Outstanding alumni of the University of Queensland, Australia:
Peter C. Doherty: winner of the 1996 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1997 Australian Outstanding Person.
Barry James Marshall: Winner of the 2005 Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology.
Politics
Quentin Bryce: Current Governor-General of Australia; former lawyer and Governor of Queensland (2003–2008).
Bill Hayden: Governor-General of Australia (1989–1996); former Minister of Finance, Minister of Foreign Affairs, and Leader of the Australian Labor Party.
Kevin Rudd: The current Prime Minister of Australia and former deputy director of the Department of Asian Languages ??at the University of Queensland.
Penelope Wensley: Current Governor of Queensland.
Leneen Forde: Governor-General of Queensland (1992–1997).
Matthew Nathan: Former Governor of Hong Kong, Governor of Queensland, and Chancellor of the University of Queensland.
Andrew Bartlett: Member of the Australian Senate; leader of the Australian Democratic Party (2002-2004).
Andrew Laming: Member of the House of Representatives of the Australian Liberal Party.
Fred Paterson: Former Australian Member of Parliament. The only member of the Australian Communist Party elected to Parliament in Australian history.
Wayne Swan: Current Australian Minister of Finance.
Anna Bligh: Current Governor of Queensland; former Minister and Member of Parliament.
Peter Beattie: Premier of Queensland (1998–2007).
Wayne Goss: Premier of Queensland (1989–1996).
Michael Ahern: Premier of Queensland (1987–1989).
Jack Pizzey: Premier of Queensland (1968–1968).
Sallyanne Atkinson: Mayor of Brisbane; Special Envoy to Australian International Conferences; Chairman of Queensland Tourism Industry; Member of the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games Organizing Committee.
Peter Gration: Australian Defense Minister (1987–1993); Australian Chief of Staff (1984–1987).
Lee Boon Yang: Cabinet Minister for Information, Communications and the Arts of Singapore.
Abdul Khalid Ibrahim: a well-known entrepreneur in Malaysia and the Minister of State (Chief Minister) of Selangor, Malaysia.
Judiciary
Sir Walter Campbell: Queen's Counsel, Governor of Queensland (1985–1992), Chief Justice (1982–1985) and Chancellor of the University of Queensland (1977 –1985).
William Webb, former judge of the Supreme Court of Australia and Chairman of the Panel of Judges of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East.
Gerard Brennan: Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Australia (1995–1998), currently a judge of the Court of Final Appeal of Hong Kong.
Harry Gibbs: Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Australia (1981–1987).
Noel Plunkett Power: Chief Justice of the Ministry of Justice of Hong Kong, judge of the Court of Final Appeal of Hong Kong, and President of the Court of Appeal of Brunei.
Ian Callinan: One of the Seven Justices of the Supreme Court of Australia (1998–2007); Director of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation; Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Australian Defense Force Academy (ADFA).
Patrick Keane: Chief Justice of the Federal Court of Australia; Judge of the Supreme Court of Queensland.
Shan Tennent: Currently a judge of the Supreme Court of Tasmania, Australia. The first female in Australian judicial history.
Ross Cranston: Current British High Court Judge; former British Member of Parliament (1997-2005).
Buri Kidu: Papua New Guinea’s first Chief Justice (1980-1993); recipient of the Order of the British Empire, Knight Commander.
Other fields
Aila Keto: Natural resources conservationist; recipient of the Fred M. Parkard International Merit Award and the United Nations Global 500 Environmental Award in 1992.
Martin Green: Well-known scholar and the father of solar energy in the world.
Julie Hammer: Royal Australian Air Force electronics engineer, commander of the Australian Defense Force School, and the first Australian woman to join the Air Force.
Geoffrey Rush: Winner of the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1996, a famous Australian actor.
Thea Astley: A famous Australian female writer, she has won the Australian Literary Excellence Award many times and the Miles Franklin Award four times.
Peter Porter: Poet. He has won the Duff Cooper Memorial Prize (1983); the Whitbread Poetry Prize (1987); the Australian Literary Association Gold Medal (1990); and the Italian Ugo Foscolo Medal.
Andrew N. Liveris: The current chairman of the board and chief executive officer (CEO) of Dow Chemical, the world's second largest chemical company.
Paul Twomey: Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Chairman of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) (2003-2009).
Peter William Hendy: Australian political and business giant. Chairman of the Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ACCI); Chief of Staff to the Chairman of the Australian Liberal Party.
David Theile: Gold medal in the 100-meter backstroke and silver medal in the 400-meter relay at the 1956 Melbourne Olympics and the 1960 Rome Olympics.
Natalie Cook: Beach volleyball gold medal at the 2000 Sydney Olympics, bronze medal at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, and bronze medal at the 2003 World Cup.
John Eales: Captain of the Australian rugby national team and World Cup team.
John Roe: Captain of the Queensland rugby team and Australian national team player.
Virgil Brennan: Lieutenant of the Royal Australian Air Force, awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross and the Distinguished Flying Medal. World War II air combat hero.