List of Australians

Art

• Reg Mombassa
• Albert Namatjira, (1902-1959), painter
• Sidney Nolan[?] - painter
• Arthur Streeton[?] - painter
• Brett Whiteley[?]

Literature

• Wilfred Burchett, (1911-1983), journalist
• James Clavell, (1924-1994), British author of Shogun fame
• Henry Lawson - prose and poetry
• Sally Morgan[?]
• Oodgeroo Noonuccal[?] (aka Kath Walker)
• Banjo Patterson, (1864-1941), writer, author of Waltzing Matilda and The Man from Snowy River[?]
• Patrick White, (1912-1990), winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature

Movies and TV

• Barry Humphries[?] - TV personality
• Baz Luhrmann - filmaker
• Bruce Beresford - film maker
• Bryan Brown - actor
• Cate Blanchett - actor
• David Gulpilil[?] - actor & dancer
• Eric Bana - actor
• Ernie Dingo[?] - actor
• Errol Flynn - (1909-1959) actor
• Guy Pearce, (born 1967), actor
• Hugh Jackman[?] - actor
• Judy Davis - actor
• Mel Gibson - (born 1956) - actor American born, Australian raised
• Nicole Kidman - (1967-) actor
• Paul Hogan - (born 1919) actor
• Peter Weir, (born 1944), film maker
• Phillip Noyce - film maker
• Rachel Griffiths[?] - actor
• Russell Crowe, (born 1964), actor
• Scott Hicks - film maker
• Yahoo Serious[?] - comedian

Music

• Tina Arena
• Chris Bailey - frontman for punk rock band The Saints
• Peter Garrett - former lead singer and songwriter of Midnight Oil & currently a political activist
• Andy Gibb, (1958-1988), pop singer
• Michael Hutchence, (1960-1997), singer of INXS
• Natalie Imbruglia - singer
• Daniel Johns, (born 1978), singer of Silverchair[?]
• Jeff Lang[?] - guitar virtuoso
• Nellie Melba - opera singer
• Kylie Minogue, (born 1968), singer
• Olivia Newton-John, (born 1948), singer
• Helen Reddy[?] - singer
• Bon Scott[?], Malcolm[?] & Angus Young[?] - members of hard rock band AC/DC
• Mark Seymour[?] - lead singer of the Hunters & Collectors[?]
• Deniz Tek[?] - of the punk rock band Radio Birdman
• Mandawuy Yunupingu[?] - singer & political activist

Politics

• Edmund Barton, (1849-1920), first Prime Minister of Australia
• Neville Bonner[?] - politician
• Bob Brown[?] - Green leader and Senator
• Germaine Greer, (born 1939), feminist
• Pauline Hanson - former Senator, controversial founder of the One Nation Party
• Harold Holt, (1908-1967), Prime Minister
• John Howard, (born 1939), Prime Minister
• Eddie Mabo[?] - political activist
• Robert Menzies, (1894-1978), politician
• Henry Parkes[?] - "father of Federation"
• Gough Whitlam, (1916-), politician

Science

• Sir William Lawrence Bragg[?] - physicist, Nobel Prize winner
• Howard Florey[?] - co-inventor of penicillin
• Professor Fiona Stanley - epidemiologist

Sport

• Sir Donald Bradman, (1908-2001), cricketer
• Betty Cuthbert, (born 1938), athlete
• Roy Emerson[?] - tennis player
• Johnny Famechon[?] - world boxing champion
• Jeff Fenech, (born 1964), world boxing champion
• Dawn Fraser[?] - swimmer
• Cathy Freeman, (born 1973), athlete
• Evonne Goolagong - tennis player
• Lleyton Hewitt, (born 1981), tennis player
• Rod Laver, (born 1938), tennis player
• Luc Longley- basketball player, many NBA teams.
• John Newcombe[?] - tennis player
• Greg Norman, (born 1955), golfer
• Patrick Rafter - tennis player
• Ian Thorpe, (born 1982), swimmer
• Michele Timms, (born 1965), basketball player, Phoenix Mercury WNBA
• Kostya Tszyu, (born 1969), world boxing champion, Russian born but Australian citizen.

Other

• Daisy Bates[?] - self-proclaimed anthropologist
• John Flynn[?] - founder of the Royal Flying Doctor's Service[?]
• Rolf Harris - artist, singer and TV personality
• Frank Hurley[?] - photographer on Shackleton's ill-fated Antarctica expedition
• Ned Kelly, (c. 1854-1880), bushranger
• Charles Kingsford Smith, (1897-1935), aviator
• Elle MacPherson[?] - model
• Douglas Mawson - explorer
• Peter Singer - philosopher, major influence on animal rights movement.
• Truganini[?] - so-called last of the Tasmanian Aborigines

See also: List of people by nationality