- Nicole Kidman
Nicole Kidman mini-bio : Nicole Mary Kidman is an Academy Award-winning actress, and one of Hollywood's leading actresses. She has also ventured into singing. In 1995, she appeard in To Die For, a satirical comedy that earned her praise from critics and she won a Golden Globe Award for her work in the film. In 2002, Kidman received an Academy Award nomination for her performance in Moulin Rouge! and in 2003 she won the Oscar for her work in The Hours. - Michael Jeffery
Major General Philip Michael Jeffery AC, CVO, MC (born 12 December 1937) is the 24th Governor-General of Australia. General Jeffery was born in Wiluna, Western Australia and was educated at state schools in Perth. One of these schools was Kent Street Senior High School, which he makes a special mention of in many of his speeches. General Jeffery's military service started by attending the Royal Military College, Duntroon where he graduated in 1958. - Bob Hawke
Robert James Lee (Bob) Hawke, AC (born 9 December 1929) is a former Australian trade union leader turned politician who became the 23rd Prime Minister of Australia. After a decade as president of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, he entered politics at the 1980 elections and became Prime Minister within three years. He became by far the longest-serving and most electorally successful Labor Prime Minister, … - Gough Whitlam
Edward Gough Whitlam, AC, QC (born 11 July 1916), known as Gough Whitlam (pronounced "Goff"), is an Australian former politician and 21st Prime Minister of Australia. After initially falling short of gaining enough seats to win government at the 1969 election, Whitlam led the Labor Party in to government at the 1972 election after 23 years of conservative government in Australia. - Malcolm Fraser
Malcolm Fraser was Australia's 22nd Prime Minister, leading the nation from November 1975 to March 1983. He was an Oxford graduate and a grazier when he won the Victorian seat of Wannon for the Liberal Party in December 1955. Entering politics aged just 25, he was the youngest member of the 22nd parliament. His first ten years were spent as a backbencher in the Menzies Government but when Robert Holt became prime minister in 1966, Mr Fraser was appointed as Minister for the Army. - Michael Kirby
Michael Donald Kirby, AC, CMG, (born 1939), is a Justice of the High Court of Australia; the highest court in the Australian court hierarchy. - Robin Warren
Dr J. Robin Warren AC (born June 11, 1937 in Adelaide) is an Australian pathologist and researcher who is credited with the 1979 re-discovery of the bacterium "Helicobacter pylori". He received his M.B. B.S. from the University of Adelaide. In 1967 he was admitted into the Royal College of Pathologists of Australia and became a senior pathologist at the Royal Perth Hospital where he spent the majority of his career. - Barry Marshall
Barry James Marshall, AC FRS FAA (born 30 September 1951) is an Australian physician, Nobel Prize winner, and Professor of Clinical Microbiology at the University of Western Australia. He is well-known for proving that the bacteria "Helicobacter pylori" is the cause of most stomach ulcers, reversing decades of medical doctrine which held that ulcers were caused by stress, spicy foods, and too much acid - Colin Thiele
Colin Milton Thiele AC (16 November 1920 - 4 September 2006) was an Australian author and educator. He was renowned for his award-winning children's fiction, most notably for the novel "Storm Boy". - Gustav Nossal
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. - Gordon Samuels
Gordon Jacob Samuels, AC, CVO, QC (born August 12, 1923), was Governor of New South Wales from March 1, 1996 to March 1, 2001. Samuels was born into a Jewish family in London and was educated at University College School and Balliol College, Oxford. He joined the British Army in 1942 and served as artilleryman from 1942–1946. He was called to the bar in 1948. The following year he emigrated to Australia and was called to the Sydney bar in 1952. - Richard Pratt
Richard J. Pratt, AC (born 1934) is a prominent Australian businessman, chairman of the privately owned cardboard company Visy Industries, president of the Carlton Football Club and a leading figure of Melbourne society. He is married to Jeanne Pratt and currently lives in Raheen, in the Melbourne suburb of Kew. As of 2005, Pratt's personal fortune was valued at A$4.7 billion, and he was Australia's third richest man. - Bill Hayden
William George Hayden AC (born 23 January 1933), Australian politician and 21st Governor-General of Australia, was born in Brisbane, Queensland, the son of an American-born sailor of Irish descent. Bill Hayden was educated at Catholic schools and served in the Queensland Police Force from 1953 to 1961. He furthered his education through private study, completing an economics degree at the University of Queensland. - Donald Bradman
Sir Donald George Bradman AC (27 August, 1908-25 February, 2001), often called The Don, was an Australian cricketer, administrator and writer universally acknowledged to be the greatest batsman of all time. He is one of Australia's most popular sporting heroes, and one of the most respected past players in other cricketing nations, as was demonstrated upon the occasion of his death. - John Gorton
Sir John Grey Gorton GCMG AC CH (9 September 1911 - 19 May 2002), Australian politician, was the 19th Prime Minister of Australia. - Marie Bashir
Professor Marie Roslyn Bashir AC CVO (born 1930) is the current Governor of New South Wales and Chancellor of the University of Sydney. - Andrew Peacock
Andrew Sharp Peacock AC (born 13 February 1939), Australian Liberal politician, was born in Melbourne, Victoria, the son of a wealthy company director. He was educated at Scotch College and at the University of Melbourne, where he graduated in law. He practised law in Melbourne while making a rapid advance in the Liberal Party. He was president of the Young Liberals in 1962, and in 1963 he married Susan Rossiter, daughter of a Liberal MP. They had three daughters. - Jeff Kennett
Jeffrey Gibb Kennett AC (born 25 July, 1948), Australian politician, was the Premier of Victoria (6th October, 1992 to 20th October, 1999). He is also the current Chair of beyondblue (the National Depression Initiative) and President of the Hawthorn Football Club. - Kerry Packer
Kerry Francis Bullmore Packer AC (17 December 1937 - 26 December 2005), son of Sir Frank Packer, was an Australian publishing, media and gaming tycoon who owned the Nine Network. He was famous for his outspoken nature, wealth, expansive business empire and clashes with the Australian Taxation Office and the Costigan Commission. At the time of his death, Packer was the richest and one of the most influential men in Australia. - Aung San Suu Kyi
Aung San Suu Kyi ; born 19 June 1945 in Yangon (Rangoon), is a nonviolent pro-democracy activist and leader of the National League for Democracy in Myanmar (Burma), and a noted prisoner of conscience. A Buddhist, Suu Kyi won the Rafto Prize and the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought in 1990 and in 1991 was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her peaceful and non-violent struggle under a military dictatorship. - Ian MacFarlane
Ian Macfarlane AC (born 22 June, 1946), Australian economist, and Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA), Australia's central bank, from 1996 to September 17, 2006. He is also former Chairman of the Payments System Board of the Reserve Bank and Chairman of the Council of Financial Regulators. Macfarlane was educated at Monash University, Melbourne and tutored in economics there before joining the RBA in 1970. - Charles Mackerras
Sir Alan Charles Maclaurin Mackerras AC CH CBE (b. November 17 1925) is an Australian conductor. He is known as the leader of English National Opera and its predecessor, and as the director of the Welsh National Opera. He is a noted authority on the operas of Leoš Janáček, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Sir Arthur Sullivan. - Peter Hollingworth
The Rt Revd. Dr. Peter John Hollingworth AC OBE (born 10 April 1935), is an Australian Anglican bishop and was the 23rd Governor-General of Australia. On 28 May 2003, he resigned as Governor-General as a result of criticism of his actions in an Anglican Church report. The report stated that he had mishandled an allegation of sexual abuse by an Anglican priest during his eleven year tenure as Archbishop of Brisbane. - Nancy Wake
Nancy Grace Augusta Wake AC, GM (born August 30 1912), was the Allies' most decorated servicewoman of World War II who fought alongside the maquis groups of the French Resistance - Peter Ross Sinclair
Rear Admiral Peter Ross Sinclair, AC (b. 1930) was Governor of New South Wales August 8, 1990 – March 1, 1996. He was appointed as Governor after his retirement from the Navy as Deputy Chief of Naval Staff 1989. Admiral Sinclair was appointed to replace his friend Sir David Martin, who had died while in office. - William Deane
Sir William Patrick Deane, AC, KBE (born 4 January 1931), Australian judge and 22nd Governor-General of Australia, was born in Melbourne, Victoria. He was educated at Catholic schools including St. Joseph's College, Hunters Hill and at the University of Sydney, where he graduated in arts and law. In addition, he also attended the Hague Academy of International Law. After graduation he worked in the federal Attorney-General's Department in Canberra, … - George Pell
George Cardinal Pell, AC, DD, STL, MEd, DPhil, FACE (born 8 June 1941) is an Australian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. Cardinal Pell currently serves as Archbishop of Sydney and was elevated to the cardinalate in 2003. Since his appointment to Sydney, Pell has become one of the most well-known Christian leaders in Australia. - Tim Fischer
Timothy Andrew Fischer <small>AC FTSE</small> (born 3 May 1946), is a former Australian politician. - Quentin Bryce
Quentin Alice Louise Bryce, AC (born 1942 in Longreach, Queensland) is Governor of Queensland, Australia. She is only the second woman since 1859 to become Governor of Queensland. She grew up in Ilfracombe, Queensland, and studied at Moreton Bay College, Brisbane, and later at the University of Queensland, where she was graduated with a bachelor of arts and laws. In 1965, she was one of the first Queensland women to be admitted to the bar of that state. - Victor Chang
Doctor Victor Leo Chang AC (Chang Yam Him 張任謙; pinyin: Zhāng Rènqiān; 21 November, 1936-4 July, 1991) was a Chinese Australian heart surgeon, and one of the pioneers of modern heart transplantation. Born in Shanghai to Australian-born Chinese parents, he spent his childhood in Hong Kong, before coming to Australia in 1953 and completing his secondary schooling at Christian Brothers' High School, Lewisham. - Joan Sutherland
Dame Joan Sutherland OM, AC, DBE (born November 7, 1926) is an Australian dramatic coloratura soprano noted for her contribution to the bel canto revival of the 1950s and 1960s. She was hailed La Stupenda after an Alcina performance in La Fenice in 1960. - Manning Clark
Charles Manning Hope Clark AC (3 March 1915 - 23 May 1991), Australian historian, was the author of the best-known general history of Australia, his six-volume "History of Australia", published between 1962 and 1987. He has been described as "Australia's most famous historian," but his work has been the target of much criticism, particularly from conservatives. - Gordon Moyes
Rev Hon Dr Gordon Keith Mackenzie Moyes AC MLC (b. November 17, 1938) is an Australian religious figure. A Christian evangelist, broadcaster, and politician, he has been a Christian Democratic Party member of the New South Wales Legislative Council since 2002. He first gained prominence in Australia as host of the weekly television program "Turn 'Round Australia" and radio program "Sunday Night Live with Gordon Moyes". - Graeme Clark
Professor Graeme Clark AC pioneered the multiple-channel cochlear implant which has brought hearing and speech understanding to tens of thousands of people with severe-to-profound hearing loss in more than 80 countries. He is the founder of the Bionic Ear Institute, which has a Cooperative Research Centre agreement with Cochlear Limited. He was also appointed a Companion of the Order of Australia, … - Harry Seidler
Harry Seidler, AC OBE (June 25, 1923 Vienna — March 9, 2006 Sydney) was an Austrian-born Australian architect who is considered to be one of the leading exponents of Modernism's methodology in Australia and the first architect to fully express the principles of the Bauhaus in Australia. - Anthony Mason
Sir Anthony Frank Mason AC, KBE, QC (born 1925), Australian judge and Royal Australian Air Force officer, was the ninth Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia, sitting on the bench of the High Court from 1972 to 1995. - John Landy
John Michael Landy, AC, CVO, MBE, (born April 12, 1930) is a former track athlete and was the 26th Governor of Victoria, Australia. He married his wife, Lynne, in 1971, and they have two children. While serving as Governor, John and Lynne Landy resided at Government House, Melbourne. He retired from the position after serving a five-year term on 7 April 2006, and was succeeded by medical researcher David de Kretser. - Jim Bacon
James Alexander Bacon AC (May 15, 1950 - June 20, 2004) was Premier of Tasmania from 1998 to 2004. Bacon was born in Melbourne; his father Frank, a doctor, died when his son was twelve, leaving him to be raised by his mother Joan. He was educated at Scotch College and later at Monash University, but he did not graduate. At Monash he was a Maoist student leader. He became an official of the Builders Labourers Federation, which sent him to Tasmania as an organiser. - Margaret Jackson
Margaret Jackson is Chairman of FlexiGroup Limited and a director of Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Limited, Billabong International Limited and Florey Neuroscience Institutes. Before beginning her career as a full time company director in 1992, she was a partner of KPMG Peat Marwick's Management Consulting Division. Ms Jackson holds a Bachelor of Economics degree from Monash University and completed an MBA with distinction at Melbourne University. - Peter Cosgrove
General Peter John Cosgrove, AC, MC (born 28 July 1947) is an Australian general. He was the Chief of the Australian Defence Force from 3 July 2002 to July 2005, when he retired from active service. He was educated at Waverley College
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