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) 2016–2026 – Peter Varghese 2026-Present - Emeritus Professor Mary O'Kane
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-ChancellorAustralia's longest-serving Vice-Chancellor among honorary degree recipients, UQ News, 12 December 1995 1996–2007 – John A. Hay 2008–2012 – Paul Greenfield 2012–2012 – Deborah Terry (acting) 2012–2020 – Peter Høj 2020–present – Deborah Terry
See also :Category:University of Queensland alumni University of Queensland Union (UQU)
References
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