List of University of Queensland people
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Academia

  • Peter C. Doherty, immunologist, Nobel Prize
    Nobel Prize
    The Nobel Prizes are annual international awards bestowed by Scandinavian committees in recognition of cultural and scientific advances. The will of the Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, established the prizes in 1895...

     recipient and former Australian of the Year
    Australian of the Year
    Since 1960 the Australian of the Year Award has been part of the celebrations surrounding Australia Day , during which time the award has grown steadily in significance to become Australia’s pre-eminent award. The Australian of the Year announcement has become a very prominent part of the annual...

  • James Page
    James Page
    James Page may refer to:*James Page , , authority within the field of peace education*James Page , member of the Australian House of Representatives...

    , educationist
  • Adrian Pagan
    Adrian Pagan
    Adrian Pagan is an Australian economist and Professor of Economics in the School of Economics at the University of Sydney...

    , economist
  • Joshua Gans
    Joshua Gans
    Joshua Gans holds the Jeffrey Skoll Chair in Technical Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto. Until 2011, he was an economics professor at Melbourne Business School in Australia. His research focuses on competition policy and intellectual...

    , economist
  • Donald Markwell
    Donald Markwell
    For the Montgomery, Alabama, talk radio personality, Don Markwell, see Don Markwell Professor Donald John 'Don' Markwell is an Australian social scientist and college president...

    , social scientist and Warden of Rhodes House

Vice Regal

Those listed here could also be listed elsewhere, notably Politics and Public Service.
  • Quentin Bryce
    Quentin Bryce
    Quentin Bryce, AC, CVO is the 25th and current Governor-General of Australia and former Governor of Queensland....

    , current Governor-General of Australia
    Governor-General of Australia
    The Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia is the representative in Australia at federal/national level of the Australian monarch . He or she exercises the supreme executive power of the Commonwealth...

  • Bill Hayden
    Bill Hayden
    William George "Bill" Hayden AC was the 21st Governor-General of Australia. Prior to this, he represented the Australian Labor Party in parliament; he was a minister in the government of Gough Whitlam, and later became Leader of the Opposition, narrowly losing the 1980 federal election to the...

    , former Governor-General of Australia
  • Penelope Wensley
    Penelope Wensley
    Penelope "Penny" Anne Wensley, AC is the Governor of Queensland and a former Australian diplomat.Born in Toowoomba, Queensland, she was educated at Penrith High School in New South Wales, the Rosa Bassett School in London , and the University of Queensland where she graduated with a first class...

    , current Governor of Queensland
  • Leneen Forde, former Governor of Queensland
    Governors of Queensland
    The Governor of Queensland is the representative in the state of Queensland of the Queen of Australia. The Governor performs the same constitutional and ceremonial functions at the state level as does the Governor-General of Australia at the national level....

  • Sir Walter Campbell, former Governor of Queensland

Politics

  • Wayne Swan
    Wayne Swan
    Wayne Maxwell Swan is the Deputy Prime Minister of Australia and an Australian politician. He has been an Australian Labor Party member of the Australian House of Representatives from 1993 to 1996, and then re elected in 1998 till today , representing the Division of Lilley, QLD...

    , current Treasurer of Australia
    Treasurer of Australia
    The Treasurer of Australia is the minister in the Government of Australia responsible for government expenditure and revenue raising. He is the head of the Department of the Treasury. The Treasurer plays a key role in the economic policy of the government...

  • Anna Bligh
    Anna Bligh
    Anna Maria Bligh is an Australian politician and the Premier of Queensland since 2007. The 2009 Queensland state election was the first time a female-led political party won or retained state or federal government in Australia...

    , current and first female Premier of Queensland
    Premiers of Queensland
    Before the 1890s, there was no developed party system in Queensland. Political affiliation labels before that time indicate a general tendency only. Before the end of the first decade of the twentieth century, political parties were more akin to parliamentary factions, and were fluid, informal and...

  • Lee Boon Yang
    Lee Boon Yang
    Dr. Lee Boon Yang is a former politician from Singapore. A member of the governing People's Action Party , he served in the Cabinet from July 1991 to April 2009 in various portfolios including Minister for Defence, Minister for Manpower, and Minister for Information, Communications and the Arts...

    , former Singaporean Cabinet Minister
  • Tan Sri Khalid Ibrahim, 14th Chief Minister of Selangor, Malaysia
  • Peter Beattie
    Peter Beattie
    Peter Douglas Beattie , Australian politician, was the 36th Premier of the Australian state of Queensland for nine years and leader of the Australian Labor Party in that state for eleven and a half years...

    , former Premier of Queensland
  • Wayne Goss
    Wayne Goss
    Wayne Keith Goss was Premier of Queensland from 7 December 1989 until 19 February 1996.-Early life:He was born at Mundubbera, Queensland and educated at Inala High School and the University of Queensland...

    , former Premier of Queensland
  • Michael Ahern
    Michael Ahern (Australian politician)
    Michael John Ahern AO is a former Queensland National Party politician who was Premier of Queensland from December 1987 to September 1989. After a long career in the government of Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen, Ahern became his successor amidst the controversy caused by the Fitzgerald Inquiry into...

    , former Premier of Queensland
  • Campbell Newman
    Campbell Newman
    Campbell Kevin Thomas Newman is the leader of the Liberal National Party of Queensland. He was the 15th Lord Mayor of Brisbane from 2004 to 2011....

     former Lord Mayor of Brisbane, current Queensland State opposition leader.
  • Sallyanne Atkinson
    Sallyanne Atkinson
    Sallyanne Atkinson AO is an Australian politician, former Lord Mayor of Brisbane and former chair of ABC Learning, a bankrupted Australian childcare operator.She is Special Representative for the Queensland Government in South-East Asia....

    , politician and first female Lord Mayor of Brisbane
  • Wyatt Roy
    Wyatt Roy
    Wyatt Beau Roy is an Australian politician. He has been a Liberal National Party of Queensland member of the Australian House of Representatives since August 2010, representing the electorate of Longman. At 20 years of age, he was the youngest person ever to be elected to an Australian parliament...

    , youngest ever politician elected to Australian Parliament and current MP for Longman
    Longman
    Longman was a publishing company founded in London, England in 1724. It is now an imprint of Pearson Education.-Beginnings:The Longman company was founded by Thomas Longman , the son of Ezekiel Longman , a gentleman of Bristol. Thomas was apprenticed in 1716 to John Osborn, a London bookseller, and...

     (Failed to complete his undergraduate degree)

Public Service

  • General Peter Gration
    Peter Gration
    General Peter Courtney Gration AC, OBE is an Australian general who served in the positions of Chief of the General Staff and Chief of the Defence Force; the professional head of the Australian Army and Australian Defence Force respectively.-Early life:Gration was born in Richmond, Victoria, on 6...

    , former Chief of the Defence Force
    Chief of the Defence Force (Australia)
    Chief of the Defence Force is the most senior appointment in the Australian Defence Force . The CDF commands the ADF under the direction of the Minister of Defence, in a coequal arrangement with the Secretary of Defence, the most senior public servant in the Department of Defence.The position is a...

     and Chief of the General Staff
  • Major General rtd Jim Molan
    Jim Molan
    Major General Andrew James Molan AO, DSC is a retired senior officer in the Australian Army.-Education:"Jim" Molan joined the Australian Army following completion of his schooling in Victoria. On graduating from the Royal Military College, Duntroon, in 1971 he was allocated to the Royal Australian...

  • Ric Battellino, Deputy Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia
    Reserve Bank of Australia
    The Reserve Bank of Australia came into being on 14 January 1960 as Australia's central bank and banknote issuing authority, when the Reserve Bank Act 1959 removed the central banking functions from the Commonwealth Bank to it....

  • Sir Harry Gibbs
    Harry Gibbs
    Sir Harry Talbot Gibbs, GCMG, AC, KBE, QC was Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia from 1981 to 1987 after serving as a member of the High Court between 1970 and 1981...

    , former Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia
    High Court of Australia
    The High Court of Australia is the supreme court in the Australian court hierarchy and the final court of appeal in Australia. It has both original and appellate jurisdiction, has the power of judicial review over laws passed by the Parliament of Australia and the parliaments of the States, and...

  • Sir Gerard Brennan
    Gerard Brennan
    Sir Francis Gerard Brennan, AC, KBE, QC , is an Australian lawyer, judge and 10th Chief Justice of Australia. He is father to Jesuit priest and lawyer Frank Brennan....

    , former Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia
  • Sir William Webb
    William Webb
    Sir William Flood Webb KBE was a judge of the Supreme Court of Queensland and the High Court of Australia. He was President of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East after the end of World War II....

    , former Justice of the High Court of Australia and President of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East
    International Military Tribunal for the Far East
    The International Military Tribunal for the Far East , also known as the Tokyo Trials, the Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal, or simply the Tribunal, was convened on April 29, 1946, to try the leaders of the Empire of Japan for three types of crimes: "Class A" crimes were reserved for those who...

  • Ian Callinan
    Ian Callinan
    Ian David Francis Callinan, AC, QC is a former Justice of the High Court of Australia, the highest court in the Australian court hierarchy.-Education:...

    , former Justice of the High Court of Australia
  • Susan Keifel, Justice of the High Court of Australia
  • Sir Buri Kidu
    Buri Kidu
    Sir Buri Kidu Kt was the first national Chief Justice of Papua New Guinea.-Biography:Buri Kidu was educated at Toowoomba Grammar School, Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia, where he was School Captain and at the University of Queensland, St Lucia, Queensland . His entire professional life was spent...

    , former Chief Justice of Papua New Guinea
    Papua New Guinea
    Papua New Guinea , officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is a country in Oceania, occupying the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and numerous offshore islands...

  • Max Moore-Wilton
    Max Moore-Wilton
    Maxwell William "Max" Moore-Wilton AC is an Australian corporate executive and former public servant, colloquially known as "Max the Axe"....

    , former head of the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet

Business

  • Andrew N. Liveris
    Andrew N. Liveris
    Andrew Liveris is a Greek-Australian-American executive from Australia and is the Chairman, CEO and President of The Dow Chemical Company based in the United States. He recently released his first book, "Make it in America: The Case for Re-Inventing The Economy", which has received wide publicity...

    , CEO of Dow Chemical Company, second largest chemical manufacturer in the world
  • Richard Goodmanson
    Richard Goodmanson
    -Career:Goodmanson was Director of Rio Tinto plc and Rio Tinto Limited beginning in 2004. He was elected by shareholders in 2005 and stood for re-election in 2008...

    , former COO of Dupont, Board of QANTAS
    Qantas
    Qantas Airways Limited is the flag carrier of Australia. The name was originally "QANTAS", an initialism for "Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Services". Nicknamed "The Flying Kangaroo", the airline is based in Sydney, with its main hub at Sydney Airport...

  • Sir Ronald Gordon Jackson
    Gordon Jackson
    Gordon Jackson is the name of:*Gordon Jackson , Scottish actor*Gordon Jackson , Member of the Scottish Parliament for Glasgow Govan, 1999–2007*Gordon Jackson , Australian businessman...

     AK, prominent businessman

Sport

  • Thomas Lawton
    Thomas Lawton
    Thomas Lawton was an English lawyer and politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1584 and from 1604 to 1606.Lawton was the third son of John Lawton of Church Lawton and his wife Margaret Dutton, daughter of Fulke Dutton of Chester. He was educated at St Alban Hall, Oxford in 1575 and entered...

    , former Australian rugby union captain, Waratah Rugby Player, Oxford Blue
  • Lloyd McDermott
    Lloyd McDermott
    Lloyd Clive McDermott is a former rugby union winger who represented Australia twice in 1962. He became the first Aboriginal player to turn out for Australia when he made his debut against New Zealand. After refusing to take part in a 1963 tour to South Africa because of apartheid, he chose to...

    , Aboriginal Australian rugby union player.
  • Mark Loane
    Mark Loane
    Mark Edward Loane AM is an Australian former rugby union football player, who played 89 games for Queensland and 28 Tests for the Wallabies. Described by Bret Harris in his book, The Marauding Maroons, as "the closest thing to a folk hero Queensland has seen", Loane was noted for devastating...

    , former Australian rugby union captain.
  • Michael Lynagh
    Michael Lynagh
    Michael Lynagh is a former Australian rugby union footballer who played as a Fly-half.Lynagh represented Australia from 1984 to 1995, playing at both inside centre and fly half. Lynagh was capped 72 times for Australia, and was captain from 1993 to 1995. He was the world points scoring record...

    , former Australian rugby union captain.
  • Greg Martin, former Australian Rugby Union player and rugby commentator.
  • Nathan Sharpe
    Nathan Sharpe
    Nathan Sharpe is an Australian rugby union player. He plays lock and is the captain of the Western Force.-Early career:...

    , former Australian rugby union captain.
  • Lev Susany
    Lev Susany
    Lev Susany is an Australian powerlifter who competes in the International Powerlifting Federation . He is the number 1 ranked junior powerlifter in Australia and Oceania, as well as the number 2 ranked powerlifter in the Commonwealth in the men's 75 kg division...

    , Australian powerlifter and Commonwealth record holder
  • Natalie Cook
    Natalie Cook
    Natalie Louise Cook OAM is an Australian professional beach volleyball player and Olympic gold medallist.-Early life:...

    , Olympic Gold Medallist, Beach Volleyball
  • David Theile
    David Theile
    David Egmont Theile , was an Australian backstroke swimmer of the 1950s and 1960s, who won consecutive gold medals in the 100 m backstroke at the 1956 and 1960 Summer Olympics, the only Australian to do so...

    , Olympic medallist in swimming
  • John Eales
    John Eales
    John Eales AM is an Australian former rugby union player and the most successful captain in the history of Australian rugby.-Early life:...

    , former rugby union captain
  • John Roe, former Queensland rugby union captain

Arts

  • Thea Astley
    Thea Astley
    Thea Astley was an Australian novelist and short story writer. She was a prolific writer who was published for over 40 years from 1958. At the time of her death, she had won more Miles Franklin Awards, Australia's major literary award, than any other writer...

    , writer and four times winner of the Miles Franklin Award
    Miles Franklin Award
    The Miles Franklin Literary Award is an annual literary prize for the best Australian ‘published novel or play portraying Australian life in any of its phases’. The award was set up according to the will of Miles Franklin , who is best known for writing the Australian classic My Brilliant Career ...

  • Bronwyn Lea
    Bronwyn Lea
    Bronwyn Lea is a contemporary Australian poet, academic and editor.-Biography:Born in Tasmania, Bronwyn Lea grew up in Queensland and Papua New Guinea, moving to San Diego to study at California State University...

    , poet
  • Ross Clark
    Ross Clark
    Ross Clark is an award-winning Australian poet. His poems often use strongly physical imagery and he is a strong exponent of haiku poetry.-Life:...

    , poet
  • Nick Earls
    Nick Earls
    Nick Earls is an award-winning novelist from Brisbane, Australia. He writes humorous popular fiction about everyday life, and is often compared to Nick Hornby...

     (born 1963), novelist
  • John Birmingham
    John Birmingham
    John Birmingham is an Australian author. Birmingham was born in Liverpool, England and migrated to Australia with his parents in 1970.-Early life and career:...

    , novelist
  • Janet Fielding
    Janet Fielding
    Janet Fielding is an Australian actress, known for her role in the BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who as Tegan Jovanka, a companion of the Fourth Doctor, played by Tom Baker, and the Fifth Doctor, played by Peter Davison. She was born in Brisbane...

     (born 1957), actress
  • Janette Turner Hospital
    Janette Turner Hospital
    Janette Turner Hospital is a novelist and short story writer who has lived for most of her adult life in Canada or the U.S., principally Boston , Kingston and Columbia...

    , writer
  • David Malouf
    David Malouf
    David George Joseph Malouf is an acclaimed Australian writer. He was awarded the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 2000, his 1993 novel Remembering Babylon won the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award in 1996, he won the inaugural Australia-Asia Literary Award in 2008, and he was...

    , writer
  • Geoffrey Rush
    Geoffrey Rush
    Geoffrey Roy Rush is an Australian actor and film producer. He is one of the few people who has won the "Triple Crown of Acting": an Academy Award, a Tony Award and an Emmy Award. He has won one Academy Award for acting , three British Academy Film Awards , two Golden Globe Awards and four Screen...

    , actor and Academy Award recipient
  • Karin Schaupp
    Karin Schaupp
    Karin Schaupp is a German-born Australian classical guitarist and actress.She was born in 1972 in Hofheim am Taunus, Germany, to a musical family. Her mother and principal teacher, Isolde Schaupp, was a teacher of guitar at the Conservatorium of Wiesbaden. Her father was an amateur pianist, and her...

    , guitarist
  • Joseph Twist
    Joseph Twist
    Joseph Twist, is an Australian Composer. He has composed "Fanfare for the Common Consumer", "Love Themes", "Rain Dream" and "On the Night Train". His work is performed throughout Australia by choirs and chamber groups....

    , composer
  • Kim Wilkins
    Kim Wilkins
    Kim Wilkins is an Australian writer of popular fiction based in Brisbane, Queensland. She is the author of several mass-market novels, including her debut horror novel, The Infernal , which won Aurealis Awards for both horror and fantasy...

    , writer

Media

  • Michael Ware
    Michael Ware
    Michael Ware is an Australian journalist formerly with CNN and was for several years based in their Baghdad bureau. He joined CNN in May 2006, after five years with sister-publication Time Magazine...

    , journalist (war correspondent) West Asia
  • George Negus
    George Negus
    George Edward Negus is an Australian author, journalist, and television presenter. He previously presented 6:30 with George Negus on Network Ten, until it was axed by the Network on 19 October 2011.-Education:...

    , author and journalist
  • Tracey Challenor
    Tracey Challenor
    Tracey Challenor was a journalist and news presenter for Seven News in Brisbane from November 1991 until 2007. She began her journalism career in 1989 as a cadet reporter with The Redland Times and Bayside Bulletin newspapers....

    , former journalist with Seven News
    Seven News
    Seven News is the television news service of the Seven Network in Australia.National bulletins are presented from Seven's high-definition studios in Martin Place, Sydney, while flagship 6pm bulletins are produced in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, and Perth. The network also produces Seven...

  • Heather Foord
    Heather Foord
    Heather Foord is an Australian television journalist.Foord, was a presenter of the Nine Network in Brisbane for over 20 years, presented the weekday edition of Nine News Queensland with Bruce Paige until 5 December 2008, and has also co-presented the weekend news before in the past.For a duration...

    , journalist with Nine News
  • Amber Renae
    Amber Renae
    Amber Renae is an Australian fashion stylist, designer, television personality and model. She is widely known for her appearance on Arena TV’s Project Runway Australia. Renae has guest-starred on numerous shows, including Mornings with Kerri-Anne and the Dave and Kim Show; she is now a regular...

    , TV presenter and fashion designer

Other

  • Aila Inkero Keto
    Aila Keto
    Aila Inkeri Keto AO is founder and President of the Rainforest Conservation Society in Queensland, Australia, now known as the Australia Rainforest Conservation Society....

    , conservationist and recognition in the United Nations Environment Program's Global 500 Roll of Honour
    Global 500 Roll of Honour
    The United Nations Environment Programme established the Global 500 Roll of Honour in 1987 to recognize the environmental achievements of individuals and organizations around the world.The last Global 500 Roll of Honour awards were made in 2003...

     1988.
  • Robert Bell
    Robert James Bell
    Dr Rob is the host of the Australian children's television programme Scope where Dr Rob breaks down the science of subjects relevant to school-aged children...

    , Host of Channel 10 programme, Scope.
  • Ken Ham
    Ken Ham
    Kenneth Alfred Ham is the Australian President/CEO of Answers in Genesis USA. He is a vocal advocate for a young Earth and a literal interpretation of the Book of Genesis, and his cross-country speaking tours and many books make him one of the better known young-Earth...

    , young-Earth creationist
    Young Earth creationism
    Young Earth creationism is the religious belief that Heavens, Earth, and all life on Earth were created by direct acts of the Abrahamic God during a relatively short period, sometime between 5,700 and 10,000 years ago...


Notable past and present staff

  • Michael Barr
    Michael Barr (Australian historian)
    Michael D. Barr is an Australian historian with expertise in the modern political histories of Malaysia and Singapore. Most well-known for his work on Lee Kuan Yew , Barr has also written on the Asian Values debate of the 1990s.Barr's work focuses on ethnicity in Southeast Asia, however he also...

  • Quentin Bryce
    Quentin Bryce
    Quentin Bryce, AC, CVO is the 25th and current Governor-General of Australia and former Governor of Queensland....

    , former Governor of Queensland
    Governors of Queensland
    The Governor of Queensland is the representative in the state of Queensland of the Queen of Australia. The Governor performs the same constitutional and ceremonial functions at the state level as does the Governor-General of Australia at the national level....

    , current Governor-General of Australia
    Governor-General of Australia
    The Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia is the representative in Australia at federal/national level of the Australian monarch . He or she exercises the supreme executive power of the Commonwealth...

    .
  • Robert Elson
    Robert Elson
    Robert Edward Elson is an historian, author and academic regarded as an authority on Indonesian history, with his biography of former President Suharto and works on the cultivation system in Colonial Java considered leading works on their subjects...

  • Ian Frazer
    Ian Frazer
    Professor Ian Frazer is the Director of the Diamantina Institute. He is a creator of the HPV vaccine against cervical cancer; the second cancer preventing vaccine, and the first vaccine designed to prevent a cancer. .- Education:He was born in Glasgow, Scotland...

    , virologist and former Australian of the Year
  • Robert Gilbert, Research Professor and 'super nerd', Centre of Nutrition and Food Science
  • Roger Hawken
    Roger Hawken
    Roger William Hercules Hawken , an Australian engineer, was the first lecturer in Civil Engineering, and then a professor, at the University of Queensland.-Personal life:...

  • Rodney Huddleston
    Rodney Huddleston
    Rodney D. Huddleston is a linguist and grammarian specializing in the study and description of English.Huddleston is the primary author of The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language , which presents a comprehensive descriptive grammar of English.He earned his PhD from the University of Edinburgh...

  • Michael Lattke
    Michael Lattke
    Michael Stephan Lattke is a scholar of the New Testament and early Christianity.Lattke was born in Stettin, Germany. He was brought up in Solingen and studied at Bonn, Tübingen, Münster, Augsburg and München...

  • Neal Menzies
    Neal Menzies
    Neal Menzies is an Australian Professor of Soil Science at The University of Queensland. In his early adult years, he completed a Bachelor of Agricultural Science in 1985, a Master of Agricultural Studies in 1987, and a PhD in 1992...

    , current Vice-President of the International Union of Soil Sciences
  • John Moorhead
    John Moorhead
    John Moorhead is the McCaughey professor of history at the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia....

  • Michael Nielsen
    Michael Nielsen
    Michael Aaron Nielsen is a writer living just outside Toronto, Canada. Before, he was an academic in physics. He worked at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, as the Richard Chace Tolman Prize Fellow at Caltech, was Foundation Professor of Quantum Information Science and a Federation Fellow at the...

     former Professor of Quantum Physics, currently working at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
    Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
    Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics is an independent, resident-based research institute devoted to foundational issues in theoretical physics located in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. Perimeter Institute was founded in 1999 by Mike Lazaridis...

  • Thomas Parnell
    Thomas Parnell (scientist)
    Thomas Parnell was the first Professor of Physics at the University of Queensland. He started the famous pitch drop experiment there....

  • John Quiggin
    John Quiggin
    John Quiggin is an Australian economist and professor at the University of Queensland. Quiggin studied at the Australian National University, obtaining bachelor's degrees in Arts and Economics in 1978 and 1980 respectively, and completing a master's degree in Economics in 1984. Quiggin was awarded...

  • Hugh Possingham
    Hugh Possingham
    Hugh Phillip Possingham, FAA , is an ARC Federation Fellow in the Department of Mathematics, and the School of Integrative Biology at the University of Queensland...

  • Fred Schonell
    Fred Schonell
    Sir Fred Schonell was an Australian educationist, and vice-chancellor of the University of Queensland from 1960 to 1969....

  • Suri Ratnapala
    Suri Ratnapala
    Suri Ratnapala is an Australian academic. He is a Professor of Public Law and Director of the Centre for Public, International and Comparative Law in the School of Law at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia. He is the author of several books on legal philosophy, constitutional...

  • Roland Sussex
    Roland Sussex
    Roland Sussex is an emeritus professor of Applied Language Studies at the School of Languages and Comparative Cultural Studies of The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia...

  • Joseph Twist
    Joseph Twist
    Joseph Twist, is an Australian Composer. He has composed "Fanfare for the Common Consumer", "Love Themes", "Rain Dream" and "On the Night Train". His work is performed throughout Australia by choirs and chamber groups....

    , composer
  • Cyril John Connell, former registrar
  • Clem Tisdell
    Clem Tisdell
    Clement Allan Tisdell is an Australian economist and Emeritus Professor at the University of Queensland...

  • Graeme Turner
    Graeme Turner
    Graeme Turner is an Australian professor of Cultural Studies at the University of Queensland, Federation Fellow, Past President of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, Director of the Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies, and Convenor of the ARC Cultural Research Network.Turner gained a...

    , President of the Australian Academy of the Humanities
    Australian Academy of the Humanities
    The Australian Academy of the Humanities was established by Royal Charter in 1969 to advance scholarship and public interest in the humanities in Australia...

  • Sir Zelman Cowen
    Zelman Cowen
    Sir Zelman Cowen, was the 19th Governor-General of Australia. He is currently the oldest living former Governor-General of Australia.-Early life:...

    , former Governor-General of Australia, Privy Councillor

Chancellors

  • 1910 - 1915 - The Rt. Hon. Sir William MacGregor
    William MacGregor
    Sir William MacGregor GCMG, CB was a Lieutenant-Governor of British New Guinea, Governor of Newfoundland and Governor of Queensland.-Early life:...

  • 1915 - 1922 - The Hon. Sir Pope Alexander Cooper
    Pope Alexander Cooper
    Sir Pope Alexander Cooper KCMG was an attorney-general and a chief judge of the Supreme Court of Queensland, Australia.-Early life:...

  • 1922 - 1925 - Lt-Col. Sir Matthew Nathan
    Matthew Nathan
    Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Matthew Nathan GCMG, PC was a British soldier and civil servant, who variously served as the Governor of Sierra Leone, Gold Coast, Hong Kong, Natal and Queensland...

  • 1925 - 1927 - The Hon. Andrew Joseph Thynne
    Andrew Joseph Thynne
    Andrew Joseph Thynne was an Australian politician.Thynne son of Edward Thynne, was born in County Clare, Ireland. He was educated at the Christian Brothers' school, Ennistymon, by a private tutor, and at Queen's College, Galway, where he won a classical scholarship...

  • 1927 - 1944 - The Hon. Sir James Blair
    James Blair (Australian judge)
    Sir James William Blair KCMG was an Australian politician, lawyer and judge. He was a successful politician, being elected to the Queensland Parliament on several occasions. He held the office of Attorney-General and was also the Minister for Mines and introduced many successful law reforms...

  • 1944 - 1953 - The Hon. William Forgan Smith
    William Forgan Smith
    William Forgan Smith , generally known as Forgan Smith, was Premier of the Australian state of Queensland from 1932 to 1942. He came to dominate politics in the state during the 1930s, and his populism, firm leadership, defence of states' rights and interest in state development make him something...

  • 1953 - 1957 - Dr. Otto Hirschfeld
  • 1957 - 1966 - Sir Albert Axon
  • 1966 - 1976 - The Hon. Sir Alan Mansfield
    Alan Mansfield
    Sir Alan James Mansfield KCMG, KCVO was Governor of Queensland, Australia between 1966 and 1972.-Family:Sir Alan Mansfield was born in Brisbane and educated in Sydney. The Mansfield family had land in Gumdale. Mansfield lived in the Mount Gravatt area for many years...

  • 1977 - 1985 - The Hon. Sir Walter Campbell
  • 1985 - 1992 - Sir James Foots
  • 1993 - 2009 - The Hon. Sir Llewellyn Edwards
    Llewellyn Edwards
    Sir Llewellyn Roy Edwards, AC was the twelfth Chancellor of the University of Queensland, a Queensland state politician and state Liberal Party leader, as well as Chair and CEO of the 1988 World Exposition, Brisbane's World Expo '88...

  • 2009 - Present - John Story

Vice Chancellors

  • 1910 - 1916 - Reginald Heber Roe
    Reginald Heber Roe
    Reginald Heber Roe was a headmaster of Brisbane Grammar School, Queensland, Australia and first vice-chancellor of the University of Queensland.-Early life:...

  • 1916 - 1925 - The Hon. Andrew Joseph Thynne
    Andrew Joseph Thynne
    Andrew Joseph Thynne was an Australian politician.Thynne son of Edward Thynne, was born in County Clare, Ireland. He was educated at the Christian Brothers' school, Ennistymon, by a private tutor, and at Queen's College, Galway, where he won a classical scholarship...

  • 1925 - 1938 - Dr. William Nathaniel Robertson
  • 1938 - 1959 - John Douglas Story
    John Douglas Story
    John Douglas Story .Also known as J. D. Story, he migrated to Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, with his parents, as a child, and attended Brisbane Grammar School and Brisbane Technical College.Story was a prominent Queensland public servant who entered the Queensland Public Service and was...

  • 1960 - 1969 - Sir Fred Schonell
    Fred Schonell
    Sir Fred Schonell was an Australian educationist, and vice-chancellor of the University of Queensland from 1960 to 1969....

  • 1970 - 1977 - Sir Zelman Cowen
    Zelman Cowen
    Sir Zelman Cowen, was the 19th Governor-General of Australia. He is currently the oldest living former Governor-General of Australia.-Early life:...

  • 1979 - 1996 - Prof. Brian Wilson, Australia's longest serving Vice-Chancellor
  • 1996 - 2007 - Prof. John A. Hay
    John A. Hay
    John Anthony Hay, AC is a retired Australian academic.-Education:Hay has degrees in literature from the University of Western Australia and Cambridge University.-Academic positions:...

  • 2008 - Present - Prof. Paul Greenfield
    Paul Greenfield
    Paul Greenfield is the Vice Chancellor of The University of Queensland since appointment to that role on 1 January 2008.As Vice Chancellor, he is the university's chief executive officer and responsible to the University Senate for the overall direction of strategic planning, finance and external...

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