Famous Australians

• Australians are famous for their sports, art, music, showmanship, literature, war heroes and medical breakthroughs, to name a few.

• Yet some are notorious for others, maybe not so good things but they are infamous for crimes and represent a part of the history of Australia.

Sport

• Australia is a sport fanatic country and the Australians’ passions for sports show in their many sports achievements, both local and international.

• Popular sports include football, cricket, running, soccer, car-racing, golf and tennis.

Golf

• Webb, Karrie

• Norman, Greg

Golf

Webb, Karrie• Latest achievement: 2000:

won the US Open• 36 years old

Norman, Greg• 6 Australian Masters and 5

Australian Open champion ships

• 2 British Open championships

• 55 years old

Tennis

• Laver, Rod• ABC Sportsman• Of the year in

1969• World’s best • Ever Tennis • Player

Soccer

• Kewell, Harry• Played in World Cup

2010• Got red card when

playing against Ghana

Car/motorbike-Racing

• Jones, Alan• Doohan, Mick• Brock, Peter• Brabham, Jack

Brabham, Jack

Doohan, Mick

Swimming

• Gould, Shane• First Australian to

win 5 Olympic Medals at one Olympic Games

• 14 years old when she broke first world record

Running

• Freeman, Cathy• First Aborginal

Australian to win Olympic medal

• Good medal in Commonwealth games

• Australian of the year in 1998

Rugby

• Fulton, Bob

• Campese, David• 1991, Australian

World Cup best player of the year

• Barassi, Ron

Tennis

• Court, Margaret

• Cawley, Evonne• First Aborginal

Australian to represent Australia in world tennis

• 1980- second mother to win Wimbledon

War

• Blamey, Thomas- WW2 • Bullwinkel, Vivian- military nurse

WarChauvel, Harry- Gallipoli

• Kirkpatrick, John Simpson- transported wounded soldiers from the frontline to the beach on donkey during WW1 at Gallipoli

• Shot at war• Simpson and his donkey

became image of Anzac spirit

• Statue at War Memorial, Canberra

War

• Parer, Damien- photographer• Saunders, Reg- first aboriginal army

officer

Dance/Music

• Borovansky, Edouard- ballet dancer

• Formed Melbourne Academy of Russian Ballet

Dance/Music

• Murphy, Graeme- joined Australian Ballet school 15- youngest male student

• Directed Sydney Dance Company

• Young, Simone• Pianist who wanted to conduct• Got a break when somebody fell

sick• First woman to conduct Vienna

Philharmonic Orchestra

Music/Dance• Sutherland, Joan-opera singer• Greatest sopranos in 20th

century• Groomed Pavarotti• La Stupenda- the Great one

• Yunupingu, Mandawuy- Aborginal singer and sang at Sydney Olympic Games in 20000

Art/Literature• Skyes, Roberto- Aboriginal writer

• Wheeler, Maureen and Tony- Lonely Planet

• Morgan, Sally- Human rights

• Carey, Peter- writer of “Oscar and Lucinda” • (Booker Prize)

Medical

• Clark, Graeme- • Invented the Bionic Ear • in 1978• His own father was deaf

Film/ Show Business

• Nicole Kidman

Mel Gibson

Paul Hogan, Crocodile Dundee

Hutchence, Michael- INXS

Nicole Kidman

Film/Show Business

• Macpherson, Elle- model

Minogue, Kylie

• Newton-John, Olivia

Others: Crime

• Kelly, Ned- bushranger in steel armour

Others: Crime

• Taylor, Squizzy- gangster• Evaded the law• Wrote to newspapers to tease his pursuers

Others:

• Rubinstein, Helena- cosmetics

• “There are no ugly women, only lazy ones.”

• Coles, George- Coles Retail Store

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Others:

• Walton, Nancy-Bird- woman pilot

• Thomas, Andy- first Australian astronaut to go space

• Travelled around Earth 2000 times• Answers questions by children

Others

• Boyd, Robin- Architecture• Built Churchill House,

Canberra and Uni of Melbourne

• Brown, Bob- Environmentalist

• Protects nature• Won 1982 Australian