Famous People with Name Sir

Sir Charles Walter Michael Court            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Sir Charles Walter Michael Court: was a Western Australian politician, representing the Assembly seat of Nedlands for the Liberal Party from 1953 to 1982, and was the state's twenty-first premier, from 8 April 1974 to 25 January 1982.

Sir Johannes Joh Bjelke Petersen            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Sir Johannes Joh Bjelke Petersen: was the longest-serving and longest-lived Premier of the state of Queensland. He held office from 1968 to 1987, a period that saw considerable economic development in the state. His uncompromising conservatism (including his role within the downfall of the Whitlam federal government), his political longevity, and his leadership of a government that, in its latter years, was revealed to be institutionally corrupt, made him one of the best-known political figures in twentieth-century Australia.