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Lists of Australians covers selected notable Australian people organised by awards and honours, occupation, ethnicity, sports and other qualities. Australians of the Year [ edit ]
Yagan (c.1795 - 1833) a Western Australian Indigenous leader of the 1830s; Yarramundi (c.1760 - c.1819) a prominent Dharug man, also a karadji; Yarri (c.1810 - 1880) a famous flood rescuer from Gundagai; Yemmerrawanne (c. 1775 - 1794) a Dharug man who, along with Bennelong, was the first Aboriginal person to travel to England.
Ned Kelly has progressed from outlaw to national hero in a century, and to international icon in a further 20 years. The still-enigmatic, slightly saturnine and ever-ambivalent bushranger is the undisputed, if not universally admired, national symbol of Australia. [213]
According to the historians at the Australian War Memorial, [2] it is generally accepted that the total number of Australian casualties, killed and wounded at Anzac Cove, on 25 April 1915 is something of the order of 2,000 men; and, although no-one can be certain of the precise number, it is generally accepted that something like 650 Australian ...
The Imperial VC has been awarded to 96 Australians—91 were received for actions whilst serving with Australian forces, and another five to former members of the Australian forces then serving with South African and British forces. The majority of the awards were for action in the First World War when a total of 64 medals were awarded.
Kurdaitcha (or kurdaitcha man) is a ritual "executioner" in Australian Indigenous Australian culture (specifically the term comes from the Arrernte people). [3] Ngariman, Karadjeri quoll-man who killed the Bagadjimbiri and was drowned in revenge; Njirana, Jumu deity and father of Julana
Sing was born on 3 March 1886 in Clermont, Queensland, Australia, the son of a Chinese father and an English mother. [4] [7] [8] [9] His parents were John Sing (c. 1842–1921), a drover from Shanghai, China, and Mary Ann Sing (née Pugh; c. 1857–unknown), a nurse from Kingswinford, Staffordshire, England.
The Australian Cricket Hall of Fame is a part of the Australian Gallery of Sport and Olympic Museum in the Australian Sports Museum at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. [1] This hall of fame commemorates the greatest Australian cricketers of all time, as the "selection philosophy for the hall of fame focuses on the players' status as sporting ...