Irene Maria Hubner Summy. Danish-born playwright and author. Born in either 1928 or 1929. Emigrated to Australia in 1962. Was married to Ralph Victor Summy (1929-2018), a lecturer at the University of Queensland. Died on 14 April 2004 in Canberra.

Ralph Victor Summy was born on 18 June 1929 in Allentown, Pennsylvania. He was raised in Kansas City and Houston. He attended Phillips Exeter Academy then studied economics at Harvard University. Following graduation, he worked briefly as a journalist before being drafted into the U.S. Army, serving in Germany during the Korean War. This experience contributed to the development of his anti-militarist views. After leaving the army he became involved in the anti-nuclear group, SANE, in Boston. In 1962, he emigrated to Australia, where he became a teacher and later a lecturer at the University of Queensland. He was active in anti-nuclear and anti-Vietnam War movements. He was arrested with 125 others in the 1967 Civil Liberties march. He was a founding professor of the University of Queensland's Peace and Conflict Studies. He retired in 1997 but continued to work in the field, including a term as Director of the Matsunaga Institute for Peace in Hawaii. Was married to Danish-born writer Irene Summy. He died on 27 October 2018 in Brisbane.

Thomas Ray Poole, born 12 July 1936, attended the Nott Terrace High School in Schenectady, New York, before joining the U.S. Army and studying Russian at the Army language school in Monterey, California. He majored in history at Princeton University and graduated in 1958, then earned a Masters from the University of Kansas and a doctorate at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. After spotting an advertisement in the newspaper announcing the need for a lecturer in Russian history at the University of Queensland, Tom moved to Australia in 1974. He was a member of the History Department, University of Queensland, lecturing in Russian and Soviet history for 27 years until his retirement in 2001. His research interests were Russo-Australian relations and Trotsky. He died on 28 June 2016 in Armidale, Australia, survived by his wife, Heidi, and their three daughters.

Eric Fried, born on 14 July 1943, arrived in Australia with his family in 1956. He attended Brisbane State High then the University of Queensland, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts with First Class Honours in 1981. His Honours thesis was titled, Russians in Queensland, 1886-1925. He became a member of the University of Queensland Russian Department, tutoring for several years before embarking on a decade-long business career in Russia. Eventually he returned to Australia and retired to Mount Isa, Queensland.

American-Australian Bruce Rigsby was born in 1937 in Louisville, Kentucky, United States. He completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Louisville and obtained a PhD in Anthropology at the University of Oregon. He worked at the University of Toronto (1964-1966) and the University of Mexico (1966-1975) before taking up the new Chair of Anthropology at the University of Queensland, now the School of Social Science, in 1975. He specialised in languages and ethnography of Indigenous peoples in both the United States and Australia. He worked at UQ until his retirement in 2000, and in 2001 was was made Emeritus Professor of Anthropology. He was a member of the Australian Anthropological Society and the American Anthropological Association. He died on 19 March 2022.

John Kent Pearson (known as Kent Pearson) was born on 8 October 1943 in Christchurch, New Zealand. He attended school in Shirley, Christchurch, and high school at Christ's College. He began his studies in education and sociology at the University of Canterbury, later earning a Bachelor of Arts, followed by a Master's degree in sociology with honours at the same university. In 1968 he joined the University of New England in Australia as a researcher, where he studied agricultural colleges before pursuing a PhD in sociology, focusing on sport.

In 1974, Kent became a lecturer in the Human Movement Studies Department of the University of Queensland, where he gained international recognition for his work on sporting subcultures. He published extensively, with his doctoral thesis forming the basis of Surfing subcultures of Australia and New Zealand, making him the only person in Australia and New Zealand at the time to receive a PhD in sociology for a sport-related topic. Pearson's research was enriched by his firsthand participation, particularly in surfing. He died on 21 July 1983 from a heart attack.

Donald John Tugby, born 27 July 1920, was an anthropologist who taught anthropology at the University of Queensland from 1958 to 1986. Prior to that he had held a position as an ethnologist at the National Museum of Victoria, Melbourne. He received a Bachelor of Science from the University of Sydney, a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Melbourne, a PhD from the Australian National University and a Diploma of Psychology from the University of Queensland (1973). He introduced statistics to archaeology and initiated extensive archaeological fieldwork on North Stradbroke Island. He conducted research relating to peoples in Indonesia, Malaysia and Dutch New Guinea. He was particularly interested in the Mandailing (also known as Mandailing Batak) people of Sumatra, and published the results of his research in a book Cultural change and identity : Mandailing immigrants in Western Malaysia (1977). He was also a member of the UQ choir and an advisor on world music. He was married to Elise Tugby, a geography lecturer at the University of Queensland. Tugby died on 7 September 2015 in Brisbane.

Veronica Elaine Kelly, born 18 January 1945, is an academic in the field of Australian theatre and is Emeritus Professor in the School of Communication and Arts at the University of Queensland. She holds a Bachelor of Arts with First Class Honours (1967) from the University of Queensland and a PhD from the University of Toronto. She has co-edited Australasian drama studies and reviewed theatre for The Australian for many years.

Rodney 'Rod' Munro Fisher (1942-2017) was born in Melbourne to Enid and Lance Fisher. He attended the University of Melbourne, graduating BA in 1962 and DipEd in 1963. From 1964 to 1969 he taught history and physical education in secondary schools in Victoria and in Alberta, Canada. After completing postgraduate studies and a Master's thesis on the Elizabethan theologian William Perkins at the University of Saskatchewan in 1970, Fisher went to Cambridge where he was supervised by Sir Geoffrey Elton in his doctoral dissertation The Inns of Court and the Reformation 1530-1580. In 1974 Fisher commenced teaching Tudor and Stuart history at the University of Queensland. From about 1980 Fisher began to immerse himself in local history and started offering subjects in interdisciplinary, community and applied history. Fisher put his ideas into practice by restoring a shop-house in Wellington Street, Petrie Terrace and by organising walking tours of the suburbs of Brisbane. In 1981 he co-founded the Brisbane History Group with Helen Gregory and in 1988 began to lobby for a professional association to represent historians. This resulted in the formation of the Brisbane Historians Institute, now the Professional Historians Association (Queensland). In 1991 he established the UQ Applied History Centre. After retiring from the University in 2001, Fisher became an independent historian and consultant. He published works on Silvester Diggles, Diggles Down Under (2003), as well as Boosting Brisbane (2009), Signs of Separation (2009) and a trilogy of books The Best of Colonial Brisbane (2012), Bygone Brisbane (2016) and Queenslanders: Their Historic Timbered Homes (2016). In 2011 Fisher moved to Brazil. He died on 28 June 2017.

Stewart Byron Watkins, born 4 November 1894, attended the University of Queensland, completing his Bachelor of Science with First Class Honours in 1916, followed by a Master of Science in 1918. He lectured in chemistry at his alma mater before taking up the position of Supervisor of the Central Technical College, from 1919-1941. He travelled throughout Queensland from 1941, when he worked with the Toxicological Section of the Government Chemical Laboratory. He published many papers and articles on horticulture and was appointed to the Council of the Horticultural Society of Queensland. He married Bessie Leah Gainford in 1923. He died on 28 May 1983.