List of University of Queensland people

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"

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

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

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

Freda Bage, biology lecturer and first principal of The Women's College at UQ

Quentin Bryce, former Governor of Queensland, former Governor-General of Australia, law lecturer at UQ

Kathleen Campbell-Brown, French lecturer at UQ

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

Ian Frazer, virologist and former Australian of the Year

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

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 Philosopy at UQ

Neal Menzies, current Vice-President of the International Union of Soil Sciences

John Lundie Michie, first Professor of Classics at UQ

John Moorhead, historian

Michael Nielsen, former Professor of Quantum Physics, currently at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics

Thomas Parnell, first Professor of Physics at UQ, who started the Pitch Drop experiment

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

Fred Schonell, education

Ahmed Shaheed, former Maldivian Minister of Foreign Affairs; UN special rapporteur on Iran

Jeremiah Joseph Stable, first Professor of English at UQ

Bertram Steele, first Professor of Chemistry at UQ

Roland Sussex, linguistics

Clem Tisdell, economist

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

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

1996 – 2007 – John A. Hay

2008 – 2012 – Paul Greenfield

2012 – 2012 – Deborah Terry (Acting)

2012 – present – Peter Høj