Australian Famous Names Starting with Letter G

Is an Australian architect

Is an Australian architect

Was an Australian backstroke and freestyle swimmer of the 1970s and 1980s, who won the gold medal in

Was an Australian backstroke and freestyle swimmer of the 1970s and 1980s, who won the gold medal in the men's 100 metres backstroke event at the 1978 Commonwealth Games. He represented his native country at two consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 19

Is a former New Zealand cricketer who played for the Otago Volts and the Wellington Firebirds in Sta

Is a former New Zealand cricketer who played for the Otago Volts and the Wellington Firebirds in State Shield and State Championship. He also played for Hutt Valley and Dunedin Metropolitan in the Hawke Cup. He was born in Carterton.

Is an Australian economist and the current Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia.

Is an Australian economist and the current Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia.

Is a former Queensland and Australian cricketer born in Brisbane, Queensland. Trimble played in 57 S

Is a former Queensland and Australian cricketer born in Brisbane, Queensland. Trimble played in 57 Sheffield Shield and other first-class matches for Queensland between 1982-83 and 1989-90 and two One Day International World Series Cup matches in Perth and Adelaide against New Zealand in 1985-86 under Allan Border. The son of former Queensland cricket captain and opening batsman Sam Trimble who played 144 matches, Trimble attended Brisbane State High School and played in the cricket team. He won an Esso Scholarship in 1986, playing with the Essex Second XI in England, and retired in 1990 at the age of 27. In 57 first class matches, he took 30 wickets at an average of 29.33 with a best of 5 for 50, and scored 2881 runs at an average of 33.11 with four centuries. In the 1987-88 season he combined for a Queensland record fifth-wicket stand of 231 with Allan Border.

Was a New Zealand cricketer who played six first-class matches, 15 one-day matches and 47 games in a

Was a New Zealand cricketer who played six first-class matches, 15 one-day matches and 47 games in all for the Central Districts in the late 1990s. He played for the New Zealand Development side, Nelson in the Hawke Cup, Guernsey and Reading CC in the Uni

Is a former Australian politician.In 1999, she was elected to the Victorian Legislative Council as t

Is a former Australian politician.In 1999, she was elected to the Victorian Legislative Council as the Labor member for Melbourne Province. Following the reforms to the Legislative Council in 2006, she was selected for the third position on the Labor tick

Was an Australian artist and lecturer in arts and crafts. She was educated at Brisbane Girls Grammar

Was an Australian artist and lecturer in arts and crafts. She was educated at Brisbane Girls Grammar School, Trinity College of Music, Central Technical College and Kelvin Grove Teachers College. Logan lectured at Brisbane Kindergarten Teachers College as well as University of Queensland. Logan also worked for the Queensland Art Gallery as teacher of the Scholarship Children's Art Class and on numerous occasions for the Queensland Arts Council [1]. Logan was President of the Australian Society For Education Through Art (Queensland) and was an Australian delegate at International Society for Education Through Art Congresses. Her works are represented in Australian and international collections. Logan worked in a large range of mediums including painting, drawing, sculpture and vitreous Enamel. Logan was also an invited judge of art exhibitions. She was also a scenic designer. Commenting on one Logan's design for "The Caretaker" by Harold Pinter,

Australian Aboriginal artist from the Anmatyerre community who live just north of Alice Springs.She

Australian Aboriginal artist from the Anmatyerre community who live just north of Alice Springs.She won Australia's longest running art prize, the Wynne Prize in 1999 with Leaves, being the first Aboriginal person to win one of the Art Gallery of New South Wales's major prizes. She travelled to Ireland, England and India in 1990 as part of the Utopia – A picture story exhibition. She held her first solo exhibition in 1991. She is represented in major Australian galleries such as the National Gallery of Australia. She is the niece of Emily Kngwarreye and the younger sister of Kathleen Petyarre, two of the greatest Aboriginal artists.

An Australian academic who is currently the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Melbourne

An Australian academic who is currently the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Melbourne

The first Olympic champion in the event. Born Glynis Leanne Saunders in Toowoomba, Queensland, she b

The first Olympic champion in the event. Born Glynis Leanne Saunders in Toowoomba, Queensland, she began competing in athletics at age 9, when she was a student at Toowoomba South State School.She starred in several events, and was thus a natural competit

An artist based in Kalamunda, Western Australia. He is the founder of the Perth Stuckists.Godfrey Bl

An artist based in Kalamunda, Western Australia. He is the founder of the Perth Stuckists.Godfrey Blow was born in Lincolnshire, England on the same day as fellow Stuckist artist, Eamon Everall. After attending Sheffield Hallam University where he gained a BA Hons degree and Manchester Metro University, where he qualified as a teacher, Blow emigrated to Australia in 1982. Since then he has made his living by teaching and through his artwork. More recently the emphasis has been on his art, as his work has increasingly become a featured part of private and public collections in Australia, including Artbank, The Art Gallery of Western Australia, University of Western Australia and the collections of the cities of Bunbury, Albany and Fremantle.

Is a former Australian football (soccer) player. He won two National Soccer League titles with South

Is a former Australian football (soccer) player. He won two National Soccer League titles with South Melbourne, taking out the Joe Marston Medal for best on ground in the 1999 Grand Final against Sydney United. He was also particularly noted for his abili

Is an Serbian Australian Football (soccer) striker who last played for South Melbourne FC in the Vic

Is an Serbian Australian Football (soccer) striker who last played for South Melbourne FC in the Victorian Premier League before joining recently promoted Thai Premier League club Police United F.C.. Starting in the junior ranks of Berwick Kings "Krajina

Is a basketball player and coach. He played for Australia at the 1980 Summer Olympics. He is now ass

Is a basketball player and coach. He played for Australia at the 1980 Summer Olympics. He is now assistant coach for the Australia national basketball team (including for the 2008 Olympics) and head coach of the Singapore Slingers.

Was an Australian politician. He was the Labor member for Blacktown in the New South Wales Legislati

Was an Australian politician. He was the Labor member for Blacktown in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1971 to 1981.In 1971, Barnier was selected as the Labor Party's candidate for the seat of Blacktown (the sitting member, Jim Southee, was

An Australian Aboriginal artist.Growing up, Bennett was surrounded and confronted by images of Abori

An Australian Aboriginal artist.Growing up, Bennett was surrounded and confronted by images of Aboriginal Australians inflicting harm on others or being violent in some form of the word. However, Bennett wanted to change the way Australia and the world saw Indigenous Australians so he took global issues and made them into artworks. The Notes to Basquiat: 911 series and the Camouflage series, eagerly reflect on the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 and the war in Iraq respectively, highlight Bennett’s global perspective

Is the current Lord Mayor for Wollongong & former minister for the Church on the Mall Wollongong.

Is the current Lord Mayor for Wollongong & former minister for the Church on the Mall Wollongong.

Was a rugby union and rugby league player. He was born in Dunedin, New Zealand and died in Christchu

Was a rugby union and rugby league player. He was born in Dunedin, New Zealand and died in Christchurch. He played 31 games in the second-five-eights (Inside centre) position for Canterbury and seven games (including two tests) for the All Blacks on their

Is a Scottish-born Australian politician. Born in Glasgow, he was a toolmaker and served in the mili

Is a Scottish-born Australian politician. Born in Glasgow, he was a toolmaker and served in the military 1945-1948. Having moved to Australia, he was president of the Western Australian Amalgamated Engineering Union, and Vice-President of the Western Aust

Rorke made his Test debut in January 1959 in the Fourth Test of The Ashes series against England in

Rorke made his Test debut in January 1959 in the Fourth Test of The Ashes series against England in Adelaide. It was an impressive debut, taking 3/23 off 18.1 eight-ball overs in the first innings (including the wickets of Colin Cowdrey for 84, Tom Graveney and Willie Watson) and 2/70 from 34 overs in the second innings. Rorke claimed three wickets in the Fifth Test at Melbourne a fortnight later, and was selected to tour Pakistan and India the following year.

Is a former Australian politician and Speaker of the Australian House of Representatives.He won the

Is a former Australian politician and Speaker of the Australian House of Representatives.He won the House of Representatives seat of Corio at a by-election in 1967, following Sir Hubert Opperman's resignation. He was Speaker from 27 February 1975 until 16

Is an Australian sprint canoer who competed from the mid 1960s to the early 1970s. Competing in thre

Is an Australian sprint canoer who competed from the mid 1960s to the early 1970s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he earned his best finish of eighth in the K-2 1000 m event at Tokyo in 1964.

Is an Australian Christian evangelist, broadcaster and former politician. Moyes was appointed by the

Is an Australian Christian evangelist, broadcaster and former politician. Moyes was appointed by the Christian Democratic Party (CDP) to take Elaine Nile's place in the New South Wales Legislative Council in 2002 following her resignation. Moyes subsequen