List of University of Queensland people
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 (biologist), professor of microbiology, immunology, and tropical medicine at George Washington University
- Joy Wolfram, nanoscientist.
- Edward Byrne, Principal of King's College London; Vice-Chancellor of Monash University
- Colin Clark, economist
- Paul A. Cobine, biologist, Chair of Department of Biological Sciences at Auburn University
- 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
- Philip Hogg, Head of ACRF Centenary Cancer Research Center at the Centenary Institute
- 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
- 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
- Craig Steven Wright, computer scientist, one of the possible inventors of the Bitcoin digital currency.
Arts
- Thea Astley, writer and four times winner of the Miles Franklin Award
- Jennifer Bacia, novelist
- 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
- Bronwyn Lea, poet
- David Malouf, writer
- Geoffrey Rush, actor and Academy Award recipient
- Karin Schaupp, guitarist
- Joseph Twist, composer
- Kim Wilkins, writer
- Madhan Karky, writer, lyrics writer India
- Astrid Jorgensen, musician
Business
- 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
- Mark Hutchinson, former CEO of GE Europe
- 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
- Clare Foley, lawyer
- Paul de Jersey, former Chief Justice of Queensland
- 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
- Susan Kiefel, Justice of the High Court of Australia
- Sir Buri Kidu, former Chief Justice of Papua New Guinea
- 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
- 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
- Jian Zhou, co-inventor of Gardasil
- Mary Mahoney, medical practitioner and academic
Military
- General Peter Gration, former Chief of the Defence Force and Chief of the General Staff
- Major General rtd Jim Molan
- Australian war criminal Ben Roberts-Smith
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
- Campbell Newman, Lord Mayor of Brisbane 2004–2011; Premier of Queensland 2012–2015
- Annastacia Palaszczuk, Premier of Queensland 2015–present
- Mark McGowan, Premier of Western Australia 2017–2023
State Members of Parliament
- 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
- Cameron Dick, Treasurer and Minister for Investment; State Member for Woodridge
- Steven Miles, Deputy Premier and Minister for State Development, Infrastructure, Local Government and Planning; State Member for Murrumba
- Stirling Hinchliffe, Minister for Local Government; State member for Sandgate
- Anthony Lynham, Minister for Natural Resources, Mines and Energy; State member for Stafford
- 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[3]
- 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)[4]
- 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.
- Quentin Bryce, Governor-General of Australia 2008–2014
- Sir Walter Campbell, former Governor of Queensland and Chief Justice of Queensland
- Leneen Forde, Governor of Queensland 1992–1997
- Peter Arnison, Governor of Queensland
- Bill Hayden, Governor-General of Australia 1989–1996, Foreign Minister, Federal Treasurer and Federal Opposition Leader
- Penelope Wensley, Governor of Queensland 2008–2014
- Paul de Jersey, Governor of Queensland 2014–2021
Other
- 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
- Ken Ham, creationist; founder of Answers in Genesis and the Creation Museum
- Karen Gallman, Miss Intercontinental 2018
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, and the first female professor appointed at an Australian university, and 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
- Elizabeth Powell, Director, Centre for Liver Disease Research
- Henry Priestley (mathematician), first Professor of Mathematics at UQ
- Hugh Possingham, conservation biologist
- 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[5]
- 1996 – 2007 – John A. Hay
- 2008 – 2012 – Paul Greenfield
- 2012 – 2012 – Deborah Terry (Acting)
- 2012 – 2020 – Peter Høj
- 2020–present – Deborah Terry
See also
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
- ^ 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
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