Lists of Australians covers selected notable Australian people organised by awards and honours, occupation, ethnicity, sports and other qualities.

Australians of the Year

List of Australian of the Year Award recipients The Australian of the Year Award is given annually on Australia Day. The announcement of the award has become a major public event in Australia, and is televised nationwide. The award "offers an insight into Australian identity, reflecting the ...

List of Senior Australian of the Year Award recipients The Senior Australian of the Year Award commenced in 1999, in the International Year of Older Persons, and recognises those Australians aged 60 and over who continue to achieve and contribute. 2002 is the only year, since the founding of the awa ...

List of Young Australian of the Year Award recipients The Young Australian of the Year Awards commenced in 1979, and recognises those aged 16 to 30 who are considered exceptional young Australians. 1993 was the only year in which an award was not given. See also * List of Australian of the Year ...

List of Australian Local Hero Award recipients The Local Hero AwardAustralian of the Year awardees
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Awards and honours

List of Australian Victoria Cross recipients The Victoria Cross (VC) is a military decoration awarded for valour "in the presence of the enemy" to members of the Australia Armed Forces. It may be awarded to a person of any rank in any service, and to civilians under military command. Bei ...

* List of Knights and Dames of the Order of Australia *

List of Companions of the Order of Australia The Order of Australia is the only Australian order of chivalry. It was established on 14 February 1975 by Elizabeth II, Queen of Australia, to recognise Australian citizens and other persons for achievement, meritorious service, or for both. At ...

* Recipients of Australian civil awards and decorations

Education

List of Australian university leaders Since the development of the university sector in Australia and the foundation of the first university (University of Sydney, 1850), a small number of Vice-Chancellors have served for 15 years or more with some portion of this time in office as ...

List of University of Adelaide people This is an incomplete list of University of Adelaide people including notable alumni and staff associated with the University of Adelaide in Australia. Alumni Business * Shaun Bonett – founder of the Precision Group * John Langdon Bonython ...

List of Australian National University people This is an incomplete list of Australian National University people, including alumni and staff. Alumni Academia * Robert Addo-Fening, historian and academic *Des Ball, security specialist and ANU Professor * Andrew Barker, British classicist ...

* List of La Trobe University people *

List of Macquarie University people This is a list of Macquarie University people. Academia and science Business Government and politics Australia * Peter Andren, Australian politician, former Member for Calare in the Australian House of Representatives *Sally McManus, Australi ...

List of Queensland University of Technology people This is a list of Queensland University of Technology people, including notable past and present alumni and faculty of the Queensland University of Technology (QUT). Alumni Humanities Arts * Ball Park Music, band * Conrad Coleby, actor * ...

List of University of Melbourne people This is a list of University of Melbourne people, including alumni and staff. Alumni Academia *Sir John Behan, educator; Australia's first Rhodes Scholar *Geoff Bowker, professor of informatics at the University of California, Irvine *A ...

List of Monash University people A list of Monash University people, including a number of notable alumni and staff. Notable alumni Politics and government Law Media and arts Business Medicine and science Social services and academia Sport Notable staff (past an ...

* List of University of New England people *

List of University of New South Wales people This is a list of University of New South Wales alumni. Academia * Toby Walsh, computer scientist and artificial intelligence expert *Dijana Alić, architect and academic * Michael Barber, mathematician, physicist and Vice-Chancellor of Flind ...

List of University of Queensland people A list of University of Queensland people, the University of Queensland has numerous notable alumni and faculty. Notable alumni Academia * Patsy Yates, registered nurse specialized in palliative care, Distinguished Professor and Executive Dea ...

List of University of Sydney people This is a list of University of Sydney people, including notable alumni and staff. Alumni Academia * Dennis A. Ahlburg – former President of Trinity University; dean of the Leeds School of Business at the University of Colorado at Boulder a ...

List of University of Western Australia people The University of Western Australia has seen many notable people pass through its doors over its -year history, both as students and staff. Notable alumni Politics Business Public service and community Law Science, medicine, enginee ...

List of famous Old Sydneians The following is a list of notable past pupils of Sydney Grammar School (SGS). Former pupils of the School are known as Old Sydneians. Politics, public service and the law Lawyers High Court of Australia * Sir Edmund Barton (1859–1864), for ...

Entertainment and culture

List of Australian film directors This is a list Australian film directors. A * Henry and Aaron * Sunny Abberton * Shane Abbess * Dominic Allen * Richard James Allen * Louise Alston * Stephen Amis * Mario Andreacchio * Luke Anthony * Neil Armfield * Gillian Armstrong * ...

List of Australian poets The poets listed below were either citizens or residents of Australia or published the bulk of their poetry whilst living there. A B C D E F G H I–J K L M N O P Q–R S T V W Y–Z See also ...

List of Australian novelists This is a list of novelists living in Australia or publishing significantly while living there. A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Y Z See also

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List of Australian architects This is a list of Australian architects. A '' Return to top of page'' B '' Return to top of page'' C '' Return to top of page'' D '' Return to top of page'' E '' Return to top of page'' F '' Return to top of page'' G ...

List of Indigenous Australian musicians This is a list of Indigenous Australian musicians. Solo artists * Trevor Adamson – country/gospel singer * Danzal Baker (Baker Boy) – rapper, singer *Auriel Andrew – country musician *Christine Anu (Torres Strait Islander) – singer-s ...

List of Indigenous Australian visual artists Numerous Indigenous Australians are noted for their participation in, and contributions to, the Visual arts of Australia and abroad. Contemporary Indigenous Australian art is a national movement of international significance with work by Indige ...

* List of Indigenous Australian writers *

List of Australian television presenters This is a listing of Australian television presenters and television journalists. Nine Network * Amelia Adams * Tara Brown * Scott Cam * David Campbell * Shelley Craft * Alex Cullen * Ben Fordham * Georgie Gardner * David Genat * Tra ...

List of Australian Idol semi finalists ''Australian Idol'' is an Australian talent reality television series that first aired in 2003. As of December 2008, there have been six seasons. During every season, the final round of competition features twelve singers, except for season three ...

List of Australian composers This is a list of Australian composers of classical music, contemporary music and/or film soundtracks. These names are largely drawn from the following: * Music Australia an online service developed by the National Library of Australia (NLA ...

List of Australian hip hop musicians The following is a list of notable Australian hip hop artists: 0-9 * 1200 Techniques * 360 A * A.B. Original * A.Girl * Allday * A-Love * Andrez Bergen * Astronomy Class B * Baker Boy * Bangs * Barkaa * Benjamin Speed * Bias B * Big ...

List of Australian women artists This is a list of women artists who were born in Australia or whose artworks are closely associated with that country. A * Anita Aarons (1912–2000), sculptor *Prue Acton (born 1943), fashion designer * Yilpi Adamson (born 1954), textile artis ...

List of Australian women photographers This is a list of women photographers who were born in Australia or whose works are closely associated with that country. A * Bernice Agar (1885–1976), portrait, fashion and society photographer in the late 1910s until the 1930s. * Narelle ...

Geography and ethnicity

List of Chinese Australians This is a list of notable Chinese Australians. Academia * Terence Tao: math genius winner of Fields Medal * Wang Gungwu: AO CBE, historian, Vice-Chancellor of Hong Kong University (1988–1995), President of the Australian Academy of the Humani ...

List of Sri Lankan Australians This is a list of Sri Lankan Australians, people who are of Sri Lankan heritage living in Australia. "Sri Lankan Australians" refers to all ethnic groups in Sri Lanka, but they are mainly the Sinhalese, Sri Lankan Tamils and Burghers. Academi ...

List of Hungarian Australians This is a list of notable Hungarian Australians. A–G * Sir Peter Abeles (1924–1999) businessman; awarded the Companion of the Order of Australia * Attila Abonyi (born 1946) soccer administrator and player for Melbourne Hungaria; member of ...

List of Turkish Australians This is a list of notable Turkish Australian, Australian Turks. Academia *Vecihi Başarın, historian *Serdar Kuyucak, associate professor at the University of Sydney Activists *Pembe Mentesh, campaigner and supporter of women's rights (Turk ...

List of Italian Australians This is a list of notable Italian Australians. Musicians *Vanessa Amorosi – singer, entertainer *Tina Arena – singer, entertainer *Christian Argenti – singer *Anthony Callea – singer, entertainer *Emmanuel Carella – singer *Nic Ceste ...

* Lists of Indigenous Australians *

List of Pakistani Australians This is a list of Pakistani Australians. It includes Australian citizens and permanent residents of Pakistanis, Pakistani ancestry, Pakistani-origin first generation immigrants who were naturalised with Australian nationality law, Australian citi ...

List of people from Adelaide This is a list of notable people from Adelaide. Arts and music Prominent intellectuals, writers, artists, bands, and musicians to hail from Adelaide include: Actors *Dame Judith Anderson - '' Rebecca'', ''And Then There Were None''; Tony and ...

* List of Noongar people *

List of people from Melbourne This is a list of people from Melbourne with some call to fame. A Melburnian is an inhabitant of Melbourne, the capital city of Victoria, Australia. The word is a demonym. Native Melburnians The following were born or grew up in Melbourne. ...

* List of Queenslanders *

List of people from Wollongong The following is a list of people from Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia, as well as its surrounding suburbs: Politics * Rex Connor, Minister for Minerals and Energy in the Whitlam government * Bryan Green, member of the Tasmanian Ho ...

List of VFL/AFL players by ethnicity This is a list of Australian Football League players who have multicultural ancestry (which includes players born overseas or who had one parent born overseas). In 2020, about 15 per cent of AFL players were born overseas or had one parent bo ...

List of Oceanian Jews The vast majority of Jews in Oceania (estimation 120,000) live in Australia, with a population of about 7,000 in New Zealand (6867, according to the 2013 NZ Census). Most are Ashkenazi Jews, with many being survivors of the Holocaust arriving ...

Law and crime

* List of Australian criminals *

List of Australian politicians convicted of crimes Federal New South Wales Queensland Tasmania South Australia Victoria Western Australia See also *List of political controversies in Australia References {{DEFAULTSORT:List Of Australian Politicians Convicted Of Crimes ...

* List of Australians in international prisons *

List of Australian Federal Police killed in the line of duty This is a list of Australian Federal Police officers killed in the line of duty (excluding by suicide).Australian Federal Police personnel killed in the line of duty (excluding by suicide). List Notes References See also * List of America ...

List of Judges of the Supreme Court of the Australian Capital Territory Judges of the Supreme Court of the Australian Capital Territory , including Chief Justices, Judges, Acting Judges, Additional Judges and Masters / Associate Justices. Notes References {{reflist Judges Australian Capital Territory ...

List of Justices of the High Court of Australia The High Court of Australia is composed of seven Justices: the Chief Justice of Australia and six other Justices. There have been 56 Justices who have served as Justices of the High Court since its formation under the ''Judiciary Act 1903''. Un ...

*Lists of people legally executed in Australia: **

List of people legally executed in New South Wales This is a list of people executed in New South Wales. It lists people who were executed by British (and from 1901, Australian) authorities within the modern-day boundaries of New South Wales. For people executed in other parts of Australia, s ...

List of people legally executed on Norfolk Island This is a list of people executed on Norfolk Island. It lists people who were executed by British (and from 1901, Australian) authorities within the modern-day boundaries of Norfolk Island. For people executed in other parts of Australia, see ...

List of people legally executed in the Northern Territory This is a list of people executed in the Northern Territory. It lists people who were executed by British (and from 1901, Australian) authorities within the modern-day boundaries of the Northern Territory. For people executed in other parts of ...

List of people legally executed in Queensland This is a list of people executed in Queensland. It lists people who were executed by British (and from 1901, Australian) authorities within the modern-day boundaries of Queensland. For people executed in other parts of Australia, see the side ...

List of people legally executed in South Australia This is a list of people executed in South Australia. It lists people who were executed by British (and from 1901, Australian) authorities within the modern-day boundaries of South Australia. For people executed in other parts of Australia, ...

List of people legally executed in Tasmania This is a list of people executed in Van Diemen's Land (1803-1856), the Colony of Tasmania (1856-1901) and since 1901, the federated island state of Tasmania, Australia. It lists people who were executed by British (and from 1901, Australia ...

List of people legally executed in Victoria This is a list of people executed in Victoria. It lists people who were executed by British (and from 1901, Australian) authorities within the modern-day boundaries of Victoria. For people executed in other parts of Australia, see the sidebar. ...

** List of people legally executed in Western Australia

Literature

* List of Indigenous Australian writers *

List of Australian novelists This is a list of novelists living in Australia or publishing significantly while living there. A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Y Z See also

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List of Australian women writers This is a list of women writers born in Australia or closely associated with it in their writings. As with other Wikipedia page lists, writers need a page before inclusion. A *Mena Kasmiri Abdullah (born 1930), short story writer *Joyce Ackroyd ...

Politics

Father of the Australian Senate This article lists the longest-serving members of the Parliament of Australia. Longest total service This section lists members of parliament who have served for a cumulative total of at least 30 years. All these periods of service were spent i ...

Father of the Australian House of Representatives This article lists the longest-serving members of the Parliament of Australia. Longest total service This section lists members of parliament who have served for a cumulative total of at least 30 years. All these periods of service were spent ...

Father of the Australian Parliament This article lists the longest-serving members of the Parliament of Australia. Longest total service This section lists members of parliament who have served for a cumulative total of at least 30 years. All these periods of service were spent i ...

List of Australian ministers This is a list of ministries of the Government of Australia since Federation A federation (also known as a federal state) is a political entity characterized by a union of partially self-governing provinces, states, or other regions unde ...

List of Australian Opposition Leaders In Australian federal politics, the Leader of the Opposition is an elected member of parliament (MP) in the Australian House of Representatives who leads the opposition. The Leader of the Opposition, by convention, is the leader of the larges ...

List of Australian Greens parliamentarians This is a list of Australian Greens Members of Parliament, past and present, for Federal, State and Territory Parliaments of Australia. There are currently 33 serving Parliamentary Members of the Greens. The Greens are currently represented in t ...

List of Indigenous Australians in politics and public service A ''list'' is any set of items in a row. List or lists may also refer to: People * List (surname) Organizations * List College, an undergraduate division of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America * SC Germania List The SC Germania L ...

List of Australian Ambassadors to Iran The Ambassador of Australia to Iran is an officer of the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and the head of the Embassy of the Commonwealth of Australia to the Islamic Republic of Iran. The current ambassador, since October 201 ...

List of Australian Ambassadors to the United Nations The Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Australia to the United Nations is an officer of the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and the head of the Permanent Mission of the Commonwealth of Australia to the United Nations ...

List of Australian Ambassadors to the United States The Ambassador of Australia to the United States is an officer of the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and the director of the Embassy of the Commonwealth of Australia to the United States of America The United State ...

List of the first women appointed to Australian judicial positions The first court was established in 1788, the first woman to be awarded a Bachelor of Laws degree graduated in 1903, and the first woman barrister was admitted in 1905. It was not until 1965 that the first woman was appointed to an Australian ju ...

List of High Commissioners and Ambassadors from Australia A ''list'' is any set of items in a row. List or lists may also refer to: People * List (surname) Organizations * List College, an undergraduate division of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America * SC Germania List, German rugby union ...

* List of prime ministers of Australia *

Members of the Parliament of Australia who have served for at least 30 years This article lists the longest-serving members of the Parliament of Australia. Longest total service This section lists members of parliament who have served for a cumulative total of at least 30 years. All these periods of service were spent i ...

People who have served in both Houses of the Australian Parliament This is a list of Members of the Australian Parliament who have served in both the Senate and the House of Representatives. Section 43 of the Constitution of Australia says: "A member of either House of the Parliament shall be incapable of being ...

Mayors and Lord Mayors

* List of Mayors and Lord Mayors of Adelaide *

List of Mayors and Lord Mayors of Brisbane This is a list of the Mayors and Lord Mayors of the City of Brisbane, a local government area of Queensland, Australia. The current Lord Mayor of Brisbane is Adrian Schrinner. Mayors of the Brisbane Municipal Council (1859–1903) The Tow ...

* List of Mayors and Lord Mayors of Hobart *

List of Mayors and Lord Mayors of Melbourne This is a list of the mayors and lord mayors of the City of Melbourne, a local government area A local government area (LGA) is an administrative division of a country that a local government is responsible for. The size of an LGA varies by c ...

List of Mayors and Lord Mayors of Perth __TOC__ The history of the City of Perth A city is a human settlement of notable size.Goodall, B. (1987) ''The Penguin Dictionary of Human Geography''. London: Penguin.Kuper, A. and Kuper, J., eds (1996) ''The Social Science Encyclopedia''. ...

List of Mayors and Lord Mayors of Sydney The Right Honourable the Lord Mayor of Sydney is the head of the Council of the City of Sydney, which is the local government area covering the central business district of Sydney in the State of New South Wales, Australia. The Lord Mayor has ...

Premiers

Premier of New South Wales The premier of New South Wales is the head of government in the state of New South Wales ) , nickname = , image_map = New South Wales in Australia.svg , map_caption = Location of New South Wales in AustraliaCoordinates: , subdivision_ ...

Premier of South Australia The premier of South Australia is the head of government in the state of South Australia, Australia. The Government of South Australia follows the Westminster system, with a Parliament of South Australia acting as the legislature. The premier ...

Premier of Queensland The premier of Queensland is the head of government in the Australian state of Queensland. By convention the premier is the leader of the party with a parliamentary majority in the unicameral Legislative Assembly of Queensland. The premier is ap ...

Premier of Tasmania The premier of Tasmania is the head of the executive government in the Australian state of Tasmania. By convention, the leader of the party or political grouping which has majority support in the House of Assembly is invited by the governor of T ...

Premier of Western Australia The premier of Western Australia is the head of government of the state of Western Australia. The role of premier at a state level is similar to the role of the prime minister of Australia at a federal level. The premier leads the executive br ...

Premier of Victoria The premier of Victoria is the head of government in the Australian state of Victoria. The premier is appointed by the governor of Victoria, and is the leader of the political party able to secure a majority in the Victorian Legislative Assembl ...

Religion

List of Anglican bishops of Sydney The Archbishop of Sydney is the diocesan bishop of the Anglican Diocese of Sydney, Australia and '' ex officio'' metropolitan bishop of the ecclesiastical Province of New South Wales. From 1814 to 1836 the colony of New South Wales was part ...

Catholic Bishops and Archbishops of Perth, Western Australia The Roman Catholic Metropolitan Archdiocese of Perth is a Latin Church metropolitan archdiocese of the Catholic Church in Australia covering the Greater Perth, Goldfields-Esperance, Peel and Wheatbelt regions of Western Australia. St Mary's ...

Catholic Bishops and Archbishops of Sydney This is a list of the bishops and archbishops of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Sydney since 1842. The title also is the Catholic Primate of Australia. List of bishops List of archbishops Auxiliary bishops See also *Roman Catholicism ...

Sport

List of Australian Test cricketers This is a list of Australia Test cricketers. A Test match is an international two-innings per side cricket match between two of the leading cricketing nations. The list is arranged in the order in which each player won his Test cap by playing f ...

Australian national cricket captains This is a list of the people who have been the official Australian captains in Tests, ODIs and Twenty20 Internationals cricket teams. Australia participated in the first Test match in cricket in 1877, the first One Day International in 1971 (bo ...

List of Australian Test wicket-keepers Wicket-keepers plays an important role in test cricket and, over time, the role has evolved into a specialist position. In Test cricket, only 34 wicket-keepers have kept wicket in a match for Australia. Jack Blackham was the first and long ...

List of Australian Test batsmen who have scored over 5000 Test runs Test cricket is the oldest form of cricket played at international level. A Test match is scheduled to take place over a period of five days, and is played by teams representing full member nations of the International Cricket Council (ICC). ...

List of Australian ODI cricketers This is a list of Australian One-day International cricketers. A One Day International, or an ODI, is an international cricket match between two representative teams, each one having ODI status, as determined by the International Cricket Counci ...

* List of Australian Twenty20 International cricketers *

Australian Test cricket umpires Australian(s) may refer to: Australia * Australia, a country * Australians, citizens of the Commonwealth of Australia ** European Australians ** Anglo-Celtic Australians, Australians descended principally from British colonists ** Aboriginal Au ...

List of Australian rules football and cricket players This is a listing of players to have played both Australian rules football in the nation's premier leagues and first-class cricket or higher. These leagues are the Australian Football League (AFL), formerly the VFL, West Australian Football Le ...

List of Australian Football League umpires This is a list of people who have umpired in the Australian Football League (AFL), formerly the VFL. As of 2007 there have been a total of 1,249 umpires to have umpired at VFL/AFL Level (408 field umpires, 523 boundary umpires and 318 goal umpi ...

Australian Rugby League's Team of the Century In late 2007, the Australian Rugby League and National Rugby League The National Rugby League (NRL) is an Australasian rugby league club competition which contains clubs from New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, the Australian Capital Terr ...

List of Australian Football League coaches This list includes the appointment date and performance record of current Australian Football League senior coaches. The league consists of 18 clubs across Australia, with at least two clubs in every state/territory apart from Tasmania, the Aus ...

List of Australian Winter Olympians A list of Australian Winter Olympians. {{compact ToC, side=yes, top=yes, num=yes A * Chris Allan: Cross-country skiing (1984) * Mitchell Allan: Snowboard (2006) * Jenny Altermatt: Alpine (1980) * Bob Arnott: Alpine (1952) * Tony Aslangal: ...

List of players from Australia in Major League Baseball The first recorded baseball event in Australia took place in Melbourne, Victoria in 1857, between teams from Collingwood and Richmond. Accounts vary as to the details, including whether it was a single game or a series of three games, th ...

Miscellaneous

Australian Living Treasures National Living Treasure is a status created and occasionally updated by the National Trust of Australia's New South Wales branch, awarded to up to 100 living people. Recipients were selected by popular vote for having made outstanding contribut ...

List of people on stamps of Australia A ''list'' is any set of items in a row. List or lists may also refer to: People * List (surname) Organizations * List College, an undergraduate division of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America * SC Germania List, German rugby union ...

List of Indigenous Australians associated with European colonisation of Australia Some Indigenous Australians are remembered in history for leadership prior to European colonisation, some for their resistance to that colonisation, others for assisting Europeans explore the country. Some became infamous for their deeds, and oth ...

List of Australian businesspersons The economy of Australia is one of the most developed, modern market economies in the world and the most productive in South Pacific, with a GDP of approximately US$1.6 trillion. Australia's total wealth is 6.4 trillion dollars. In 2011, it was ...