List of University of Queensland people

This is a list of University of Queensland people. The University of Queensland has numerous notable alumni and faculty.

Notable alumni

Academia

Arts

Business

• Kathryn Fagg AO, chair of the CSIRO from 2021
• 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
• Vaine Nooana-Arioka, Executive Director of the Bank of the Cook Islands
• V Pappas, former chief operating officer of TikTok

Judicial

Media

Medicine

• Graham Colditz, chronic disease epidemiologist, one of the global top three most cited academic
• Michael Gabbett, clinical geneticist
• Adele Green, epidemiologist
• Mohamed Yakub Janabi - Regional Director WHO Regional Office for Africa
• Mary Mahoney, medical practitioner and academic
• Jian Zhou, co-inventor of Gardasil

Military

• General Peter Gration, former Chief of the Defence Force and Chief of the General Staff
• Major General Jim Molan
• Ben Roberts-Smith, Australian war criminal

Politics

Premiers

State Members of Parliament

Federal Members of Parliament

Local government

• Sallyanne Atkinson, politician and first female Lord Mayor of Brisbane

Outside Australia

• Ernest Aderman, Member of Parliament in New Zealand
• Raja Juli Antoni, 2nd Deputy Minister for Agrarian Affairs and Spatial Planning and Secretary-General of Indonesian Solidarity Party
• 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)
• 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

Vice Regal

Those listed here may also be listed elsewhere, notably Politics and Public Service.

Other

• Karen Gallman, Miss Intercontinental 2018
• Ken Ham, creationist; founder of Answers in Genesis and the Creation Museum
• Ann Jones, environmental journalist, ABC radio and television presenter
• 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
• Zhao Na, Miss Universe Asia 2025.

Notable past and present staff

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
• 1996–2007 – John A. Hay
• 2008–2012 – Paul Greenfield
• 2012–2012 – Deborah Terry (acting)
• 2012–2020 – Peter Høj
• 2020–present – Deborah Terry

See also

• University of Queensland Union (UQU)

References