List of University of Queensland people
The University of Queensland has had numerous notable alumni and faculty.
Notable alumni
Academia
Vice Regal
Those listed here could also be listed elsewhere, notably Politics and Public Service.
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
Business
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
Other
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
Vice Chancellors
See also
References
- ^ Australia's longest-serving Vice-Chancellor among honorary degree recipients, UQ News, December 12, 1995