Australian Famous Names Starting with Letter R

Is an Australian women's basketball player who plays for Australia and the WNBL team Townsville Fire

Is an Australian women's basketball player who plays for Australia and the WNBL team Townsville Fire. Cox is an Indigenous Australian and won the female sportsperson of the year prize at the 2007 Deadlys.

An Australian poet and writer.After only a brief education he worked in various jobs, mainly in the

An Australian poet and writer.After only a brief education he worked in various jobs, mainly in the bush as a roustabout, boundary-rider, railway fettler, fencer, dam-builder, gardener and as a life long love - a ballet dancer.Robinson's first published poetry appeared in Beyond the Grass-Tree Spears published in 1944. He served in the Australian Army. His love of the Australian landscape and everyday scenes were inspiration for his poetry. He was one of the most dedicated poets to the Jindyworobak Movement.As well as a writer and poet, Robinson was dance critic for The Sydney Morning Herald in the 1950s and 1960s. In the 1940s he took classes with Helene Kirsova and appeared in a number of productions by the Kirsova Ballet.[1]

Was a rugby union player who represented Australia.Raymond, a wing, claimed a total of 13 internatio

Was a rugby union player who represented Australia.Raymond, a wing, claimed a total of 13 international rugby caps for Australia.

Is a former Australian cricketer who played first-class cricket for Tasmania from 1983 to 1986. He p

Is a former Australian cricketer who played first-class cricket for Tasmania from 1983 to 1986. He played for Clarence District Cricket Club in the Tasmanian Grade Cricket competition. He was an all rounder who bowled right arm off spin. He made his first-class debut against Victoria at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on 11 November 1983, in a match in which a remarkable 227 by David Boon gave Tasmania first innings points, despite in ending in a draw.

Is professor of Applied Language Studies

Is professor of Applied Language Studies

Is an Australian musician, singer, composer, painter, and television host.

Is an Australian musician, singer, composer, painter, and television host.

An Australian author, cartoonist and illustrator.He is the author of over thirty books, including no

An Australian author, cartoonist and illustrator.He is the author of over thirty books, including novels, travel books, cartoon collections, but mainly of childrens books, which have been translated into German, Danish, Spanish, and Chinese and have sold millions of copies worldwide.In 1974 Heimann skippered La Flor (renamed Greenpeace IV for the voyage) from Melbourne, Australia, to Mururoa via New Zealand but arrived after the final nuclear test for the year.

Is Professor of Experimental Immunology

Is Professor of Experimental Immunology

Was one of the leading Austrian theoretical physicists.Since 1972 he has been professor for Cosmolog

Was one of the leading Austrian theoretical physicists.Since 1972 he has been professor for Cosmology and General Relativity at the University of Vienna. From 1971 to 1975 he was the director of the institute for Space exploration at the Austrian Academy of Sciences.Today there is the annual Roman-Ulrich-Sexl-Prize for extraordinary achievements in teaching physics.

Is a Lithuanian-born Australian chess master.Arlauskas played at sixth board (+4 –7 =7) in an unof

Is a Lithuanian-born Australian chess master.Arlauskas played at sixth board (+4 –7 =7) in an unofficial Chess Olympiad at Munich 1936.[1] He tied for 1st-3rd, with Birmanas and Leonardas Abramavicius, ahead of Povilas Vaitonis, Povilas Tautvaišas, etc., at the 1943 Lithuanian Chess Championship in Vilnius.[2] At the end of World War II, Arlauskas, along with many other Baltic players (Dreibergs, Endzelins, Jursevskis, Laurine, Mednis, Ozols, Sarapu, Tautvaišas, Vaitonis, Zemgalis, etc.) escaped to West, just before the advancing the Soviet forces arrived, to avoid deportation to Siberia or any other persecutions the Soviet occupation (e.g., those of Vladimirs Petrovs).

Was an Australian rugby league footballer of the 1930s and 40s. He was a New South Wales and Austral

Was an Australian rugby league footballer of the 1930s and 40s. He was a New South Wales and Australian representative whose club career was played with the Newtown Jets and Canterbury Bulldogs in Sydney. He captained his country in one Test in 1946 and w

Was an Australian international football (soccer) goalkeeper during the 1950s, appearing for the hos

Was an Australian international football (soccer) goalkeeper during the 1950s, appearing for the host nation in the 1956 Olympic Games staged in Melbourne. Lord played well in the defeat of the Japanese side, but the Australians were well-defeated by Indi

Is an Australian hyperrealist sculptor working in Great Britain.Mueck's early career was as a model

Is an Australian hyperrealist sculptor working in Great Britain.Mueck's early career was as a model maker and puppeteer for children's television and films, notably the film Labyrinth for which he also contributed the voice of Ludo, and the Jim Henson ser

Has been the Director of the National Gallery of Australia

Has been the Director of the National Gallery of Australia

Was a New Zealand cricketer. She played in seven women's Test matches in the period 1954 to 1960/1,

Was a New Zealand cricketer. She played in seven women's Test matches in the period 1954 to 1960/1, captaining in them all. McKenzie's highest score was 61 as she scored 295 runs at an average of 22.69, and she took 8 wickets at 26.75 with her right-arm medium pace. McKenzie's best bowling was 4 for 18.Her first Test series was on the 1954 tour of England. She played in all three Tests, losing the series one-nil. 1956/7 saw a tour to Australia, and one Test, which was lost. England toured New Zealand in 1957/8 playing two drawn Tests, and Australia in 1960/1, when one drawn Test was played.

Was an Australian politician. Born in Latrobe, Tasmania, he was educated at state schools and then t

Was an Australian politician. Born in Latrobe, Tasmania, he was educated at state schools and then the University of Tasmania, becoming a teacher. He served in the military 1942-1945. In 1958, he was elected to the Australian House of Representatives as t

Was an Australian diver who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics.

Was an Australian diver who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics.

Was an Australian poet and poetry editor, artist and art lecturer. He was one of the Melbourne poets

Was an Australian poet and poetry editor, artist and art lecturer. He was one of the Melbourne poets, and had a long tenure as poetry editor of The Age.Simpson was one of a group of Melbourne poets, including Chris Wallace-Crabbe, Vincent Buckley, Noel Macainsh, and Alexander Craig, who came together in the 1960s and 1970s.[1] Gorton writes that this was "a combative time in Australian poetry" with different "cliques" operating, including the Jindyworobaks, the New Poets and the Melbourne poets[1] The Melbourne poets were "deliberately prosaic ... finding their poetry in suburbs and ordinary days". [1] Poet Chris Wallace-Crabbe reiterated this in his obituary of Simpson in The Age on 10 October 2002. He wrote that Simpson "was a poet who put the Australian suburbs on the map. Verse had long been under the thumb of the landed gentry and Sydney quasi-bohemians, but he stuck resolutely, quietly, diurnally to the way most of us live".

Was a first-class cricketer who represented South Australia and Western Australia in a career spanni

Was a first-class cricketer who represented South Australia and Western Australia in a career spanning from 1926–27 to 1939. Halcombe's first match for his new state in 1928–29 was against the touring England cricket team. During the 1932–33 season that saw England tour Australia under Douglas Jardine with their Bodyline tactics, which involved bowling high speed deliveries at the batsmen's body, rumours circulated that Halcombe could be selected for the Tests. Halcombe's pace saw him touted as a possible retaliatory outlet against the English. After his cricket career ended, Halcombe had a successful career as a sports broadcaster. In 1947 he was appointed as the sports supervisor for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in Perth.

Is an Australian cricketer who played in 3 Tests from 1958 to 1964.

Is an Australian cricketer who played in 3 Tests from 1958 to 1964.

Is a former cricketer who played for South Australia (SA) and Australia. Short and compact, Hamence

Is a former cricketer who played for South Australia (SA) and Australia. Short and compact, Hamence was a dependable right-hand batsman who excelled in getting forward to drive and had an array of attractive back foot strokes.[1] As of 16 March 2008 and the death of Bill Brown, he is the oldest surviving Australian Test cricketer.[2]

Was a cricketer who played for New South Wales and briefly for Australia.[1] As a wicket-keeper, Sag

Was a cricketer who played for New South Wales and briefly for Australia.[1] As a wicket-keeper, Saggers was "tidy and unobstrusive", and the understudy to Don Tallon on the 1948 Australian tour of England.[2][3] The touring party, led by Donald Bradman in his last season, was nicknamed The Invincibles and was widely regarded as one of the strongest ever.[1] Saggers played in the Test match at Headingley, where he took three catches, and his only other experience of Test cricket was on the tour to South Africa in 1949–50, in which Tallon did not take part. Saggers played in all five Tests and took 21 dismissals, but Tallon replaced him for the home Ashes series against England the following season. In domestic cricket, Saggers twice captained New South Wales in 1948 when the regular captain, Arthur Morris, was playing for Australia, and overall played domestic cricket from 1939 until 1951.[1]

An Australian rules footballer, Chairman of the Australian Football League

An Australian rules footballer, Chairman of the Australian Football League

Was an Australian rock musician, most well-known for being the lead singer and lyricist of Australia

Was an Australian rock musician, most well-known for being the lead singer and lyricist of Australian hard rock band AC/DC from 1974 until his death in 1980.[1] He was born in Kirriemuir, Scotland, and emigrated to Melbourne, Australia with his family in 1952 at the age of six.

Is a former Australian politician. He was a National Country Party member of the New South Wales Leg

Is a former Australian politician. He was a National Country Party member of the New South Wales Legislative Council from 1977 to 1978.On 12 October 1977, he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Council to fill a casual vacancy caused by the dea