- Rolf Harris
Rolf Harris, CBE, AM (born 30 March 1930) is an Australian musician, composer, painter, and television host. He was born in Bassendean, a suburb of Perth, Western Australia, Australia, to Cromwell ("Crom") Harris and Agnes Margaret Harris (née Robbins) who had emigrated from Wales. He was named after Rolf Boldrewood, an Australian writer whom his mother admired. Harris attended Perth Modern School in Subiaco, and the University of Western Australia. - Mark Waugh
Mark Edward Waugh AM (born June 2, 1965 in Sydney) is a former Australian cricketer, who represented Australia in Test matches from early 1991 to late 2002, and made his One-Day International debut in 1988. His nickname is "Junior" as he is younger than his brother Steve by a few minutes. - Clive James
Clive James AM (born October 7, 1939 in Kogarah, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia) is an expatriate Australian writer, poet, essayist, critic, and commentator on popular culture. - James Morrison
James Morrison AM (born 11 November 1962 in Boorowa, New South Wales) is an Australian jazz musician who plays numerous instruments, but is best known for his trumpet playing. He is a true multi-instrumentalist, capable of performing on the trombone, euphonium, flugelhorn, tuba, saxophone, and piano. He is also a composer, writing jazz charts for ensembles of various sizes and proficiency levels. He performed the opening fanfare at the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games, … - Peter Garrett
Peter Garrett AM MP (born 16 April 1953), is an Australian musician and politician. He has been an Australian Labor Party member of the House of Representatives for the seat of Kingsford Smith, New South Wales, since October 2004. He was appointed as Shadow Minister for Climate Change, Environment & Heritage, Arts in December 2006. He was lead singer of the Australian rock band Midnight Oil from the 1970s to their disbanding in 2002. - Paul Jennings
Paul Jennings AM (born April 30, 1943) is a best-selling Australian children's book writer. His books mainly feature short stories that lead the reader through an unusual series of events and that ends with a twist. - Greg Norman
Gregory John Norman AM (born February 10, 1955) is an Australian professional golfer and entrepreneur who spent 331 weeks as the world's number one ranked golfer in the 1980s and 1990s. He is nicknamed "The Great White Shark", or simply, "The Shark", a reference to a shark inhabiting Australian waters as well as Norman's size and blond locks. - Greg Combet
Gregory Ivan Combet AM (born April 28 1958) is an Australian trade unionist and has been Secretary of the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) since 2000. Combet is married to Petra Hilsen and has one daughter (Anna), one stepdaughter (Clara) and one stepson (Yanni). Greg Combet was born in Sydney and educated at the Universities of New South Wales and Sydney, where he studied engineering, economics and labour relations. - Dean Jones
Dean Mervyn Jones AM (born March 24, 1961 in Coburg, Victoria) is a retired Australian cricketer, and current coach. He also worked as a commentator for Ten Sports until August 2006. "Deano" began his first class career in the 1981-82 season with Victoria in the Sheffield Shield. He made his Test debut for Australia in the West Indies in 1984. Between 1984 and 1992, Jones played 52 Test matches for Australia, scoring 3,631 runs, including 11 centuries, … - Wayne Bennett
Wayne James Bennett AM (born 1 January, 1950) is an Australian rugby league football identity. A former Australian Kangaroos player, he is the current coach of the multiple premiership-winning Brisbane Broncos and a former coach of the Queensland and Australian representative sides. Bennett holds records for most Grand Final wins and longest time with a single club in Australian rugby league coaching history. - Billy Thorpe
Billy Thorpe <small>AM</small> (29 March 1946 - 28 February 2007) was a renowned English-born Australian musician. He earned great success in the 1960s as a clean-cut pop idol, and in the 1970s as the lead singer of hard rock band Billy Thorpe & the Aztecs. - Bart Cummings
James Bartholomew 'Bart' Cummings AM (born 14 November 1927) is one of the most successful Australian racehorse trainers, and is known as the Melbourne Cup King, having won the 'race that stops a nation' a record eleven times. - Peter Cundall
Peter Cundall AM (born 1st April 1927 in Manchester, England) is a horticulturalist and television personality in Australia. He currently lives in Tasmania's Tamar Valley, and at the age of 80 continues to be a presenter of the ABC TV program "Gardening Australia". Amongst the gardeners of Australia, Peter Cundall has gained idol like popularity and is a household name. - John Williamson
John Robert Williamson AM (born 1 November 1945 in Quambatook, Victoria) is an Australian country music singer-songwriter. Williamson was raised in the Mallee district of northwestern Victoria. In 1965, his family moved to Croppa Creek, near Moree, New South Wales, where John began performing at a local restaurant. Throughout his career, John Williamson has released over 32 albums, 10 videos, 5 DVDs, and 2 books of lyrics. - Terri Irwin
Terri Raines Irwin, AM (born July 20, 1964) is an American-born naturalist, the widow of Australian naturalist Steve Irwin, and owner of Australia Zoo at Beerwah, Queensland, Australia. She co-starred with her husband on "The Crocodile Hunter", their unconventional television nature documentary series, as well as their spinoff series, "The Crocodile Hunter Diaries" and the "Croc Files". She has lived in Australia since 1992, when she married Irwin. - Wally Lewis
Walter James "Wally" Lewis AM (born 1 December, 1959 in Brisbane, Queensland) is an Australian former rugby league footballer who was one of the most pre-eminent five-eighths of the 1980s. He has since become a newsreader for the Australian Nine Network. Nicknamed The King and also The Emperor of Lang Park, Lewis represented Queensland in thirty-one State of Origin games from 1980 to 1991, and was captain for thirty of them. - Jeffrey Lucy
Jeffrey John Lucy (born November 6, 1946) is the current Chairman of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC), Australia's Capital Markets and Corporations Regulator. He is the first non-lawyer Chairman of ASIC. Lucy has had extensive experience in the Australian business community, particularly in the Accounting Profession. He has a background as a Chartered Accountant and is also a former Chairman of the Financial Reporting Council (FRC), … - Karl Kruszelnicki
Karl Kruszelnicki AM (1948 Helsingborg, Sweden) is a scientist, although best known as an author and science commentator on Australian radio and television. He is usually referred to as "Dr Karl" by his fans, although his full name is actually Karl Sven Woytek Sas Konkovitch Matthew Kruszelnicki. He has a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics and Mathematics from the University of New South Wales, … - Peter Tinley
Peter Tinley retired from the Australian military in 2006 after a distinguished 25-year career. He served in Afghanistan and Iraq and was one of the key strategists from the Australian Special Air Service Regiment (SAS) involved in the planning and leadership of the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003. - Les Murray
Les James Murray AM (born László Ürge in Hungary, 1945) is an Australian football (soccer) broadcaster and analyst. He is the host of "The World Gameon SBS television. After emigrating to Australia from his place of birth, Hungary, in 1957, Murray's interest in football (which he characteristically refers to as "The World Game", a phrase which now is the title of SBS's The World Game) began after watching a replay of the 1960 European Cup Final. - Jack Thompson
Jack Thompson AM (born August 31 1940) is an Australian actor and one of the major figures of Australian cinema. He is best known as a lead actor in several acclaimed Australian films including popular classics "Sunday Too Far Away" (1975), "The Man from Snowy River" (1982) and "Breaker Morant" (1980). He won Cannes and AFI acting awards for the latter film. He was the recipient of a Living Legend Award at the 2005 Inside Film Awards. - Ben Lexcen
Ben Lexcen, OAM (born 1936 in Newcastle, New South Wales, died May 1, 1988) was an Australian yachtsman and marine architect. He is famous for the winged keel design applied to "Australia II" which, in 1983, became the first non-American yacht to win the prestigious America's Cup in 132 years. - Galarrwuy Yunupingu
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, … - Sarah Fitz-Gerald
Sarah Elizabeth Fitz-Gerald <small>AM</small> (born December 1, 1968) is an Australian squash player who is a perhaps the greatest of the 1990s, collecting five World Open titles - 1996, 1997, 1998, 2001 and 2002. She ranks alongside Susan Devoy, Michelle Martin and Heather McKay as the sport's greatest players. - Paul Hogan
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. - Margaret Somerville
Margaret Anne Ganley Somerville, AM, FRSC (born April 13, 1942) is an Australian/Canadian ethicist and academic. She is the Samuel Gale Professor of Law, Professor in the Faculty of Medicine and the Founding Director of the Faculty of Law's Centre for Medicine, Ethics and Law at McGill University. - John Billings
Dr. John Billings AM (5 March 1918-1 April 2007) was an Australian doctor who pioneered the natural method of family planning known variously as the Billings Ovulation Method, the Ovulation Method, or the Billings Method. John Billings was born in Melbourne and was educated at Xavier College, and at the University of Melbourne. He married Dr. Evelyn Thomas in 1943, and they had nine children. - Eddie McGuire
EDDIE McGuire has resigned as chief executive of the Nine Network. Nine said today McGuire would move to an increased presence on air and the provision of creative and programming services, with the change taking effect from June 30. McGuire said he left the CEO role "with a heavy heart", but hoped he would leave a legacy, with new programs to be shown in the next 12 months. - David Flint
Professor David Flint, AM, is an Australian legal academic, known for his leadership of Australians for Constitutional Monarchy, and for his controversial tenure as head of the Australian Broadcasting Authority. Flint, who is part Indonesian on his mother's side, studied law, economics and international relations at the Universities of London, Paris and Sydney, leading to a career in the law and in the academy. He was Dean of Law at the University of Technology, Sydney, … - Angry Anderson
Angry Anderson AM is an Australian rock singer, television presenter/reporter and actor. He is best known as the vocalist with the hard rock band Rose Tattoo since 1976 but he is also recognised for his acting roles and his charity work. On Australia Day, 1993, he was awarded an Order of Australia for his role as a youth advocate. - George Gregan
George Musarurwa Gregan AM (born 19 April 1973 in Lusaka, Zambia) is an Australian rugby union scrum-half who has made more appearances for his national team than any other player in the sport's history. He has captained the team to many victories and he is respected throughout the rugby world for his tenacity, tactical skill, leadership ability, and sportsmanship. Gregan has played Super 12 (now Super 14) for the Brumbies since the inception of that competition in 1996, … - John Yu
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), … - Simone Young
Simone Margaret Young AM (born March 2, 1961, Sydney) is an Australian conductor, particularly well known for opera. She studied composition and piano in Sydney and started her operatic career at the Sydney Opera House in 1985. In her early years she was assistant to James Conlon at the Cologne Opera, and to Daniel Barenboim at the Berlin and the Bayreuth. Since then, she has conducted at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden in London, the Vienna State Opera, … - John Singleton
John Singleton AM is an Australian entrepreneur. He was born in Sydney in 1942 and educated at Fort Street High School, New South Wales. Singleton, known as "Singo", commenced a career in advertising in the 1960s before founding with others the Sydney agency Strauss, Palmer and Singleton, McAllan (SPASM) which was later sold to the US Doyle Dane Bernbach network in the early 1970s. - Ken Done
Ken Done, AM (born 29 June, 1940) is an Australian artist probably best known for his design work; his simple, brightly coloured images of Australian landmarks have adorned a very popular range of clothing and homewares sold under the "Done Design" brand. His work for the 1988 World Exposition - held in Brisbane, … - John Bell
John Anthony Bell OBE AM (born 1 November 1940) is an acclaimed Australian actor and theatre personality. In a career of acting in, directing, and managing theatres, John Bell has been instrumental in shaping the Australian theatre industry. - Ric Charlesworth
Dr Richard "Ric" (or "Rick") Ian Charlesworth <small>AM</small> (born December 6 1952, Subiaco, Western Australia) is a sports and performance consultant and a former Australian cricketer and field hockey player and coach. He is a Doctor of Medicine. Charlesworth attended Christ Church Grammar School until he graduated in 1969. He then attended The University of Western Australia. - Bert Newton
Albert Watson "Bert" Newton, AM, MBE, (born 23 July 1938), is an Australian television, radio, film, stage performer and author. - Colin Hayes
Colin Sidney Hayes (AM) (OBE) (1924 – 21 May 1999) was a champion trainer of thoroughbred racehorses based in Adelaide, Australia. During his career he trained 5,333 winners including 524 individual Group or Listed winners. He won 28 Adelaide and 13 Melbourne Trainers’ Premierships. - Geoff Shepherd
Air Marshal Geoffrey David Shepherd AO is Chief of Air Force (CAF) of the Royal Australian Air Force, as of 4 July 2005, replacing Air Marshal Angus Houston.
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