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

See also the list of 100 Australian Living Treasures.

Contents

1 Creative art 2 Film and television 3 Journalism 4 Literature and theatre 5 Medical 6 Military 7 Music 7.1 A-G 7.2 H-R 7.3 S-Y 8 Politics 8.1 A-F 8.2 G-W 9 Science and technology 10 Sports 10.1 A-G 10.2 H-L 10.3 M-S 10.4 T-W 11 Other 12 Related topics

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

• Phillip Adams
• Margo Kingston
• Paul Kelly
• John Pilger
• Marian Wilkinson

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

Related topics

• List of people by nationality
• List of Australian musicians
• List of Australian Jews
• Prime Minister of Australia
• Australian Labor Party
• Liberal Party of Australia