Griffith University - Notable People

Notable People

See also: Category:Griffith University alumni

Many alumni are politically active. Four alumni, Justine Elliot, Gary Hardgrave, Julie Owens (studied at Queensland Conservatorium of Music), Ross Vasta, serve in the Federal Parliament; Elliot is also the Parliamentary Secretary for Trade. Alumnus Brett Mason serves in the Australian Senate for Queensland. Five alumni, Aidan McLindon, Phil Reeves, Peta-Kaye Croft, Judy Spence and Andrew Fraser, serve in the Legislative Assembly of Queensland; Fraser was also the 35th deputy premier and 58th treasurer of Queensland. The current Opposition Leader Brisbane City Council, Shayne Sutton, is also alumni.

Prominent journalists include Liz Cantor, who is a Seven News personality and winner of the fifth season of The Mole. Kieran Ricketts is a reporter for the ABC's news/comedy program Hungry Beast. Karen Tso is also a television journalist alumni. In the arts realm, Lucy Decoutere (actress in the Trailer Park Boys), Jeong Ryeo-won, (singer, actress) and Robert Warren (musician) headline the list. Writer David Vernon, as well as photographer Adam Ferguson, are both alumni, as are models Amanda Ware, and Paulina Porizkova (study abroad 1982). In 2011, filmmaker Peter Hegedus was awarded the Griffith University Alumni Recognition Award for his achievements in documentary filmmaking.

Griffith athletes have starred in professional sports and Olympics. Gold Medal Olympians include speed skater Steven Bradbury, cyclist Sara Carrigan, and swimmer Libby Lenton. Other Griffith alumni include artist and political activist Van Thanh Rudd, preacher and motivational speaker Nick Vujicic, educationist James Smith Page, engineer and entrepreneur Rajnesh Singh, and birth activist Barbara Vernon.

Read more about this topic:  Griffith University

Famous quotes containing the words notable and/or people:

    “Every notable advance in technique or organization has to be paid for, and in most cases the debit is more or less equivalent to the credit. Except of course when it’s more than equivalent, as it has been with universal education, for example, or wireless, or these damned aeroplanes. In which case, of course, your progress is a step backwards and downwards.”
    —Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)

    “The New Year is the season in which custom seems more particularly to authorize civil and harmless lies, under the name of compliments. People reciprocally profess wishes which they seldom form and concern which they seldom feel.”
    —Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)