Professor Timothy Fridtjof Flannery (born 28 January 1956) is an Australian mammologist, palaeontologist and global warming activist. Flannery was named Australian of the Year in 2007 and presently an adjunct professor at Macquarie University. His controversial views on shutting down conventional coal burning for electricity in the medium term are frequently cited in the media.

Ian Hector Frazer (born January 6, 1953) is an Australian immunologist, best known for his work on the development of a cervical cancer vaccine, which works by protecting women from Human papillomavirus (HPV). Frazer was born in Glasgow, Scotland. Frazer trained as a physician at Edinburgh University, specialising in immunology. He emigrated to Melbourne in 1980 to research viral immunology at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, …

Fiona Wood AM is a plastic surgeon working in Perth, Western Australia. She is the director of the Royal Perth Hospital burns unit and the Western Australia Burns Service. In addition, Dr Wood is also a Clinical Professor with the School of Paediatrics and Child Health at the University of Western Australia and Director of the McComb Research Foundation.

Sir Gustav plays a strategic role in the World Health Organisation's Global Polio Eradication Initiative and the Gates Foundation Vaccination Initiative. He is also Co-chair of the Aboriginal Reconciliation Council. Within the Department, Sir Gustav Nossal provides guidance in fostering of leadership and mentoring between scientists.

Prof. Peter C. Doherty AC (born 15 October 1940) is an Australian Veterinary Surgeon and researcher in the field of medicine. He received the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research in 1995, the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1996, and was named Australian of the Year in 1997. He grew up with his younger brother named Ian. Ian now teaches physics to a group of ground-breaking students at the highly acclaimed Hillbrook Anglican School.

Ian James Thorpe OAM (born 13 October 1982 in Sydney, New South Wales), also known as the "Thorpedo" or "Thorpey", is a former Australian freestyle swimmer. He has won five Olympic gold medals, the most won by any Australian, and in 2001 he became the first person to win six gold medals in one World Championship. In total, Thorpe has won eleven World Championship golds, the second-highest number of any swimmer.

Galarrwuy Yunupingu AM (born 30 June, 1948) is a leader in the Australian Indigenous community, and has been involved in the fight for Land Rights throughout his career. He was named the 1978 Australian of the Year. He was born at Melville Bay near Yirrkala on June 30, 1948, and is a member of the Gumatj clan of the Yolngu people. He attended the Mission School at Yirrkala in his formative years, and moved to Brisbane to study at the Methodist Bible College for two years, …

Trisha Broadbridge (born 24 June, 1982) is a member of the Reach Foundation, an Australian organisation that promotes youth self-esteem. Trisha founded the Reach Broadbridge Fund, which exists to provide for young Australians and Indonesians, in 2005, after the loss of husband Troy Broadbridge, a professional Australian Rules Football player, in the 2004 Boxing Day Tsunami. Trisha, with help from Troy's teammates from the Melbourne Football Club returned to Ko Phi Phi Don, …

Ian was Chairman of the Sydney Olympics 2000 Bid Community Relations Committee, is a member of the Premierâs Olympic Business Roundtable and in 1998 was named among 100 other leading Australians as a "National Living Treasure". Ian Kiernan is an amazing man who in 1994 was named Australian of the Year and awarded the Order of Australia in 1995.

Dawn Lorraine Fraser AO, MBE, (born September 4 1937) is an Australian champion swimmer. She was born in Balmain, a suburb of Sydney, into a working class family. She was spotted at an early age of 12 by Sydney coach Harry Gallagher swimming at the local sea baths. Known for her politically incorrect behaviour or larrikin character as much as her athletic ability, Fraser won eight Olympic medals, including five golds, and six Commonwealth Games gold medals.

Mark Anthony Taylor (born 27 October, 1964 in Leeton, New South Wales; nicknamed "Tubby" or "Tubs") was an Australian cricket player and Test opening batsman from 1988-1999, as well as captain from 1994-1999, succeeding Allan Border. He was widely regarded as an instrumental component in Australia's rise to Test cricket dominance, and his captaincy was regarded as adventurous and highly effective.

Mandawuy Yunupingu (b. Bakamana Yunupingu, September 17, 1956) is an Australian musician, educator, and community leader. A member of the Yolngu people of the Northern Territory's Arnhem Land, he is the lead singer and most prominent personality of the Aboriginal band Yothu Yindi, which he co-founded in 1986 (and with which he also plays guitar). He strives to achieve a better understanding of Aboriginal culture by "balanda" (non-Aboriginal people), …

Lowitja (Lois) O'Donoghue AC CBE, born August 1 1932 is an Aboriginal Australian health worker and administrator. She was Australian of the Year in 1984 and in 1990 became the inaugural Chairperson of ATSIC (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission). O'Donoghue was born at Granite Downs Station in what is now known as Indulkana, South Australia on the now community-owned Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Lands in the north-west of South Australia.

Paul Hogan AM (born October 8, 1939 in Lightning Ridge, New South Wales) is an Australian actor and comedian. Paul Hogan was a rigger working on the Sydney Harbour Bridge before he rose to fame in the early 1970s after a comical interview on "A Current Affair". Hogan followed this with his own comedy sketch programme, "The Paul Hogan Show", which he produced, co-wrote, and in which he played a panoply of characters with John Cornell.

Dr. John Samuel Yu AC is a distinguished paediatrics doctor. Born in Nanjing, China, he attended Fort Street High School in Sydney, Australia. He was the Chief Executive Officer of the Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children at the time of its relocation from inner-city Camperdown to Westmead in western Sydney in 1995 (the hospital now uses the name The Children's Hospital at Westmead in addition to its official title), …

Alan Bond (born 22 April 1938) is an Australian businessman famous for high-profile business ventures, including what was at the time the biggest corporate collapse in Australian history, and for which he was convicted of fraud and sent to jail. Bond was born in the Hammersmith district of London, England, and emigrated to Australia with his parents and sister Geraldine in 1950. Beginning his career as a signwriter he formed what was to be Bond Corporation in 1959.

Warren Pearson is the National Director of the National Australia Day Council (NADC). Warren Pearson was appointed the National Director of the National Australia Day Council in August 2001. In this role he is responsible for planning Australia Day celebrations and prresenting the Australian of the Year and associated awards. Formerly a high school drama teacher he then entered the NSW Department of Education as and events manager.

Troy Broadbridge (5 October 1980-26 December 2004) was an Australian rules football player with the Melbourne Football Club in the Australian Football League. Broadbridge began his career as a defender with Port Adelaide in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL), and was drafted by the Melbourne Football Club at the beginning of the 2001 AFL season. He won the club's Most Improved Player award in 2001, and became a regular in the side, …

Major General Alan Bishop Stretton AO CBE (born on September 30, 1922) is a former senior Australian Army officer. He received the Australian of the Year award in 1975 for his work in the cleanup efforts at Darwin in the aftermath of Cyclone Tracy. He is a former Deputy Director of the Joint Intelligence Organization and member of the National Intelligence Committee.

Sir Bernard Thomas Heinze (born in Shepparton, Victoria on July 1 1894, died June 10 1982) was an Australian Professor of Music, conductor and Director of the New South Wales State Conservatorium of Music. He was knighted in 1949 and was awarded the Australian of the Year in 1976.

Harry Butler, CBE (born March 25, 1930) is an Australian naturalist and environmental consultant. Butler was born in Perth, Western Australia. He attended Claremont Teachers' College in Western Australia and later the Western State College in the United States. He is a gifted and entertaining populariser of science and natural history for both child and adult audiences, and as conservation consultant to the Barrow Island oilfield and many other projects, …

Geoffrey Curgenven Bolton, OA is an Australian historian born on 5th November 1931 in Claremont, Perth, Western Australia. He has been publishing works on Australian history since 1952, and has authored 13 books, most recently "Edmund Barton: The One Man for the Job" (a biography of Australia's first Prime Minister), which was awarded the NSW Premier's Centenary of Federation award 2001.

Billy Birmingham (Born 1953) is an Australian humourist and sometime sports journalist, most noted for his parodies of Australian cricket commentary in recordings under The Twelfth Man name. He was the writer of the comedy hit "Australiana" 1983 which was made famous by performer Austen Tayshus. Birmingham is also a regular on the panel discussion show "The Back Page", alongside Mike Gibson and Peter FitzSimons.

Sir John Grenfell Crawford AC CBE (April 4, 1910 – 1984) was an economist and a key architect of Australia's Post-War growth. Born in Sydney, among the positions he held were Adviser to the World Bank, Washington D.C., Director, Australian Japanese Economic Research Project, and Chairman, Advisory Board, Australian Development Assistance Agency 1975-77. He received the Australian of the Year in 1981.

Sir John Warcup 'Kappa' Cornforth FRS (born 7 September 1917), is a scientist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1975 for his work on the stereochemistry of enzyme-catalyzed reactions. He has been profoundly deaf since his teens. Cornforth was born in Sydney, Australia, educated at Sydney Boys High School and Sydney University (from 16 years of age) where he met his wife Rita Harradence.

Alexander "Jock" Stuart Sturrock MBE, (May 14, 1915 - 1997) was an Australian America's Cup yachtsman. In 1963 he was named Australian of the Year. Jock Sturrock represented Australia in four Olympic Games between 1948 and 1960. At the age of 41 he won a Bronze Medal sailing in the 5.5 Metre Class at the 1956 Summer Olympic Games held in Melbourne, Australia. In 1962, Australia challenged for the America's Cup.

Dr William 'Bill' Griggs AM, who began his medical career in 1976 as a road ambulance officer, has now been deployed, as either a Royal Australian Air Force Specialist reservist or a civilian, to manage evacuations and tend to victims in dozens of disasters including the Bali Bombings and Boxing Day Tsunami. He is considered around the world as an authority on trauma medicine and invented the Griggs Kit, a device used to make an artificial airway for victims.

Dame Raigh Edith Roe, DBE has been a member of the Australian Country Women’s Association since 1941; she became Branch President, Western Australian State President and, eventually, National President of the CWA. In 1977 she was elected World President of the "Associated Country Women of the World"(ACWW), representing almost 9 000 000 women in 74 countries throughout the world. That year she was also named Australian of the Year.

Ronn Montague Moss (born March 4, 1952 in Los Angeles) is an American Actor, singer and songwriter and is most well-known for portraying Ridge Forrester, the dynamic fashion magnate on the CBS soap opera "The Bold and the Beautiful" since 1987.

John Joseph Fahey AC (born 10 January, 1945) was an Australian politician, Premier of New South Wales and Federal Minister of Finance. He was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1984 to 1996 and the federal House of Representatives from 1996 to 2001.

Sir Edward Williams <small>KBE KCMG</small&gt; (1921 - 10 January 1999) was appointed as a judge to the Supreme Court of Queensland, which is the highest ranking court in the Australian State of Queensland. Williams was appointed to the court on 13 May 1971 and served until he retired on 17 February 1984. During this time, he headed the 1977 to 1980 Royal Commission Inquiry into Drugs.

Leslie Jack "Les" Twentyman AO is a prominent social worker and community activist in the western suburbs of Melbourne, Australia.. He is one of Victoria's best known social campaigners, on issues ranging from homelessness, drug abuse, prison reform and social welfare. He works for an organisation called Open Family which helps street-children. It runs a youth refuge house in Victoria which houses 200 young people a year. He was awarded the Order of Australia in 1994, …

Sir Murray Louis Tyrrell KCVO CBE (1 December 1913 - 13 July 1994) was an Official Secretary to several Governors General of Australia. Born in Kilmore, he was educated at Orbost and Melbourne High Schools. He married Ellen (Nell) Greig on 6 May 1939. The had one son and two daughters. He was an Alderman of the Queanbeyan City Council 1976-1980. In 1977 he was named the Australian of the Year.

Simon Rouben Malian is the founder of the Malian Foundation, a multi-national non-profit organization. Malian completed his university education at the University of Technology, Sydney after accepting a scholarship within the Bachelor of Information Technology program. Malian established the Foundation when he realised that support services were virtually exclusively geared towards commercial organisations, …

Stefan Ackerie, usually known as Stefan, is a businessman and hairdresser from Brisbane, Australia. He owns a chain of approximately fifty hairdressing salons, as well as the Brisbane restaurant Jo Jo's. Stefan's Brisbane headquarters is located in South Brisbane, underneath the Skyneedle, a prominent landmark which Stefan saved from being sold overseas after Expo '88. Stefan was a finalist in the 2004 Australian of the Year awards.