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List of Australians

This is a list of Australians, who are in any way notable.

See also the list of 100 Australian Living Treasures.

Creative art

Howard Arkley - painter
Charles Blackman - painter
Arthur Boyd - painter
Noel Counihan - social realist painter
Sir William Dobell - painter
Ken Done - painter
Sir Russell Drysdale - painter
Donald Friend - painter
Joy Hester - painter
Sir Hans Heysen - painter
Nora Heysen - (died 2003) painter
Robert Hughes - art critic
Norman Lindsay - painter
Michael Leunig - cartoonist
Tracey Moffatt - film and video maker, photographer
Reg Mombassa - Pop artist, cartoonist and businessman
Albert Namatjira - (1902-1959) painter
Sir Sidney Nolan - painter
Frank Plicka - photographer
Margaret Preston - (1875-1963) modernist painter and woodblock artist
Tom Roberts - painter
Martin Sharp - pop artist
Jeffrey Smart - painter
Stelarc - performance artist
Sir Arthur Streeton - painter
Albert Tucker - painter
Brett Whiteley - painter
Arthur Boyd - painter

Film and television

Abigail - actress
Eric Bana - actor
Bruce Beresford - filmmaker
Cate Blanchett - actor
Bille Brown - actor
Bryan Brown - actor
Emily Browning - actress
Rebecca Cartwright - actor
John Clarke - (born New Zealand) actor, comedian
Paul Cox - (born Netherlands) filmmaker
Russell Crowe - (born in New Zealand) actor
Judy Davis - actor
Portia de Rossi - actress
Ernie Dingo - actor
Carmen Duncan - (born 1942) soap actress, with roles to her credit in the U.S. as well as Australia
Peter Finch - actor
Errol Flynn - (1909-1959) actor
Colin Friels - actor
Mel Gibson - (born 1956) - actor American born, Australian raised
Stan Grant - television presenter
Rachel Griffiths - actor
David Gulpilil - actor & dancer
Scott Hicks - filmmaker (Shine, Snow Falling on Cedars )
Paul Hogan - (born 1939) actor
P. J. Hogan - film director (Muriel's Wedding, My Best Friend's Wedding, Peter Pan)
Barry Humphries - actor/comedian
Steve Irwin - (born 1962) The Crocodile Hunter
Hugh Jackman - actor
Nicole Kidman - (born 1967) actor American born, Australian raised
Maggie Kirkpatrick - actor
Anthony LaPaglia - actor
George Lazenby - actor who played James Bond
Heath Ledger - (born 1979) actor
Baz Luhrmann - filmmaker
Stephanie McIntosh - actress
Kyal Marsh - actor
Leo McKern - actor
Keith Michell - British television actor
Amy Mizzi - actress
Tharini Mudaliar - actress
Phillip Noyce - filmmaker
Guy Pearce - (born 1967), actor
Gina Riley - comedian
Geoffrey Rush - actor (won 1997 Academy Award for Best Actor for Shine)
Fred Schepisi - filmmaker
Yahoo Serious - comedian, filmmaker
Tammin Sursok - (born 1983 in South Africa) actor
Rod Taylor - actor
Jack Thompson - (born 1940), actor
Charles Tingwell - actor
Sigrid Thornton - actor
Peter Weir - (born 1944) filmmaker
David Wenham - actor

Journalism

Literature and theatre

Patsy Adam-Smith - (1924-2001) Author, Historian and Servicewoman
C.E.W. Bean - (1879-1968) journalist, WWI war correspondent and historian
Vincent Buckley - (1927-1988) poet, teacher, editor, critic
Wilfred Burchett - (1911-1983) journalist
Peter Carey - novelist, twice winner of the Booker Prize
James Clavell - (1924-1994) British author of Shogun fame
David Williamson - playwright
Nick Earls - novelist
Nick Enright - (1950-2003) playwright
Dame Mary Gilmore - poet
Dorothy Hewett - poet, playwright and novellist
A. D. Hope - poet
Paul Jennings - children's author
Henry Lawson - prose and poetry
Kathy Lette - novelist (Puberty Blues )
John Marsden - most popular Australian author for young adults, and writer of the Tomorrow series.
Sally Morgan - biographer
D'Arcy Niland - (1919-1967) author (The Shiralee )
Oodgeroo Noonuccal (aka Kath Walker)
Ruth Park - (born NZ) author
Banjo Paterson - (1864-1941) writer, author of Waltzing Matilda and The Man from Snowy River
Steele Rudd - Author
Christina Stead - novelist (The Man Who Loved Children )
Patrick White - (1912-1990) winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature
Tim Winton - Western Australian author of books such as Cloudstreet
Judith Wright - poet (South of My Days )

Medical

Dr John F. Cade - discovered usefulness of lithium for treating bipolar disorder
Dr Victor Chang - heart surgeon
Reverend John Flynn - founder of the Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia
Dr Fred Hollows - (born NZ) eye doctor

Military

Don Bennett - Aviation pioneer, commander of the Royal Air Force Pathfinders
Henry Gordon Bennett - (1887-1962) WWI & WWII general
Sir Thomas Blamey - WWII general and Australia's only Field Marshal
Clive Caldwell - Top-scoring fighter ace of WWII
Sir Henry George Chauvel - (1865-1945) WWI general
Sir Roden Cutler - WWII Victoria Cross recipient, diplomat and Governor of New South Wales
Sir Edward 'Weary' Dunlop - (1907-1993) WWII Surgeon
Sir Hughie Edwards - (1914-1982) Victoria Cross recipient, senior Bomber Command Officer during WWII, Governor of Western Australia
Albert Jacka - First Australian recipient of the Victoria Cross in WWI
James Whiteside M'Cay - (1864-1930) WWI general
Rawdon Hume "Ron" Middleton VC - (1916-1942) Posthumous Victoria Cross recipient
Sir John Monash - (1865-1931) WWI general
Sir Leslie Morshead - (1889-1959) WWII General and Commander during the Siege of Tobruk
Keith Payne - Victoria Cross recipient
Arnold Potts - WWII Brigadier, esp. during decisive Kokoda Trail battles
Keith William "Bluey" Truscott - WWII ace
Nancy Wake - (born NZ 1912) operative with WWII French resistance
Sir Richard Williams - First Chief of Air Staff, Royal Australian Air Force

Music

A-G

Peter Allen - singer, songwriter
Vanessa Amorosi - singer
Christine Anu - singer
Tina Arena - singer
Stephanie Ashworth - photographer and bassist in rock_band Something_For_Kate
Chris Bailey - frontman for punk rock band The Saints
Jimmy Barnes - singer
Betty Beath - composer
Richard Bonynge - conductor, pianist, husband of Dame Joan Sutherland
Philip Bracanin - composer
Daryl Braithwaite - singer
John Butler - musician
Joan Carden - soprano
Kelly Cavuoto - singer, 2003 Australian Idol finalist
Stuart Challender - conductor
Kasey Chambers - singer
Peter Dawson - baritone
Cosima De Vito - singer, 2003 Australian Idol finalist
Paul Dempsey - lead singer and songwriter of Rock_band Something_For_Kate
Casey Donovan - singer, 2004 Australian Idol winner
Jason Donovan (actor and singer)
Judith Durham - lead singer of The Seekers
Slim Dusty - singer, guitarist
Ross Edwards - composer
Peter Garrett - former lead singer and songwriter of Midnight Oil, currently a political activist
Lisa Gerrard - (born 1961) former Dead Can Dance(1981-1998) member, solo artist and movie score composer
Andy Gibb - (1958-1988) pop singer
Delta Goodrem - singer, pianist, actress
Percy Grainger - pianist, composer (later became an American citizen)

H-R

Dame Joan Hammond - (born NZ) (1912-1996) violinist, soprano
Sir Bernard Heinze - conductor
David Helfgott - (born 1947) pianist
Laurence Henry Hicks - (1912-1997) composer
Missy Higgins - singer-songwriter
Matthew Hindson - composer
Michael Hutchence - (1960-1997) frontman for INXS
Clint Hyndman - drummer in rock_band Something_For_Kate
Natalie Imbruglia - singer
Daniel Johns - (born 1978) singer of Silverchair
Kamahl - (born Malaysia, Sri Lankan descent) singer, actor
Elena Kats-Chernin - Russian-born composer
Jeff Lang - guitar virtuoso
Jimmy Little - singer
Paul Mac - electronic musician
Sir Charles Mackerras - conductor
Dame Nellie Melba - opera singer
Kylie Minogue - (born 1968) singer
Dannii Minogue - singer, Kylie's sister
Gladys Moncrieff - singer
Olivia Newton-John - (born UK 1948) singer
Shannon Noll - singer, 2003 Australian Idol finalist
Johnny O'Keefe - singer 'The Wild One'
Lemon - Musician and founder of the successful independent group Frost.
Joseph Post - conductor
Helen Reddy - singer

S-Y

Bon Scott, Malcolm & Angus Young - members of hard rock band AC/DC
Peter Sculthorpe - composer
Guy Sebastian - singer, winner of 2003 Australian Idol
Mark Seymour - lead singer of the Hunters & Collectors
Sara Storer - country music singer
Dame Joan Sutherland - soprano, known as 'La Stupenda'
Deniz Tek - of the punk rock band Radio Birdman
Keith Urban - (born NZ 1967) country musician
Holly Valance - singer
Carl Vine - composer
Gerard Willems - Dutch-born pianist
John Williams - guitarist
Kevin Bloody Wilson - comedy singer/songwriter
Simone Young - conductor
Mandawuy Yunupingu - singer & political activist

Politics

A-F

Tony Abbott - Liberal Minister in John Howard's government
Lance Barnard - Deputy PM to Gough Whitlam
Sir Edmund Barton - (1849-1920) first Prime Minister of Australia
Peter Beattie - Premier of Queensland
Sir Johannes Bjelke-Petersen - Premier of Queensland
Neville Bonner - politician
Steve Bracks - Premier of Victoria
Bob Brown - Green leader and Senator
Brian Burke - WA premier, later Ambassador to the Holy See - jailed for corruption
Jim Cairns - Treaurer and Deputy PM to Gough Whitlam
Bob Carr - Premier of NSW
Ben Chifley - Labour Prime Minister 1945-49
Peter Costello - Treasurer in John Howard's government since 1996
Simon Crean - Opposition Leader to John Howard 2001-03
Bob Collins - NT politician, Federal Senator, Minister of Hawke government
Don Dunstan - SA premier
Herbert Evatt - Labour politician, Opposition Leader to Menzies
Paul Everingham - first Chief Minister of the Northern Territory; later Federal politician
Sir Arthur Fadden - Treasurer under Menzies
Tim Fischer - Deputy Prime Minister 1996-1999

G-W

Julia Gillard - shadow minister for health 2003-
Germaine Greer - (born 1939) feminist, writer, academic (moved to U.K.)
Nick Greiner - Premier of NSW
Pauline Hanson - former Senator, controversial founder of the One Nation Party
Bob Hawke - ALP Prime Minister 1983-91
Harold Holt - (1908-1967) Prime Minister
John Howard - (born 1939) Prime Minister
Paul Keating - ALP Prime Minister 1991-96
Jeff Kennett - Former Premier of Victoria
Cheryl Kernot - Leader of the Australian Democrats, defected to ALP and lost seat in 2001
Mark Latham - Leader of the Opposition (Australian Labor Party) (2003-05)
Sir John McEwen - Country Party leader, briefly Prime Minister after Holt's drowning
Sir William McMahon - Liberal Prime Minister 1971-72
Eddie Mabo - political activist
Malcolm Mackerras - commentator and academic (author of Mackerras Pendulum)
Clare Martin - first female and first ALP Chief Minister of the NT
Sir Robert Menzies - (1894-1978) Prime Minister
Kerry Nettle - Green senator
Sir Henry Parkes - "father of Federation"
Peter Reith - Liberal Minister under John Howard
Aden Ridgeway - Australian Democrats senator
Wilson Tuckey - controversial Liberal politician
Gough Whitlam - (1916-) Prime Minister
Neville Wran - Premier of NSW

Science and technology

Sir William Lawrence Bragg - physicist, Nobel Prize winner
Peter Doherty - immunologist, Nobel Prize winner
Sir John Eccles (born 1903) - Nobel prize physiologist
Howard, Lord Florey of Adelaide and Marston - lead development of mass-production of penicillin
James Harrison - pioneer of mechanical refrigeration, (1816 - 1893)
Sir Gustav Nossal - immunologist
Professor Fiona Stanley - epidemiologist
The Wentworth Group of Concerned Scientists:
- Prof Peter Cullen - Director, Co-operative Research Centre for Freshwater Ecology, University of Canberra; President, Federation of Australian Scientific and Technological Societies
- Prof Tim Flannery - zoologist and author (The Future Eaters )
- Assoc Prof Ronnie Harding - Institute of Environmental Studies, University of New South Wales
- Dr Steve Morton - Chief of CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems
- Prof Hugh Possingham - Director, Ecology Centre, University of Queensland
- Dr Denis Saunders - Conservation biologist and former CSIRO chief research scientist
- Prof Bruce Thom - Emeritus Professor, University of Sydney - former Chair Australian State of the Environment Committee
- Dr John Williams - former Chief of CSIRO Land and Water
- Prof Mike Young - Director Policy and Economic Research Unit, CSIRO Land and Water
- Peter Cosier - Policy Officer with the World Wide Fund for Nature .
- Leith Boully - Board Member, Australian Broadcasting Corporation and former Chair of the Community Advisory Committee of the Murray-Darling Basin Commission

Sports

A-G

Phil Anderson (born 1958) cyclist
Darren Bennett - (born 1965) Australian rules football player turned American football star
Andrew Bogut - (born 1984) basketball player
Raelene Boyle - athlete
Sir Donald Bradman - (1908-2001) cricketer
Matt Burke - (born 1973) rugby union player
Maureen Caird - athlete
Baden Cooke - (born 1978) cyclist
Margaret Smith Court - (born 1942) tennis player
Betty Cuthbert - (born 1938) athlete
Ralph Doubell - (born 1945) athlete
Herb Elliott - middle distance runner
Roy Emerson - tennis player
Brett Emerton - soccer
Cadel Evans - (born 1977) cyclist
Johnny Famechon - world boxing champion
Jeff Fenech - (born 1964) world boxing champion
Teddy Flack - (1873-1935) athlete
Dawn Fraser - swimmer
Cathy Freeman - (born 1973) athlete
Andrew Gaze - (born 1965) basketball player
Evonne Goolagong - tennis player
Shane Gould - swimmer
George Gregan - (born 1973) rugby union player

H-L

Grant Hackett - swimmer
Matthew Hayden - cricketer
Lleyton Hewitt - (born 1981) tennis player
Jodie Henry - swimmer
Lew Hoad - tennis player
Kim Hughes - cricketer
Lauren Jackson - (born 1981) basketball player
Marjorie Jackson - athlete, later Governor of South Australia
Harry Kewell - (born 1978) soccer
Michael Klim - swimmer
John Landy - athlete, second person to run a mile in under 4 minutes; later Governor of Victoria
Rod Laver - (born 1938) tennis player
Brett Lee - cricketer (fast bowler)
Libby Lenton - swimmer
Wally Lewis - Rugby League player
Walter Lindrum - (1898-1960) World Champion Billiards player
Ray Lindwall - cricketer
Luc Longley - basketball player, many NBA teams

M-S

Robbie McEwen - (Born 1972) cyclist
Glenn McGrath - cricketer
Anna Meares - track cyclist
Pauline Menczer - Surfer
Mal Meninga - Rugby League icon
Keith Miller - cricketer
Russell Mockridge - (1928-1958) cyclist
Anthony Mundine - Rugby League, then boxer
Tony Mundine - boxer
John Newcombe - tennis player
Greg Norman - (born 1955) golfer
Glynis Nunn - athlete
Stuart O'Grady - cyclist
Sir Hubert Opperman - (1904-1996) endurance cyclist, then politician (cabinet minister)
Kieren Perkins - swimmer
Mark Philippoussis - tennis player
Ricky Ponting - cricketer
Patrick Rafter - tennis player
Bruce Reid - (born 1963) cricketer
Dave Sands - (1926-1952) boxer
Frank Sedgman - tennis player
Janine Shepherd - cross-country skiier turned motivational speaker
Matt Shirvington - athlete
Shirley Strickland - (1925-2004) athlete
Bill Sweetenham - swimming coach
Andrew Symonds - cricketer

T-W

Ian Thorpe - (born 1982) swimmer
Michele Timms - (born 1965) basketball player, Phoenix Mercury WNBA
Kostya Tszyu - (born 1969) world boxing champion, Russian born but Australian citizen.
Mark Viduka - (born 1975) soccer
Shane Warne - cricketer
Mark Waugh - cricketer
Steve Waugh - cricketer
Karrie Webb - (born 1974) golfer
Todd Woodbridge - (born 1971) tennis player

Other

Daisy Bates - self-proclaimed anthropologist
Mary Elizabeth Donaldson - Crown Princess of Denmark, wife of HRH Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark
Megan Gale - model and actress
Eve van Grafhorst - AIDS patient and activist (moved to New Zealand)
Lawrence Hargrave - aviation pioneer
Rolf Harris - artist, singer and TV personality
Sir Lawrence Hartnett - businessman
Harry Hawker - (1889-1921) aviation pioneer
Bert Hinkler - (1892-1933) aviator
Clement Hodgkinson - (1818-1893) explorer, surveyor, landscape designer of Melbourne parks and gardens.
Frank Hurley - photographer on Shackleton's ill-fated Antarctica expedition
Ned Kelly - (c. 1854-1880) bushranger
Sir Sidney Kidman - (1852 - 1935) pastoralist
Sir Charles Kingsford Smith - (1897-1935) aviator
Elle MacPherson - model
Michael Mansell - Aboriginal activist
Sir Douglas Mawson - explorer
Rupert Murdoch - Media Mogul
John Rudder - linguist (Australian Aboriginal languages)
Rodney Rude - standup comedian
Peter Singer - philosopher, major influence on animal rights movement.
Christopher Skase - businessman and fugitive
Dick Smith - businessman
Alfred Traeger - (1895 - 1980) inventor of pedal radio
Olegas Truchanas - conservationist and wildlife photographer
Trugernanna or Truganini - called last of the Tasmanian Aborigines
Keith Windschuttle - historian and academic

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