Australian Famous Names Starting with Letter J

Is an Australian poet, novelist, critic, essayist and editor

Is an Australian poet, novelist, critic, essayist and editor

Is a former Australian sportsman who represented Western Australia in both first-class cricket and A

Is a former Australian sportsman who represented Western Australia in both first-class cricket and Australian rules football. He played for the Western Australian cricket team in the Sheffield Shield and played with the Claremont Football Club in the West Australian Football League (WAFL). Munro made his first-class cricket debut in the 1948/49 Sheffield Shield season and remained Western Australia's favoured wicket-keeper until 1954/55. He took five first-innings catches against South Australia in the 1951/52 Sheffield Shield season, a career best.

Was an Australian freestyle swimmer of the 1950s and 1960s, who won the 1500 m freestyle at the 1960

Was an Australian freestyle swimmer of the 1950s and 1960s, who won the 1500 m freestyle at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome. In his career, he set 26 individual world records, and after his swimming career ended, was the Australasian director of L'Oréal,

Is an Indigenous Australian artist, Government advisor and former football (soccer) player. He is mo

Is an Indigenous Australian artist, Government advisor and former football (soccer) player. He is most famous, as founder of the Balarinji Design Studio, for painting two Qantas jets with Aboriginal motifs.Moriarty played his football for South Australian

Was a rugby union player who represented Australia.Duncan, a scrum-half, was born in Sydney, New Sou

Was a rugby union player who represented Australia.Duncan, a scrum-half, was born in Sydney, New South Wales and claimed 1 international rugby cap for Australia.

He became Foundation Professor of Economic History

He became Foundation Professor of Economic History

Was a Tasmanian cricket player, who played first class cricket for Tasmania. He was an opening batsm

Was a Tasmanian cricket player, who played first class cricket for Tasmania. He was an opening batsman and a roundarm bowler which was the more common form of bowling at the time. Arthur represented Tasmania in four first-class matches, and bizarrely, despite not normally playing as a wicket-keeper, never took a single first-class catch, but did effect one first-class stumping whilst filling in as keeper. In the same match in the 1868-69 season he captained the Tasmanian side, although the match was lost and Tasmania were bowled out for just 18 in the first innings.

Was a New Zealand cricketer who played seven Tests for the New Zealand cricket team before the Secon

Was a New Zealand cricketer who played seven Tests for the New Zealand cricket team before the Second World War. He was the second oldest surviving Test cricketer at the date of his death, 10 days younger than fellow countryman Eric Tindill,[1] and the third longest-lived Test cricketer, after Tindall and Francis MacKinnon.[2]

Was an Australian lawyer and is said to be the first Australian born novelist.Lang was born at Parra

Was an Australian lawyer and is said to be the first Australian born novelist.Lang was born at Parramatta, Sydney, Australia. He was educated at Sydney College, and is mentioned in the chapter "My School Days" in Rolf Boldrewood's In Bad Company and Other Stories. Lang could hardly, however, have been at the school with T. A. Browne ("Rolf Boldrewood"), as Browne was not born until 1826. Lang went to Cambridge in 1838 and after qualifying as a barrister returned to Australia. In 1842 at a public meeting he seconded a motion proposed by William Wentworth, that the Crown be petitioned to grant the colony a representative assembly. A few months later he went to India and was successful as a barrister, taking on high-profile clients such as the Rani of Jhansi in her battles against the British East India Company.

Australian judge and politician

Australian judge and politician

Was a rugby union player who represented Australia.Shute, a wing, was born in Sydney, New South Wale

Was a rugby union player who represented Australia.Shute, a wing, was born in Sydney, New South Wales and claimed a total of 3 international rugby caps for Australia.

Architect and engineer, was born in Ireland and emigrated to Tasmania in 1827. He received his early

Architect and engineer, was born in Ireland and emigrated to Tasmania in 1827. He received his early training with first Charles Beazley in London 1809-1812, then he went to work as a drawing clerk with John Rennie. It was here that he would have been involved with the design of London Bridge (now in the USA) and Waterloo Bridge, as well as lighthouse design and other engineering works.He arrived in Hobart on the 2nd August 1827 to take up a position as Civil Engineer and Architect. He held this post for eleven years during which he designed all the Government buildings erected in the colony during this period. His works include:

Was an Australian-born New Zealand cricketer who played for Otago. He was born in Melbourne and died

Was an Australian-born New Zealand cricketer who played for Otago. He was born in Melbourne and died in Dunedin. Leith made a single first-class appearance for the team, during the 1880-81 season, against Canterbury. From the lower order, he scored 3 runs

Is an Australian politician. He has been an Australian Labor Party member of the Australian Capital

Is an Australian politician. He has been an Australian Labor Party member of the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly since 1998. He acted as Minister for Territory and Municipal Services, Minister for Multicultural Affairs and Minister for H

An Australian poet.He was born in Cambridge, England, and from 1984 to 1987 studied at Oxford Univer

An Australian poet.He was born in Cambridge, England, and from 1984 to 1987 studied at Oxford University. In 1991 he moved to Australia and completed a PhD at the University of Queensland.He currently lives in Canberra, Australia and was poetry editor of the journal Overland from 2003-2007.His poetry is concise and sometimes cryptic. It is based on a green political philosophy that stresses humanity's place in the natural world and the role of modern industrial society in concealing this relationship.

Is a Welsh Labour Party politician, former Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

Is a Welsh Labour Party politician, former Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

Australian judge, was a Justice of the High Court of Australia

Australian judge, was a Justice of the High Court of Australia

Is a former field hockey player from New Zealand, who finished in eighth position with the Men's Nat

Is a former field hockey player from New Zealand, who finished in eighth position with the Men's National Team, nicknamed Black Sticks, at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. He was born in Christchurch.

Was an Australian cricket player, who played five games for Tasmania. He has the distinction of havi

Was an Australian cricket player, who played five games for Tasmania. He has the distinction of having played in the first ever first class cricket match in Australia.

Is a writer and author on topics concerning agricultural philosophy, religion, international develop

Is a writer and author on topics concerning agricultural philosophy, religion, international development

An Australian computer scientist

An Australian computer scientist

Was a New Zealand Olympic bronze medalist and president of the New Zealand Olympic Committee (NZOC).

Was a New Zealand Olympic bronze medalist and president of the New Zealand Olympic Committee (NZOC).

Was an Australian (Scottish-born) chemist, medical teacher and politician. The genus Macadamia was n

Was an Australian (Scottish-born) chemist, medical teacher and politician. The genus Macadamia was named after him in 1857 by his colleague Ferdinand von Mueller.Macadam was born in Northbank, near Glasgow, Scotland. He studied chemistry at the Andersonian University and the University of Edinburgh, later switching to medicine at Glasgow. In 1855, he went to Melbourne, where he had been appointed as a lecturer in chemistry and natural science at Scotch College. During this time he officiated as one of two umpires at one of the earliest recorded games of Australian rules football. In 1858 he was also appointed as the Victorian Government Analytical Chemist.

Was a New Zealand athlete who competed mainly in hurdles events. His greatest international success

Was a New Zealand athlete who competed mainly in hurdles events. His greatest international success was in the 400 metre/440 yards hurdles.

Irish-Australian jurist and politician

Irish-Australian jurist and politician