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List of notable Australian sportswomen.List is based on their inclusion into the Sport Australia Hall of Fame, [1] Olympic and Paralympic individual gold medalist, multiple individual medalist at Olympic Games and world championships or recognized through public opinion lists. [2]
Ruby Payne-Scott was born on 28 May 1912 in Grafton, New South Wales, the daughter of Cyril Payne-Scott and his wife Amy (née Neale). [2] She later moved to Sydney to live with her aunt. There she attended the Penrith Public Primary School (1921–24), [3][4] and the Cleveland-Street Girls' High School (1925–26), [5][6] before completing her ...
Ruth Hall (scientist) Barbara Hardy (environmentalist) Thistle Yolette Harris. Lisa Harvey-Smith. Sue Hatcher. Vanessa Hayes. Anita Hill (researcher) Anita Ho-Baillie. Barbara R. Holland.
Florence Violet McKenzie OBE (née Granville; 28 September 1890 [1] – 23 May 1982), affectionately known as " Mrs Mac ", was Australia's first female electrical engineer, founder of the Women's Emergency Signalling Corps (WESC) and lifelong promoter for technical education for women. [1] She campaigned successfully to have some of her female ...
Henry Caselli Richards. Dorothy Hill, AC, CBE, FAA, FRS [1] (10 September 1907 – 23 April 1997) was an Australian geologist and palaeontologist, the first female professor at an Australian university, and the first female president of the Australian Academy of Science. [2]
This is a timeline of Australian inventions consisting of products and technology invented in Australia from pre-European-settlement in 1788 to the present. The inventions are listed in chronological order based on the date of their introduction. Australian inventions include the very old, such as woomera, and the very new, such as the scramjet ...
Australian female badminton players (43 P) Australian female baseball players (7 P) Australian women's basketball players (1 C, 258 P) Australian women's beach volleyball players (21 P) Australian female biathletes (3 P) Australian female bobsledders (7 P) Australian female bodybuilders (8 P) Australian female bowls ...
Sprinters Edith Robinson (left) and Eileen Wearne won Australian Championships in the 1930s. Australian Athletics Championships for women have been conducted since 1930. [1]At the first national championships, only 3 events (100 yards, 80 metres hurdles, and High Jump) were contested, but the programme has since expanded to include the full track and field programme.