100 Notable alumni of
University of Sydney
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The University of Sydney is 82nd in the world, 1st in Oceania, and 1st in Australia by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from the University of Sydney sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Dolph Lundgren
- Occupations
- bodybuilderengineerjudokamodelchemist
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Hans "Dolph" Lundgren is a Swedish actor, filmmaker, and martial artist. He gained recognition for portraying the Soviet boxer Ivan Drago in his breakthrough role in Rocky IV (1985), a role he reprised in Creed II (2018).
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Rose Byrne
- Occupations
- voice actorstage actoractorfilm actor
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Mary Rose Byrne is an Australian actress. Renowned for her versatility across film and television, Byrne is particularly recognized for her leading roles in blockbuster comedies, independent dramas, and horror films. Her accolades include a Golden Globe Award, an Independent Spirit Award, a Silver Bear and a Volpi Cup in addition to nominations for an Academy Award, BAFTA Award, Actor Award, and two Primetime Emmy Awards.
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Julian McMahon
- Occupations
- video game actorfilm producerfilm actormodeltelevision actor
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Julian Dana William McMahon was an Australian-American actor. He was the only son of William McMahon, a former Prime Minister of Australia. He was best known for his roles as Ben Lucini in Home and Away, Detective John Grant in Profiler, Cole Turner in Charmed, Dr. Christian Troy in Nip/Tuck, Doctor Doom in the Fantastic Four duology, Jonah in Runaways and Jess LaCroix in FBI: Most Wanted. His other films include Premonition, Red, and The Surfer. For his performance in Nip/Tuck, McMahon was nominated for the Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Television Drama Series.
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Jacqueline Fernandez
- Occupations
- film actorbeauty pageant contestantmodel
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Jacqueline Genevieve Fernandez is a Sri Lankan actress based in India. She has worked in Indian films, predominantly in Hindi, besides appearing in reality shows and music videos. Fernandez was born and raised in Bahrain. After graduating in mass communication from the University of Sydney and working as a television reporter in Sri Lanka, she joined the modelling industry. She was crowned Miss Universe Sri Lanka in 2006, and represented her country at Miss Universe 2006.
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Elle Macpherson
- Enrolled in the University of Sydney
- Studied law
- Occupations
- television presenterbusinesspersonentrepreneuractortelevision producer
- Biography
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Eleanor Nancy Macpherson is an Australian model, businesswoman, television host, and actress.
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Anthony Albanese
- Enrolled in the University of Sydney
- Graduated with Bachelor of Economics
- Occupations
- prime ministerparty leaderpolitician
- Biography
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Anthony Norman Albanese is an Australian politician who has served as the 31st prime minister of Australia since 2022. He has been the leader of the Labor Party since 2019 and the member of parliament (MP) for the New South Wales division of Grayndler since 1996.
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Akhilesh Yadav
- Occupations
- politician
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Akhilesh Yadav is an Indian politician, engineer, agriculturalist and social worker. He is the national president of the Samajwadi Party who served as the 20th Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh from 2012 to 2017. Having assumed the chief minister's office at the age of 38, he is the youngest person to have held the office till date. He is the incumbent Member of Parliament for Kannauj in the 18th Lok Sabha, where he is the parliamentary party leader of Samajwadi Party. Earlier, he was elected as the Member of the Legislative Assembly for Karhal in the 18th Vidhan Sabha, before resigning and has also been the Leader of Opposition in the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly from March 2022 to June 2024.
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Malcolm Turnbull
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- barristerpoliticianinvestment bankerentrepreneurjournalist
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Malcolm Bligh Turnbull is an Australian former politician, businessman and barrister who served as the 29th prime minister of Australia from 2015 to 2018. He held office as leader of the Liberal Party from 2008 to 2009 and again from 2015 to 2018, and was the member of parliament (MP) for the New South Wales division of Wentworth from 2004 to 2018.
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Jane Campion
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- screenwriterdirectorfilm directorfilm produceractor
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Dame Elizabeth Jane Campion DNZM is a New Zealand filmmaker. Best known for her feature films with themes of rebellion and often focused on women in leading roles who are outsiders in society, Campion is regarded as one of the prominent female filmmakers in women's cinema.
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Peter Weir
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- screenwriterdirectorfilm director
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Peter Lindsay Weir AM is an Australian retired film director, screenwriter, and producer. He directed films crossing various genres over forty years with films such as Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975), Gallipoli (1981), The Year of Living Dangerously (1982), Witness (1985), Dead Poets Society (1989), Fearless (1993), The Truman Show (1998), Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003), and The Way Back (2010). He has received six Academy Award nominations and he has won two AACTA Award for Best Direction and two BAFTA Award for Best Direction. In 2022, he was awarded the Academy Honorary Award for his lifetime career achievement. In 2024, he received an honorary life-time achievement award at the Venice Film Festival (Golden Lion).
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Tony Abbott
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- politician
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Anthony John Abbott is an Australian former politician who served as the 28th prime minister of Australia from 2013 to 2015. He led the Liberal Party from 2009 to 2015 and represented the New South Wales seat of Warringah from 1994 until 2019.
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Ryan Kwanten
- Occupations
- actortelevision actormodelfilm actorvoice actor
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Ryan Christian Kwanten is an Australian actor and producer. He played Vinnie Patterson from 1997 to 2002 in the Australian soap opera Home and Away. After his stint ended, he joined the American teen drama series Summerland, portraying Jay Robertson. From 2008 to 2014, he played Jason Stackhouse in True Blood. From 2018 to 2019 he produced and starred in the crime drama series The Oath as Steve Hammond. In 2021 he starred in season one of the horror drama anthology series Them as George Bell. In 2022, he portrayed Thomas Weylin in Kindred, a series adaptation based on Octavia E. Butler's celebrated 1979 novel of the same name.
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John Howard
- Enrolled in the University of Sydney
- Graduated with Bachelor of Laws
- Occupations
- politiciansolicitorlawyerhistorianautobiographer
- Biography
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John Winston Howard is an Australian former politician who served as the 25th prime minister of Australia from 1996 to 2007, holding office as leader of the Liberal Party of Australia. His eleven-year tenure as prime minister is the second-longest in Australian history, after that of Robert Menzies.
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Germaine Greer
- Occupations
- journalistuniversity teacherwomen's rights activistbroadcasteressayist
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Germaine Greer is an Australian writer and public intellectual, regarded as one of the major voices of the second-wave feminism movement in the latter half of the 20th century.
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Manon Aubry
- Enrolled in the University of Sydney
- Studied in 2009-2010
- Occupations
- humanitarianswimmerpolitician
- Biography
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Manon Aubry is a French politician who represents the left-wing party La France Insoumise (LFI). A former advocacy officer for Oxfam France, she won a seat in the 2019 European Parliament election and the same year was elected co-chair with Martin Schirdewan of The Left in the European Parliament (GUE/NGL) group. She retained her seat following the 2024 European Parliament election.
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Gladys Berejiklian
- Enrolled in the University of Sydney
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- politicianbanker
- Biography
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Gladys Berejiklian is an Australian businesswoman and former politician who served as the 45th premier of New South Wales and the leader of the New South Wales division of the Liberal Party from 2017 to 2021. Berejiklian currently works as an executive for the telecommunications company Optus.
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Victor Chang
- Occupations
- cardiac surgeon
- Biography
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Victor Peter Chang AC was a Chinese-born Australian cardiac surgeon and a pioneer of modern heart transplantation in Australia.
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Gough Whitlam
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- ministerbarristerpoliticiandiplomatjurist
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Edward Gough Whitlam was the 21st prime minister of Australia, serving from December 1972 to November 1975. To date the longest-serving federal leader of the Australian Labor Party (ALP), he was notable for being the head of a reformist and socially progressive government that ended with his controversial dismissal by the then governor-general of Australia, Sir John Kerr, at the climax of the 1975 constitutional crisis. Whitlam remains the only Australian prime minister to have been removed from office by a governor-general.
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Sarah Àlainn
- Occupations
- singerlyricistcomposertranslatorviolinist
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Sarah Àlainn is an Australian singer-songwriter. She is mostly active in Japan.
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Derek Muller
- Occupations
- television producerscientistYouTubertelevision presenter
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Derek Alexander Muller is a Canadian-Australian science communicator and media personality best known for his YouTube channel Veritasium, which has over 20 million subscribers and 3.9 billion views as of January 2026.
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James Mackay
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- composertelevision actorstage actorfilm actor
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James Wilson Mackay is an Australian actor known for The CW television series Dynasty, as well as roles in films and on stage.
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Maeve Dermody
- Occupations
- actorfilm actor
- Biography
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Maeve Dermody is a UK-based Australian actress. After a film appearance at 5 years old, her adult acting career has included work in Australian and British television, theatre, short films and movies.
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William McMahon
- Occupations
- diplomatpolitician
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Sir William McMahon was an Australian politician who served as the 20th prime minister of Australia from 1971 to 1972. He held office as the leader of the Liberal Party of Australia, and previously held various ministerial positions from 1951 to 1971, the longest continuous service in Australian history.
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Christopher Clark
- Occupations
- historianhistorian of Modern Ageuniversity teacherbiographer
- Biography
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Sir Christopher Munro Clark FBA is an Australian historian living in the United Kingdom and Germany. He is the twenty-second Regius Professor of History at the University of Cambridge. In the 2015 Birthday Honours, he was knighted for his services to Anglo-German relations.
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DPR Ian
- Enrolled in the University of Sydney
- Studied in 2008
- Occupations
- singerfilm directorsongwriterrappermusician
- Biography
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Christian Yu, known professionally as DPR Ian, is an Australian singer, songwriter, dancer, producer and director based in Los Angeles. He is a former member of Yedang Entertainment boy group C-Clown, which was active between 2012 and 2015. Yu made his solo debut under his co-founded label Dream Perfect Regime (DPR) with the digital single "So Beautiful" on 26 October 2020. His first studio album Moodswings in to Order was released on 29 July 2022. He was the 10th most streamed K-pop Male Solo Artist Globally on Spotify in 2022.
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Sam Moran
- Occupations
- singerdancertelevision actor
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Samuel Alexander Moran is an Australian entertainer best known for having been a member of the children's band The Wiggles from 2006 to 2012.
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Dominic Perrottet
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- commercial lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Dominic Francis Perrottet is an Australian politician who served as the 46th premier of New South Wales from 2021 to 2023. He held office as leader of the New South Wales division of the Liberal Party of Australia, and assumed the position following the resignation of Gladys Berejiklian.
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Phillip Noyce
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- screenwriterdirectorfilm directorfilm produceractor
- Biography
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Phillip Roger Noyce AO is an Australian film and television director. Since 1977, he has directed over 19 feature films in various genres, including historical drama (Newsfront, Rabbit-Proof Fence, The Quiet American); thrillers (Dead Calm, Sliver, The Bone Collector); and action films (Blind Fury, The Saint, Salt). He has also directed the Jack Ryan adaptations Patriot Games (1992) and Clear and Present Danger (1994), as well as the 2014 adaptation of Lois Lowry's The Giver.
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Sherina Munaf
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- singer-songwriteractor
- Biography
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Sinna Sherina Munaf or better known as Sherina Munaf is an Indonesian actress, singer and songwriter of Minangkabau descent. She is the niece of Indonesian singer-songwriter, Fariz RM.
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Edmund Barton
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- lawyerdiplomatjudgepolitician
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Sir Edmund "Toby" Barton was an Australian politician, barrister and jurist who served as the first prime minister of Australia from 1901 to 1903. He held office as the leader of the Protectionist Party, before resigning in 1903 to become a founding justice of the High Court of Australia, on which he served until his death in 1920. Barton is regarded as a founding father of Australia, a principal leader in the federation of the Australian colonies and a drafter of the Commonwealth Constitution.
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Robyn Denholm
- Enrolled in the University of Sydney
- Graduated with Bachelor of Economics in industrial relations
- Occupations
- entrepreneurbusinessperson
- Biography
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Robyn M. Denholm is an Australian business executive and former accountant who is chair of Tesla, Inc. In November 2018, Denholm was chosen by Elon Musk to succeed him as chair of Tesla. Prior to her appointment, she was relatively unknown. She is the highest-paid chair of any public company in the United States.
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John Horgan
- Enrolled in the University of Sydney
- Graduated with Master of Arts
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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John Joseph Horgan was a Canadian politician and diplomat who served as the 36th premier of British Columbia from 2017 to 2022 and the ambassador of Canada to Germany from 2023 to 2024. He led the British Columbia New Democratic Party from 2014 to 2022, guiding the party to government after 16 years in opposition. A member of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia (MLA) from 2005 to 2023, he represented the riding of Langford-Juan de Fuca.
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Carmel Tebbutt
- Enrolled in the University of Sydney
- Graduated with Bachelor of Economics
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Carmel Mary Tebbutt is an Australian former politician. She was the Labor Party Member for the former seat of Marrickville in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly until the 2015 election and was Deputy Premier of New South Wales from 2008 to 2011. She was also Minister for Health in the Keneally Government. She is the first woman to hold the position of Deputy Premier of New South Wales.
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Jordan Raskopoulos
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- Twitch streamersingeractorcomedian
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Jordan Nicola Bridget Raskopoulos is an Australian comedian, singer, and television personality. She wrote and performed the Network Ten sketch comedy show The Ronnie Johns Half Hour, and was lead singer for comedy rock group the Axis of Awesome. She came out as a transgender woman in 2016.
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The Anime Man
- Years
- 1994-.. (age 32)
- Occupations
- Twitch streamerYouTubervoice actortelevision producerchess player
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Joseph Tetsuro Bizinger, known online as The Anime Man, as well as his stage name Ikurru Kamijou (神城 維来, Kamijō Ikurru), is a Japanese-Australian YouTuber, voice actor, songwriter, and podcaster. His video work focuses on Japanese popular culture, which consists of anime and manga reviews, and vlogs on Japanese culture and society. Bizinger is also known for his interviews with people in the Japanese entertainment industry, such as light novel authors, manga artists, and voice actors in anime.
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Douglas Mawson
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- scientific collectorexplorerfilm directorgeologistbotanical collector
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Sir Douglas Mawson OBE FRS FAA was an Australian geologist, Antarctic explorer, and academic. He is known for being a key expedition leader during the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration, along with Roald Amundsen, Robert Falcon Scott, and Sir Ernest Shackleton (with whom he undertook the Nimrod Expedition in 1907–1909). However most of his geological work was undertaken in South Australia, in particular the Precambrian rocks of the Flinders Ranges.
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Mark Latham
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- politicianpolitical pundittrade unionist
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Mark William Latham is an Australian politician and media commentator who is a member of the New South Wales Legislative Council. He previously served as the leader of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and leader of the opposition from December 2003 to January 2005, leading the party to defeat at the 2004 federal election. He left the ALP in 2017 and joined Pauline Hanson's One Nation in 2018, gaining a seat for that party in the New South Wales Legislative Council at the 2019 New South Wales state election and winning re-election in 2023.
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Bruce Beresford
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- screenwriterdirectorfilm directorfilm produceractor
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Bruce Beresford is an Australian film director, opera director, screenwriter, and producer. He began his career during the Australian New Wave, and has made more than 30 feature films over a 50-year career, both locally and internationally in the United States. He is a two-time Academy Award nominee, and a four-time AACTA/AFI Awards winner out of 10 total nominations
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Vere Gordon Childe
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- university teachertrade unionistlibrarianclassical philologistprehistorian
- Biography
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Vere Gordon Childe was an Australian archaeologist who specialised in the study of European prehistory. He spent most of his life in the United Kingdom, working as an academic for the University of Edinburgh and then the Institute of Archaeology, London. He wrote twenty-six books during his career. Initially an early proponent of culture-historical archaeology, he later became the first exponent of Marxist archaeology in the Western world.
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Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV of Tonga
- Years
- 1918-2006 (aged 88)
- Occupations
- king
- Biography
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Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV was King of Tonga from 1965 until his death in 2006. He was the tallest and heaviest Tongan monarch, weighing 209.5 kg (462 lb) and measuring 196 cm (6 ft 5 in).
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Geraldine Brooks
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- writerauthornovelistjournalist
- Biography
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Geraldine Brooks AO is an Australian-American journalist and novelist. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her 2005 novel March.
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Julia Zemiro
- Occupations
- actortelevision presenter
- Biography
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Julia Zemiro is an Australian television presenter, radio host, actress, singer, writer, and comedian. She is best known as the host of the music quiz and live performance show RocKwiz. Zemiro, who was born in France, is a fluent English and French speaker and has acted in French.
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Faith Yang
- Occupations
- modelrecording artistactorsinger
- Biography
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Faith Yang Naiwen is a Taiwanese musician. She grew up in Sydney, Australia and studied biology and genetics at the University of Sydney. In 2000, Yang won the Golden Melody Award for Best Female Mandarin Singer for the album Silence.
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Sikhanyiso Dlamini
- Enrolled in the University of Sydney
- Studied in 2012
- Occupations
- politicianbusiness executive
- Biography
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Princess Sikhanyiso Dlamini is a Swazi princess and politician. She is the eldest daughter of King Mswati III of Eswatini, and is the country's former Minister of Information and Communication Technology.
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John Singleton
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- advertising personentrepreneurbusiness executive
- Biography
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John Desmond Singleton AM is an Australian entrepreneur. He built his success and wealth in the advertising business in Australia in the 1970s and 1980s, and later also had diverse investment interests in radio broadcasting, publishing and thoroughbred breeding and racing.
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Indra Lesmana
- Occupations
- singerrecord producerjazz musicianpianistsongwriter
- Biography
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Indra Lesmana is an Indonesian arranger, composer, songwriter, and jazz musician. He is the father of an Indonesian actress and singer-songwriter, Eva Celia Lesmana.
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Georgina Wilson
- Occupations
- modelactor
- Biography
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Georgina Ashley Diaz Wilson-Burnand is a British-Filipino model, actress, and entrepreneur. In 2015, Wilson hosted the third season of the reality show Asia's Next Top Model.
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Christine Caine
- Years
- 1966-.. (age 60)
- Occupations
- pastorsocial activistwriter
- Biography
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Christine Caine is an Australian activist, evangelist, author, and public speaker.
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Peter FitzSimons
- Occupations
- writerrugby union playerjournalistbiographer
- Biography
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Peter John FitzSimons AM is an Australian author, journalist, and radio and television presenter. He is a former national representative rugby union player and was the chair of the Australian Republic Movement from 2015 to 2022.
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Haifaa al-Mansour
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- screenwriterdirectorfilm director
- Biography
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Haifaa al-Mansour is a Saudi Arabian film director. She is one of the country's best-known and one of the first female Saudi filmmakers.
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John Kerr
- Occupations
- lawyerjudgepolitician
- Biography
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Sir John Robert Kerr AK GCMG GCVO QC was an Australian barrister and judge who served as the 18th governor-general of Australia, in office from 1974 to 1977. He is primarily known for his involvement in the 1975 constitutional crisis, which culminated in the dismissal of Prime Minister Gough Whitlam and the appointment of Malcolm Fraser as caretaker prime minister.
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Geoffrey Robertson
- Occupations
- playwrightnon-fiction writerradio personalityjuristuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Geoffrey Ronald Robertson is an Australian and British barrister, academic, author and broadcaster. Robertson is a founder and a former joint head of Doughty Street Chambers. He serves as a Master of the Bench at the Middle Temple, a recorder, and visiting professor at Queen Mary University of London.
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Sam Dastyari
- Occupations
- trade unionistpolitician
- Biography
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Sam Dastyari is an Australian former politician, who from 2013 to 2018 represented New South Wales in the Australian Senate as a member of the Australian Labor Party. Dastyari was previously General Secretary of the New South Wales branch of the Labor Party. He was the first person of Iranian origin and Azerbaijani descent to sit in the Australian Parliament. As a Senator, Dastyari was the subject of a Chinese-related donations scandal, which eventually led to his resignation from the Senate on 25 January 2018.
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John Cornforth
- Enrolled in the University of Sydney
- Studied in 1934-1938
- Occupations
- university teacherchemist
- Biography
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Sir John Warcup Cornforth Jr., AC, CBE, FRS, FAA was an Australian–British chemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1975 for his work on the stereochemistry of enzyme-catalysed reactions, becoming the only Nobel laureate born in New South Wales.
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Tom Gleeson
- Occupations
- comediantelevision presenter
- Biography
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Thomas Francis Gleeson is an Australian stand-up comedian, writer, television and radio presenter. Gleeson currently hosts Hard Quiz and Taskmaster Australia and previously co-hosted The Weekly with Charlie Pickering alongside Judith Lucy.
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Nicola Olyslagers
- Occupations
- athletics competitor
- Biography
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Nicola Lauren Olyslagers is an Australian high jumper. She won the silver medal at the Tokyo 2020 and Paris 2024 Olympics, the bronze medal at the 2023 World Athletics Championships and the gold medal at the 2025 World Athletics Championships in the high jump. Olyslagers is the current high jump Oceanian record holder, 2025 Diamond League title holder and the world champion at the 2024 World Athletics Indoor Championships.
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Mike Baird
- Occupations
- bankerinvestment bankerpolitician
- Biography
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Michael Bruce Baird is an Australian investment banker and former politician who was the 44th Premier of New South Wales, the Minister for Infrastructure, the Minister for Western Sydney, and the Leader of the New South Wales Liberal Party from April 2014 to January 2017.
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Michael Youssef
- Years
- 1948-.. (age 78)
- Occupations
- pastortelevangelistwriter
- Biography
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Michael Youssef is an Egyptian-American pastor. He is the founding rector and senior pastor of the Church of the Apostles in Atlanta, Georgia, and the executive president of Leading the Way.
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Steve Keen
- Occupations
- authoreconomist
- Biography
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Steve Keen is an Australian economist and author. He considers himself a post-Keynesian, criticising neoclassical economics as inconsistent, unscientific, and empirically unsupported.
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Eddie Woo
- Occupations
- secondary school teacherwriterYouTubermathematics teachertelevision producer
- Biography
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Edward Kent Woo is an Australian secondary school teacher and writer best known for his online mathematics lessons published on YouTube. In 2018, Woo was awarded the Australia's Local Hero Award.
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Dave Sharma
- Occupations
- diplomatpolitician
- Biography
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Devanand Noel "Dave" Sharma is an Australian politician and former public servant and diplomat who has served as Senator for New South Wales since November 2023. Prior to that, he served as the member for Wentworth in the House of Representatives from 2019 to 2022, when he lost the seat to independent challenger Allegra Spender. He is a member of the Liberal Party.
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Julia Baird
- Occupations
- academicwriterhistorianjournalistbiographer
- Biography
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Julia Woodlands Baird is an Australian journalist, broadcaster and author. She contributes to The New York Times and The Sydney Morning Herald and was a regular host of The Drum, a television news review program on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC). Her non-fiction work includes a bestselling memoir, a biography of Queen Victoria and a meditation on the experience of grace during a time of dark politics.
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Matthew Mitcham
- Occupations
- competitive diver
- Biography
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Matthew John Mitcham OAM is an Australian retired diver and trampolinist. As a diver, he was the 2008 Olympic champion in the 10m platform, and he is the 2nd highest single-dive score in Olympic history (at the time it was the highest scoring dive ever). This made him the first openly gay man to win an Olympic gold medal. He is also the first Australian male to win an Olympic gold medal in diving since Dick Eve at the 1924 Summer Olympics.
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David McBride
- Occupations
- television presentermilitary officerlawyer
- Biography
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David William McBride is an Australian whistleblower, former British Army major, and Australian Army lawyer. In 2016, McBride provided the Australian Broadcasting Corporation with documents that contained information about war crimes committed by Australian soldiers in Afghanistan.
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Charles Perkins
- Occupations
- civil servantassociation football coachassociation football player
- Biography
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Charles Nelson Perkins, popularly known as Charlie Perkins, was an Aboriginal Australian activist, soccer player, and public administrator. He is often recognized as the first known Indigenous Australian man to graduate from a tertiary institution. Perkins was a prominent figure in the 1965 Freedom Ride, which highlighted racial discrimination in rural Australia, and played a significant role in campaigning for a "yes" vote in the 1967 referendum on Aboriginal rights. He later held various positions within the Australian public service.
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Ray Martin
- Occupations
- television presenterautobiographerjournalist
- Biography
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Raymond George Martin AM is an Australian television journalist and entertainment personality. Having won the Gold Logie five times, he is the most awarded star of Australian television, along with Graham Kennedy (although Kennedy won the 'Star of the Year Award', the forerunner of the Gold Logie in 1959).
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Lucy Turnbull
- Occupations
- businesspersonpolitician
- Biography
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Lucinda Mary Turnbull AO is an Australian businesswoman, philanthropist, and former local government politician. She served on the Sydney City Council from 1999 to 2004, including as Lord Mayor of Sydney from 2003 to 2004 – the first woman to hold the position. She has since held positions on a number of urban planning bodies, including as chief commissioner of the Greater Sydney Commission from 2015 to 2020. Her husband Malcolm Turnbull was the 29th prime minister of Australia from 2015 to 2018.
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Joe Hockey
- Occupations
- statespersonlawyerdiplomatpolitician
- Biography
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Joseph Benedict Hockey is an Australian former politician and diplomat. He was the Member of Parliament for North Sydney from 1996 until 2015. He was the Treasurer of Australia in the Abbott government from 18 September 2013 until September 2015 when he resigned from Cabinet, having refused an alternative offer from the incoming prime minister, Malcolm Turnbull. He previously served as the Minister for Human Services and Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations in the Howard government. He also served as Ambassador of Australia to the United States from January 2016 until January 2020.
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Chris Bowen
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Christopher Eyles Guy Bowen is an Australian politician who has been Minister for Climate Change and Energy in the Albanese government since June 2022. He is a member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and was first elected to parliament at the 2004 federal election. He held ministerial office in the Rudd and Gillard governments from 2007 to 2013.
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Julia Jacklin
- Occupations
- singer-songwritersinger
- Biography
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Julia Jacklin is an Australian singer-songwriter from the Blue Mountains region of New South Wales. Jacklin's musical style has been described as indie pop, indie folk, and alternative country. She has released three studio albums, Don't Let the Kids Win (2016), Crushing (2019) and Pre Pleasure (2022). Jacklin has also performed with the band Phantastic Ferniture, with whom she released the debut single "Fuckin 'n' Rollin" and a self-titled album in 2018, followed by subsequent singles.
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John Marsden
- Enrolled in the University of Sydney
- Studied law
- Occupations
- novelistchildren's writerteacherscience fiction writerhead teacher
- Biography
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John Marsden was an Australian writer and teacher. He wrote more than 40 books in his career, including his young adult novel Tomorrow, When the War Began, which began a series of seven books.
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Val Plumwood
- Occupations
- university teacherfeministphilosopher
- Biography
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Val Plumwood was an Australian philosopher and ecofeminist known for her work on anthropocentrism. From the 1970s, she played a central role in the development of radical ecosophy. Working mostly as an independent scholar, she held positions at the University of Tasmania, North Carolina State University, the University of Montana, and the University of Sydney, and at the time of her death was Australian Research Council Fellow at the Australian National University. She is included in Routledge's Fifty Key Thinkers on the Environment (2001).
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Stuart Clark
- Occupations
- cricketer
- Biography
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Stuart Rupert Clark is an Australian former cricketer who played for New South Wales and the Australian team. He was a right-arm fast-medium bowler. His nickname "Sarfraz" originates from the similarities of his bowling style to Sarfraz Nawaz. Clark was also a member of the Australian team that won the 2007 Cricket World Cup.
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Natalie Bennett
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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Natalie Louise Bennett, Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle, is an Australian-British politician and journalist who was the leader of the Green Party of England and Wales from 2012 to 2016. Bennett was given a peerage in Theresa May's 2019 resignation honours.
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James Wolfensohn
- Occupations
- fencerbankerjuristeconomistmanager
- Biography
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Sir James David Wolfensohn KBE, AO was an Australian-American lawyer, investment banker, and economist who served as the ninth president of the World Bank Group (1995–2005). During his tenure at the World Bank, he is credited with the focus on poverty alleviation and a rethink on development financing, earning him recognition as a banker to the world's poor. In his other roles, he is credited with actions that brought Chrysler Corporation back from the brink of bankruptcy, and also improving the finances of major United States cultural institutions, including Carnegie Hall and the Kennedy Center. He served two terms as president of the World Bank on the nomination of U.S. president Bill Clinton, and thereafter held various positions with charitable organizations and policy think-tanks including the Brookings Institution.
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Erin Holland
- Occupations
- beauty pageant contestant
- Biography
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Erin Victoria Holland is an Australian singer, TV host, model, dancer, charity worker and beauty pageant titleholder. She won her national title, Miss World Australia, on 20 July 2013.
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Jeremy Griffith
- Years
- 1945-.. (age 81)
- Occupations
- biologist
- Biography
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Jeremy Griffith is an Australian biologist and author. He first came to public attention for his attempts to find the Tasmanian tiger. He later became noted for his writings on the human condition and theories about human progress, which seek to give a biological, rational explanation of human behaviour. He founded the World Transformation Movement in 1983.
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Bob Brown
- Occupations
- physicianenvironmentalistpolitician
- Biography
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Robert James Brown is an Australian former politician, medical doctor and environmentalist. He was a senator and the parliamentary leader of the Australian Greens. Brown was elected to the Australian Senate on the Tasmanian Greens ticket, joining with sitting Greens Western Australia senator Dee Margetts to form the first group of Australian Greens senators following the 1996 federal election. He was re-elected in 2001 and in 2007. He was the first openly gay member of the Parliament of Australia and the first openly gay leader of an Australian political party.
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Michael Kirby
- Occupations
- legal counselorbarristersolicitorjudge
- Biography
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Michael Donald Kirby is an Australian jurist and academic who is a former Justice of the High Court of Australia, serving from 1996 to 2009. He has remained active in retirement; in May 2013 he was appointed by the United Nations Human Rights Council to lead an inquiry into human rights abuses in North Korea, which reported in February 2014.
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John Anderson
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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John Duncan Anderson is an Australian politician and commentator who served as the 11th deputy prime minister of Australia and leader of the National Party from 1999 to 2005. He also served as Minister for Primary Industries and Energy Minister for Transport and Regional Development in the Howard government.
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Jessica Rowe
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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Jessica June Rowe AM is an Australian journalist, author and television presenter. She was the co-host of Studio 10 on Network Ten until March 2018, and is Member of the Order of Australia for her mental health advocacy.
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Bronwyn Bishop
- Occupations
- solicitorpolitician
- Biography
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Bronwyn Kathleen Bishop AO is an Australian former politician who served as the 29th speaker of the Australian House of Representatives from 2013 to 2015, during the Abbott government. Her service of almost 30 years as a member of the federal parliament is the longest of any woman in Australia. A member of the Liberal Party of Australia, she served as a senator for New South Wales from 1987 to 1994 after which she became the member of parliament (MP) for the division of Mackellar from 1994 to 2016. During her time in parliament she served as the minister for Defence Industry from 1996 to 1998 and minister for Aged Care from 1998 to 2001 under Prime Minister John Howard.
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Clover Moore
- Enrolled in the University of Sydney
- Studied in 1969-1972
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Clover Margaret Moore is an Australian politician who has served as the 82nd Lord Mayor of the City of Sydney since 2004 and is currently the longest serving Lord Mayor of Sydney since the creation of the City of Sydney in 1842. She was an independent member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1988 to 2012, representing the electorates of Bligh (1988–2007) and Sydney (2007–2012). Moore is the first popularly elected woman Lord Mayor of Sydney.
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Andrew Laming
- Occupations
- politicianophthalmologist
- Biography
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Andrew Charles Laming is an Australian medical doctor and former politician. He was a Liberal Party member of the House of Representatives representing the Division of Bowman for the Liberal National Party of Queensland from 2004 to 2022.
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Blanche d'Alpuget
- Occupations
- writernovelistjournalistbiographer
- Biography
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Josephine Blanche d'Alpuget is an Australian writer and the second wife of Bob Hawke, the longest-serving Labor Prime Minister of Australia.
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J. L. Mackie
- Occupations
- university teacherphilosopher
- Biography
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John Leslie Mackie FBA was an Australian philosopher. He made significant contributions to ethics, the philosophy of religion, metaphysics, and the philosophy of language. Mackie had influential views on metaethics, including his defence of moral scepticism and his sophisticated defence of atheism. He wrote six books. His most widely known, Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong (1977), opens by boldly stating, "There are no objective values." It goes on to argue that because of this, ethics must be invented rather than discovered.
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Alex Hawke
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Alexander George Hawke is an Australian politician who served as Minister for Immigration, Citizenship, Migrant Services and Multicultural Affairs from 2020 to 2022 in the Morrison government. Hawke has served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Mitchell since 2007, representing the Liberal Party.
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Simone Young
- Occupations
- conductormusic teacher
- Biography
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Simone Margaret Young AM is an Australian conductor and academic teacher. She is currently chief conductor of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra.
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Tony Burke
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Anthony Stephen Burke is an Australian politician serving as Minister for Home Affairs, Immigration and Citizenship, Cyber Security and the Arts. A member of the Labor Party, he has been a member of the Australian House of Representatives for Watson since 2004. He previously held cabinet positions in the governments of Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard from 2007 to 2013.
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James Morrison
- Occupations
- pianistsaxophonistactorcomposertrombonist
- Biography
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James Lloyd Morrison AM is an Australian jazz musician. Although his main instrument is trumpet, he has also performed on trombone, tuba, euphonium, flugelhorn, saxophone, clarinet, double bass, guitar, and piano. He is a composer, writing jazz charts for ensembles of various sizes and proficiency levels.
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Bernard Foley
- Occupations
- rugby union player
- Biography
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Bernard Foley, nicknamed "The Iceman" and "Nard" is a professional Australian rugby union player. He plays for the Kubota Spears in the Japanese Rugby League One. He can cover both fullback and fly-half as well as inside centre. Foley has earned the nickname "the iceman" after successful game winning penalty goals in the 2014 Super Rugby final, and the 2015 Rugby World Cup Quarter-final against Scotland.
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David Warren
- Occupations
- university teacheradviserengineerinventorchemist
- Biography
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David Ronald de Mey Warren AO was an Australian scientist, best known for inventing and developing the flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder (also known as FDR, CVR and "the black box").
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Judith Wright
- Occupations
- human rights defenderpoetliterary criticwriterenvironmentalist
- Biography
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Judith Arundell Wright was an Australian poet, environmentalist and campaigner for Aboriginal land rights. She was a recipient of the Christopher Brennan Award and nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1964, 1965 and 1967.
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Tony W Jones
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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Anthony William Jones is an Australian television news and political journalist, radio and television presenter and writer.
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Raymond Dart
- Occupations
- anatomistanthropologistprehistorianuniversity teacherpaleoanthropologist
- Biography
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Raymond Arthur Dart was an Australian anatomist and anthropologist, best known for his involvement in the 1924 discovery of the first fossil found of Australopithecus africanus, an extinct hominin closely related to humans, at Taung in the North of South Africa in the Northwest province.
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John O'Sullivan
- Occupations
- engineer
- Biography
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John O'Sullivan is an Australian engineer.
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Martin Indyk
- Enrolled in the University of Sydney
- In 1972 graduated with Bachelor of Economics
- Occupations
- diplomat
- Biography
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Martin Sean Indyk was an Australian-American diplomat and foreign relations analyst with expertise in the Middle East.
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Robert May, Baron May of Oxford
- Occupations
- university teacherzoologistecologistpoliticianengineer
- Biography
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Robert McCredie May, Baron May of Oxford was an Australian scientist who was Chief Scientific Adviser to the UK Government, President of the Royal Society, and a professor at the University of Sydney and Princeton University. He held joint professorships at the University of Oxford and Imperial College London. He was also a crossbench member of the House of Lords from 2001 until his retirement in 2017.
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Glenn Diesen
- Years
- 1979-.. (age 47)
- Enrolled in the University of Sydney
- Studied in 2003-2004
- Occupations
- political punditpolitical scientist
- Biography
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Glenn Eric Andre Diesen is a Norwegian political scientist, political commentator and politician currently serving as a professor at the Department of Business, History and Social Sciences, University of South-Eastern Norway.
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Richard Bonynge
- Occupations
- conductorpianist
- Biography
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Richard Alan Bonynge is an Australian conductor and pianist. He is the widower of Australian dramatic coloratura soprano Dame Joan Sutherland. Bonynge conducted virtually all of Sutherland's operatic performances from 1962 until her retirement in 1990.
