- John Quiggin
John Quiggin (born 29 March 1956 in Adelaide) is an Australian economist and professor at the University of Queensland. Quiggin studied at the Australian National University, there achieving bachelor's degrees in Arts and Economics in 1978 and 1980 respectively, and further completing a master's degree in Economics in 1984. Quiggin was awarded his PhD from the University of New England in 1988.
- Peter Beattie
Peter Douglas Beattie (born, New South Wales 18 November 1952), Australian politician, is the Premier of the Australian state of Queensland and leader of the Australian Labor Party in that state. His sweeping victories in the 2001, 2004 and 2006 state elections confirms him as one of the most successful politicians in Australia.
- Ian Frazer
Ian Hector Frazer (born January 6, 1953) is an Australian immunologist, best known for his work on the development of a cervical cancer vaccine, which works by protecting women from Human papillomavirus (HPV). Frazer was born in Glasgow, Scotland. Frazer trained as a physician at Edinburgh University, specialising in immunology. He emigrated to Melbourne in 1980 to research viral immunology at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, …
- Anna Bligh
Anna Maria Bligh is the Deputy Premier of Queensland, Treasurer and Minister for Infrastructure. She is also deputy leader of the Australian Labor Party in Queensland and is being groomed as Premier Peter Beattie’s likely successor. Anna Bligh was first elected to the Queensland Parliament on 15 July 1995 as the Member (MP) for South Brisbane, where she and her family have lived for over 20 years. Following the election of the Beattie Labor Government in June 1998, …
- Michael Nielsen
Michael J. Nielsen (born January 11 1974) is an academic in physics and currently Foundation Professor of Quantum Information Science at the University of Queensland. Nielsen obtained his Ph.D. in physics in 1998 at the University of New Mexico.
- Graeme Turner
Graeme Turner (born 1947) is an Australian professor of Cultural Studies at the University of Queensland, Federation Fellow, 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 Master's Degree from Queen's University, Canada, and his Doctorate from the University of East Anglia, in the UK.
- Peter Doherty
Prof. Peter C. Doherty AC (born 15 October 1940) is an Australian Veterinary Surgeon and researcher in the field of medicine. He received the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research in 1995, the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1996, and was named Australian of the Year in 1997. He grew up with his younger brother named Ian. Ian now teaches physics to a group of ground-breaking students at the highly acclaimed Hillbrook Anglican School.
- Colin Clark
Colin Grant Clark (November 2, 1905 - September 4, 1989) was a British economist and statistician who worked in both the United Kingdom and Australia, and who pioneered the use of the gross national product ("GNP") as the basis for studying national economies. Colin Clark was born in London. He was educated at the Dragon School in Oxford, then at Winchester College, and from 1924 at Brasenose College, Oxford where he studied chemistry.
- David Malouf
David Malouf (born March 20, 1934) in Brisbane is an Australian writer whose themes encompass Australian history and the Australian landscape. His 1993 novel, "Remembering Babylon" was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Malouf is a Lebanese Australian born in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, the son of a Lebanese-Christian father and an English-Jewish mother of Portuguese descent.
- Quentin Bryce
Quentin Alice Louise Bryce, AC (born 1942 in Longreach, Queensland) is Governor of Queensland, Australia. She is only the second woman since 1859 to become Governor of Queensland. She grew up in Ilfracombe, Queensland, and studied at Moreton Bay College, Brisbane, and later at the University of Queensland, where she was graduated with a bachelor of arts and laws. In 1965, she was one of the first Queensland women to be admitted to the bar of that state.
- Mary Emelia Mayne
Mary Emelia Mayne, philanthropist, was born on 31 December 1858 in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, the youngest of five children of Irish parents Patrick Mayne, a butcher and grazier, and his wife Mary, née McIntosh. Inherited real estate gave them independent means: neither they nor their siblings married. Mary was a pupil of All Hallows' Convent School until 1877 and thereafter hostessed many functions at Moorlands, the family home at Auchenflower.
- Zelman Cowen
Sir Zelman Cowen AK GCMG GCVO QC (born 7 October 1919), 19th Governor-General of Australia, was born in Melbourne. He was educated at the University of Melbourne, and served in the Royal Australian Navy during World War II. He then went as a Rhodes Scholar to New College, Oxford, where he completed the degree of Bachelor of Civil Law and jointly won the Vinerian Scholarship. From 1947 to 1950 he was a fellow of Oriel College, Oxford, …
- Dorothy Hill
Dorothy Hill AC CBE FAA FRS (September 10, 1909 - April 23, 1998) was an Australian geologist, the first female professor at an Australian university, and the first and only female president of the Australian Academy of Science. Hill grew up in Brisbane, she attended Cooparoo State School and Brisbane Girls’ Grammar School. Following high school she considered studying medicine and entering medical research, …
- Wayne Goss
Wayne Keith Goss (born 26 February, 1951) was Premier of Queensland from 7 December, 1989 until 19 February, 1996. He was born at Mundubbera, Queensland and educated at Inala High School and the University of Queensland (LLB). He worked as a solicitor and then with the Aboriginal Legal Service before setting up his own practice. Goss entered state politics as an Australian Labor Party (ALP) MLA in 1983 for the Division of Salisbury and later Logan.
- Wayne Swan
Wayne Maxwell Swan (born 30 June 1954), Australian politician, has been an Australian Labor Party member of the Australian House of Representatives from March 1993 to March 1996 and again since October 1998, representing the Division of Lilley, Queensland. He was born in Nambour, Queensland, and was educated at the University of Queensland. He was a lecturer at the Queensland Institute of Technology before entering politics.
- Carole Ferrier
Carole Ferrier is a Feminist Australian Academic. She is Professor in English at the School of English, Media Studies and Art History at the University of Queensland. She has many published works about feminism, socialism, literature and culture. She has been the editor the radical feminist journal Hecate since its inception in 1975.
- Fred Schonell
Fred Schonell (1900-1969) was an educationist, and vice-chancellor of the University of Queensland from 1960 to 1969.
- Sam Watson
Sam Watson (b. 1952) is an Australian Aboriginal activist and a socialist politician. He has run as the candidate of the Socialist Alliance in the 2004 election in Queensland. Watson teaches a course in Black Australian Literature at the University of Queensland. He is also a writer and a filmmaker. He has received honours for his 1990 novel "The Kadaitcha Sung" and acclaim for his 1995 film "Black Man Down".
- Hartley Teakle
Laurence John Hartley Teakle (2 August 1901-8 December 1979) was Professor of Agriculture from 1947 until 1963 at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia. He undertook his academic training in both California, USA and Australia. His expertise lay particularly into soil quality and structure. From 1946-1947 he was the Western Australian Commissioner for Soil Conservation.
- Clem Tisdell
Clement Allan Tisdell (born 18 November 1939 in Taree, New South Wales) is an Australian economist and Emeritus Professor at the University of Queensland. He is best known for his work in environmental and ecological economics.
- Jack Pettigrew
John Douglas ("Jack") Pettigrew (born 1943) is Emeritus Professor of Physiology and Director of the "Vision, Touch and Hearing Research Centre" at the University of Queensland in Australia. Professor Pettigrew's research interest is in comparative neuroscience. He has studied a variety of different birds and mammals with modern neural tracing techniques to unravel principles of brain organization.
- Stuart Cunningham
Stuart Cunningham (born 1953) is Professor of Media and Communications, Queensland University of Technology, and Director of the Australian Research Council (ARC) Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation. He is President of the Council of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (CHASS). With degrees from the University of Queensland, and McGill University in Canada, Cunningham was awarded his Doctorate from Griffith University in Brisbane in 1988.
- Fran Bailey
Frances Esther Bailey (born 21 May 1946), Australian politician, has been a Liberal member of the Australian House of Representatives since 1990, representing the electorate of McEwen in Victoria. She was born in Brisbane, Queensland, and was educated at the University of Queensland and Kelvin Grove Teachers' College. Bailey worked as a secondary school teacher, retailer and cashmere goat breeder before entering politics.
- John Moore
John Colinton Moore (born 16 November 1936), Australian politician, was a Liberal member of the Australian House of Representatives for over 25 years, and Defence Minister from 1998 to 2001. Moore was born in Rockhampton, Queensland. He was raised on a ranch (or cattle station) west of Bowen. His early education was through the Australian correspondence system used for isolated families. He finished his secondary education at The Southport School, …
- Bill Vicenzino
Professor, Dr. Bill Vicenzino is the first Chair in Sports Physiotherapy at the University of Queensland's School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences. He is the head of the Division of Physiotherapy, Chair of the University's Medical Research Ethics Committee, Chair of the Physiotherapists Board of Queensland and a certified member of the Australian Physiotherapy Association and Sports Medicine Australia.
- Thomas Parnell
Thomas Parnell (5 July 1881 - 1 September 1948) was the first Professor of Physics at the University of Queensland. He started the famous pitch drop experiment there. Thomas was born in Northants, England and died in Brisbane. He was educated at St. John's College, in Cambridge, and received his B.A. in 1903. He was a tutor at Trinity College, at the University of Melbourne, between 1904 and 1911. He lectured physics at the University of Queensland between 1911 and 1918, …
- Bill Hayden
William George Hayden AC (born 23 January 1933), Australian politician and 21st Governor-General of Australia, was born in Brisbane, Queensland, the son of an American-born sailor of Irish descent. Bill Hayden was educated at Catholic schools and served in the Queensland Police Force from 1953 to 1961. He furthered his education through private study, completing an economics degree at the University of Queensland.
- Michael Johnson
Michael Andrew Johnson (born 31 January 1970) is an Australian politician. He has been a Liberal member of the Australian House of Representatives since November 2001, representing the Division of Ryan, Queensland. He was born in Hong Kong, and was educated at the University of Queensland, Cambridge University, where he obtained an MPhil, and Birmingham University, where he obtained a master's degree in international studies.
- Llewellyn Edwards
Sir Llewellyn Edwards, AC (born August 2, 1935) is the twelfth and current Chancellor of the University of Queensland and a former Queensland state politician and state Liberal Party Leader. He was elected the Chancellor of the University of Queensland in 1993 and has held the office since. Sir Llew (as he is popularly known) is a graduate in medicine of the University of Queensland and received an Honorary Doctor of Laws degree from the university in 1988.
- Jennifer Marohasy
Dr Jennifer Marohasy (b. 1963) is a senior fellow and director of the environment unit at the conservative Australian think tank the Institute of Public Affairs, known for its free-market advocacy. She holds a PhD in biology from the University of Queensland. "External Links" IPA homepage: http://www.ipa.org.au/ Jennifer Marohasy home page: http://www.jennifermarohasy.com/
- Thea Astley
Thea Astley (August 25 1925 - August 17 2004) was an Australian novelist and short story writer. At the time of her death, she had won more Miles Franklin Awards, Australia's major literary award, than any other writer. As well as being a writer, she taught at all levels of education - primary, secondary and tertiary.
- Bronwyn Lea
Bronwyn Lea (born 1969) is a contemporary Australian poet, academic and editor. Born in Tasmania, Bronwyn Lea grew up in Queensland and Papua New Guinea, moving to San Diego to study at California State University. She has completed a PhD at University of Queensland and currently teaches there in the School of English, Media Studies and Art History.
- John Holmes
John H. Holmes is Emeritus Professor of Geography at the University of Queensland. He has remained active during his "retirement" and has continued his primary research into changing resource values in Australia’s rangelands and their implications in the allocation of property rights. More specifically, his expertise relates to: *Policy input into issues relating to property rights and appropriate policy directions, tied to pastoral leases in all Australian jurisdictions.
- Emily Scott
Emily Scott (born 1983, Canberra, ACT) is an Australian commercial, lingerie and glamour model. A graduate of the University of Queensland Scott holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in design. Scott is most recognisable from her appearances in the visuals of Robbie Williams' spring 2006 tour, she appeared in a specially filmed remake of the notorious Rock DJ video clip, and was, for a period, the face of Lipton Ice Tea.
- Margaret Reynolds
Margaret Reynolds (b. July 19 1941) served as an Australian Labor Party Senator for Queensland from 1983 to 1999. Reynolds had two ministerial appointments during her time in the Senate, serving as Minister for Local Government from September 1987 to April 1990 and as Minister Assisting the Prime Minister on the Status of Women from January 1988 to April 1990.
- Joyce Ackroyd
Joyce Ackroyd was an Australian scholar of Japanese language and literature. She served as Professor of the University of Queensland's School of Japanese during the 1970s and 1980s, which she energetically built up into one of Australia's main centres for Japanese studies. Professor Ackroyd was awarded a higher degree at Cambridge University in 1951 for her study of Edo period Confucianist Arai Hakuseki's political career and writings.
- Santo Santoro
Santo Santoro (born 27 April 1956), Australian politician, was a Liberal member of the Australian Senate from October 2002 to March 2007, representing the state of Queensland. Born in Sicily, Italy in 1956, Santo Santoro emigrated to Australia with his family at the age of 5. Mr Santoro was educated at the University of Queensland and was awarded the degrees of Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Economics with honours.
- Michael Barr
Dr. Michael D. Barr is an Australian historian specialising in the modern political history of Singapore and Malaysia. Most well-known for his work on Lee Kuan Yew ("Lee Kuan Yew: The Beliefs Behind The Man"), Barr has also written on the Asian Values debate of the 1990s. Barr's work focuses on ethnicity in Southeast Asia, however he also teaches classes on genocide.
- Michael Barr
Dr Michael D Barr is an Australian historian specialising in the modern political history of Singapore and Malaysia. Most well-known for his work on Lee Kuan Yew ("Lee Kuan Yew: The Beliefs Behind The Man"), Barr has also written on the Asian Values debate of the 1990s. Barr's work focuses on ethnicity in Southeast Asia, however he also teaches classes on genocide.
- John Frow
John Frow (born 1948) is an Australian professor and Chair of English Language and Literature at the University of Melbourne. He was educated at Wagga High School and the Australian National University, and has lived and worked in South America in 1970 and 1971 and then did graduate studies from 1971 to 1975 in the Comparative Literature Program at Cornell University, including a year at the University of Heidelberg.