List of Australians

Table of contents

1 Art 2 Literature 3 Movies and TV 4 Music 5 Politics 6 Science 7 Sport 8 Other

Art

• Reg Mombassa
• Albert Namatjira, (1902-1959), painter
• Sidney Nolan - painter
• Arthur Streeton - painter
• Brett Whiteley

• Wilfred Burchett, (1911-1983), journalist
• James Clavell, (1924-1994), British author of Shogun fame
• Henry Lawson - prose and poetry
• John Marsden - most popular Australian author for young adults, and writer of the Tomorrow series.
• Sally Morgan
• Oodgeroo Noonuccal (aka Kath Walker)
• Banjo Paterson, (1864-1941), writer, author of Waltzing Matilda and The Man from Snowy River
• Patrick White, (1912-1990), winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature
• Tim Winton - Western Australian author of books such as Cloudstreet

• Eric Bana - actor
• Bruce Beresford - filmmaker
• Cate Blanchett - actor
• Bryan Brown - actor
• Russell Crowe, (born NZ 1964), actor
• Judy Davis - actor
• Portia De Rossi - actor
• Ernie Dingo - actor
• Errol Flynn - (1909-1959) actor
• Mel Gibson - (born 1956) - actor American born, Australian raised
• Rachel Griffiths - actor
• David Gulpilil - actor & dancer
• Scott Hicks - filmmaker
• Paul Hogan - (born 1939) actor
• Barry Humphries - actor/comedian
• Steve Irwin - (born 1962) The Crocodile Hunter
• Hugh Jackman - actor
• Nicole Kidman - (1967-) actor American born, Australian raised
• Baz Luhrmann - filmmaker
• Phillip Noyce - filmmaker
• Guy Pearce, (born 1967), actor
• Gina Riley - comedian
• Fred Schepisi - filmmaker
• Yahoo Serious - comedian
• Peter Weir, (born 1944), filmmaker

• Tina Arena
• Chris Bailey - frontman for punk rock band The Saints
• Peter Garrett - former lead singer and songwriter of Midnight Oil, currently a political activist
• Andy Gibb, (1958-1988), pop singer
• Michael Hutchence, (1960-1997), frontman for INXS
• Natalie Imbruglia - singer
• Daniel Johns, (born 1978), singer of Silverchair
• Jeff Lang - guitar virtuoso
• Nellie Melba - opera singer
• Kylie Minogue, (born 1968), singer
• Olivia Newton-John, (born 1948), singer
• Helen Reddy - singer
• Bon Scott, Malcolm & Angus Young - members of hard rock band AC/DC
• Mark Seymour - lead singer of the Hunters & Collectors
• Deniz Tek - of the punk rock band Radio Birdman
• Keith Urban, (born 1967), country musician
• Mandawuy Yunupingu - singer & political activist

• Edmund Barton, (1849-1920), first Prime Minister of Australia
• Neville Bonner - politician
• Bob Brown - Green leader and Senator
• Germaine Greer, (born 1939), feminist
• Pauline Hanson - former Senator, controversial founder of the One Nation Party
• Harold Holt, (1908-1967), Prime Minister
• John Howard, (born 1939), Prime Minister
• Eddie Mabo - political activist
• Robert Menzies, (1894-1978), Prime Minister
• Henry Parkes - "father of Federation"
• Gough Whitlam, (1916-), Prime Minister

• Sir William Lawrence Bragg - physicist, Nobel Prize winner
• Peter Doherty - immunologist, Nobel Prize winner
• Sir John Eccles (born 1903) - Nobel prize physiologist
• Tim Flannery - zoologist and author
• Howard Florey - co-inventor of penicillin
• Sir Gustav Nossal - immunologist
• Professor Fiona Stanley - epidemiologist

• Darren Bennett, (born 1965), Australian rules football player turned American football star
• Sir Donald Bradman, (1908-2001), cricketer
• Betty Cuthbert, (born 1938), athlete
• Herb Elliott - middle distance runner
• Roy Emerson - tennis player
• Brett Emerton - soccer
• Johnny Famechon - world boxing champion
• Jeff Fenech, (born 1964), world boxing champion
• Dawn Fraser - swimmer
• Cathy Freeman, (born 1973), athlete
• Evonne Goolagong - tennis player
• Lleyton Hewitt, (born 1981), tennis player
• Harry Kewell, (born 1978), soccer
• Rod Laver, (born 1938), tennis player
• Ray Lindwal - cricketer
• Luc Longley - basketball player, many NBA teams.
• Lew Hoad - tennis player
• Keith Miller - cricketer
• John Newcombe - tennis player
• Greg Norman, (born 1955), golfer
• Patrick Rafter - tennis player
• 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
• Karrie Webb, (born 1974), golfer

• Daisy Bates - self-proclaimed anthropologist
• John Flynn - founder of the Royal Flying Doctor's Service
• Megan Gale - model and actress
• Rolf Harris - artist, singer and TV personality
• Fred Hollows - eye doctor; move to List Of New Zealanders
• Frank Hurley - photographer on Shackleton's ill-fated Antarctica expedition
• Ned Kelly, (c. 1854-1880), bushranger
• Charles Kingsford Smith, (1897-1935), aviator
• Elle MacPherson - model
• Douglas Mawson - explorer
• Peter Singer - philosopher, major influence on animal rights movement.
• Truganini - so-called last of the Tasmanian Aborigines