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Lists of Australians covers selected notable Australian people organised by awards and honours, occupation, ethnicity, sports and other qualities. Australians of the Year [ edit ]
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 nation's evolving relationship with world, the role of sport in Australian culture, the impact of multiculturalism, and the special status of Australia's Indigenous people ...
Yagan (c.1795 - 1833) a Western Australian Indigenous leader of the 1830s; Yarramundi (c.1760 - c.1819) a prominent Dharug man, also a karadji; Yarri (c.1810 - 1880) a famous flood rescuer from Gundagai; Yemmerrawanne (c. 1775 - 1794) a Dharug man who, along with Bennelong, was the first Aboriginal person to travel to England.
List of people legally executed in New South Wales; List of people legally executed in Queensland; List of people legally executed in South Australia; List of people legally executed in Tasmania; List of people legally executed in the Northern Territory; List of people legally executed in Victoria; List of people legally executed in Western ...
Since 1915 there have been fifteen Australians awarded the Nobel Prize. [1] Almost half of these prizes (eight) have been awarded in the field of Physiology or Medicine [2] Most Australians awarded Nobel prizes before the end of the awarding of British/Imperial honours (in 1992) also received (or were offered) knighthoods.
Lists of Indigenous Australians by occupation and/or historical contribution: List of Indigenous Australian historical figures; List of Indigenous Australian musicians; List of Indigenous Australian performing artists; List of Indigenous Australians in politics and public service, education, law and humanities; List of Indigenous Australian ...
Prime Minister of Australia (2022-current) Edmund Barton: Prime Minister of Australia (1901–1903) Bob Carr: Premier of New South Wales (1995–2005) Syd Einfeld: Politician and Jewish community leader John Howard: Prime Minister of Australia (1996–2007) Morris Iemma: Premier of New South Wales (2005–2008) Paul Keating
John Mather (1848–1916): Scottish-Australian plein-air painter and etcher; John Baxter Mather (1853–1940): Scottish-Australian journalist, newspaper proprietor, landscape painter and art critic; John Mawurndjul (born 1952): indigenous artist in a traditional painting technique rarrk; William James Maxwell (ca.1843–1903): Scottish-born ...