Helen Gregory

Helen Gregory OAM (21 March 194615 October 2025) was a historian, author and public servant in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.

She was born in Brisbane in 1946.

Gregory taught in the Department of History at the University of Queensland and was an adjunct professor of the university. She also taught and in the School of Built Environment at the Queensland University of Technology. and the Professional Historians' Association (Queensland), the professional association which promotes the interests of consulting historians in Queensland, and maintains standards of practice.

Gregory was the author or co-author of many academic articles and studies and several entries in the Australian Dictionary of Biography and, with Deborah Witnell, the chapter on the first female Chief Justice of Australia Susan Kiefel in "A woman's place : 100 years of Queensland women lawyers". In 2023 Gregory delivered the Selden Society Australia lecture in the Supreme Court of Queensland on the "Queensland Law Society: serving ‘conscientious, honest lawyers’"

Gregory became the first chair of the Queensland Heritage Council in 1992, and subsequently became director of cultural heritage in the Queensland Government's Environment and Heritage department (later renamed the Environmental Protection Agency, the first woman to be appointed to a senior executive position in that department. In 2006 Gregory was a member of the independent panel that suggested the name for the Eleanor Schonell Bridge to the Lord Mayor of Brisbane and in November 2007 she was appointed to the board of trustees of Newstead House, Brisbane.

Gregory died on 15 October 2025 following a short illness. She was married to Scott Gregory, and had three sons.

In the 2026 King's Birthday Honours, Gregory was posthumously recognised with a Medal of the Order of Australia for her services to community history.

Children and Grandchildren Helen Gregory had 3 children, Robert Gregory, Peter Gregory and Mike Gregory. Helen had 7 Grandchildren, Piper, Tessa, Cooper, Jim, Liam, Molly, and Anne.

With a foreword by The Archbishop of Brisbane, the Most Reverend Felix Arnott.