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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
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
Medical
Military
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
S-Y
Politics
A-F
G-W
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
H-L
M-S
T-W
Other
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