100 Notable alumni of
University of Sydney
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The University of Sydney is 80th 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
- screenwriterboxerfilm produceractorfilm director
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Hans "Dolph" Lundgren is a Swedish-American actor, filmmaker and martial artist. Born in Spånga, Sweden, Lundgren became interested in martial arts at a young age. This would lead him to hold the rank of 4th dan black belt in Kyokushin karate and become European champion in 1980 and 1981. In 1982, while studying to get a master's degree, he became the boyfriend of singer Grace Jones. With her he moved to New York City and started to take acting classes. In 1985, Lundgren had a breakthrough role playing the lead villain as an imposing Soviet boxer named Ivan Drago in Sylvester Stallone's Rocky IV.
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Rose Byrne
- Occupations
- actorfilm actorstage actor
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Mary Rose Byrne is an Australian actress. She made her screen debut in the film Dallas Doll (1994), and continued to act in Australian film and television throughout the 1990s. She obtained her first leading film role in The Goddess of 1967 (2000), which brought her the Volpi Cup for Best Actress, and made the transition to American cinema in the small role of Dormé in Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones (2002), followed by parts in Hollywood productions of Troy (2004), 28 Weeks Later (2007) and Knowing (2009).
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Jacqueline Fernandez
- Occupations
- film actormodelbeauty pageant contestant
- Biography
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Jacqueline Genevieve Fernandez is a Sri Lankan actress and model 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 modeling industry. She was crowned Miss Universe Sri Lanka in 2006, and represented her country at Miss Universe 2006.
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Julian McMahon
- Occupations
- television actormodelfilm actoractor
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Julian Dana William McMahon is an Australian actor and former model. He is the only son of former Prime Minister of Australia, Sir William McMahon. He is best known for his roles as Detective John Grant in Profiler, Cole Turner in Charmed, Christian Troy in Nip/Tuck, Doctor Doom in the Fantastic Four duology, Jonah in Runaways, and Jess LaCroix in CBS crime drama FBI: Most Wanted.
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Elle Macpherson
- Enrolled in the University of Sydney
- Studied law
- Occupations
- modeltelevision produceractorentrepreneurbusinessperson
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Eleanor Nancy Macpherson is an Australian model, businesswoman, television host, and actress.
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Malcolm Turnbull
- Occupations
- entrepreneurinvestment bankerpoliticianbarristerjournalist
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Malcolm Bligh Turnbull is an Australian former politician and businessman who served as the 29th prime minister of Australia from 2015 to 2018. He held office as leader of the Liberal Party of Australia.
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Anthony Albanese
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- politician
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Anthony Norman Albanese is an Australian politician serving as the 31st and current prime minister of Australia since 2022. He has been leader of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) since 2019 and the member of parliament (MP) for the division of Grayndler since 1996. Albanese previously served as the 15th deputy prime minister under the second Rudd government in 2013. He held various ministerial positions from 2007 to 2013 in the governments of Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard.
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Akhilesh Yadav
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- politician
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Akhilesh Yadav is an Indian politician and national president of the Samajwadi Party who served as the 20th Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh. Having assumed the chief minister's office on 15 March 2012 at the age of 38, he is the youngest person to have held the office till date. Yadav is the Leader of Opposition in the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly since March 2022, an elected Member of Parliament for Azamgarh in the 17th Lok Sabha, and the incumbent Member of Legislative Assembly for Karhal in the 18th Vidhan Sabha.
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Jane Campion
- Occupations
- film directordirectorscreenwriteractorfilm producer
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Dame Elizabeth Jane Campion is a New Zealand filmmaker. She is best known for writing and directing the critically acclaimed films The Piano (1993) and The Power of the Dog (2021), for which she has received two Academy Awards (including Best Director for the latter), two BAFTA Awards, and two Golden Globe Awards. Campion was appointed a Dame Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit (DNZM) in the 2016 New Year Honours, for services to film.
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Tony Abbott
- Occupations
- international forum participantpolitician
- Biography
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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 held office as the leader of the Liberal Party of Australia.
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Peter Weir
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- film directorscreenwriterproducerdirector
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Peter Lindsay Weir is an Australian retired film director. He is known for directing 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, ultimately being awarded the Academy Honorary Award in 2022 for his lifetime achievement career.
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Ryan Kwanten
- Occupations
- film actormodeltelevision actoractorfilm producer
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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
- historianlawyersolicitorpoliticianautobiographer
- 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. He held office as leader of the Liberal Party of Australia, having previously served as the treasurer of Australia from 1977 to 1983 under Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser. His eleven-year tenure as prime minister is the second-longest in Australian history, behind only Sir Robert Menzies. Howard has also been the oldest living Australian former prime minister since the death of Bob Hawke in May 2019.
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Germaine Greer
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- broadcasterwomen's rights activistuniversity teacherjournalistscreenwriter
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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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Gladys Berejiklian
- Enrolled in the University of Sydney
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- bankerpolitician
- 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
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- surgeoncardiac surgeon
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Victor Peter Chang was a Chinese-born Australian cardiac surgeon and a pioneer of modern heart transplantation in Australia.
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Sarah Àlainn
- Occupations
- singerviolinisttranslatorcomposerlyricist
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Sarah Àlainn is an Australian singer-songwriter. She is mostly active in Japan.
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Gough Whitlam
- Occupations
- diplomatpoliticianbarristerministerjurist
- Biography
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Edward Gough Whitlam was the 21st prime minister of Australia, serving from 1972 to 1975. He held office as the leader of the Australian Labor Party (ALP), of which he was the longest-serving. He was notable for being the head of a reformist and socially progressive administration that ended with his removal as prime minister after controversially being dismissed by the governor-general of Australia, Sir John Kerr, at the climax of the 1975 constitutional crisis. Whitlam is the only Australian prime minister ever to have been removed from office against his will.
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James Mackay
- Occupations
- stage actortelevision actorcomposerfilm 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
- film actoractor
- 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. She characterises her own acting goal as "to be able to play different characters every time, without traces of myself".
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Manon Aubry
- Enrolled in the University of Sydney
- Studied in 2009-2010
- Occupations
- humanitarianpoliticianswimmer
- Biography
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Manon Aubry is a French politician who represents the left-wing populist party La France Insoumise. 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.
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Derek Muller
- Occupations
- television presenterscientisttelevision producerinternational forum participantYouTuber
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Derek Alexander Muller is a science communicator and television personality, best known for his YouTube channel Veritasium, which has over 14 million subscribers as of October 2023.
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Christopher Clark
- Occupations
- historian of Modern Agehistorianbiographeruniversity teacher
- Biography
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Sir Christopher Munro Clark 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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Dominic Perrottet
- Occupations
- politiciancommercial lawyer (Europe)
- 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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Sam Moran
- Occupations
- dancersingertelevision actor
- Biography
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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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Phillip Noyce
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- film directordirectorscreenwriteractorfilm producer
- Biography
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Phillip 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
- Occupations
- actorsinger-songwriter
- 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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- lawyerpoliticianjudgediplomat
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Sir Edmund "Toby" Barton GCMG KC was an Australian statesman, 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 member of the High Court of Australia, on which he served until his death. He was highly regarded as one of the leaders and founding fathers of the Federation movement and for his work in drafting and later interpreting the Constitution of Australia and early federal laws.
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William McMahon
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- politiciandiplomat
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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. He was a government minister for over 21 years, the longest continuous service in Australian history.
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Andrew O'Keefe
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- television presenterlawyer
- Biography
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Andrew Patrick O'Keefe AM is an Australian former television presenter and lawyer. He co-hosted the weekend edition of breakfast program Weekend Sunrise from 2005 until 2017 as well as the localised versions of game shows Deal or No Deal and The Chase Australia. Since 2021, he has been arrested several times for drug and domestic violence offences.
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Jordan Raskopoulos
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- singerTwitch streamercomedianactor
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Jordan Nicola Bridget Raskopoulos is an Australian comedian, actress, streamer and singer best known for her role as a writer and performer on the Network Ten sketch comedy show The Ronnie Johns Half Hour, and as lead singer for comedy rock group the Axis of Awesome (2006–2018). Her father is former footballer Peter Raskopoulos, and her brother is Steen Raskopoulos, a fellow comedian.
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Douglas Mawson
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- explorergeologist
- Biography
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Sir Douglas Mawson OBE FRS FAA was an Australian geologist, Antarctic explorer, and academic. Along with Roald Amundsen, Robert Falcon Scott, and Sir Ernest Shackleton, he was a key expedition leader during the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration.
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Vere Gordon Childe
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- university teacherprehistorianclassical philologistlibrariantrade unionist
- 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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Bruce Beresford
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- directorscreenwriterproduceractorfilm director
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Bruce Beresford is an Australian film director and screenwriter. He has made more than 30 feature films over a 50-year career, both locally and internationally in the United States.
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Mark Latham
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- trade unionistpolitical punditpolitician
- Biography
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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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Indra Lesmana
- Occupations
- jazz musicianrecord producersingerbandleadersongwriter
- Biography
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Indra Lesmana is an Indonesian arranger, composer, songwriter and jazz musician of mixed Dutch, Javanese, Minangkabau and Madurese descent. He is the father of Indonesian actress and singer-songwriter, Eva Celia Lesmana.
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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 the King of Tonga, from the death of his mother, Queen Sālote Tupou III, in 1965 until his own death in 2006.
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John Horgan
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- politician
- Biography
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John Joseph Horgan is a Canadian diplomat and former politician who has been the Canadian ambassador to Germany since 2023. Horgan served as the 36th premier of British Columbia from 2017 to 2022, and also as the leader of the British Columbia New Democratic Party from 2014 to 2022. Horgan was the member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) for the constituency of Langford-Juan de Fuca and its predecessors from 2005 to 2023.
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Robyn Denholm
- Enrolled in the University of Sydney
- Graduated with Bachelor of Economics in industrial relations
- Occupations
- businesspersonentrepreneur
- Biography
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Robyn M. Denholm is an Australian business executive. In November 2018, Denholm succeeded Elon Musk as chair of Tesla, Inc.
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Julia Zemiro
- Occupations
- television presenteractor
- Biography
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Julia Zemiro is a French-born 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 is a fluent French speaker and has acted in French.
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Georgina Wilson
- Occupations
- actormodel
- Biography
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Georgina Ashley Diaz Wilson-Burnand is a Filipino-British model, actress, host and VJ. In 2015, Wilson hosted the third season of the reality show Asia's Next Top Model.
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The Anime Man
- Years
- 1994-.. (age 30)
- Occupations
- chess playervoice actortelevision producer
- Biography
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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 an 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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Sikhanyiso Dlamini
- Enrolled in the University of Sydney
- Studied in 2012
- Occupations
- business executivepolitician
- 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 current Minister of Information and Communication Technology.
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Faith Yang
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- recording artistmodelsingeractor
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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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Peter FitzSimons
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- journalistrugby union playerwriterbiographer
- Biography
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Peter John Allen FitzSimons 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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- film directorinternational forum participantscreenwriterdirector
- 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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Geraldine Brooks
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- journalistnovelistauthorwriter
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Geraldine Brooks is an Australian-American journalist and novelist whose 2005 novel March won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
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Sam Dastyari
- Occupations
- politiciantrade unionist
- 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
- chemistuniversity teacher
- 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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Christine Caine
- Years
- 1966-.. (age 58)
- Occupations
- writersocial activistpastor
- Biography
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Christine Caine is an Australian activist, evangelist, author, and international speaker.
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Geoffrey Robertson
- Occupations
- university teachernon-fiction writerbarristerjuristradio personality
- Biography
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Geoffrey Ronald Robertson AO, KC is an Australian-British barrister, academic, author and broadcaster. Robertson is a founder and 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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Lucy Turnbull
- Occupations
- politicianbusinessperson
- Biography
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Lucinda Mary Turnbull 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 prime minister of Australia from 2015 to 2018.
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John Kerr
- Occupations
- politicianjudgelawyer
- 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 his decision to dismiss the incumbent prime minister Gough Whitlam and appoint Malcolm Fraser as his replacement, which led to unprecedented actions in Australian federal politics.
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Mike Baird
- Occupations
- bankerpoliticianinvestment banker
- 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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Karl Kruszelnicki
- Occupations
- physicianwriterscientist
- Biography
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Karl Sven Woytek Sas Konkovitch Matthew Kruszelnicki, often referred to as "Dr Karl", is an Australian science communicator and populariser, who is known as an author and a science commentator on Australian radio and television.
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Bronwyn Bishop
- Occupations
- politiciansolicitor
- Biography
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Bronwyn Kathleen Bishop is an Australian former politician. She was a member of federal parliament for almost 30 years, the longest period of service by a woman. A member of the Liberal Party, she was a minister in the Howard government from 1996 to 2001 and Speaker of the House of Representatives from 2013 to 2015.
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Bernard Foley
- Occupations
- rugby union player
- Biography
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Bernard Foley is an Australian rugby player of Irish descent. He plays professionally for the Australia national rugby team and the New South Wales Waratahs in Super Rugby. 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, 2 August 2014, 18 October 2015.
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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 athlete 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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Joe Hockey
- Occupations
- lawyerstatespersonpoliticiandiplomat
- 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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Eddie Woo
- Occupations
- writerhigh school teachertelevision producermathematics teacherYouTuber
- 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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Charles Perkins
- Occupations
- association football playerassociation football managercivil servant
- Biography
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Charles Nelson Perkins, usually known as Charlie Perkins, was an Aboriginal Australian activist, soccer player and administrator. It is claimed he was the first known Indigenous Australian man to graduate tertiary education. He is known for his instigation and organisation of the 1965 Freedom Ride and his key role in advocating for a "yes" vote in the 1967 Aboriginals referendum. He had a long career as a public servant.
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Julia Baird
- Occupations
- historianwriteracademicbiographerjournalist
- 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 has been a regular host of The Drum, a television news review program on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Her non-fiction work includes a bestselling memoir, a biography on Queen Victoria and a meditation on the experience of grace during a time of dark politics.
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Michael Youssef
- Years
- 1948-.. (age 76)
- Occupations
- writertelevangelistpastor
- Biography
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Michael Youssef is an Egyptian-American pastor. He is the senior pastor of the Church of the Apostles in Atlanta, Georgia, and the executive president of Leading the Way.
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Tom Gleeson
- Occupations
- television presentercomedian
- Biography
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Thomas Francis Gleeson is an Australian stand-up comedian, writer, television and radio presenter. Gleeson formerly co-hosted The Weekly with Charlie Pickering alongside Judith Lucy and currently hosts Hard Quiz and Taskmaster Australia.
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Steve Keen
- Occupations
- economistauthor
- 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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DPR Ian
- Occupations
- rapper
- Biography
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Christian Yu, known professionally as DPR Ian, is an Australian singer, rapper, and director based in South Korea. 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 Kpop Male Solo Artist Globally on Spotify in 2022.
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Dave Sharma
- Occupations
- politiciandiplomat
- 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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Ray Martin
- Occupations
- autobiographertelevision presenterjournalist
- 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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Julia Jacklin
- Occupations
- singersinger-songwriter
- 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, 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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Jessica Rowe
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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Jessica June Rowe is an Australian former 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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Angus Taylor
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Angus Taylor is an Australian politician. He has been a member of the House of Representatives since 2013, representing the seat of Hume for the Liberal Party. He has been shadow treasurer under Peter Dutton since 2022, having previously been a cabinet minister in the Morrison government from 2018 to 2022.
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Andrew Laming
- Occupations
- ophthalmologistpolitician
- Biography
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Andrew Charles Laming is an Australian politician who was a member of the House of Representatives representing the Division of Bowman for the Liberal National Party of Queensland from 2004 to 2022. He sat with the Liberal Party in federal parliament.
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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 served as 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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Val Plumwood
- Occupations
- feministuniversity teacherphilosopher
- 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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James Wolfensohn
- Occupations
- bankerlawyermanagerfencerinternational forum participant
- 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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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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Stuart Clark
- Occupations
- cricketer
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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. Clarke was also a member of the Australian team that won the 2007 Cricket World Cup.
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Michael Kirby
- Occupations
- solicitorbarristerlegal counselorjudge
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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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Bob Brown
- Occupations
- physicianpoliticianenvironmentalist
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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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Blanche d'Alpuget
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- journalistnovelistwriterbiographer
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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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Alex Hawke
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- politician
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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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J. L. Mackie
- Occupations
- philosopheruniversity teacher
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John Leslie Mackie was an Australian philosopher. He made significant contributions to ethics, the philosophy of religion, metaphysics, and the philosophy of language.
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David Warren
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- university teacherchemistinventorengineeradvisor
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David Ronald de Mey Warren 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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John O'Sullivan
- Years
- 1947-.. (age 77)
- Occupations
- engineer
- Biography
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John O'Sullivan is an Australian engineer.
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Judith Wright
- Occupations
- writerliterary criticpoethuman rights activisthistorian
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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.
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Raymond Dart
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- university teacherprehistoriananthropologistanatomistarchaeologist
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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 ever 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 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 was a member of the House of Representatives from 1989 to 2007, serving as Minister for Primary Industries and Energy from 1996 to 1998 and Minister for Transport and Regional Development from 1998 to 2005 in the Howard government.
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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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Simone Young
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- music directorconductoracademic musician
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Simone Margaret Young AM is an Australian conductor. She is currently chief conductor of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra.
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James Morrison
- Occupations
- composeractorsaxophonistpianistscreenwriter
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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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Tony Jones
- Occupations
- international forum participantjournalist
- 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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Robert May, Baron May of Oxford
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- university teacherphysicistengineerpoliticianecologist
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Robert McCredie May, Baron May of Oxford, HonFAIB 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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Jeremy Griffith
- Years
- 1945-.. (age 79)
- 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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Clover Moore
- Enrolled in the University of Sydney
- Studied in 1969-1972
- Occupations
- politician
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Clover Margaret Moore is an Australian politician. She has been the 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). Her "recurrent motif" is described as "making Sydney more liveable for individuals and families". Moore is the first popularly elected female Lord Mayor of Sydney.
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John Hewson
- Occupations
- economistpolitician
- Biography
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John Robert Hewson AM is an Australian former politician who served as leader of the Liberal Party from 1990 to 1994. He led the Liberal-National Coalition to defeat at the 1993 Australian federal election.
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John Coates
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- juristsolicitorchief executive officerentrepreneur
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John Dowling Coates is an Australian lawyer, sports administrator and businessman. He is a member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) having served as a vice president from 2013 to 2017 and again since 2020, and is the former president of the Australian Olympic Committee and chairman of the Australian Olympic Foundation. Alongside these roles Coates is also the president of the Court of Arbitration for Sport and the International Council of Arbitration for Sport.
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Les Murray
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- criticcivil servantwritertranslatorliterary critic
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Leslie Allan Murray was an Australian poet, anthologist and critic. His career spanned over 40 years and he published nearly 30 volumes of poetry as well as two verse novels and collections of his prose writings.
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Marie Bashir
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- engineerpsychiatristphysicianuniversity teacher
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Dame Marie Roslyn Bashir AD CVO FTSE is the former and second longest-serving Governor of New South Wales. Born in Narrandera, New South Wales, Bashir graduated from the University of Sydney in 1956 and held various medical positions, with a particular emphasis in psychiatry. In 1993 Bashir was appointed the Clinical Director of Mental Health Services for the Central Sydney Area Health Service, a position she held until appointed governor on 1 March 2001. She has also served as the Chancellor of the University of Sydney (2007–2012). Bashir retired on 1 October 2014 and was succeeded as governor by General David Hurley.
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Richard Bonynge
- Occupations
- pianistconductor
- Biography
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Richard Alan Bonynge AC, CBE 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.
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John Singleton
- Occupations
- advertising personbusiness executiveentrepreneur
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John Desmond Singleton is an Australian entrepreneur. He built his success and wealth in the advertising business in Australia in the 1970s and 1980s. He now has diverse investment interests in radio broadcasting, publishing and thoroughbred breeding and racing.
