List of people from Brisbane

This listing includes notable people who were born in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia — as well as notable people who are working in Brisbane, or who began their careers in Brisbane (please see the individual articles for references).

People from Brisbane are either referred to as Brisbanites or Brisbanian.

Artists

Olive Ashworth (1915–2000), textile designer
Clark Beaumont, video, performance art
Irene Chou, long-term Brisbane resident
Jon Molvig

Aviators

The Kingsford Smith Memorial, housing the *Southern Cross*

Notable Brisbane-born aviators include:

Sir Charles Kingsford Smith, pioneer aviator, who, with his crew, made the first flight across the Pacific in his aircraft, the "Southern Cross", from San Francisco, California, United States to Brisbane, Queensland, Australia in 1928. The 1928 trans-Pacific flight was the first flight from one side of the ocean to the other.

The aircraft is currently preserved and on display in the Kingsford Smith Memorial, a special a climate-controlled sealed glass building near the International terminal at Brisbane Airport

Government, politics and law

Notable Brisbane-born people in this section include:

Lord Atkin, judge of the English High Court
Quentin Bryce , former Governor-General of Australia
Bill Hayden, former Governor-General of Australia
Emma Miller, pioneer labour activist and suffragist
Sir William Webb, High Court of Australia Judge and President of the Military Tribunal in the Far East (which tried Japanese war criminals)

Medical doctors

Noteworthy medics from Brisbane include:

Raphael Cilento, public health physician and eminent medical administrator
Ian Frazer , immunologist and co-inventor of Gardasil
John Kerr, pathologist and first to describe apoptosis
Jeannette Young , former Chief Health Officer of Queensland and Governor of Queensland

Researchers

Notable Brisbane-born people in research include:

Peter C. Doherty, medical researcher and Nobel Prize winner

Sculptors

Daphne Mayo's tympanum at the Brisbane City Hall

Leonard and Kathleen Shillam's
Pelican sculptures at the Queensland Art Gallery

Daphne Mayo, sculptures include the tympanum above the King George Square entrance to Brisbane City Hall, sculptures at the Queensland Art Gallery
Leonard and Kathleen Shillam, sculptures include the Pelican sculptures at the Queensland Art Gallery
Christopher Trotter, sculptures include the Brisbane City Roos, kangaroo sculptures in George Street, Brisbane

Singers, dancers, musicians and composers

Notable Brisbane-born people

Courtney Act, singer and popular drag performer
Bowen Yang, comedian, actor
Jason Barry-Smith, opera singer
Jeffrey Black, opera singer
Judi Connelli, singer and actress
Diana Doherty, classical musician
Lisa Gasteen, opera singer and winner of Cardiff Singer of the World competition in 1991
Darren Hayes, lead (Vocalist) singer of Savage Garden 1993–2001 (currently solo artist)
Kate Miller-Heidke, classically trained opera singer
Mirusia, soprano, lead vocalist with André Rieu, winner of the Dame Joan Sutherland Opera Award 2006
Patricia Petersen, singer, pianist and actress
S3RL, DJ, record producer
Amber Scott, ballet dancer
Donald Shanks, opera singer
Bart Stenhouse, jazz fusion musician
Patrick Thomas, conductor, poet, author
Garth Welch, principal dancer
John Willsteed, musician and sound designer
Christopher Wrench, organist
Jake Sim – Korean-Australian member of the k-pop band ENHYPEN