List of University of Queensland people

List of University of Queensland people

The University of Queensland has had numerous notable alumni and faculty.

Notable alumni

*Tan Sri Khalid Ibrahim, 14th Chief Minister of Selangor, Malaysia
*Thea Astley, writer and four times winner of the Miles Franklin Award
*Sallyanne Atkinson, politician and the first female Lord Mayor of Brisbane
*Anna Bligh, current Premier of Queensland, first female Premier of Queensland
*The Hon. Peter Beattie, former Premier of Queensland
*Gerard Brennan, former Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia.
*Ian Callinan, former Justice of the High Court of Australia.
*Quentin Bryce, Governor of Queensland, Governor General designate
*Walter Campbell, former Governor of Queensland
*Natalie Cook, Olympic Gold Medalist, Beach Volleyball
*Peter Doherty, immunologist, Nobel Prize recipient and former Australian of the Year
*Leneen Forde, former Governor of Queensland
*Bill Hayden, former Governor General of Australia
*Harry Gibbs, former Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia
*David Malouf, writer
*Geoffrey Rush, actor and Academy Award recipient
*Wayne Swan, Treasurer of Australia
*David Theile, Olympic medalist in swimming
*Janette Turner Hospital, writer
*Kim Wilkins, writer
*Graeme Wood, Founder and CEO of wotif.com
*Andrew N. Liveris, CEO of Dow Chemical Company
*Aila Inkero Keto, conservationist and recognition in the United Nations Environment Program's Global 500 Roll of Honour 1988.
*Lee Boon Yang, politician
*David Chang (neurologist), neurologist
* Bruce Heiser, Gallery Director

Notable past and present staff

*Michael Barr
*Quentin Bryce Governor of Queensland and Governor General designate
*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
*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
*Roly Sussex
*Cyril John Connell, former registrar
*Clem Tisdell
*Graeme Turner, President of the Australian Academy of the Humanities
*Mandyam Srinivasan, winner of the Prime Minister's Prize for Science
*Alex Bellamy

Administration

Chancellors

*1977 - 1985 - Sir Walter Campbell
*1985 - 1992 - James Foots
*Current - Llewellyn Edwards

Vice Chancellors

*1960 - 1969 - Fred Schonell
*1970 - 1977 - Zelman Cowen
*1979 - 1996 - Brian Wilson, Australia's longest serving Vice-Chancellor [ [http://www.uq.edu.au/news/index.html?article=589 Australia's longest-serving Vice-Chancellor among honorary degree recipients] , UQ News, December 12, 1995]
*1996 - 2007 - John A. Hay
*2008 - Paul Greenfield

ee also

*

References

* [http://www.alumni.uq.edu.au/index.html?page=273 University of Queensland - Some distinguished graduates]


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