Australian Famous Names Starting with Letter P

Is a former New Zealand international cricketer. She played seven Tests and three One Day Internatio

Is a former New Zealand international cricketer. She played seven Tests and three One Day Internationals for her country between 1969 and 1978. Her best bowling performance came in the 1971–72 season when she claimed 6/29 against Australia. In 1988, she b

A British politician. She is the Labour Member of Parliament (MP) for Leicester West and the former

A British politician. She is the Labour Member of Parliament (MP) for Leicester West and the former Secretary of State for Health

An Australian artist. Her art work came to prominence in Australia in the late 1990s. In 2003 she wa

An Australian artist. Her art work came to prominence in Australia in the late 1990s. In 2003 she was selected as the artist to represent Australia at the Venice Biennale.She emigrated to Australia in 1972 with her family. She studied a degree in Economics in Canberra before training in Fine Art (majoring in drawing) in Melbourne. Her mixed media works include the series Truck Babies, and the installation We are Family which was exhibited in Venice in 2003. Piccinini works with a wide range of media, including sculpture, video, drawing, installation and digital prints. Her major artworks often reflect her interests in world issues such as bioethics, biotechnologies and the environment. These interests were already apparent in her undergraduate work, which focused on hyperreal life science illustrations. Other Australian artists who work in a similar idiom are Martine Corompt, Sam Jinks and Ron Mueck.

An Australian basketball point guard who is currently preparing for his sophomore (second) season at

An Australian basketball point guard who is currently preparing for his sophomore (second) season at Saint Mary's College in Moraga, California, USA. He is especially noted for being one of the first Indigenous Australians to make a major name for himself in basketball[1][2] and one of the youngest players ever to suit up for the men's senior national team, the Boomers.Mills was selected at age 15 for the ACT U18 squad to compete in the Australian National Championships. The following year, Mills accepted a full time scholarship with the Australian Institute of Sport, which had also developed two time WNBA MVP Lauren Jackson and current Milwaukee Bucks player Andrew Bogut, where he continued to develop as a player. He also made a strong impression at the 2005 Australian Olympic Youth Festival, an event considered to be a showcase for future elite sporting talents.[3]

Was an Australian rules footballer who played for Fitzroy and Essendon in the VFL. He was from a tal

Was an Australian rules footballer who played for Fitzroy and Essendon in the VFL. He was from a talented sporting family, with his brother Mark also having a career at Essendon and his uncle John played cricket for Western Australia. Shea himself was a first-class cricketer with Victoria. Shea's VFL career began at Fitzroy in 1904 but after one season he opted to move to Western Australia where he joined Goldfields Football League club Boulder City. He spent three years with Boulder City before returning to Victoria and making his Essendon debut in 1908. As a cricketer Shea was a left-handed batsman and right-arm medium pace bowler. He made three first-class appearances, his debut coming against Tasmania at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in 1912/13.

Was an Australian rugby union international and first-class cricketer. Carew, a prop, was born in Pi

Was an Australian rugby union international and first-class cricketer. Carew, a prop, was born in Pine Mountain, Queensland and claimed a total of four international rugby caps for Australia. All of those caps came in friendlies against Great Britain in 1899. At cricket he played as a right arm bowler and in five first-class matches with Queensland, between the 1899/00 and 1902/03 seasons, took nine wickets at 35.77. His brother James also represented Queensland at cricket.

Was an Attorney General of Australia and Minister for External Affairs. Glynn was admitted to the Vi

Was an Attorney General of Australia and Minister for External Affairs. Glynn was admitted to the Victorian bar. His time in Victoria was not a success and in 1882 he moved to Kapunda, South Australia to open a branch of an Adelaide-based law firm. His su

S a New Zealand professional rugby league player who currently plays in the National Rugby League fo

S a New Zealand professional rugby league player who currently plays in the National Rugby League for the New Zealand Warriors. His position of preference in on the wing.

Australian statistician

Australian statistician

An English lawyer and academic

An English lawyer and academic

Was a rugby union player who represented Australia.Harvey, a number 8, was born in Brisbane, Queensl

Was a rugby union player who represented Australia.Harvey, a number 8, was born in Brisbane, Queensland and claimed a total of 2 international rugby caps for Australia.

Also known as Tommy Smith or T.J. Smith was a leading trainer of thoroughbred racehorses based in Sy

Also known as Tommy Smith or T.J. Smith was a leading trainer of thoroughbred racehorses based in Sydney, Australia. He is acknowledged for his record number of Sydney Trainers Premierships and for training many champion racehorses including Tulloch, Gunsynd and Kingston Town.Born in Jindabyne and raised at the small town of Goolgowi in the Riverina district of New South Wales, young Tommy had a tough childhood. His father Neil Smith was a hard working, but also a hard drinking man, and worked Tommy extremely hard as a young boy. Educated for only a short time at the convent school in Narrandera and for a short time at the state school at Goolgowi, Tommy worked like a man, driving bullock teams and breaking in horses, whilst his contemporaries played with toys. When Tommy looked back on his life, he would always recall with regret the lack of formal education that he received.

S a former Australian politician and minister in the New South Wales

S a former Australian politician and minister in the New South Wales

Was a New Zealand trade unionist and politician.Webb was one of the more radical figures in the unio

Was a New Zealand trade unionist and politician.Webb was one of the more radical figures in the unions. Many of the older leaders continued to support the loose alliance between the labour movement and the Liberal Party, but Webb believed that only indepe

Is an Australian footballer of Mauritian and Italian heritage who plays for Leeds United in League O

Is an Australian footballer of Mauritian and Italian heritage who plays for Leeds United in League One of the English Football League. Kisnorbo is also an Australian international with 18 caps to his name.Kisnorbo has represented Australia at internationa

A historian known for his histories of Roman Catholicism in Australia

A historian known for his histories of Roman Catholicism in Australia

Was an Australian cricketer who played in 3 Test matches between 1885 and 1888. McShane is rare in t

Was an Australian cricketer who played in 3 Test matches between 1885 and 1888. McShane is rare in that he was a Test match umpire before he played in a Test match. He officiated in one match between Australia and England in Sydney on 14 March 1885 to 17 March 1885, won by Australia by eight wickets after George Bonnor scored a century in 100 minutes, the fastest in Test matches to that time. McShane’s colleague was Ted Elliott. McShane was selected to play in two more Test matches against England in the 1887-88 season, failing with the bat – his last three innings were ducks, and taking only one wicket. Altogether he scored 26 runs at an average of 5.20, and took 1 wicket for 48 runs.

Is a former professional tennis player from Australia who won the men's singles title at Wimbledon i

Is a former professional tennis player from Australia who won the men's singles title at Wimbledon in 1987.Cash first came to the tennis world's attention as a junior player in the early 1980s. He was ranked the top junior player in the world in 1981, and in 1982 he won the junior titles at both Wimbledon and the US Open. He turned professional in 1982 and won his first top-level singles title that year in Melbourne.

Was a professional wrestler from New Zealand. O'Connor was regarded as one of the premier workers of

Was a professional wrestler from New Zealand. O'Connor was regarded as one of the premier workers of his era. He held the AWA World Heavyweight Championship and NWA World Heavyweight Championship simultaneously, the latter of which he held for approximate

Is the former Deputy Premier of Victoria, Australia

Is the former Deputy Premier of Victoria, Australia

Is a disgraced Senior Counsel in New South Wales, Australia

Is a disgraced Senior Counsel in New South Wales, Australia

Is a retired Australian road bicycle racer from Dutch ancestry. He was a professional rider from 199

Is a retired Australian road bicycle racer from Dutch ancestry. He was a professional rider from 1993 to 2004. Jonker represented Australia twice at the Summer Olympics, in 1992 and 1996.

Was an Australian Roman Catholic priest, educator, author and poet.He was born at Yass in New South

Was an Australian Roman Catholic priest, educator, author and poet.He was born at Yass in New South Wales and ordained after study at St Patrick's Seminary, Manly. Writing under the pseudonym "John O'Brien" Hartigan's verse celebrated the lives and mores of the outback pastoral folk he ministered as a peripatetic curate to the southern New South Wales and Riverina towns of Thurgoona, Berrigan and Narrandera, in the first two decades of the 20th century. His poetry was very popular in Australia and was well received in Ireland and the United States.

Was an Australian politician.He served on Richmond City Council from 1892 to 1901 and was mayor from

Was an Australian politician.He served on Richmond City Council from 1892 to 1901 and was mayor from 1896 to 1897. In 1901 he was elected in a by-election to the seat of Fitzroy in the Victorian Legislative Assembly, essentially as an Independent Labor ca