- Rod Welford
Rod Welford (born 30 September 1958 in Brisbane) is a Queensland, Australia state politician. He was first elected to be a member of the Queensland Parliament in 1989 in the seat of Stafford for the Labor Party. At the 1992 election he successfully stood in the seat of Everton, for which he is still the sitting member. He is currently Minister for Education, Training and the Arts. Previously he was the Attorney-General of Queensland (22 February 2001 - 28 July 2005).
- Chris Simpson
Christopher Patrick Simpson (born 9 January, 1982) in Brisbane, Queensland, is an Australian cricketer who plays for the Queensland Bulls in Australian domestic cricket. He is a right arm offbreak bowler and right handed batsman. Simpson was originally a fast bowler, turning to offspin in 2001-02. He played his first Pura Cup the following season against New South Wales. Despite having debuted two seasons earlier, it was in 2005-06 when Simpson started tasting success.
- Johnathan Thurston
Johnathan Dean Thurston (born 25 April, 1983 in Brisbane, Queensland) is an Australian professional rugby league player who currently plays for the North Queensland Cowboys in the National Rugby League competition as well as Queensland and Australia. He is now considered the best player in the world overtaking the likes of Darren Lockyer and Andrew Johns, due to his freakish game breaking ability and week in week out consistancy.
- John Herron
Dr John Joseph Herron (born 4 September 1932), Australian politician, ambassador and medical doctor, was a Liberal member of the Australian Senate from 1 July 1990 to 5 September 2002, representing Queensland. From 2002 to 2006 he was the Australian Ambassador to Ireland and the Holy See. Herron was educated at the University of Queensland where he graduated in medicine and surgery. He received registrar training at Royal Brisbane Hospital and Princess Alexandra Hospital.
- Robert Campbell
Robert Campbell (born in Brisbane Australia) is a Russian rugby league player. His position of choice varies as he is a utility player. Campbell was also selected in the Russian national side during the 2000 World Cup qualifying via the grandparent rule.
- Shaun Berrigan
Shaun Berrigan (born 4 November, 1978 in Brisbane, Queensland) is an Australian professional rugby league player for the Brisbane Broncos in the National Rugby League (NRL) competition. He is the younger brother of former Broncos teammate, Barry Berrigan.
- Corey Parker
Corey Parker (born May 5, 1982 in Brisbane, Queensland) is an Australian professional rugby league player for the Brisbane Broncos club in the National Rugby League competition. He completed his schooling from Beaudesert State Highschool. Parker has also represented the Queensland side in the annual State of Origin. His usual position is at prop-forward. Parker often takes on goal-kicking duties for the Broncos as well.
- Ian Healy
Ian Andrew Healy (born April 30, 1964 in Brisbane) was an Australian cricketer. An excellent wicketkeeper and useful right-handed lower middle-order batsman, he made his first-class debut for the Queensland state team in the 1986-1987 season, as understudy to Peter Anderson. Healy was a shock call-up to the Australian national team for the 1988-1989 tour of Pakistan, having played only six first-class games to date, …
- Dane Carlaw
Dane Carlaw (born 21 February, 1980 in Brisbane, Queensland) is an Australian professional rugby league player for the Brisbane Broncos in the National Rugby League competition. A reliable workhorse in the second row, Carlaw won the Broncos' rookie of the year award in 2000. He goes in and out of form in patches but has represented Queensland and, at his peak, Australia.
- Ray Barrett
Ray Barrett (born Raymond Charles Barrett 2 May 1927 in Brisbane, Queensland) is an Australian actor. Ray Barrett was one of the more popular leading men on British television in the 1960s. He played one of the lead roles in the British TV series "Emergency Ward 10" and appeared in the "Doctor Who" serial "The Rescue" in 1965. He was on the series "The Troubleshooters" from 1965 to 1971, and did the voice of John Tracy, …
- Ashley Harrison
Ashley Harrison (born May 18, 1981 in Brisbane, Queensland) is an Australian Rugby League player who plays for the Sydney Roosters in the National Rugby League competition. He has previously captained the South Sydney Rabbitohs and played for the Brisbane Broncos. When he left the Rabbitohs for the Roosters he was quoted as saying, …
- Wally Grout
Arthur Theodore Wallace ("Wally") Grout (March 20 1927 in Mackay, Queensland - November 9 1968 in Brisbane, Queensland) was a Test cricketer who kept wicket for Australia and Qiueensland. Grout played in 51 Test matches between 1957 and 1965. In a Sheffield Shield match against Western Australia at Brisbane in 1960, he took 8 catches in an innings, setting a world record. He died suddenly from a heart attack at the age of 41, only 3 years after ending his playing career.
- Berrick Barnes
Berrick Barnes (born May 28, 1986 in Brisbane, Queensland) is an Australian rugby union footballer for the Queensland Reds, Barnes also previously played rugby league football for the Brisbane Broncos in the National Rugby League competition. His position of choice is five-eighth. He attended the Ipswich Grammar School with team mate Nic Berry as well as current Queensland Reds development squad members Daniel Linde and Brett Gillespie.
- Phillip Aspinall
The Most Revd Phillip Aspinall (born 1959) has been the Anglican Archbishop of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia since February 2002, and Primate of the Anglican Church of Australia since July 2005. His term will be up sometime in 2007. He was ordained deacon in Tasmania on 25 July 1988 and priest a year later. He succeeded Peter Hollingworth as Archbishop of Brisbane. He holds a Master of Business Administration from Deakin University and a PhD from Monash University.
- Hayley Lewis
Hayley Jane Lewis (following her marriage, Hayley Taylor) (March 2, 1974 in Brisbane, Queensland) was an Australian swimmer best known for winning five gold medals at the 1990 Commonwealth Games as a 16 year old. Lewis's 1990 Commonwealth Games gold medals were in: the 200m freestyle, the 400m freestyle, the 200m butterfly and the 400m individual medley. She also won bronze in the 200m individual medley.
- Bill McDonald
Bill McDonald (born 1966) is the co-anchor of the Ten Network's 5pm news in Brisbane with Marie-Louise Theile. Previously Bill had been sports presenter but was promoted to news anchor when Geoff Mullins left Ten News. Bill McDonald also talks on local radio stations in Brisbane.
- Josh Lawson
Joshua Lawson (born 1981), Australian actor, grew up in Brisbane, Queensland, and attended St. Joseph's College in Gregory Terrace. He graduated from Australia's National Institute of Dramatic Arts (NIDA) in 2001. He also spent one year studying improvisation techniques in Los Angeles at The Second City and The Groundlings. Lawson has had guest-starring roles in such popular Australian television programs as "Blue Heelers" and "Home and Away", …
- Eddie Gilbert
Eddie Gilbert (August 1 1905, Durundur Queensland - January 9 1978, Brisbane, Queensland) was a Queensland Aboriginal cricketer. He was an exceptionally fast bowler. Gilbert was probably only the fourth Aboriginal to play first-class cricket in Australia and to be in serious contention for inclusion in the national side; the others being Johnny Mullagh (1868), Alec Henry (1901) and Jack Marsh (1902).
- Liam de Young
Liam De Young OAM (born December 10, 1981 in Brisbane, Queensland) is a field hockey defender from Australia, who was a member of the team that won the golden medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens by beating title holders The Netherlands in the final. De Young is nicknamed "DY" by his team mates, and made his debut for "The Kookaburras" in a friendly against Belgium in October 2001.
- Sue Boyce
Suzanne Kay (Sue) Boyce (born 15 March 1951 in Brisbane, Queensland), Australian politician, businesswoman and disability advocate, is a member of the Australian Senate for Queensland. She was selected by the Liberal Party in Queensland and endorsed by the Parliament of Queensland to replace Santo Santoro in the Australian Senate, and is Queensland's first female Liberal senator since 1984. She was sworn in to the Senate on 8 May 2007.
- Stephen Lee
Stephen Lee (born January 5, 1978) in Brisbane is an Australian short track speed skater. He has competed at the 2002 and 2006 Winter Olympics and the 2005 World Championships in China. He is a news cameraman for Channel 7 in Brisbane when not skating.
- Mike Horan
Michael James "Mick" Horan (born 1 July 1944 in Brisbane, Queensland) is a National Party politician representing the seat of Toowoomba South in the Queensland Legislative Assembly since 18 May 1991. He is the Shadow Minister for Primary Industries and Fisheries. Horan entered politics at the 1991 by-election to replace property developer and Toowoomba mayor Clive Berghofer, …
- Peter Allan
Peter John Allan (born December 31, 1935, Brisbane, Queensland) is a former Australian cricketer who played in one Test in 1965. Allan's 10/61 for Queensland in 1966 is the third best figures recorded on Australian soil.
- Tan Duc Thanh Nguyen
Tan Duc Thanh Nguyen (b. October 30, 1983), is an Australian from Wellington Point in Brisbane, Queensland discovered on April 17, 2005 in Bali, Indonesia attempting to import heroin into Australia as part of the Bali Nine group. Nguyen was sentenced to life imprisonment on February 15, 2006 believed to be a financier of the plan. On April 26, 2006, Nguyen, along with four other members of the Bali Nine group, had his sentence reduced to 20 year sentences on appeal.
- Al Grassby
Albert Jaime Grassby, AM (12 July 1926 - 23 April 2005), Australian politician, was Minister for Immigration in the Whitlam Labor government. He initiated sweeping reforms in immigration and human rights and introduced the word "multiculturalism" to Australian society. Born Albert Grass in Brisbane, Queensland to parents of Spanish and Irish descent, Grassby changed his name to emphasise his Irish roots. After working as a journalist and a consultant on agricultural issues, …
- Jacki MacDonald
Jacki MacDonald, born November 26 1954 (real name, Jenine) in Brisbane, Queensland, is an Australian television presenter. Popular in her home state of Queensland, Jacki appeared on a number of local programs in the 1970s including her own show on BTQ-7 and then a daily breakfast program The Jacki Mac Show on TVQ-0.
- Barry Berrigan
Barry Berrigan (born June 6, 1975 in Brisbane, Queensland) was an Australian rugby league player for the Brisbane Broncos in the National Rugby League competition. His position of choice was at hooker. Barry is the older brother of his former Broncos teammate, Shaun Berrigan Berrigan started his career with the Canterbury Bulldogs in 1995 where he remained until 1999.
- Kirk Reynoldson
Kirk Reynoldson (born March 11, 1979 in Brisbane, Queensland) is an Australian rugby league player for the Newcastle Knights in the National Rugby League competition; he previously played for the Melbourne Storm. His position of choice is in the second row/Lock. A cult figure firstly at the Storm who was sometimes likened to Ned Kelly in terms of looks, he regularly appeared on radio station SEN 1116 during the 2004 season with his late night spot on Mark Doran's show.
- Archie Jackson
Archibald ("Archie") Jackson (September 5 1909, Scotland - February 16 1933, Brisbane, Queensland) was an Australian Test cricketer. Jackson was a near contemporary of Don Bradman, who was born little more than a year earlier in late August 1908. They played together for New South Wales and both made their international debut during the Ashes series of 1928-29. Jackson made his debut in the fourth Test of that series, played at Adelaide, …
- John Woodley
John Woodley (b. Brisbane, Queensland 9 February 1938 -) is a Christian Minister of religion and was a Senator representing the state of Queensland, Australia, in the Australian Senate.
- Andrew Dunemann
Andrew Dunemann (born October 6, 1976 in Brisbane, Queensland) is an Australian rugby league player for the Canberra Raiders in the Australian National Rugby League competition. He previously played for Leeds Rhinos, Halifax and Souths. He plays at Stand Off.
- Loretta Harrop
Loretta ("Loz") Harrop (born July 17, 1975 in Brisbane, Queensland) is an Australian triathlete. As a teenager she attended Cavendish Road State High School along with her siblings and as of 2007 has a house named after her. Harrop house which will go by the colour red. Harrop competed at the first Olympic triathlon at the 2000 Summer Olympics. She placed fifth with a total time of 2:01:42.82. Her split times were 19:37.98 for the swim, 1:05:40.70 for the cycling, …
- James Killen
Sir Denis James "Jim" Killen, AC KCMG (b. 23 November 1925, Dalby, Queensland, Australia -d. 12 January 2007, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia), was an Australian politician.
- Chris McKenna
Chris McKenna (born October 29, 1974 in Brisbane, Queensland) is an Australian rugby league player for Bradford Bulls in the English Super League competition. He has also played for Queensland and Australia as well as club sides the Brisbane Broncos, South Queensland Crushers and Cronulla Sharks but moved on after a rumored falling out with then coach Chris Anderson. His usual position is second row, though while he played in Australia he usually played at centre.
- Danny Nutley
Danny Nutley (born February 4, 1974 in Brisbane, Queensland) is an Australian rugby league player for the Sydney Roosters. Nutley returned to the NRL in 2007 following a successful stint in the Super League (Europe) competition with the Castleford Tigers. He has previously played for the South Queensland Crushers in the Australian Super League, the Warrington Wolves in the English Super League competition and the Cronulla Sharks in the National Rugby League (NRL).
- Joan Whalley
Joan Whalley, OAM, was the artistic director of Twelfth Night Theatre in Bowen Hills, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia from 1960-1976. Whalley succeeded Rhoda Felgate, MBE, in the position. Prior to being appointed to Twelfth Night Theatre, Whalley lectured in acting at NIDA in Sydney, New South Wales. She taught well known Australian actors, such as Judith McGrath and Sigrid Thornton. Whalley was also an accomplished actor and teacher.
- Murray Bennett
Murray John Bennett is a former Australian cricketer who played in 3 Tests and 8 ODIs from 1984 to 1985. Bennett made promising start to his career as a left arm orthodox bowler by making a successful foray into Sydney Grade Cricket for St. George in 1973-74 and was selected for New South Wales’ combined schoolboy team.
- Shannon Hegarty
Shannon Hegarty (born June 14, 1979 in Brisbane, Queensland) is an Australian rugby league player for the South Sydney Rabbitohs in the National Rugby League competition and also for Queensland & Australia. He previously played for the Sydney Roosters for several years. His position of choice is at Centre or Wing.
- Mary Hansen
Mary Hansen (November 1, 1966 - December 9, 2002) was guitarist and singer with Stereolab. Born in Maryborough near Brisbane in Australia, Hansen moved to London in the late 1980s and became a backing singer with the Essex-based indie band, The Wolfhounds. She met Stereolab founder Tim Gane when the Wolfhounds played with his band McCarthy, and joined Stereolab as second vocalist in 1992. She also played guitar, as well as percussion and keyboards, …
- Rina Hill
Rina Hill (born July 7, 1969 in Brisbane, Queensland) is an Australian/British athlete, who competes in triathlon, international running, and tennis. Hill began triathlons at 23 years as cross training for her running. After winning the 1992 Brisbane Marathon (2:51:21), Hill changed careers to triathlons.