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Percival Bazeley - Public health hero, brought medicine and vaccine to an entire population
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 New Zealand) eye doctor
Dr Barry Marshall - joint 2005 Nobel prize in Medicine with Dr Robin Warren for the discovery that a strain of bacteria, not lifestyle, causes stomach ulcers and gastritis
Dr William G. McBride - gynaecologist and obstetrician (alerted the world to the dangers of pregnant women taking "Thalidomide", which caused deformities in the unborn child)
Dr Robin Warren - joint 2005 Nobel prize in Medicine with Dr Barry Marshall for the discovery that a strain of bacteria, not lifestyle, causes stomach ulcers and gastritis
Dr Fiona Wood- inventor of spray on skin for burns victims and named Australian of the Year for 2005.

Military

Admiral Chris Barrie AC - Chief of Defence Force 1998–2002
Percival Bazeley - Brought penicillin to Australians and allies in WWII
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
General Peter Cosgrove - Chief of Defence Force 2002–2005
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
Air Chief Marshal Allan (Angus) Houston - Chief of the Defence Force 2005–
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

See Also: List of Australian musicians.

Christine Anu - singer
Tina Arena - singer
Jimmy Barnes - Scottish born singer
Eric Bogle - Australian folk musician
Daryl Braithwaite - singer
John Butler - musician
Anthony Callea - Australian Idol runner up (2004)
Nick Cave - rock singer, songwriter
Kasey Chambers - singer
Slim Dusty - singer, guitarist
John Farnham - (born in England) singer
Peter Garrett - (also listed in politics) former lead singer and songwriter of Midnight Oil
Delta Goodrem - singer, pianist, actress
Athol Guy - singer, double base player, a member of The Seekers
Dame Joan Hammond - (born NZ) (1912-1996) violinist, opera singer
Sir Bernard Heinze - conductor
Missy Higgins - singer-songwriter
Michael Hutchence - (1960-1997) frontman for INXS
Natalie Imbruglia - singer
Sir Charles Mackerras - conductor
Dame Nellie Melba - opera singer
Kylie Minogue - (born 1968) singer
Olivia Newton-John - (born United Kingdom 1948) singer
Johnny O'Keefe - singer 'The Wild One'
Keith Potger - singer, guitarist, a member of The Seekers
Bon Scott, Malcolm & Angus Young - members of hard rock band AC/DC
Dame Joan Sutherland - opera singer (known as 'La Stupenda')
Deniz Tek - of the punk rock band Radio Birdman
Keith Urban - (born NZ 1967) country musician

Performing Arts

See Also: List of Australian dancers.

David Atkins
Deanne Berry
Leigh Bowery
Nathan Foley
David Gulpilil
Tim Harding
Sir Robert Helpmann - dancer, choreographer
Rebecca Jackson Mendoza
Sonia Kruger
Charles Lisner
David McAllister
Paul Mercurio
Tara Morice
Graeme Murphy
Stelarc
Stephen Page
Rodney Rude - standup comedian
Craig Revel Horwood
Frances Rings
Mandy Ritchie
Wade Robson
Will Sabin
Ross Stretton
Meryl Tankard
Leigh Warren of Leigh Warren & Dancers

Politics

Sir Edmund Barton - (1849-1920) first Prime Minister of Australia
Sir Johannes Bjelke-Petersen - (born in New Zealand) Premier of Queensland
Neville Bonner - First Indigenous member of Federal Parliament
Bob Brown - Green Senator and lead spokesperson
Jim Cairns - Treaurer and Deputy PM to Gough Whitlam
Bob Carr - former Premier of NSW
Ben Chifley - Labour Prime Minister 1945-49
Don Chipp - Founder of the Australian Democrats
Peter Costello - Treasurer in John Howard's government since 1996
Don Dunstan - Flamboyant SA premier
Dr H.V. Evatt - Labour politician, Opposition Leader to Menzies
Sir Arthur Fadden - Treasurer under Menzies
Tim Fischer - Deputy Prime Minister 1996-1999
Peter Garrett (Also listed in Music)
Rupert Hamer - Liberal Premier of Victoria
Pauline Hanson - former QLD Senator, founder of the One Nation Party
Paul Hasluck
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
Sir William McMahon - Liberal Prime Minister 1971-72
Eddie Mabo - political activist
Malcolm Mackerras - psephologist and author of Mackerras Pendulum
Clare Martin - first female and first ALP Chief Minister of the NT
Sir Robert Menzies - (1894-1978) Prime Minister
Sir Henry Parkes - "father of Federation"
Aden Ridgeway - Australian Democrats senator and second ever indigenous member of Parliament
B.A. Santamaria (also listed in journalism)
Natasha Stott Despoja - Former leader of the Australian Democrats
Malcolm Turnbull (also listed in business)
Gough Whitlam - (1916-) Prime Minister

Science and technology

Sir William Lawrence Bragg - physicist, Nobel Prize winner
Professor Graeme Clarke - with his group, researched the development of the Cochlea ear implant for the profoundly deaf
John Cornforth - chemist (born 1917) Nobel Prize winner
Peter Doherty - immunologist, Nobel Prize winner
Sir John Eccles (born 1903) - Nobel prize physiologist
Lord Howard Walter Florey of Adelaide and Marston - lead development of mass-production of penicillin
James Harrison - pioneer of mechanical refrigeration, (1816 - 1893)
Professor Rodney Leonard Jory - (1938) physicist
Sir Gustav Nossal - immunologist
Clarence Herbert Smith - co-inventor, with his brother, of the Stump-jump plough
Richard Bowyer Smith - co-inventor, with his brother, of the Stump-jump plough
Professor Fiona Stanley - epidemiologist
Alfred Traeger - (1895 - 1980) inventor of pedal radio
Dr. David Warren - inventor of the Flight data recorder
David Walker - Games Designer (Team Fortress) Now working for Valve Corporation
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

Sport

Gary Ablett - Australian Rules Football
Andrew Bogut - (born 1984) basketball player
Allan Border - cricketer
Sir Donald Bradman - (1908-2001) cricketer
Matt Burke - (born 1973) rugby union player
Greg Chappell - (born 1948) cricketer
Margaret Smith Court - (born 1942) tennis player
Betty Cuthbert - (born 1938) athlete
Jade Edmistone - Swimmer
Herb Elliott - middle distance runner
Dawn Fraser - swimmer
Cathy Freeman - (born 1973) athlete
Andrew Gaze - (born 1965) basketball player
Evonne Goolagong - tennis player
George Gregan - (born 1973) rugby union player
Lauren Jackson - (born 1981) basketball player
Patrick Johnson - athlete, first Australian to run 100m in under 10 seconds
Alan Jones - racing car driver and 1980 Formula One World Champion
Chris Judd - AFL footballer
John Landy - athlete, second person to run a mile in under 4 minutes; later Governor of Victoria
Rod Laver - (born 1938) tennis player
Luc Longley - basketball player
Leigh Matthews - Australian Rules Football player
Mal Meninga - Rugby League icon
Anthony Mundine - Rugby League, then boxer
Tim McCartney-Snape - First Australian to Climb Everest
Greg Norman - (born 1955) golfer
Kieren Perkins - swimmer
Mark Philippoussis - tennis player
Patrick Rafter - tennis player
Ian Thorpe - (born 1982) swimmer
Kostya Tszyu - (born 1969) world boxing champion, Russian born but Australian citizen.
Shane Warne - cricketer
Mark Waugh - cricketer
Steve Waugh - cricketer
Ted Whitten - Australian Rules Football player
Todd Woodbridge - (born 1971) tennis player
Mark Woodforde - tennis player

Visual Art

Howard Arkley - painter
Charles Bannon - printmaker
Charles Billich - painter
Charles Blackman - painter
Peter Booth - 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
Charles Kerry - photographer
Norman Lindsay - painter, author
Michael Leunig - cartoonist
Lewis Miller - painter
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
Heather Shimmen - painter, printmaker
Jeffrey Smart - painter
Sir Arthur Streeton - painter
Les Tanner-(1927-2001) cartoonist
Albert Tucker - painter
Brett Whiteley - painter

Other

Tilly Aston - Disability activist and founder of Association for the Advancement of the Blind
Daisy Bates - self-proclaimed anthropologist
James Busby - "Father of Australian wine"
Alex Brawn - "Industrialist and Publican"
Mary Elizabeth Donaldson - Crown Princess of Denmark, wife of HRH Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark
Len Evans - winemaking pioneer
Megan Gale - model and actress
Eve van Grafhorst - AIDS patient and activist (moved to New Zealand)
William Guilfoyle - (1840-1912) - landscape designer
Mamdouh Habib - former Guantanamo Bay inmate
David Hicks - Guantanamo Bay inmate
Clement Hodgkinson - (1818-1893) explorer, surveyor, landscape designer of Melbourne parks and gardens
Frank Hurley - photographer on Shackleton's ill-fated Antarctica expedition
Sir Sidney Kidman - (1852 - 1935) pastoralist
Marcia Langton Professor and Aboriginal scholar
Elle MacPherson - model
Michael Mansell - Aboriginal activist
John Marsden (lawyer) - Sydney solicitor
Sir Douglas Mawson - explorer
John Rudder - linguist (Australian Aboriginal languages)
Max Schubert - winemaker Penfolds Grange
Peter Singer - philosopher, major influence on animal rights movement.
Paul Stoddart - former owner of Minardi F1 team
Olegas Truchanas - conservationist and wildlife photographer
Trugernanna or Truganini - called last of the Tasmanian Aborigines

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-* Jason Layt
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