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Peter Finch
British-Australian actor (1916–1977)
Harold Holt
Australian politician, 17th Prime Minister of Australia (1908-1967)
Charles Kingsford Smith
Australian aviator (1897-1935)
Alfred Bowerman
cricketer (1873-1947)
Ernie Parker
Australian tennis player and cricketer (1883-1918)
Leonard Siffleet
Australian soldier, beheaded by the Japanese in 1943
Bill Roycroft
Australian equestrian (1915-2011)
Raymond Brownell
Senior Royal Australian Air Force officer, First World War flying ace (1894–1974)
Tim Fischer
Australian politician, 10th Deputy Prime Minister of Australia (1946–2019)
Breaker Morant
Anglo-Australian drover, horseman, poet, soldier
Michael Pate
television actor (1920–2008)
Ray Lindwall
Australian cricketer (1921-1996)
Arthur Boyd
Australian painter (1920-1999)
Arthur Morris
Australian cricketer (1922-2015)
John Elliott
British boxer (1901-1945)
Steve Dodd
Australian soldier, actor (1928-2014)
Arthur Upfield
Australian writer
Ben Roberts-Smith
Benjamin Roberts-Smith is an Australian former soldier in the Special Air Service Regiment (SASR). He is one of Australia's most highly decorated soldiers, having received the Medal for Gallantry (2006), the Victoria Cross for Australia (2011)—the highest award for gallantry in battle that can be awarded to a member of the Australian Defence Force (ADF)—and a Commendation for Distinguished Service (2012). He was widely considered a national hero, but his reputation deteriorated following a 2023 Federal Court ruling in which a judge found that there was enough evidence, according to the standard required in Australian defamation law, to establish that he had murdered four unarmed Afghans and broken the rules of military engagement.
Sid Barnes
Australian cricketer (1916-1973)
Thomas Parnell
Australian physicist (1881–1948)
Don Tallon
cricketer (1916-1984)
Charlie Macartney
Australian cricketer (1886-1958)
James Sorensen
Australian model-actor
George Jones
senior commander in the Royal Australian Air Force (1896-1992)
Doug Ring
Australian cricketer (1918-2003)
John Campbell Ross
Australian soldier (1899–2009)
Lindsay Hassett
Australian cricketer (1913-1993)
Peter Drummond
Royal Air Force air marshal (1894–1945)
William Bostock
RAAF senior commander (1892-1968)
Colin Thiele
Australian author (1920–2006)
Bert Oldfield
Australian cricketer (1894-1976)
Anthony Field
Australian musician and actor
Sam Loxton
Australian sportsman and politician (1921-2011)
Tony Dell
Australian cricketer
Bruce Kingsbury
Australian soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross
Jack Iverson
Australian cricketer (1915-1973)
Harry Alexander
Australian cricketer (1905-1993)
Billy Sing
Australian soldier in World War I
Laurie Nash
Australian sportsman (1910-1986)
Reg Grundy
Australian businessman (1923–2016)
Stan McCabe
Australian cricketer (1910-1968)
George Odgers
Military historian, journalist
Cedric Howell
Australian flying ace of the First World War.
Bruce Dooland
Australian cricketer (1923-1980)
Chuck Fleetwood-Smith
Australian cricketer (1908-1971)
Len Darling
Australian cricketer (1909-1992)
Albert Tucker
Australian artist (1914-1999)
Hughie Edwards
Australian Victoria Cross recipient, senior officer in the Royal Air Force and Governor of Western Australia (1914-1982)
Walter Kaufmann
German writer (1924–2021)
Herbie Collins
Australian cricketer (1888–1959)
Frank Hardy
Australian novelist and political activist (1917-1994)
Ernest Bainbridge
Australian bicycle racer
Tom Uren
Australian politician (1921–2015)
Eric Harrison
Australian politician
Jack Lockett
Australian soldier (1891–2002)
Lawrence Weathers
Australian recipient of the Victoria Cross
Mark Donaldson
recipient of the Victoria Cross
Bill Kibby
recipient of the Victoria Cross
Grant Taylor
Australian actor (1917–1971)
Jerry Pentland
Australian fighter ace (1894–1983)