Frederick Bossom (Fred) Hollows AC
(April 9, 1929 – February 10, 1993)

was an ophthalmologist who became known for his work in restoring eyesight for countless thousands of people in Australia and many other countries. It has been estimated that more than one million people in the world can see today because of initiatives instigated by Hollows. The most notable example is The Fred Hollows Foundation.

Evonne Fay Goolagong Cawley AO MBE
(July 31, 1951 - )

in Griffith, New South Wales, Australia) was one of the world's leading female tennis players in the 1970s and early 1980s. She won 14 Grand Slam titles: seven in singles (four Australian Open, two Wimbledon and one French Open), six in women's doubles, and one in mixed doubles. She is one of eight children from an Australian Aboriginal family, being a member of the Wiradjuri people.

Doctor Victor Leo Chang AC
(Chang Yam Him 張任謙, Zhāng Rènqiān
(21 November 1936–4 July 1991)

was a Chinese Australian heart surgeon, and one of the pioneers of modern heart transplantation. Born in Shanghai to Australian-born Chinese parents, he spent his childhood in Hong Kong, before coming to Australia in 1953 and completing his secondary schooling at Christian Brothers' High School, Lewisham. He studied medicine at the University of Sydney, graduating with a Bachelor of Medical Science with first class honours in 1960, and a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery in 1962, then worked for two years as an intern at St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney before leaving for further training in England. Chang apparently chose to study medicine because of his mother's death from breast cancer when he was 12 years old.

Neville Thomas Bonner AO
(28 March 1922 - 5 February 1999)

Australian politician, was the first Indigenous Australian to be elected to the Parliament of Australia. He never knew his father and had almost no formal education. He worked as a farm labourer before settling on Palm Island, near Townsville, Queensland in 1946, where he rose to the position of Assistant Settlement Overseer. In 1960 he moved to Ipswich, where he joined the board of directors of the One People Australia League (OPAL), a moderate indigenous rights organisation. He became its Queensland president in 1970. He joined the Liberal Party in 1967 and held local office in the party. Following the resignation of Liberal Senator Annabelle Rankin in 1971, Bonner was chosen to fill the vacancy. He thus became the first indigenous Australian to sit in the Australian Parliament. He was elected in his own right in 1972, 1974, 1975 and 1980. In 1979 Bonner was named Australian of the Year. In 1984 he was awarded the title Officer of the Order of Australia.  Bonner was an elder of the Jagera people. He died at Ipswich. The Queensland federal electorate of Bonner (created in 2004) was named in his honor.

John Barry Humphries, AO, CBE
(17 February 1934 -)

in Camberwell, Melbourne, Victoria) is an Australian comedian, satirist and character actor best known for his on-stage and television alter egos Dame Edna Everage, a Melbourne housewife, and Sir Les Patterson, Australia's foul-mouthed cultural attaché to Britain. Humphries is also a film producer and script writer, a star of London's West End musical theatre, an award-winning writer and an accomplished landscape painter. Humphries' characters, especially Edna Everage, have brought him international renown, and he has appeared in numerous films, stage productions and television shows. His Barry McKenzie comic strips about Australians in London appeared in Private Eye magazine with drawings by Nicholas Garland. The stories about "Bazza" (also Humphries' nickname) gave wide circulation to Australian slang, particularly jokes about drinking and its consequences, much of it invented by Humphries. He was also the voice of Bruce the Shark in the 2003 Pixar movie Finding Nemo.