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Quentin Bryce
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25th Governor-General of Australia
OverviewAI-generated
Quentin Alice Louise Bryce, born in Brisbane in 1942, is an Australian citizen who has served as Governor-General of Australia and Governor of Queensland. Her professional background includes work as a teacher, lawyer, politician, and jurist. She is a member of the Catholic Church and speaks English. Bryce is married to Michael Bryce and has five children.
She received her education at the University of Queensland, where she also worked as an employee. Her awards include the Australian Sports Medal and the Centenary Medal. As an author, she has published works such as *Tomorrow There Will Be Sun*, *Dear Quentin*, and *Outback Spirit*.
Synthesized by Vinony from 28 facts across 5 sources: Wikidata, Open Library, MusicBrainz, Crossref, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 3
Top works
- Tomorrow There Will Be Sun
- Dear Quentin
- Outback Spirit
via Open Library + Wikidata
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Germany
Discography
- Blame It on the Summer2009
- Dance With Me2011
- Body Rock2013
- Dammed Jams2024
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- The Astropy Project: Sustaining and Growing a Community-oriented Open-source Project and the Latest Major Release (v5.0) of the Core Package*
· 2022 · cited 4,967x
- Transformers: State-of-the-Art Natural Language Processing
· 2020 · cited 4,963x
- The Immune Landscape of Cancer
· 2018 · cited 4,779x
- Global burden of NAFLD and NASH: trends, predictions, risk factors and prevention
· 2017 · cited 4,743x
- The Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS) developed and tested its first wave of adult self-reported health outcome item banks: 2005–2008
· 2010 · cited 4,566x
via Crossref · CC0
Key facts
- Monarch
- Elizabeth II
- Prime minister
- Kevin Rudd , Julia Gillard , Tony Abbott
- Preceded by
- Michael Jeffery
- Succeeded by
- Peter Cosgrove
- Premier
- Peter Beattie , Anna Bligh
- Born
- Quentin Alice Louise Strachan , ( 1942-12-23 ) 23 December 1942 (age 83) , Brisbane, Queensland , Australia
- Spouse
- Michael Bryce ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1964 ; died 2021 )
- Children
- 5, including Chloe
- Relatives
- Bill Shorten (son-in-law)
- Alma mater
- University of Queensland
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Dame Quentin Alice Louise Bryce (née Strachan; born 23 December 1942) is an Australian academic who served as the 25th governor-general of Australia from 2008 to 2014. She is the first woman to have held the position. She was previously the 24th governor of Queensland from 2003 to 2008.
Born in Brisbane, Queensland, Bryce was raised in Ilfracombe, with her family subsequently living in a number of country towns around Australia. She attended the University of Queensland, where she completed Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Laws degrees, becoming one of the first women accepted to the Queensland Bar.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Quentin Bryce” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.