List of Australian of the Year Award recipients

This is a list of the Australian of the Year Award recipients.

• 2006 Professor Ian Frazer (b. 1953)
• 2005 Dr Fiona Wood AM (b. 1958)
• 2004 Steve Waugh (b. 1965)
• 2003 Professor Fiona Stanley AC (b. 1946)
• 2002 Patrick Rafter (b. 1972)
• 2001 Lt General Peter Cosgrove AC MC (b. 1947)
• 2000 Sir Gustav Nossal AC CBE FAA FRS (b. 1931)
• 1999 Mark Taylor (b. 1963)
• 1998 Cathy Freeman (b. 1973)
• 1997 Professor Peter Doherty (b. 1940)
• 1996 Doctor John Yu AM (b. 1934)
• 1995 Arthur Boyd AC OBE (b. 1920)
• 1994 Ian Kiernan OAM (b. 1940)
• 1993 The award dating system changed - no award made
• 1992 Mandawuy Yunupingu (b. 1956)
• 1991 Archbishop Peter Hollingworth AO OBE (b. 1935)
• 1990 Tom Cameron AC (1929 – 1993)
• 1989 Allan Border AO (b. 1955)
• 1988 Kay Cottee AO (b. 1954)
• 1987 John Farnham (b. 1949)
• 1986 Dick Smith (b. 1944)
• 1985 Paul Hogan AM (b. 1939)
• 1984 Lois O'Donoghue CBE AM (b. 1932)
• 1983 Robert de Castella MBE (b. 1957)
• 1982 Sir Edward Williams KCMG KBE (1921 – 1999)
• 1981 Sir John Crawford AC CBE (1910 – 1984)
• 1980 Manning Clark AC (1915 – 1991)
• 1979 Senator Neville Bonner AO
• 1979 Harry Butler CBE (b. 1930)
• 1978 Alan Bond
• 1978 Galarrwuy Yunupingu AM (b. 1948)
• 1977 Sir Murray Tyrrell KCVO CBE
• 1977 Dame Raigh Roe DBE (b. 1923)
• 1976 Sir Edward ‘Weary’ Dunlop AC CMG OBE (1907 – 1993)
• 1975 Sir John Cornforth AC CBE (b. 1917 )
• 1975 Major General Alan Stretton AO CBE
• 1974 Sir Bernard Heinze AC (1894 – 1982)
• 1973 Patrick White (1912 – 1990)
• 1972 Shane Gould MBE (b. 1956)
• 1971 Evonne Goolagong Cawley AO MBE (b. 1951)
• 1970 His Eminence Sir Norman Cardinal Gilroy KBE (1896 – 1977)
• 1969 The Rt Hon Richard Gardiner Casey Baron Casey KG GCMG CH DSO MC PC (1890 – 1976)
• 1968 Lionel Rose MBE (b. 1948)
• 1967 The Seekers
• 1966 Sir Jack Brabham OBE (b. 1926)
• 1965 Sir Robert Helpmann CBE (1909 – 1986)
• 1964 Dawn Fraser MBE (b. 1937)
• 1963 Sir John Eccles AC (1903 – 1997)
• 1962 Alexander 'Jock' Sturrock MBE (b. 1915)
• 1961 Dame Joan Sutherland OM AC DBE (b. 1926)
• 1960 Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet OM AK KBE (1899 – 1985)