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Famous Natives People listed below are either native to Australia, or of Australian descent (born elsewhere) who have made a significant contribution to the fame of the country in their individual endeavors.  Peter Allen songwriter, entertainer Dame Judith Anderson actress Sir Reginald Ansett aviator, founder ansett airlines John Antill composer Robyn Archer singer, artistic director Florence Austral opera singer Simon Baker actor Eric Bana actor Sir Edmund Barton first australian prime minister Richard "Richie" Benaud cricketer Bruce Beresford film director, producer Nancy Bird-Walton aviator Elizabeth "Liz" Blackburn biologist Geoffrey Blainey historian, politic commentator Sir Thomas Blamey world war II general Catherine "Cate" Blanchett actress Neville Bonner politician, first indigenous australian elected to parliament Allan Border cricketer Arthur Boyd artist Robin Boyd architect Sir John "Jack" Brabham race car driver, team owner John Brack artist John Bradfield designer sydney harbour bridge Sir Donald Bradman cricketer Sir William Lawrence Bragg physicist, nobel laureate Bryan Brown actor Stanley Bruce former prime minister, diplomat Vivian Bullwinkel-Statham nurse ww II Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet nobel laureate Donald "Don" Burrows musician Ita Buttrose journalist, founding editor Cleo Arthur Calwell politician Peter Philip Carey author James "Jimmy" Carruthers boxer Richard Casey politician, diplomat Evonne Goolagong Cawley tennis player Roy Cazaly football player Percy Cerutty athletics coach Sir Henry "Harry" Chauvel officer in the first australian imperial force Joseph Benedict "Ben" Chifley former prime minister Donald Chipp politician Graeme Milbourne Clark pioneer cochlear implant Manning Clark historian, author Sir William Ian Clunies-Ross scientist Sir George James Cole entrepreneur, philanthropist Antonia "Toni" Collette actress, musician Herbert Cole "Nugget" Coombs economist Sir John Cornforth scientist, nobel laureate Margaret Court tennis player Edith Cowan first female parliamentarian Sir Zelman Cowen politician Ruth Cracknell actress Bruce Crampton golfer John Curtin former prime minister Betty Cuthbert olympic medalist Peter Dawson singer Alfred Deakin former prime minister Sir Owen Dixon jurist, diplomat William Dobell sculptor, painter Patrick Dodson indigenous australian leader Peter C. Doherty medical researcher, nobel laureate Ken Done artist Sir Ernest "Weary" Dunlop surgeon, pow ww II Maxwell "Max" Dupain artist Raymond "Jack" Dyer football player, coach John Carew Eccles neurophysiologist, nobel laureate Herbert "Herb" Elliott athlete, olympic medalist Bob Ellis journalist, film maker, commentator Roy Emerson tennis player Dr. H. V. "Doc" Evatt jurist, politician, first president united nations general assembly John Peter Farnham singer (born in england) Timothy "Tim" Flannery mammalogist, palaeontologist, global warming activist Howard Florey pharmacologist, nobel laureate Errol Flynn actor Rev. John Flynn minister, aviator, founded world's first air ambulance (royal flying doctor service) Dawn Fraser olympic medalist, swimmer Malcolm Fraser former prime minister Cathy Freeman olympic medalist, sprinter Dame Phyllis Frost welfare worker, philanthropist Joseph Furphy author Sir Wilmon Hudson Fysh founder qantas airlines Mel Gibson actor, director (born in NY) Julia Gillard prime minister Dame Mary Gilmore poet, journalist Peggy Glanville-Hicks composer Vida Goldstein reformer, politician Delta Lee Goodrem singer, songwriter George Percy Grainger composer, pianist Germaine Greer academic, journalist, literature scholar, feminist Ben Hall bushranger Sir Edward Hallstrom philanthropist Louise Hanson-Dyer philanthropist Rolf Harris musician, singer, composer Kevin Charpoo "Pro" Hart artist Bob Hawke former prime minister Robert Helpmann actor, director, choreographer Herbert "Bert" Hinkler aviator, first person to fly solo from england to australia Paul Hogan actor Alec Derwent "A.D." Hope poet, essayist Henry "Harry" Hopman tennis player, coach John Barry Humphries actor, comedian Geoffrey "Geoff" Hunt squash player James Francis "Frank" Hurley film maker Michael Hutchence musician, actor Steve "Crocodile Hunter" Irwin television host, wildlife expert, conservationist Sir Isaac Isaacs jurist, politician Albert Jacka first australian recipient of victoria cross Hugh Jackman actor Marjorie Jackson olympic medalist, politician Clive James author, talk show host Olivia Newton John actress, singer Daniel Johns singer, musician Edward "Ned" Kelly bushranger Paul Kelly singer, songwriter, musician Thomas Keneally author, playwright Graham Kennedy television personality Elizabeth Kenny pioneer physical therapy Nicole Kidman actress (born in HI) Sir Sidney Kidman pastoralist Sir Charles Edward Kingsford-Smith aviator David "Slim Dusty" Kirkpatrick singer, songwriter Emily Kame Kngwarreye artist John Landy athlete, politician Anthony LaPaglia actor Rod Laver tennis player Marjorie Lawrence opera singer Henry Lawson writer, poet Heath Ledger actor Essington Lewis industrialist Walter "Wally" Albert Lindrum billiards player Norman Alfred William Lindsay artist, sculptor Mark Anthony "Baz" Luhrmann film director, screenwriter, producer Dame Enid Lyons politician, first woman elected to house of representatives Eddie Mabo indigenous land rights activist Sir Edgar Bertram Mackennal sculptor (Blessed) Mary MacKillop co-founder sister of st. joseph of sacred heart, only beatified australian Elle Macpherson model, actress David Malouf author Daniel Mannix archbishop of melbourne Barry Marshall physician, nobel laureate Heather McKay squash player Hugh Victor "H.V." McKay inventor, industrialist Dame Nellie Melba opera singer Sir Robert Menzies former prime minister Keith Miller cricketer, ww II pilot Kylie Minogue singer, songwriter Dame Roma Mitchell first woman governor Sir John Monash military commander Gladys Moncrieff singer "australia's queen of song" James Morrison musician Sir Leslie Morshead military leader John Mulvaney "father of australian archaeology" Jack Mundey union, environmental activist Dame Elisabeth Murdoch philanthropist Sir Keith Murdoch journalist Rupert Murdoch global media mogul Leslie "Les" Murray poet, anthologist, critic Albert Namatjira artist John Newcombe tennis player Sir Sidney Nolan artist Oodgeroo Noonuccal poet, activist Greg Norman entrepreneur, golfer Sir Marcus "Mark" Oliphant physicist, humanitarian Alex O'Loughlin actor John Olsen artist Hubert Opperman cyclist, politician Jessica Origliasso singer, songwriter Lisa Origliasso singer, songwriter Kerry Packer publishing, media tycoon Sir Henry Parkes statesman "father of federation" (born in England) Andrew Barton "Banjo" Patterson poet, author Guy Pearce actor Bruce Petty political satirist, cartoonist Peter Porter poet Mark Philippoussis tennis player Aleksandr Mikhailovich Prokhorov physicist, pioneer in lasers, nobel laureate Clifton Pugh artist Roy Rene comedian, vaudevillian Henry Handel Richardson author Kate Ritchie actress Lionel Rose boxer James William "Bill" Roycroft olympic medalist Geoffrey Rush actor Bartholomew Augustine "B.A." Santamaria activist Fred Schepisi film director, writer Peter Sculthorpe composer Frank Sedgman tennis player Peter Singer philosopher Sir Keith Macpherson Smith aviator Richard "Dick" Smith philanthropist, aviator Sir Ross Macpherson Smith aviator Fiona Stanley epidemiologist Nellie Stewart singer Curtis Stone chef, author, television host Sir Arthur Streeton artist Shirley Strickland olympic medalist, athlete Dame Joan Sutherland opera singer Margaret Sutherland composer Struan Sutherland developer antivenins Terence Tao mathematician Andrew "Andy" Thomas astronaut Peter Thomson golfer Ian James Thorpe olympic medalist, swimmer Charles William "Bud" Tingwell actor Alan O. Trounson biologist, stem cell scientist Trugernanner "Truganini" last tasmanian aborigine Victor Trumper cricketer Albert Tucker artist Barry Tuckwell musician David Unaipon aboriginal, inventor, writer Keith Urban singer, songwriter (born in New Zealand) Shane Warne cricketer Douglas "Doug" Waterhouse entomologist Peter Weir film director William Charles Wentworth poet, explorer, journalist William Charles Wentworth IV politician Morris West author, playwright Brett Whiteley artist Gough Whitlam former prime minister Edward James "Ted" Whitten football player Frederick "Fred" Williams artist Reginald Murray "R.M." Williams bushman, creator bushwear clothing David Williamson playwright John Williamson singer, songwriter Malcolm Williamson composer Roger Woodward pianist Judith Wright poet, environmentalist, aboriginal land rights campaigner Is someone missing from this list? Submit your famous Australian
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