Famous People with Name Gordon

Gordon RichPhillips            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Gordon RichPhillips: is an Australian politician representing the Liberal Party of Australia

Gordon Frederick Rorke            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Gordon Frederick Rorke: 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.

Gordon Parker            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Gordon Parker: is a professor of Psychiatry

Gordon Bennett            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Gordon Bennett: 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

Gordon Neil Stewart            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Gordon Neil Stewart: was an Australian writer. Stewart was born in Melbourne into a wealthy Australian family with pastoral interests in the Bathurst district of New South Wales. He was a descendent of Major General William Stewart (1769-1854) Lieutenant Governor of New South Wales from 1825 to 1827. Stewart received a spasmodic education at The Scots College, Sydney due to his parents' frequent travels, but developed a love of reading from long holidays spent in the library of his uncle's house (Abercrombie House) in Bathurst. The family moved to Paris when Stewart was in his late teens. He attended an English language school and then studied art. With other members of his family now based in England, Stewart settled in London where he worked from time to time as a journalist and became involved in radical politics.

Clarence "Clarrie" Edward Gordon            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Clarence "Clarrie" Edward Gordon: was a New Zealand boxer who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics.In 1936 he was eliminated in the first round of the featherweight class after losing his fight to Åke Karlsson.

Keith Milton Gordon            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Keith Milton Gordon: was a rugby union player who represented Australia.Gordon, a prop, was born in Coogee, New South Wales and claimed a total of 2 international rugby caps for Australia.

Isaac Gordon            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Isaac Gordon: is an Indigenous Australian rugby league player for the Cronulla Sharks in the NRL competition. He plays on the wing. Gordon is known to be able to run an olympic qualifying time for 100m. He has been named in the team for round 1 of the 2010 NRL season.

Kevin Gordon            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Kevin Gordon: is an Australian professional rugby league player for the Gold Coast Titans in the National Rugby League (NRL). He primarily plays on the wing and is considered to be among the fastest players in the NRL. A member of the inaugural Titan's team in the Nati

Michael Gordon            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Michael Gordon: is an Australian professional rugby league footballer for the Penrith Panthers of the National Rugby League. A New South Wales State of Origin representative goal-kicking winger he has played his whole career to date with the Panthers. Michael Gordon did