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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