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
- Edward Byrne, Principal of King's College London; Vice-Chancellor of Monash University
- Colin Clark, economist
- Graham Colditz, clinician; one of the global top three most cited academics
- 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]
- Donald Markwell, social scientist and Warden of Rhodes House
- Michael McRobbie, 18th President of Indiana University
- Adrian Pagan, economist
- James Page, educationist
- A. W. Pryor, physicist
- Professor Paul Thomas AM, founding Vice-Chancellor of University of the Sunshine Coast
- Franklin White, public health scientist focused on capacity building for international and global health
- Craig Steven Wright, computer scientist, the inventor of the Bitcoin digital currency.
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
- 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
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
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
- Sir Harry Gibbs, former Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia
- Sir Mostyn Hanger, former Chief Justice of Queensland
- Susan Keifel, 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
- Robert Bell, host of the Channel 10 programme Scope
- Tracey Challenor, former journalist with Seven News
- Heather Foord, journalist with Nine News
- George Negus, author and journalist
- Amber Renae, TV presenter and fashion designer
- Michael Ware, journalist, war correspondent
- Lis Wiehl, author and television legal analyst
- Marian Wilkinson, Walkley award winning journalist
Military
- General Peter Gration, former Chief of the Defence Force and Chief of the General Staff
- Major General rtd Jim Molan
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
State Members of Parliament
- Evan Moorhead, former member for the Electoral district of Waterford; current Secretary of the Australian Labor Party in Queensland
Federal Members of Parliament
- Bob Katter, current Member of the Australian Parliament for Kennedy and leader of Katter's Australian Party
- Clive Palmer, leader of the Palmer United Party
- Wyatt Roy, youngest ever politician elected to Australian Parliament; current MP for Longman (failed to complete his undergraduate degree)
- Wayne Swan, former Treasurer of Australia
Local Government
- Sallyanne Atkinson, politician and first female Lord Mayor of Brisbane
- Campbell Newman, Lord Mayor of Brisbane 2004–2011; Premier of Queensland 2012–2015
Outside Australia
- Ernest Aderman, Member of Parliament in New Zealand[2]
- Tan Sri Khalid Ibrahim, 14th Chief Minister of Selangor, Malaysia
- Lee Boon Yang, former Singaporean Cabinet Minister
Public service
- 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
- Bill Hayden, Governor-General of Australia 1989–1996, Foreign Minister, Federal Treasurer and Federal Opposition Leader
- Paul de Jersey, Governor of Queensland 2014–present
- Penelope Wensley, Governor of Queensland 2008–2014
Other
- Aila Inkero Keto, conservationist; recognized in the United Nations Environment Program's Global 500 Roll of Honour 1988
- Lilla Watson, Indigenous Australian activist, visual artist and academic
- Ken Ham, creationist; founder of Answers in Genesis and the Creation Museum
Notable past and present staff
- John Harsanyi, Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, UQ economics lecturer 1954
- Quentin Bryce, former Governor of Queensland, former Governor-General of Australia
- Kathleen Campbell-Brown, French lecturer
- Colin Clark, economist
- Cyril John Connell, former registrar
- Sir Zelman Cowen, former Governor-General of Australia, Privy Councillor
- Robert Elson
- Ian Frazer, virologist and former Australian of the Year
- Robert Gilbert
- Roger Hawken
- Dorothy Hill, palaeontologist and the first female professor of an Australian university and President of the Professorial Board
- Rodney Huddleston
- Lewis Keeble, former President of both the Royal Town Planning Institute (UK) and the Planning Institute of Australia
- Michael Lattke
- Neal Menzies, current Vice-President of the International Union of Soil Sciences
- John Moorhead
- Michael Nielsen, former Professor of Quantum Physics, currently at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
- Thomas Parnell, first Professor of Physics, who started the Pitch Drop experiment
- Hugh Possingham
- John Quiggin
- Suri Ratnapala
- Frederick Walter Robinson, founder of UQ's Fryer Library
- Fred Schonell
- Ahmed Shaheed, former Maldivian Minister of Foreign Affairs; UN special rapporteur on Iran
- Jeremiah Joseph Stable, first professor of English at UQ
- Roland Sussex
- Clem Tisdell
- Graeme Turner, President of the Australian Academy of the Humanities
- Joseph Twist, composer
- Hermiene Ulrich, first female academic at the university
- Lilla Watson, Indigenous Australian activist, visual artist and academic
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[3]
- 1996 – 2007 – John A. Hay
- 2008 – 2012 – Paul Greenfield
- 2012 – 2012 – Deborah Terry (Acting)
- 2012 – present – Peter Høj
See also
- Category:University of Queensland alumni
- University of Queensland Union (UQU)
- University of Queensland Business Association
References
- ^ 1936–, Thomis, Malcolm I. (Malcolm Ian), (1 January 1985). "A place of light & learning : the University of Queensland's first seventy-five years". espace.library.uq.edu.au. Retrieved 24 March 2016.
{{cite web}}:|last=has numeric name (help)CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link) CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ 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.
- ^ Australia's longest-serving Vice-Chancellor among honorary degree recipients, UQ News, 12 December 1995
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