Australian Famous Names Starting with Letter I

Was a New Zealand cricketer. A right-arm medium pace bowler, Lamason played in four women's Test mat

Was a New Zealand cricketer. A right-arm medium pace bowler, Lamason played in four women's Test matches in 1947/8 and 1954, captaining New Zealand in two. All her games were against England, and she was never on the winning side, losing both the games she captained.Her husband was Jack Lamason, who played cricket for New Zealand on the 1937 tour of England, but did not play in any of the Tests.

An Australian actress best known for her role as Matilda Hunter on popular Australian soap opera Hom

An Australian actress best known for her role as Matilda Hunter on popular Australian soap opera Home and Away between 2004 and 2008In 2003, Evans got a guest role as Milly Roberts in an episode of All Saints. She then landed the principal role in an American campaign for Kool Aid.[citation needed] She also appeared in the Australian comedy sketch show Comedy Inc. The same year, she also got the role of Abbie Oakly on the television series, Snobs.In 2004, Evans also appeared on Girl TV, a daily TV magazine show.

Is an Australian politician

Is an Australian politician

An Australian author and historian, anthropologist and academic.Born in Geelong, Victoria, Clendinne

An Australian author and historian, anthropologist and academic.Born in Geelong, Victoria, Clendinnen graduated from the University of Melbourne in 1955 with a BA (Hons). She sporadically held the post of Senior Tutor of History there from 1955 to 1968, was a Lecturer at La Trobe University from 1969 to 1982, and was then a Senior Lecturer in History until 1989. Forced to curtail her academic activities due to contracting hepatitis, Clendinnen retained an association with La Trobe University while working on her memoir, Tiger's Eye.

Was an Austrian-born photographer.Ingeborg Mörath was born in Graz, Austria. Her parents were scien

Was an Austrian-born photographer.Ingeborg Mörath was born in Graz, Austria. Her parents were scientists whose work took them to different laboratories and universities in Europe during her childhood. Educated in French speaking schools, Morath and her family relocated to Darmstadt, a German intellectual center, in the 1930s, and then to Berlin, where Morath's father directed a laboratory specializing in wood chemistry.

Is a New Zealand women's cricketer. Captain of the Auckland Hearts and member of the New Zealand wom

Is a New Zealand women's cricketer. Captain of the Auckland Hearts and member of the New Zealand women's cricket team, Cronin-Knight is a right-hand bat. She was selected for her international debut in 2008 after being the highest run scorer – 372 runs at

Was a female Queensland politician. She was the first woman to stand and be elected to the Queenslan

Was a female Queensland politician. She was the first woman to stand and be elected to the Queensland Parliament.She served as president of the National Council of Women of Queensland from 1920 to 1924. Her parliamentary career began in 1929 representing

Is a Russian diver, who after her marriage with an Australian became known as Irina Furler. Lashko c

Is a Russian diver, who after her marriage with an Australian became known as Irina Furler. Lashko competed in four Summer Olympics, and represented four different countries: Soviet Union (1988), Unified Team (1992), Russia (1996) and Australia (2004). Sh

Was a rugby union player who represented Australia. Ormiston, a flanker, was born in Cowra, New Sout

Was a rugby union player who represented Australia. Ormiston, a flanker, was born in Cowra, New South Wales and claimed a total of 3 international rugby caps for Australia.

Australian judge and politician

Australian judge and politician

Was an Adelaide businessman who served as Mayor of the City of Adelaide from 1915-1917.Isaac Isaacs

Was an Adelaide businessman who served as Mayor of the City of Adelaide from 1915-1917.Isaac Isaacs was a member of the Adelaide City council for 30 years. He served as a councilor from 1902–1906, alderman from 1907–1915, mayor 1915-1917, and alderman aga

Is a New Zealand rugby league player who is currently signed with the New Zealand Warriors.[1] His p

Is a New Zealand rugby league player who is currently signed with the New Zealand Warriors.[1] His position of choice is Halfback.

Was an eminent Anglican priest in the first half of the 20th Century. Richards played five first-cla

Was an eminent Anglican priest in the first half of the 20th Century. Richards played five first-class matches for Auckland in the 1890's.

Is a rugby league player for the Brisbane Broncos in the National Rugby League. He plays in the seco

Is a rugby league player for the Brisbane Broncos in the National Rugby League. He plays in the second-row. He is the brother of Leeson Ah Mau.

Was an Australian botanist who specialised in palaeobotany and palynology.She continued working at t

Was an Australian botanist who specialised in palaeobotany and palynology.She continued working at the University of Melbourne, until she visited the Imperial College of Science and Technology between 1925 and 1926, and, on a return visit in the University of Manchester between 1926 and 1927. At Manchester she began a long and productive academic relationship with W. H. Lang, Lang named the genus Cooksonia in her honour. Form 1929 her research focussed on palaeobotany, she wrote several papers on fossil plants including early vascular plants from the Silurian and Early Devonian which helped to shape theories of early land-plant evolution.[2] She also studied more resent coal forming deposits. Her work on the early terrestrial fossil plants of Victoria and field work showing associated graptolites and plants led to her research thesis and to a D.Sc. from the University of Melbourne in 1932.[3]

Was the first Australian to surf. This was at Freshwater Beach, Sydney in 1915, tandem with Duke Kah

Was the first Australian to surf. This was at Freshwater Beach, Sydney in 1915, tandem with Duke Kahanamoku. Kahanamoku had been invited to Australia by the NSW Swimming Association. He hadn't brought a board so Letham's father William Letham helped him m

Is an Australian professional tennis player. Her preferred surfaces are clay and hardcourt. Her high

Is an Australian professional tennis player. Her preferred surfaces are clay and hardcourt. Her highest WTA singles ranking is 324, which she reached on 28 December 2009. Her highest WTA doubles ranking is 314, reached on 28 December 2009. She currently a

Is a professional rugby union player in New Zealand. Toeava attended De La Salle College, Mangere Ea

Is a professional rugby union player in New Zealand. Toeava attended De La Salle College, Mangere East, he played alongside Taniela Moa in the school's First XV rugby team. He represented New Zealand U-19 where he was named the IRB's Under-19 2005 player

Is an Australian football (soccer) player who currently plays for Brisbane Roar. On January 24, 2009

Is an Australian football (soccer) player who currently plays for Brisbane Roar. On January 24, 2009 Cernak made his senior debut as a substitute for Brisbane Roar against Perth Glory in a 4-2 win.

An Austrian-born American who is a physicist at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee. He i

An Austrian-born American who is a physicist at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee. He is a specialist on the properties of Sulfur hexafluoride (SF6), with an important patent and over 60 peer-reviewed academic papers.In the early 1980s, Sauers developed a novel method by which to measure the degradation of Sulfur hexafluoride (SF6) in high-voltage systems. SF6, a hypervalent molecule, is used as a gaseous insulator in conjunction with solid insulating material in high voltage systems such as transmission lines, substations and switchgear. When the dielectric strength of SF6 is exceeded, regions of high electrical stress can cause nearby gas to partially ionize and begin conducting,

S an Australian actress and author. She began acting on Australian Television, and is best known for

S an Australian actress and author. She began acting on Australian Television, and is best known for her role of Shannon Reed on the Australian soap opera Home and Away and for her role in the 2005 comedy Wedding Crashers opposite Vince Vaughn and Owen Wi

A Malaysian politician

A Malaysian politician

Is the current parliamentary leader of the South Australian division of the Liberal Party of Austral

Is the current parliamentary leader of the South Australian division of the Liberal Party of Australia and the Leader of the Opposition in the Parliament of South Australia since 2009. The Redmond Liberals won 18 of 47 seats in the South Australian House

Is a retired field hockey player from New Zealand, who was a member of the national team that finish

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

An Australian writer of science fiction, fantasy, children's literature, and young adult literature.

An Australian writer of science fiction, fantasy, children's literature, and young adult literature.Carmody began work on the highly acclaimed Obernewtyn Chronicles at the age of fourteen. She continued to work on them while completing a Bachelor of Arts, majoring in literature and philosophy, she worked in public relations and journalismCarmody currently divides her time between her home on the Great Ocean Road in Australia, and her travels abroad with her partner and daughter, spending a year each in her two residences. The Stone Key, book five of the Obernewtyn Chronicles was released in February 2008. The Sending, book six of Carmody's Obernewtyn Chronicles, is due for publishing in September 2009, as quoted by a Penguin spokesperson. (Will be published as two volumes - 'the Sending' and 'the Red Queen' in the U.S.)