This is a list of Queensland University of Technology people, including notable past and present

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and faculty of the

Queensland University of Technology The Queensland University of Technology (QUT) is a public university, public research university located in the city of Brisbane in Queensland, Australia. It has two major campuses, a modern city campus in Gardens Point, Brisbane, Gardens Point ...

(QUT).

Alumni

Humanities

Arts

Ball Park Music Ball Park Music is an Australian five-piece indie rock band from Brisbane consisting of Sam Cromack, Jennifer Boyce, Paul Furness, Dean Hanson and Daniel Hanson. Since forming in 2008, the band has released eight studio albums. Their debut, '' ...

, band * Sam Campbell, comedian *

Conrad Coleby Conrad Julius Coleby (born Conrad Julius Taylor, 20 September 1979) is an Australian actor and photographer, whose roles have included Scott Zinenko on the medical drama '' All Saints'', for which he was nominated for a Logie Award, counsellor ...

, actor *

Gigi Edgley Gigi Edgley (born 16 November 1977) is an Australians, Australian actress, singer, and songwriter. She is best known for her roles as Chiana (Farscape), Chiana on the series ''Farscape'' and Lara Knight in ''Rescue: Special Ops''. Early life E ...

, actress * Ben Hunter, comedian *

Roma Egan Roma Jean Egan (born 1948) was a child actress on Australian television, and an Australian ballet dancer and teacher. She was notably a senior soloist for The Australian Ballet, and variously performed for the Queensland Ballet, Basel Ballet, B ...

, dance teacher * Hayley Elsaesser, Canadian fashion designer *

Gyton Grantley Gyton James Grantley (born 17 July 1980) is an Australian actor and comedian, best known for his portrayal of convicted murderer and drug trafficker Carl Williams in the hit Australian television show '' Underbelly'', for which he was nomina ...

, actor *

Tai Hara Tai Hara (born 29 March 1990) is an Australian actor, presenter and filmmaker. Early life and career Hara was born in Sydney. He attended The Southport School on the Gold Coast, Queensland.(Schripp, Debbie) before attending Queensland Universit ...

, actor, presenter *

Darren Hayes Darren Stanley Hayes (born 8 May 1972) is an Australian singer, songwriter, music producer and composer. He was the singer of the pop duo Savage Garden from their 1993 establishment until their disbandment in 2001. Their 1997 album '' Savage Ga ...

, singer *

Remy Hii Remy Hii is a Malaysian-Australian actor born in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia. Hii attended the National Institute of Dramatic Art for three years, and appeared in various theatre productions, before being cast in his first television role. Hi ...

, actor *

Michelle Law Michelle Law is an Australian writer. She is known for the web series ''Homecoming Queens'', and the book ''Sh*t Asian Mothers Say'', co-authored by her brother Benjamin Law, and her 2017 play ''Single Asian Female''. She is of Chinese descent. ...

, writer *

Deborah Mailman Deborah Jane Mailman (born 14 July 1972) is an Australian television and film actress, and singer. Mailman is best known for her characters: Parliament of Australia, MP Alexandra "Alex" Irving on the Australian political drama series ''Total Co ...

, actress *

Anna McGahan Anna McGahan (born 2 May 1988) is an Australian actress and playwright. She is best known for playing the roles of Nellie Cameron on the television series, '' Underbelly: Razor'' (2011), Lucy in '' House Husbands'' (2012–2014), and Rose And ...

, actress * Kierin Meehan, choreographer, teacher, children's author *

Kate Miller-Heidke Kate Melina Miller-Heidke ( ; born 16 November 1981) is an Australian singer and songwriter. Although classically trained, she has generally followed a career in alternative pop music. She signed to Sony Australia, Epic in the US and RCA in t ...

, musician *

Zoe Naylor Zoe Naylor (born 4 July 1977) is an Australian actress, journalist and television presenter. Early life and education Naylor was born in Sydney, Australia to Richard Naylor, a veterinarian, and Neroli, an English and History teacher. She grad ...

, actress *

Jason Nelson Jason Nelson is a digital and hypermedia poet and artist. He is a Professor of Digital Culture and a PI at the Center for Digital Narrative at the University of Bergen, where he was also a Fulbright Fellow from 2016-17. Until 2020 he was a lec ...

, artist * Daniel Riley, dancer and choreographer * Josh Thomas, comedian *

Brenton Thwaites Brenton Thwaites (born ) is an Australian actor. Beginning his career in his home country in 2011, he had a starring role on the series '' Slide'' and later appeared on the soap opera ''Home and Away''. Since moving to the United States, Thwait ...

, actor *

Kalju Tonuma Kalju Tonuma is an Australian music producer, songwriter, drummer and performer of Estonian descent. He is one half of the production team MEJU (pronounced "me-you") which he founded with Megan Bernard in 2014. He also manages record label Of ...

, record producer, audio artist *

Sheikh Haikel Sheikh Haikel bin Sheikh Salim Bajrai ( ', born 10 October 1975) is a Singaporean rapper, actor, and radio personality. He won the talent competition Asia Bagus in 1991. As a multi media personality with numerous stints in radio, television, ...

, actor from

Singapore Singapore, officially the Republic of Singapore, is an island country and city-state in Southeast Asia. The country's territory comprises one main island, 63 satellite islands and islets, and one outlying islet. It is about one degree ...

Senna Hegde Senna Hegde is an Indian film director and screenwriter who mainly works in Malayalam cinema, Malayalam films. He has also worked in a Kannada cinema, Kannada film. His debut film was the 2016 docudrama ''0-41*'' and his second film was the rom ...

, director * Yang Jin-Woo, South Korean actor

Journalism and media

Tracey Curro Tracey Ilana Curro (born 27 November 1963) is an Australian journalist. Curro has previously been a news presenter on GMV-6, QTQ-9 and ATV-10 and a reporter on the Seven Network's ''Beyond 2000'', a science-technology show, and correspondent o ...

, journalist and communications manager * Ben Davis, drive presenter on 4BC in Brisbane *

Nick Etchells Nick Etchells is an Australian journalist. Career Nick Etchells is a veteran journalist and TV news presenter, with more than 20 years’ experience covering global and local news events, natural disasters – including the Japan Tsunami, bush ...

, senior reporter for ''Seven News'' in Melbourne *

Natasha Exelby Natasha Exelby is an Australian journalist and former news anchor. Career Seven Network Following her graduation from the Queensland University of Technology in 2005, Exelby commenced her career as a full-time journalist, working as a reporte ...

, 10 News First presenter *

Ben Fajzullin Benjamin Dayton Fajzullin (born 16 February 1976) is a journalist, documentary maker, news anchor, reporter, producer, panel moderator and voice-over artist. He previously presented the national news show ''World News Australia'' on SBS televi ...

, journalist *

Sharyn Ghidella Sharyn Ghidella (born 4 December 1966) is an Australian journalist and news presenter. Career Ghidella's career in television began in the North Queensland region, as a reporter and presenter for North Queensland Television (now TNQ, 10 QLD) ...

, journalist and Channel Seven presenter * Peter Greste, correspondent for Al Jazeera *

Spencer Howson Dubbed ABC Radio's "favourite son" Spencer Howson (born 9 March 1972 in England) is an Australian radio presenter. He was the host of ''Breakfast'' on 612 ABC Brisbane and when he resigned he had worked for the ABC for 25 years. Career 1990- ...

, ABC radio presenter *

Emmy Kubainski Emmy Kubainski (born 1986) is an Australian journalist and news presenter. Career Kubainski moved to Western Australia after securing a national cadetship with the ABC in 2005. Kubainski graduated from the Queensland University of Technology wi ...

, former co-presenter of ''Nine News Perth'' *

Leila McKinnon Leila McKinnon (born 28 September 1972) is an Australian journalist and television presenter. She is a reporter and fill-in presenter for ''Nine News'' and '' A Current Affair''. McKinnon has previously been co-host of ''Weekend Today''. In ...

, journalist for Nine Network *

Paul Osborne Paul Anthony Osborne (born 30 September 1966) is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer, administrator and politician. He played first-grade rugby league for the St George Dragons and Canberra Raiders before serving as a me ...

, Canberra bureau chief for AAP newswire *

Alanah Pearce Alanah Pearce (born 24 August 1993) is an Australian video game writer and former journalist. From 2020 to 2024, Pearce worked as a writer for American game developer Santa Monica Studio. Pearce has reported on video games for various news outl ...

, video game writer and former journalist *

Leigh Sales Leigh Peta Sales (born 10 May 1973) is an Australian journalist and author, best known for her work with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC). She has won three Walkley Awards, and in 2023 was nominated for the Gold Logie Award for M ...

, host of the ABC's 7.30 Report *

Karl Stefanovic Karl Stefanovic ( sr-Cyrl, Карл Стефановић; born 12 August 1974), also spelt Karl Stefanović, is an Australian television presenter and journalist for the Nine Network. Stefanovic is currently a co-host of the Nine Network's br ...

, journalist and presenter

Literature, writing and poetry

Diane Cilento Elizabeth Diane Cilento (2 April 1932 – 6 October 2011) was an Australian actress. She is best known for her film roles in '' Tom Jones'' (1963), which earned her an Academy Award nomination, '' Hombre'' (1967) and '' The Wicker Man'' (1973). ...

, author, actress, dramatist and playwright; founder of the Creative Industries Artist in Residence Program

Philosophy and theology

Philip Freier Philip Leslie Freier (born 9 February 1955) is an Australian Anglican bishop. He was the 13th Anglican Diocese of Melbourne, Archbishop of Melbourne from 2006 until his retirement in 2025. He was Anglican Primate of Australia, Primate of Aust ...

, Anglican Archbishop of Melbourne *

Ken Ham Kenneth Alfred Ham (born 20 October 1951) is an Australian Christian fundamentalist, young Earth creationist, apologist and former science teacher, living in the United States. He is the founder, CEO, and former president of Answers in Genesis ...

, founder of Answers in Genesis, Creation Museum and Creation Ministries International

Government

Politicians

Peter Beattie Peter Douglas Beattie (born 18 November 1952) is an Australian former politician who served as the 36th Premier of Queensland, in office from 1998 to 2007. He was the state leader of the Labor Party from 1996 to 2007. Beattie was born in Syd ...

, former

Premier of Queensland The premier of Queensland is the head of government in the Australian state of Queensland. By convention the premier is the leader of the party with a parliamentary majority in the Legislative Assembly of Queensland. The premier is appointed ...

Jarrod Bleijie Jarrod Pieter Bleijie ( ; born 25 January 1982) is an Australian politician serving as the Deputy Premier of Queensland since 28 October 2024. A member of the Liberal National Party of Queensland (LNP) in the Queensland parliament, Bleijie was ...

MP, Former

Attorney-General of Queensland The attorney-general of Queensland is a ministerial position of the Government of Queensland with responsibility for the state's legal and justice system. , the attorney-general of Queensland is Deb Frecklington. List of attorneys-general of ...

and Minister for Justice * Sue Boyce,

Liberal Liberal or liberalism may refer to: Politics * Generally, a supporter of the political philosophy liberalism. Liberals may be politically left or right but tend to be centrist. * An adherent of a Liberal Party (See also Liberal parties by country ...

member of the

Australian Senate The Senate is the upper house of the Bicameralism, bicameral Parliament of Australia, the lower house being the Australian House of Representatives, House of Representatives. The powers, role and composition of the Senate are set out in Chap ...

* Alvin Cheng Kam-moon,

Hong Kong Hong Kong)., Legally Hong Kong, China in international treaties and organizations. is a special administrative region of China. With 7.5 million residents in a territory, Hong Kong is the fourth most densely populated region in the wor ...

student activist Student activism or campus activism is work by students to cause political, environmental, economic, or social change. In addition to education, student groups often play central roles in democratization and winning civil rights. Modern stu ...

and founder of Student Front *

Steven Ciobo Steven Michele Ciobo ( ) (born 29 May 1974) is a retired Australian politician who represented the Division of Moncrieff in the House of Representatives from the 2001 federal election until his retirement at the 2019 election. He was a memb ...

MP, Federal Member for Moncrieff *

Yvette D'Ath Yvette Maree D'Ath (born 26 July 1970) is an Australian politician. She served as the Labor member for Redcliffe in the Legislative Assembly of Queensland from 2014 until her retirement in 2024. D'Ath served as Attorney-General and Minister for ...

MP, Federal Member for

Petrie Petrie is a surname of Scottish origin which may refer to: People * Alexander Petrie (died 1662), Scottish minister * Alexander Petrie (architect) (c. 1842–1905), Scottish architect * Alistair Petrie (born 1970), English actor * Andrew Petrie ...

and

Peter Dutton Peter Craig Dutton (born 18 November 1970) is an Australian former politician who served as the Leader of the Opposition (Australia), Leader of the Opposition and the Leader of the Liberal Party of Australia, leader of the Liberal Party from 2 ...

MP, Federal Member for Dickson; Minister for Immigration and Border Protection *

Teresa Gambaro Teresa Gambaro (; born 29 November 1958) is an Australian former politician. She served as a member of the House of Representatives from 1996 to 2007 and 2010 to 2016, representing the Liberal Party. She was a parliamentary secretary in the Ho ...

MP, Federal Member for

Brisbane Brisbane ( ; ) is the List of Australian capital cities, capital and largest city of the States and territories of Australia, state of Queensland and the list of cities in Australia by population, third-most populous city in Australia, with a ...

Linda Lavarch Linda Denise Lavarch (born 27 November 1958) is an Australian politician and solicitor. She was a Labor Party member of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland from 1997 to 2009, representing the district of Kurwongbah. Political career Lavar ...

, former Queensland Attorney-General *

Michael Lavarch Michael Hugh Lavarch AO (born 8 June 1961) is an Australian lawyer, educator and former politician. He was the Attorney-General for Australia between 1993 and 1996, and from 2004 to 2012 was Executive Dean of the Faculty of Law at Queensland U ...

, former Australian Attorney-General *

Joe Ludwig Joseph William Ludwig (born 21 July 1959) is an Australian barrister and retired politician. He was a member of the Australian Senate for the state of Queensland from July 1999 to May 2016, representing the Australian Labor Party. Ludwig served ...

, ALP member of the

Graham Perrett Graham Douglas Perrett (born 5 January 1966) is an Australian politician who was a member of the House of Representatives from 2007 to 2025, representing the Queensland seat of Moreton for the Australian Labor Party (ALP). He worked as a school ...

MP, Federal Member for

Moreton Moreton may refer to: People Given name * Moreton John Wheatley (1837–1916), British Army officer and Bailiff of the Royal Parks Surname * Alice Bertha Moreton (1901–1977), English sculptor, draughtsman and artist * Andrew Moreton, a ps ...

Keith Pitt Keith John Pitt (born 31 August 1969) is an Australian diplomat and former politician. He is a member of the National Party and represented the Division of Hinkler in Queensland between the 2013 federal election and January 2025. He was a mem ...

MP, Federal Member for Hinkler * Bernie Ripoll MP, member of the

Australian House of Representatives The House of Representatives is the lower house of the bicameralism, bicameral Parliament of Australia, the upper house being the Australian Senate, Senate. Its composition and powers are set out in Chapter I of the Constitution of Australia. ...

, representing the

Division of Oxley The Division of Oxley is an Divisions of the Australian House of Representatives, Australian Electoral Division in Queensland. It is currently represented by Milton Dick, the current Speaker of the Australian House of Representatives, Speaker ...

Stuart Robert Stuart Rowland Robert (born 11 December 1970) is an Australian former politician who served as Minister for Employment, Workforce, Skills, Small and Family Business from 2021 to 2022, following his appointment as Minister for Government Service ...

MP, Federal Member for Fadden *

Wayne Swan Wayne Maxwell Swan (born 30 June 1954) is an Australian politician serving as the 25th and current Australian Labor Party National Executive#National Presidents, National President of the Labor Party since 2018, previously serving as the 14th de ...

MP, Federal Member for Lilley and former

Treasurer of Australia The Treasurer of Australia, also known as the Federal Treasurer or more simply the Treasurer, is the Federal Executive Council (Australia), minister of state of the Australia, Commonwealth of Australia charged with overseeing government revenu ...

Chris Trevor Chris Allan Trevor (born 23 June 1961) is an Australian politician. He was an Australian Labor Party member of the Australian House of Representatives, representing the Division of Flynn from 2007 to 2010. He had previously narrowly lost a cont ...

MP, Federal Member for

Flynn Flynn is an Irish surname or first name, an anglicised form of the Irish Ó Floinn or possibly Mac Floinn, meaning "descendant or son of Flann" (a byname meaning "reddish (complexion)" or "ruddy"). The name is more commonly used as a surname t ...

Kate Jones Kate Jennifer Jones (born 10 April 1979) is an Australian former politician. She served as a Labor Party Member of Parliament in the Legislative Assembly of Queensland from 2006 to 2012, and again from 2015 to 2020. Jones first represented th ...

Law

Helen Bowskill Helen Bowskill is the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Queensland, the highest ranking court in the Australian state of Queensland. She was appointed to Chief Justice on 19 March 2022. She previously served as a judge of the Supreme Court ...

, Chief Justice of Queensland *

Tim Carmody Timothy Francis Carmody (born 18 May 1956) is an Australian judge who was the Chief Justice of Queensland between 8 July 2014 and 1 July 2015. His previous roles include work as a police officer, barrister, Queensland Crime Commissioner, Fami ...

, former Chief Justice of Queensland *

Kerry Carrington Kerry Lyn Carrington (born 1962) is an Australian criminologist, and an adjunct professor at the School of Law and Society at the University of the Sunshine Coast (USC). She formerly served as head of the QUT School of Justice for 11 years from 2 ...

, QUT research professor and former head of the School of Justice *

Leanne Clare Leanne Clare (born 23 July 1962) is a Judge of the District Court of Queensland and a former Queensland Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP). On 2 April 2008 she was appointed to the District Court after eight years as DPP. Between 1999 and ...

SC, Judge of Brisbane District Court of Queensland *

, Professor Emeritus and former Executive Dean of the Faculty of Law * Brian Fitzgerald, specialist research professor of law * Nathan Jarro, judge of the

Queensland District Court The District Court of Queensland (QDC) is the second tier in the court hierarchy of Queensland, Australia. The Court deals with serious criminal offences such as rape, armed robbery and fraud. Juries are used to decide if defendants are guilty ...

and Queensland's first Indigenous judge. * John Pyke, physicist and former QUT law lecturer * Bryan Horrigan, former QUT associate professor

Medicine and sciences

Steve Lawrence Steve Lawrence (born Sidney Liebowitz; July 8, 1935 – March 7, 2024) was an American singer, comedian, and actor. He was best known as a member of the pop duo Steve and Eydie with his wife Eydie Gormé, and for his performance as Maury Slin ...

, computer scientist

Other

Georgia Sheehan Georgia Rae Leslie Sheehan (born 10 July 1999) is an Australian diver. Sheehan competed in the women's 1 metre springboard event at the 2019 World Aquatics Championships. She competed at the Commonwealth Games in 2018 where she won a gold me ...

, diver *

Roman Quaedvlieg Roman Alexander Quaedvlieg (born 8 January 1965) is a Canadians, Canadian-born Australians, Australian former public servant and police officer who was the Police commissioner#Australia, Commissioner of the Australian Border Force (ABF) from 1 ...

, former

Commissioner A commissioner (commonly abbreviated as Comm'r) is, in principle, a member of a commission or an individual who has been given a commission (official charge or authority to do something). In practice, the title of commissioner has evolved to incl ...

of the

Australian Border Force The Australian Border Force (ABF) is a federal law enforcement agency, part of the Department of Home Affairs (Australia), Department of Home Affairs, responsible for offshore and onshore border control, border enforcement, investigations, comp ...

2015–18

Notable faculty

Axel Bruns Axel Bruns (born 1970) is a German-Australian media scholar. He is a Professor of Communication and Media Studies at QUT Digital Media Research Centre, Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia, and a Chief Investigator in the ...

, Professor of Communication and Media Studies *

Jean Burgess Jean Burgess is a Distinguished Professor of Digital Media at the QUT Digital Media Research Centre, (which she founded and directed between 2015–2020) and in the QUT School of Communication. She is currently Associate Director of the ARC Ce ...

, Professor of Digital Media * Ray Chan, Adjunct Professor, School of Nursing *

Peter Corke Peter Corke (born 24 August 1959) is an Australian roboticist known for his work on Visual Servoing, field robotics, online education, the online Robot Academy and the Robotics Toolbox and Machine Vision Toolbox for MATLAB (matrix laboratory) ...

, Distinguished Professor of Robotics *

Greg Creed Greg Creed (born c.1958) is an American businessman who was the CEO of Yum! Brands, from January 2015 until December 2019, when he retired, remaining on its board of directors. He was the CEO of Taco Bell, from February 2011 until January 2015. ...

, CEO of Yum! Brands *

Stuart Cunningham Stuart Cunningham (born 1953) is Distinguished Emeritus Professor of Communication and Media Studies at QUT. Biography He is a Distinguished Emeritus Professor of Communication and Media Studies, Queensland University of Technology, and Forme ...

, Distinguished Emeritus Professor of Communication and Media Studies * Brian Fitzgerald * Michael Gabbett, Associate Professor of Biomedical Sciences and Clinical Geneticist * Dennis Gibson * Lyn Griffiths, Distinguished Professor and Director of the Centre for Genomics and Personalised Health *

Colleen Nelson Colleen Nelson is an Australian scientist specialising in prostate cancer research. She founded and directs the Australian Prostate Cancer Research Centre – Queensland (APCRC-Q). The Centre, based at the Translational Research Institute and the ...

, Chair of Prostate Cancer Research * Dale Nyholt, Professor in the School of Biomedical Science *

Chris Sarra Chris Sarra is an Australian educationalist, the founder and Chairman of the Stronger Smarter Institute. Sarra grew up in Bundaberg, Queensland as the youngest of ten children to parents of Italians, Italian and Indigenous Australian, Aboriginal ...

, * Arun Sharma, Distinguished Emeritus Professor *

T.J. Thomson T.J. Thomson is a senior lecturer in the School of Communication at the Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia, and a chief investigator at its Digital Media Research Centre, where he leads its News, Media, and Journalism Res ...

, a senior lecturer in the School of Communication * Mahinda Vilathgamuwa, Professor of Power Systems *

Chelsea Watego Chelsea Joanne Ruth Watego (formerly Bond, born 1978/1979) is an Aboriginal Australian academic and writer. She is a Mununjali Yugambeh and South Sea Islander woman and is currently Professor of Indigenous Health at Queensland University of T ...

, Professor of Indigenous Health * Patsy Yates, Distinguished Professor and Executive Dean of the Faculty of Health * Marek Kowalkiewicz, Professor and Chair in Digital Economy * Jason Tolsher, Professor of Fine Arts (Film, Television and New Media) * Susan Danby, Professor of Education

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