Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Lists of people legally executed in Australia: List of people legally executed in New South Wales; List of people legally executed on Norfolk Island; List of people legally executed in the Northern Territory; List of people legally executed in Queensland; List of people legally executed in South Australia; List of people legally executed in ...
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.
Classification: People: By nationality: Australian also: Countries : Australia : People This category lists notable Australian -born people, or people who identify themselves as Australian.
Prime Minister of Australia (2022-current) Edmund Barton: Prime Minister of Australia (1901–1903) Bob Carr: Premier of New South Wales (1995–2005) Syd Einfeld: Politician and Jewish community leader John Howard: Prime Minister of Australia (1996–2007) Morris Iemma: Premier of New South Wales (2005–2008) Paul Keating
John Mather (1848–1916): Scottish-Australian plein-air painter and etcher; John Baxter Mather (1853–1940): Scottish-Australian journalist, newspaper proprietor, landscape painter and art critic; John Mawurndjul (born 1952): indigenous artist in a traditional painting technique rarrk; William James Maxwell (ca.1843–1903): Scottish-born ...
Main page; Contents; Current events; Random article; About Wikipedia; Contact us
Following his arrival in Australia in 1884, Johns compiled a volume of biographies of notable living compatriots. First published in 1906, Johns's Notable Australians contained nearly 1,100 entries. Subsequent editions were published in 1908, 1912, 1913, 1914 and 1922, before the book first appeared as Who's Who in Australia in 1927.
Since 1915 there have been fifteen Australians awarded the Nobel Prize. [1] Almost half of these prizes (eight) have been awarded in the field of Physiology or Medicine [2] Most Australians awarded Nobel prizes before the end of the awarding of British/Imperial honours (in 1992) also received (or were offered) knighthoods.