklin Award
John Birmingham, novelist
Bille Brown, actor and playwright
Ross Clark, poet
Nick Earls, novelist
Janet Fielding, actress
Janet Fletcher, linguist
Matt Granfield, writer
Steven Herrick, writer
Janette Turner Hospital, writer
Astrid Jorgensen, musician
Madhan Karky, lyricist, screenwriter
Bronwyn Lea, poet
David Malouf, writer
Geoffrey Rush, actor and Academy Award recipient
Karin Schaupp, guitarist
Joseph Twist, composer
Kim Wilkins, writer
Anita Monro, theologian, academic and Uniting Church in Australia minister

Business

Kathryn Fagg AO, chair of the CSIRO from 2021^[3]^[4]
Richard Goodmanson, former COO of Dupont; Board of Qantas
Sir Ronald Gordon Jackson AK, businessman
Andrew N. Liveris, CEO of Dow Chemical Company, second largest chemical manufacturer in the world
Vaine Nooana-Arioka, Executive Director of the Bank of the Cook Islands

Judicial

Sir Gerard Brennan, former Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia
Ian Callinan, former Justice of the High Court of Australia
Sir Walter Campbell, former Governor of Queensland and Chief Justice of Queensland
Paul de Jersey, former Chief Justice of Queensland
Clare Foley, lawyer
Sir Harry Gibbs, former Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia
Sir Mostyn Hanger, former Chief Justice of Queensland
Stanley Jones, Justice of the Supreme Court of Queensland
Sir Buri Kidu, former Chief Justice of Papua New Guinea
Susan Kiefel, Justice of the High Court of Australia
Margaret McMurdo, President of the Queensland Court of Appeal
Sir Noel Power, Vice-President of the Hong Kong Court of Appeal (Acting Chief Justice 1996–1997)
Russell Skerman, Justice of the Supreme Court of Queensland
Sir William Webb, former Justice of the High Court of Australia and President of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East

Media

Tim Arvier, Nine News Queensland state political reporter and former US correspondent
Robert Bell, host of the Channel 10 programme Scope
Tracey Challenor, former journalist with Seven News
Melissa Downes, weekday co-presenter of Nine News Queensland
Heather Foord, former journalist with Nine News Queensland
Sylvia Jeffreys, news presenter on Today
George Negus, author and journalist
Andrew Olle, television and radio presenter (ABC, Nine Network), dropped out after the first year^[5]^[6]
Cameron Price, former reporter for Nine News Queensland and Seven News Sydney
Ben Roberts-Smith, former general manager of Seven Brisbane and former Australian soldier
Michael Ware, journalist, war correspondent
Lis Wiehl, author and television legal analyst
Marian Wilkinson, Walkley award winning journalist

Medicine

Graham Colditz, chronic disease epidemiologist, one of the global top three most cited academics
Michael Gabbett, clinical geneticist
Adele Green, epidemiologist
Mary Mahoney, medical practitioner and academic
Jian Zhou, co-inventor of Gardasil

Military

General Peter Gration, former Chief of the Defence Force and Chief of the General Staff
Major General Jim Molan
Ben Roberts-Smith, Australian war criminal

Politics

Premiers

Michael Ahern, Premier of Queensland 1987–1989
Peter Beattie, Premier of Queensland 1998–2007
Anna Bligh, Premier of Queensland 2007–2012, first female Premier
Wayne Goss, Premier of Queensland 1989–1996
Mark McGowan, Premier of Western Australia 2017–2023
Steven Miles, Premier of Queensland 2023–present
Campbell Newman, Lord Mayor of Brisbane 2004–2011; Premier of Queensland 2012–2015
Annastacia Palaszczuk, Premier of Queensland 2015–2023

State Members of Parliament

Cameron Dick, Treasurer and Minister for Investment; State Member for Woodridge
Stirling Hinchliffe, Minister for Local Government; State member for Sandgate
Anthony Lynham, Minister for Natural Resources, Mines and Energy; State member for Stafford
Evan Moorhead, former member for the Electoral district of Waterford; former Secretary of the Australian Labor Party in Queensland
Curtis Pitt, Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland
Mark Ryan, Minister for Police; State member for Morayfield

Federal Members of Parliament

George Brandis, former Senator for Queensland
Trevor Evans, former Member of the Australian House of Representatives for Brisbane
Garth Hamilton, current Member of the Australian House of Representatives for Groom
Bob Katter, current Member of the Australian Parliament for Kennedy and leader of Katter's Australian Party
Chris Ketter, former Senator for Queensland
Michael Macklin, Australian Democrat Senator elected while a staff member at UQ
Clive Palmer, leader of the Palmer United Party; former member for Fairfax
Wyatt Roy, youngest ever politician elected to Australian Parliament; former MP for Longman (failed to complete his undergraduate degree)
Wayne Swan, former Treasurer of Australia and Deputy Prime Minister
Murray Watt, Senator for Queensland; Former state member for Everton

Local government

Sallyanne Atkinson, politician and first female Lord Mayor of Brisbane

Outside Australia

Ernest Aderman, Member of Parliament in New Zealand^[7]
Raja Juli Antoni, 2nd Deputy Minister for Agrarian Affairs and Spatial Planning and Secretary-General of Indonesian Solidarity Party
Prof. Ranjith Bandara, Member of Parliament in Sri Lanka
Tan Sri Khalid Ibrahim, 14th Chief Minister of Selangor, Malaysia
Ludwig Keke, Nauruan politician, Member of Parliament (1968–1972, 1989–1995, 1997–2000), Speaker of Parliament (1998–2000), and Ambassador to Taiwan (2007–2016)^[8]
Taneti Maamau, current President of Kiribati.
Ahmed Shaheed, former Maldives Minister of Foreign Affairs and former Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Iran
Lee Boon Yang, former Singaporean Cabinet Minister

Public service

Elisabeth Bowes, diplomat and trade policy advisor
Francis Patrick Donovan, diplomat and jurist
Max Moore-Wilton, former head of the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet

Sport

Natalie Cook, Olympic gold medallist, beach volleyball
John Eales, former rugby union captain
Thomas Lawton, former rugby union captain, Waratah Rugby player, Oxford Blue
Mark Loane, former rugby union captain
Michael Lynagh, former rugby union captain
Greg Martin, former rugby union player and rugby commentator
Lloyd McDermott, first Aboriginal person to represent Australia in rugby union, and the nation's first indigenous barrister
John Roe, former Queensland rugby union captain
Nathan Sharpe, former rugby union captain
Lev Susany, powerlifter and Commonwealth record holder
David Theile, Olympic medallist in swimming
Clem Windsor, former rugby union player

Vice Regal

Those listed here may also be listed elsewhere, notably Politics and Public Service.

Peter Arnison, Governor of Queensland
Quentin Bryce, Governor-General of Australia 2008–2014
Sir Walter Campbell, former Governor of Queensland and Chief Justice of Queensland
Paul de Jersey, Governor of Queensland 2014–2021
Leneen Forde, Governor of Queensland 1992–1997
Bill Hayden, Governor-General of Australia 1989–1996, Foreign Minister, Federal Treasurer and Federal Opposition Leader
Penelope Wensley, Governor of Queensland 2008–2014

Other

Karen Gallman, Miss Intercontinental 2018
Ken Ham, creationist; founder of Answers in Genesis and the Creation Museum
Aila Inkero Keto, conservationist; recognized in the United Nations Environment Program's Global 500 Roll of Honour 1988
Elizabeth Powell, scientist
Lilla Watson, Indigenous Australian activist, visual artist and academic

Notable past and present staff

Freda Bage, biology lecturer and first principal of the Women's College at UQ
Dana Bergstrom, senior lecturer in ecology and botany, Antarctic researcher
Quentin Bryce, former Governor of Queensland, former Governor-General of Australia, law lecturer at UQ
Kathleen Campbell-Brown, French lecturer at UQ
Christina Cho, adjunct professor in architecture, a director of Cox Architecture
Raphael Cilento, honorary professor of medicine
Colin Clark, economist
Cyril John Connell, former registrar
Sir Zelman Cowen, former vice-chancellor, former Governor-General of Australia, Privy Councillor
Margaret Cribb, government and political science lecturer
Frank Cumbrae-Stewart, founding registrar and librarian and Professor of Law at UQ
Robert Elson, historian
Robert Endean, marine biologist
Michael Scott Fletcher, foundation master of King's College and Professor of Philosophy at UQ
Elwyn Flint, senior lecturer, linguist
Josephine Forbes, Professor of Medicine
Ian Frazer, virologist and former Australian of the Year
Mary Garson, chemist
Alexander James Gibson, first Professor of Engineering at UQ
Robert Gilbert, chemist
Ernest James Goddard, Professor of Biology at UQ
John Harsanyi, Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, UQ economics lecturer 1954
Roger Hawken, Professor of Engineering
Dorothy Hill, palaeontologist; first female professor appointed at an Australian university; first female President of the Professorial Board
Rodney Huddleston, linguist
Jolanda Jetten, social psychologist
Thomas Harvey Johnston, Professor of Biology at UQ
Lewis Keeble, former President of both the Royal Town Planning Institute (UK) and the Planning Institute of Australia
Michael Lattke, religious studies
Elton Mayo, first Professor of Philosophy at UQ
Neal Menzies, former Vice-President of the International Union of Soil Sciences
John Lundie Michie, first Professor of Classics at UQ
John Moorhead, historian
Donald Nicklin, retired Professor of Chemical Engineering and Pro Vice Chancellor for Physical Sciences
Michael Nielsen, quantum physicist, formerly at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
Thomas Parnell, first Professor of Physics at UQ, who started the pitch drop experiment
Hugh Possingham, conservation biologist
Elizabeth Powell, Director, Centre for Liver Disease Research
Henry Priestley, first Professor of Mathematics at UQ
John Quiggin, economist
Suri Ratnapala, law
Henry Caselli Richards, first Professor of Geology at UQ
Frederick Walter Robinson, founder of UQ's Fryer Library
Dorothea Sandars, parasitologist
Fred Schonell, founding Professor of Education and Vice-Chancellor
Jeremiah Joseph Stable, first Professor of English at UQ
Bertram Steele, first Professor of Chemistry at UQ
Roland Sussex, linguist
Clem Tisdell, economist
Graeme Turner, President of the Australian Academy of the Humanities
Joseph Twist, composer
Hermiene Ulrich, first female lecturer at UQ
Lilla Watson, Indigenous Australian activist, visual artist and academic
Frank T. M. White, founding Professor of Mining and Metallurgical Engineering
Ghil'ad Zuckermann, linguist, revivalist, President of the Australian Association for Jewish Studies

Administration

Chancellors

1910–1915 – Sir William MacGregor
1915–1922 – Sir Pope Alexander Cooper
1922–1925 – Lt-Col. Sir Matthew Nathan
1925–1927 – Andrew Joseph Thynne
1927–1944 – Sir James Blair
1944–1953 – William Forgan Smith
1953–1957 – Otto Hirschfeld
1957–1966 – Sir Albert Axon
1966–1976 – Sir Alan Mansfield
1977–1985 – Sir Walter Campbell
1985–1992 – Sir James Foots
1993–2009 – Sir Llewellyn Edwards
2009–2015 – John Story
2016–2016 – Jane Wilson (acting)
2016–present – Peter Varghese

Vice Chancellors

1910–1916 – Reginald Heber Roe
1916–1925 – Andrew Joseph Thynne
1925–1938 – William Nathaniel Robertson
1938–1959 – John Douglas Story
1960–1969 – Sir Fred Schonell
1970–1977 – Sir Zelman Cowen
1979–1996 – Brian Wilson, Australia's longest serving Vice-Chancellor^[9]
1996–2007 – John A. Hay
2008–2012 – Paul Greenfield
2012–2012 – Deborah Terry (acting)
2012–2020 – Peter Høj
2020–present – Deborah Terry

References

^ Thomis, Malcolm I. (1 January 1985). "A place of light & learning: the University of Queensland's first seventy-five years". espace.library.uq.edu.au. Archived from the original on 23 April 2016. Retrieved 24 March 2016.
^ Dictionary of Modern American Philosophers Shook, John. 2005 Biography of Colin Murray Turbayne on Google Books
^ "Chief Executive Women – Kathryn Fagg". cew.org.au. 12 March 2015. Archived from the original on 10 September 2014. Retrieved 10 April 2024.
^ Riley, James (15 October 2021). "Businesswoman Kathryn Fagg is the new CSIRO chair". InnovationAus.com. Retrieved 10 April 2024.
^ Masters, Chris (2019). "John Andrew Olle (1947–1995)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. ISSN 1833-7538. Retrieved 19 November 2023.
^ Hawley, Janet (16 May 1992). "The Hidden Parts of Andrew Olle". Sydney Morning Herald (Good Weekend). pp. 26–33.
^ Gustafson, Barry (1986). The First 50 Years : A History of the New Zealand National Party. Auckland: Reed Methuen. p. 296. ISBN 0-474-00177-6.
^ "People". Pacific Islands Monthly (10): 35–36. 1 August 1981.
^ Australia's longest-serving Vice-Chancellor among honorary degree recipients, UQ News, 12 December 1995