List of Tasmanians

List of Tasmanians

This is a list of well known Tasmanians, by birth or association.

Arts

*Actors - Simon Baker, Bob Cooke, Errol Flynn, Alison Whyte, Jaason Simmons, Rachael Taylor, Chris King, Robert Grubb, Lucky Grills, Essie Davis, Phillip Borsos, Don Sharp
*Choreographers - Graeme Murphy
*Composers - Maria Grenfell, Don Kay, Constantine Koukias, Douglas Knehans, Peter Sculthorpe
*Comic artist - Sols (Alan Salisbury)
*Fictional - Tasmanian Devil (Looney Tunes)
*Musicians -
Striborg, Psycroptic
*Painters - Geoff Dyer, John Glover,
*Photographers - Peter Dombrovskis, Olegas Truchanas
*Television - Charles Wooley, Peter Cundall
*Writers - Richard Davey, Richard Flanagan, Peter Conrad, Christopher Koch, Margaret Scott, Nan Chauncy

Historic

*Alec Campbell, longest surviving war veteran from the Battle of Gallipoli
*Harold Gatty, navigator and aviation pioneer
*Ettie Rout, journalist and wartime sexual health campaigner
*Truganini, last full-blood Tasmanian aborigine
*Jane Franklin early Tasmanian pioneer.
*Martin Bryant, perpertrator of the 1996 Port Arthur Massacre

Politics

*Federal - Michael Ferguson, Mark Baker, Dick Adams, Lance Barnard, Neal Blewett, Bob Brown, Brian Harradine, Dame Enid Lyons, Joseph Lyons, Michael Hodgman (later a state politician), Ken Wriedt, Kevin Newman, Jocelyn Newman
*State - Jim Bacon, Paul Lennon, Eric Reece, Will Hodgman, Michael Field, Ray Groom (previously federal), Robin Gray, Doug Lowe, Bill Neilson
*Other - Andrew Inglis Clark, Richard Jones

port

*Australian rules football - Darrel Baldock, Ian Stewart, Peter Hudson, Laurie Nash, Matthew Richardson, Paul Williams, Roy Cazaly, Steven Febey, Nick Riewoldt, Jack Riewoldt, Russell Robertson, Brad Green, Daryn Cresswell, Rodney Eade, Royce Hart, Simon Wiggins
*Motor racing - Marcos Ambrose, John Bowe
*Chess - Ian Rogers
*Cricket - David Boon, Ricky Ponting, Max Walker, Ben Hilfenhaus
*Other - David Foster (Woodchopping) Beverley Hite (badminton)
*Eight Ball - Adam Johnson.

cience

*Elizabeth Blackburn
*Bill Mollison

Recent Notables

*Mary Donaldson, now the Crown Princess Mary of Denmark
*Mathew Goggin, Professional Tasmanian golfer on US PGA Tour
*Regina Bird, winner Big Brother Australia 2003
*Tim Lane, Journalist and Sports Commentator
*Phillip Aspinall, Anglican Archbishop of Brisbane and Primate of Australia
*Eric Philips OAM, Polar Adventurer and Guide


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