Australian Famous Names Starting with Letter P

Was an Australian poet.[1]Philip Hodgins was born in Shepparton, Victoria in 1959 and spent his chil

Was an Australian poet.[1]Philip Hodgins was born in Shepparton, Victoria in 1959 and spent his childhood on his parent's dairy farm at nearby Katandra West. He went to school in Geelong and later moved to Melbourne where he worked for several years with a publishing house and before moving to live in Maryborough in central Victoria.Hodgkins' experience of farm life is strongly present through much of his poetry. His verse novella Dispossessed describe the last weeks of a poor rural family about to be evicted from their farm. Hodgins also wrote about Australian Rules football.

Is a professional boxer in the Junior Middleweight (160lb) division. He is the current Australian Ju

Is a professional boxer in the Junior Middleweight (160lb) division. He is the current Australian Junior Middleweight champion. Holiday turned pro in 1991 and captured the Vacant IBF Lightweight Title in 1995 with a win over Miguel Julio. He defended the

Is a former New Zealand representative hammer thrower.His biggest success came at the 2002 Commonwea

Is a former New Zealand representative hammer thrower.His biggest success came at the 2002 Commonwealth Games held in Manchester, England where he won the silver medal. He also competed in the IAAF World Cup held in Madrid, Spain that same year.

Is an Australian former basketball player and previous head coach of the National Basketball League'

Is an Australian former basketball player and previous head coach of the National Basketball League's Adelaide 36ers.Smyth played over 350 NBL games for the St Kilda Saints (1982), Canberra Cannons (1983-1992), the Adelaide 36ers (1993-1994) and the Sydne

Phil Lee was a hard-hitting right-handed batsman and a right-arm bowler of off breaks. He played sev

Phil Lee was a hard-hitting right-handed batsman and a right-arm bowler of off breaks. He played several matches for South Australia from 1925-26, originally batting in middle order and bowling infrequently. From 1930, his off-break bowling developed and he was called into the Australian Test side for the second match of the rather one-sided series with South Africa at Sydney in 1931-32. With Clarrie Grimmett and Bert Ironmonger in the side, Lee had limited bowling and took only one wicket.

Was the first Australian-born American astronaut

Was the first Australian-born American astronaut

An Australian jurist.

An Australian jurist.

Was an Australian academic, poet, translator, critic and broadcaster.Born in Melbourne, Martin taugh

Was an Australian academic, poet, translator, critic and broadcaster.Born in Melbourne, Martin taught English at Monash University from 1964 and his poems have been published, anthologised and broadcast both in Australia and overseas.His poetic output was tragically cut short when he suffered a severe stroke in 1987. He lived through a long period of illness from that time until his death in 2005.An obituary of Philip Martin, written by Australian poet Kate Llewelynn was published in the Poet's Union magazine Five Bells in its Summer 2005-2006 edition

Is a former Australian rugby union player. He represented Australia 67 times and was captain of on 1

Is a former Australian rugby union player. He represented Australia 67 times and was captain of on 10 occasions.He made his Wallaby debut in 1989. He enjoyed a rivalry on the pitch with New Zealand's Sean Fitzpatrick. During one Bledisloe Cup match he sco

An Irish philosopher and political theorist

An Irish philosopher and political theorist

Was a rugby union player who represented Australia. He was selected in Australia's inaugural nationa

Was a rugby union player who represented Australia. He was selected in Australia's inaugural national rugby team to tour the northern hemisphere - Dr Paddy Moran's First Wallabies for the 1908-09 Australia rugby union tour of the British Isles and France.

Was an Australian academic, philosopher and headmaster. Le Couteur was born at Kyneton, Victoria, th

Was an Australian academic, philosopher and headmaster. Le Couteur was born at Kyneton, Victoria, the only son of George, a pharmaceutical chemist, and his wife Fanny. Both parents were Methodist and Australian born. He was educated at Middle Park State School and Warrnambool Academy before serving a pharmacy apprenticeship. He won an Oxford cricket blue and in 1911 a place in Wisden for making 160 runs and taking 11 wickets for 69 against Cambridge. He played regularly for Gentlemen versus Players and wrote magazines on the psychology of cricket. He was also a member of the Oxford Oxford String Quartette. Le Couteur then studied experimental psychology at the University of Bonn, Germany until early 1913 when he was appointed lecturer in mental and moral philosophy in the newly established University of Western Australia. It that year he married Emma, the musically gifted daughter of Edward Sugden. In 1918 Le Couteur was appointed headmaster of Methodist Ladies' College, Melbourne.

An Australian poet, publisher, editor, artist and art curator. He has a long list of achievements in

An Australian poet, publisher, editor, artist and art curator. He has a long list of achievements in writing, publishing and sculpting. His achievements include twenty collections of poetry, thirty solo sculpture exhibitions and, acting as the director/curator of The Australian Collection of Outsider Art, twenty-six exhibitions of Australian Outsider Art in five countries.Hammial's significance to Australian poetry has been recognised by the Australia Council, which awarded him a Senior Writer’s Fellowship in 1996, an Established Writer’s Fellowship in 2004 and the Nancy Keesing Studio at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris in 2009.

Is an Australian commentator on politics and sport, particularly Australian rules football, and a fo

Is an Australian commentator on politics and sport, particularly Australian rules football, and a former independent politician.

Is a former Australian politician. He was a Liberal member of the Australian Senate from 1997 to 200

Is a former Australian politician. He was a Liberal member of the Australian Senate from 1997 to 2008, representing the state of Western Australia.His political career began in 1986, when Lightfoot won the seat of Murchison-Eyre in Western Australia's Leg

Is a firefighter and long distance swimmer who is the current world record holder for the fastest tw

Is a firefighter and long distance swimmer who is the current world record holder for the fastest two and three way swim of the English Channel which he completed in 1987 in a time of 28 h 21 mins (he completed the two way in a time of 16 h 10 mins)

A contemporary Australian poet and novelist.Growing up on a farm in Brunswick Junction (In the south

A contemporary Australian poet and novelist.Growing up on a farm in Brunswick Junction (In the south-west of Western Australia.) Philip Salom had an isolated childhood before boarding at Bunbury during high school. While studying Agricultural Science at University of Western Australia he developed his passion for the arts, painting and singing in the university choir. Uninterested in his course he left university, took various casual jobs, and started writing on a 1972 painting trip to New Zealand. On returning to Perth he enrolled in Curtin University's Literature and Creative Writing course, one of the first of its kind in Australia.

Is a former swimming representative from New Zealand.She competed at the 1956 Summer Olympics placin

Is a former swimming representative from New Zealand.She competed at the 1956 Summer Olympics placing 6th in her heat of the 100 m backstroke.

Is an Australian gymnast. He became the first Australian to win a medal at the World Artistic Gymnas

Is an Australian gymnast. He became the first Australian to win a medal at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships when he won silver on the horizontal bar in Ghent in 2001. He is also a multiple Commonwealth Games gold medalist and has represented Australia at two Summer Olympics.

Is a former professional tennis player. Dent's high water mark as a pro single's player was at secon

Is a former professional tennis player. Dent's high water mark as a pro single's player was at second place in the Australian Open in 1974 - which he lost to Jimmy Connors 7–6, 6–4, 4–6, 6–3 in the finals. Dent was also the men's doubles champion at the A

Is an Australian broadcaster, film producer, writer, humanist, social commentator, satirist and left

Is an Australian broadcaster, film producer, writer, humanist, social commentator, satirist and left-wing pundit

Australian politician, has been a Liberal member of the Australian House of Representatives

Australian politician, has been a Liberal member of the Australian House of Representatives

Was an Australian cricket player, who played for the Tasmanian Tigers. He was a Right-handed batsman

Was an Australian cricket player, who played for the Tasmanian Tigers. He was a Right-handed batsman and left arm fast medium bowler who represented Tasmania from 1979 until 1984.

Is an English-born New Zealand-based footballer who plays for Team Wellington in the New Zealand Foo

Is an English-born New Zealand-based footballer who plays for Team Wellington in the New Zealand Football Championship as a goalkeeper. Imray saved three penalties in New Zealand’s Chatham Cup final in 2006.

Is an Australian right handed pitcher.For ten years, Brassingtons professional career was plagued by

Is an Australian right handed pitcher.For ten years, Brassingtons professional career was plagued by elbow, shoulder and rotator cuff injuries, but still managed to make the 1999 and 2000 U.S. Northern League All-Star teams and play in the Australian Base