List of University of Queensland people

The University of Queensland has had numerous notable alumni and faculty.

Notable alumni

Academia

• Peter C. Doherty, immunologist, Nobel Prize recipient and former Australian of the Year
• James Page, educationist
• Adrian Pagan, economist
• Joshua Gans, economist
• Donald Markwell, social scientist and Warden of Rhodes House

Vice Regal

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

• Quentin Bryce, current Governor-General of Australia
• Bill Hayden, former Governor-General of Australia
• Penelope Wensley, current Governor of Queensland
• Leneen Forde, former Governor of Queensland
• Sir Walter Campbell, former Governor of Queensland

Politics

• Wayne Swan, current Treasurer of Australia
• Anna Bligh, current and first female Premier of Queensland
• Lee Boon Yang, former Singaporean Cabinet Minister
• Tan Sri Khalid Ibrahim, 14th Chief Minister of Selangor, Malaysia
• Peter Beattie, former Premier of Queensland
• Wayne Goss, former Premier of Queensland
• Michael Ahern, former Premier of Queensland
• Campbell Newman former Lord Mayor of Brisbane, current Queensland State opposition leader.
• Sallyanne Atkinson, politician and first female Lord Mayor of Brisbane
• Wyatt Roy, youngest ever politician elected to Australian Parliament and current MP for Longman (Failed to complete his undergraduate degree)

Public Service

• General Peter Gration, former Chief of the Defence Force and Chief of the General Staff
• Major General rtd Jim Molan
• Ric Battellino, Deputy Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia
• Sir Harry Gibbs, former Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia
• Sir Gerard Brennan, former Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia
• Sir William Webb, former Justice of the High Court of Australia and President of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East
• Ian Callinan, former Justice of the High Court of Australia
• Susan Keifel, Justice of the High Court of Australia
• Sir Buri Kidu, former Chief Justice of Papua New Guinea
• Max Moore-Wilton, former head of the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet

Business

• Andrew N. Liveris, CEO of Dow Chemical Company, second largest chemical manufacturer in the world
• Richard Goodmanson, former COO of Dupont, Board of QANTAS
• Sir Ronald Gordon Jackson AK, prominent businessman

Sport

• Thomas Lawton, former Australian rugby union captain, Waratah Rugby Player, Oxford Blue
• Lloyd McDermott, Aboriginal Australian rugby union player.
• Mark Loane, former Australian rugby union captain.
• Michael Lynagh, former Australian rugby union captain.
• Greg Martin, former Australian Rugby Union player and rugby commentator.
• Nathan Sharpe, former Australian rugby union captain.
• Lev Susany, Australian powerlifter and Commonwealth record holder
• Natalie Cook, Olympic Gold Medallist, Beach Volleyball
• David Theile, Olympic medallist in swimming
• John Eales, former rugby union captain
• John Roe, former Queensland rugby union captain

Arts

• Thea Astley, writer and four times winner of the Miles Franklin Award
• Bronwyn Lea, poet
• Ross Clark, poet
• Nick Earls (born 1963), novelist
• John Birmingham, novelist
• Janet Fielding (born 1957), actress
• Janette Turner Hospital, writer
• David Malouf, writer
• Geoffrey Rush, actor and Academy Award recipient
• Karin Schaupp, guitarist
• Joseph Twist, composer
• Kim Wilkins, writer

Media

• Michael Ware, journalist (war correspondent) West Asia
• George Negus, author and journalist
• Tracey Challenor, former journalist with Seven News
• Heather Foord, journalist with Nine News
• Amber Renae, TV presenter and fashion designer

Other

• Aila Inkero Keto, conservationist and recognition in the United Nations Environment Program's Global 500 Roll of Honour 1988.
• Robert Bell, Host of Channel 10 programme, Scope.
• Ken Ham, young-Earth creationist

Notable past and present staff

• Michael Barr
• Quentin Bryce, former Governor of Queensland, current Governor-General of Australia.
• Robert Elson
• Ian Frazer, virologist and former Australian of the Year
• Robert Gilbert, Research Professor and 'super nerd', Centre of Nutrition and Food Science
• Roger Hawken
• Rodney Huddleston
• Michael Lattke
• Neal Menzies, current Vice-President of the International Union of Soil Sciences
• John Moorhead
• Michael Nielsen former Professor of Quantum Physics, currently working at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
• Thomas Parnell
• John Quiggin
• Hugh Possingham
• Fred Schonell
• Suri Ratnapala
• Roland Sussex
• Joseph Twist, composer
• Cyril John Connell, former registrar
• Clem Tisdell
• Graeme Turner, President of the Australian Academy of the Humanities
• Sir Zelman Cowen, former Governor-General of Australia, Privy Councillor

Administration

Chancellors

• 1910 - 1915 - The Rt. Hon. Sir William MacGregor
• 1915 - 1922 - The Hon. Sir Pope Alexander Cooper
• 1922 - 1925 - Lt-Col. Sir Matthew Nathan
• 1925 - 1927 - The Hon. Andrew Joseph Thynne
• 1927 - 1944 - The Hon. Sir James Blair
• 1944 - 1953 - The Hon. William Forgan Smith
• 1953 - 1957 - Dr. Otto Hirschfeld
• 1957 - 1966 - Sir Albert Axon
• 1966 - 1976 - The Hon. Sir Alan Mansfield
• 1977 - 1985 - The Hon. Sir Walter Campbell
• 1985 - 1992 - Sir James Foots
• 1993 - 2009 - The Hon. Sir Llewellyn Edwards
• 2009 – present - John Story

Vice Chancellors

• 1910 - 1916 - Reginald Heber Roe
• 1916 - 1925 - The Hon. Andrew Joseph Thynne
• 1925 - 1938 - Dr. William Nathaniel Robertson
• 1938 - 1959 - John Douglas Story
• 1960 - 1969 - Sir Fred Schonell
• 1970 - 1977 - Sir Zelman Cowen
• 1979 - 1996 - Prof. Brian Wilson, Australia's longest serving Vice-Chancellor
• 1996 - 2007 - Prof. John A. Hay
• 2008 – present - Prof. Paul Greenfield

See also

• Category:University of Queensland alumni
• University of Queensland Union (UQU)
• University of Queensland Business Association

References

• University of Queensland - Some distinguished graduates