Australian Famous Names Starting with Letter H

Is an Austrian sailboat manufacturer and former olympic athlete. He has participated in nine Olympic

Is an Austrian sailboat manufacturer and former olympic athlete. He has participated in nine Olympic games between 1964 and 1996. Having participated in nine Olympic games, Raudaschl is tied with Ian Millar for the record of competing in the largest numbe

Was an Australian novelist, journalist and documentary maker.He wrote a number of novels, including

Was an Australian novelist, journalist and documentary maker.He wrote a number of novels, including Low Company, The Pink and the Brown (1957) and The Reckoning. He worked as a journalist, scriptwriter, copywriter and documentary film producer in England, Germany, India and Australia. Originally from Sydney and widely travelled, he settled in London.

Is an Australian humanitarian and the founder and former director of the Oaktree Foundation.

Is an Australian humanitarian and the founder and former director of the Oaktree Foundation.

Was a New Zealand politician. He was a member of New Zealand's first, second, third, and fourth Parl

Was a New Zealand politician. He was a member of New Zealand's first, second, third, and fourth Parliaments, representing the Bay of Islands electorate. Due to the system of staggering used in the first general election, Carleton was actually the first MP

Is the Nationals member for Lowan in the Victorian Parliament.Delahunty is a member of the All Party

Is the Nationals member for Lowan in the Victorian Parliament.Delahunty is a member of the All Party Parliamentary Drugs and Crime Prevention Committee, a board member of VicHealth and is a charter member of the Lions Club of State Parliament Victoria.

Was a cricketer who played for New South Wales and Australia. Massie's role in the 1882 "Ashes" Test

Was a cricketer who played for New South Wales and Australia. Massie's role in the 1882 "Ashes" Test Match was almost as pivotal in deciding the result as Fred Spofforth's celebrated performance with the ball. Massie scored 55 in 57 minutes from just sixty deliveries, with nine fours, to give the Australians a chance. They duly took it to win by seven runs.

Jackman was born in Pymble,Sydney, New South Wales, the youngest of five children of English-born pa

Jackman was born in Pymble,Sydney, New South Wales, the youngest of five children of English-born parents Chris Jackman and Grace Watson.[1] His mother left the family when he was eight years old, and he remained behind with his father, an accountant with

Was an Australian politician and soldier.In 1920, Connell was elected as an Australian Labor Party m

Was an Australian politician and soldier.In 1920, Connell was elected as an Australian Labor Party member for Newcastle in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1920 to 1927. In 1927 he was elected to the seat of Kahibah and on its abolition in 19

Was an Australian first-class cricketer who represented Victoria in the Sheffield Shield during the

Was an Australian first-class cricketer who represented Victoria in the Sheffield Shield during the 1930s. An Old Xaverian, Plant was initially an Australian rules footballer and played a senior match for Victorian Football League club Richmond in the 1925 VFL season. Richmond lost the fixture, which took place at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, to Melbourne by 39 points.

Is a former rugby league footballer of the 1980s and 90s. Post-playing, he has worked as a rugby lea

Is a former rugby league footballer of the 1980s and 90s. Post-playing, he has worked as a rugby league newspaper columnist.Educated at St Peter's College, Auckland, the tall Maori backrower played in over 100 matches for the Australian club Eastern subur

An Australian curler originally from Ottawa, Canada.In 1986, while still residing in the Canadian pr

An Australian curler originally from Ottawa, Canada.In 1986, while still residing in the Canadian province of Ontario, Millikin played second position for Dave Van Dine's Canadian Mixed Curling Championship team.Millikin would later move to Australia and

Was an Australian cricketer who played in 1 Test in 1932.

Was an Australian cricketer who played in 1 Test in 1932.

An ARC Federation Fellow in the Department of Mathematics

An ARC Federation Fellow in the Department of Mathematics

Was an Australian writer.McCrae was born in Melbourne, the son of the Australian author George Gordo

Was an Australian writer.McCrae was born in Melbourne, the son of the Australian author George Gordon McCrae. He was originally articled to an architect, but later took upon writing and acting, settling eventually in Sydney and Camden. His works are notable for a sense of lightness and delicacy, and he had produced, in addition to a volume of memoirs, a considerable body of verse, and a light operetta, an edition of his grandmother's journal, and a volume of prose pieces.

Is a journalist, foreign correspondent and television news presenter.

Is a journalist, foreign correspondent and television news presenter.

Was an Australian artist and founder of the Australian Stockman's Hall of Fame, Longreach. Sawrey wa

Was an Australian artist and founder of the Australian Stockman's Hall of Fame, Longreach. Sawrey was an artist whose prolific output of paintings,and drawings of the Australian landscape and its people contributed in a profound way to the preserving of the memory of times and places in Australian history that were in danger of being overlooked and lost to posterity. Throughout his long career he experienced firsthand, events that shaped Australian identity in the 20th century and documented through his work many of the characters that lived in this period.

Was an Australian cricketer who played 32 Test matches as a bowling all-rounder between 1890 and 19

Was an Australian cricketer who played 32 Test matches as a bowling all-rounder between 1890 and 1904. He captained the Australian team in two Tests, winning both. Trumble took 141 wickets in Test cricket—a world record at the time of his retirement—at an average of 21.78 runs per wicket. He is one of only three bowlers to twice take a hat-trick in Test cricket. Observers in Trumble's day, including the authoritative Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, regarded him as ranking among the great Australian bowlers of the Golden Age of cricket. He was named as one of the Wisden Cricketers of the Year in 1897 and the Australian Cricket Hall of Fame, established in 1996, inducted him in 2004.

Was a Labour member of Parliament and Deputy Prime Minister of New Zealand from 1972 - 1974. He was

Was a Labour member of Parliament and Deputy Prime Minister of New Zealand from 1972 - 1974. He was briefly the Acting Prime Minister of New Zealand between 1 September 1974 - 6 September 1974 following the death of Norman Kirk.

Is the current State Secretary of the Queensland Branch of the Transport Workers Union of Australia.

Is the current State Secretary of the Queensland Branch of the Transport Workers Union of Australia. He has been State Secretary since 1992 and was the national president in 2000. He was also State Secretary during the early 1980s and had been secretary o

Is a researcher in the sub-field of artificial intelligence (AI) known as evolvable hardware. He bec

Is a researcher in the sub-field of artificial intelligence (AI) known as evolvable hardware. He became known in the 1990s for his research on the use of genetic algorithms to evolve neural networks using three dimensional cellular automata inside field p

Was the first player of Chinese descent to appear in Australian first-class cricket. His career was

Was the first player of Chinese descent to appear in Australian first-class cricket. His career was interrupted by World War I, and Poon enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force on 5 September 1916, serving as a Lance Corporal with the 15th Battalion in France, where he was injured. Poon continued to star in Toowoomba cricket and was chosen to represent Queensland in a first-class match against Victoria at the Melbourne Cricket Ground starting 21 December 1923. Although Poon never again played first-class cricket, he did play against the touring Marylebone Cricket Club twice. Representing Toowoomba, Poon played against MCC in December 1924, taking 0/19 and, batting at number four, scoring 11 and 0. In February 1933, during the Bodyline series, Poon represented Queensland Country against MCC in Toowoomba, taking 2/123 and 0/23 and scoring one with the bat. Poon took the Wickets of Herbert Sutcliffe, stumped by future Test wicket keeper Don Tallon, and Gubby Allen.

Is a former male field hockey player from New Zealand, who was a member of the national team that fi

Is a former male field hockey player from New Zealand, who was a member of the national team that finished seventh at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California.

Is a retired male boxer from Australia. He represented his native country at the 1996 Summer Olympic

Is a retired male boxer from Australia. He represented his native country at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, where he was stopped in the second round of the men's flyweight division (– 51 kg) by Ireland's Damaen Kelly.

Is a Samoan rugby league player for the Penrith Panthers in the NRL. Maiva's position of choice is a

Is a Samoan rugby league player for the Penrith Panthers in the NRL. Maiva's position of choice is at prop forward.Hutch Maiva used to play for Hull FC in the Super League but was released from his contract early due to gross misconduct. He has been linke

Was an Australian politician. He was the Country Liberal Party member for Tiwi in the Northern Terri

Was an Australian politician. He was the Country Liberal Party member for Tiwi in the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly from 1974 to 1977. Tungutalum was the first indigenous member of the Legislative Assembly.