significant chinese australians

Significant Chinese Australians

By Chris

Chinese Australians Successful in Academics

Victor Chang• Born in Shanghai.• He took interest in

medicine after his mother died of breast cancer when he was 12.

• He was one of Australia’s best heart surgeon.

• He was good at heart transplants and he was also good at giving people new hearts.

• He was born in 1936 and he passed away in 1991

Chinese Australians Successful in Business

Sir Leslie Joseph Hooker

• He was born in 1903 and passed away in 1976.

• His original name was Tingyou.

• He created L.J. Hooker in 1928

• He retired in 1969 and was knighted in 1973 and he died 3 years later.

• He created one of Australia's best real estates.

Entertainment Successful Chinese Australians

Poh Ling Yeow

• She was born in Malaysia in 1973.Poh spent 9 years of her life in Kuala Lumpur and then she moved to South Australia and began her life being an artist. Soon after she joined MasterChef Australia and came 2nd.

One ofPoh’s artworks

Chinese Australian Politics

John So • John So was a Chinese Australian businessman who was the 102nd Mayor of Melbourne.

• He had the job of being Mayor of Melbourne for the longest time which was 7 and a half years.

• He was born in Hong Kong in 1946

Chinese Australians in Military

Billy Sing

• Billy Sing was one of the best snipers in World War 1. He represented Australia by sniping nearly 150 soldiers in the opposition.

• He was born in 1886 and he died in 1943.

• His nicknames were the Murderer and the Assassin

Chinese Australians Successful in Sports

Cheltzie Lee• Cheltzie Lee is a figure

skater who represented Australia in the Vancouver winter Olympics.

• She is the 2010 Australian national champion and the junior national champion in 2007-2008

• She was born in 1993

• ‘’Victor Chang’’, http://www.abc.net.au/schoolstv/australians/chang.htm/(collected18/5/10)

• ‘’Leslie Joseph Hooker’’, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_Joseph_Hooker (collected25/5/10) • ‘’Poh Ling Yeow’’ http://www.pohlingyeow.com/artist.htm• (collected1/6/10)• ‘’John So’’ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_So (collected8/6/10)• ‘’Billy Sing’’ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Sing (collected8/6/10) ‘’Cheltzie Lee’’ http://www.freebase.com/view/en/cheltzie_lee

(collected8/6/10)