Katharine Elizabeth McGregor was born on 16 May 1903 in South Brisbane. Educated at Brisbane Girl's Grammar School, and won an open scholarship to University of Queensland (B.A. 1923; M.A. 1925). She was the first female barrister to be admitted to the Supreme Court of Queensland. She died on 25 June 1979. After a donation from several friends, in 1980 a postgraduate scholarship and prize was set up at the University of Queensland for introductory Greek or Latin. It is now known as The Katharine McGregor Prize for Introductory Latin or Greek.

Neville Thomas Bonner AO (28 March 1922 - 5 February 1999), elder of the Jagera people, was the first Indigenous Australian to become a member of the Parliament of Australia. He served as President of the One People of Australia League (OPAL) from 1970 to 1974.

Helen Derrick (nee Greenwood-Nadebaum), daughter of Gordon and Thora Greenwoord, was born in 1940.

Ross Watson was born in 1944. He went to school in Theodore and from 14 years of age he went to the Christian Brothers College in Yeppoon. He was an Aboriginal Australian activist, coordinator of the Black Protest Committee and founder and editor of Black Nation, a newspaper that ran from 1982 to 1985. Ross, with his newspaper, played a major role in organising rallies, protests and demonstrations, particularly around the 1982 Brisbane Commonwealth Games. He was also a founder of the Murri School and Murri radio station 98.9 FM. His family include: Lilla Watson (sister), Charlie Watson (brother), Teila (daughter), Kaava (son), Tiga Bayles (cousin). Ross died in 2013.

Charles Enoch Edward Harris was born on 8 July 1931 near Ingham, North Queensland, to Golgay Harris and Allie Harris (nee Wyle). He was an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community leader and a Uniting Church minister. He was instrumental in the creation of the Uniting Aboriginal and Islander Christian Congress (UAICC), which formed in 1985, and the UAICC's March 88 Committee, which played a key role in the 1988 March for Freedom, Justice, and Hope. He died on 7 May 1993.

Pauline Hanson is an Australian politician and leader of the political party, Pauline Hanson's One Nation.

Thomas 'Tony' Riddell was a lifelong friend of Australian poet Gwen Harwood (nee Foster). Letters written by her to him from Brisbane in 1943, when he was stationed as a soldier in Darwin, were published in 1990 as Blessed City : The Letters of Gwen Harwood to Thomas Riddell, January to September 1943. Harwood continued to write to Tony Riddell until her death in 1995. All but the last of her volumes of poetry are dedicated to him. Riddell kept every letter and postcard Harwood wrote to him. Much of their correspondence was published in Greg Kratzmann’s A Steady Storm of Correspondence: selected letters of Gwen Harwood, 1943-1995 (UQP, 2001).

Indian poet and novelist. Friend of Gwen Harwood.

Helen Mills was a close personal friend of Gwen Harwood.

Born in Geelong in 1915. Educated at Scotch College and Trinity College in the University of Melbourne. Graduated with first-class honours in English in 1936, and a MA in 1938. Ordained priest by the Archbishop of Brisbane in 1939 and served his curacy at the Anglo-Catholic parish All Saints, Wickham Terrace, near St John's Cathedral, where he met Gwen Harwood, who would become a close friend. Was warden of St Paul's College at Sydney University from 1963 to 1985. Died in Brisbane in 2002, aged 87.