List of University of Queensland people

Notable alumni

Academia

Arts

Business

• 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
• Mark Hutchinson, former CEO of GE Europe

  Judicial

Media

Military

• General Peter Gration, former Chief of the Defence Force and Chief of the General Staff
• Major General rtd Jim Molan

  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
• Tan Sri Khalid Ibrahim, 14th Chief Minister of Selangor, Malaysia
• 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

• Barclay McGain, Young LNP Leader and media advisor to Federal MP Dr Andrew Laming
• Francis Patrick Donovan, diplomat and jurist
• Max Moore-Wilton, former head of the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet

  Sport

Vice Regal

Other

• Aila Inkero Keto, conservationist; recognized in the United Nations Environment Program's Global 500 Roll of Honour 1988
• Lilla Watson, Indigenous Australian activist, visual artist and academic
• Ken Ham, creationist; founder of Answers in Genesis and the Creation Museum
• Karen Gallman, Miss Intercontinental 2018

  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
• 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
• 2012 – present – Peter Høj