by Jackie Miers

General Sites

Famous Australians - ABC
http://www.abc.net.au/btn/austs.htm#famous

The National Library of Australia's Federation gateway : people
http://www.nla.gov.au/guides/federation/people.html

Famous Australians
http://users.chariot.net.au/%7Emichaelc/Elizabeth/famous1.htm

Great Australian achievers
http://www.tallpoppies.net.au/australianachievers/

Famous people - Aussie Educator
 http://www.teachers.ash.org.au/aussieed/famouspeople.htm

Civics - Biography Gallery
 http://www.civicsandcitizenship.edu.au/cce/default.asp?id=9075

Australian of the year. Provides brief biographies of the recipients of this award from 1960 onwards.
http://www.australianoftheyear.gov.au/recipients-aoty.asp

Young Australian of the Year. Provides brief biographies of the recipients of this award from 1979 onwards.
http://www.australianoftheyear.gov.au/recipients-yaoty.asp

Senior Australian of the Year. Provides brief biographies of the recipients of this award from 1999 onwards.
http://www.australianoftheyear.gov.au/recipients-saoty.asp

Discovering democracy. Biographies. Click on a name and scroll down to read the biography.
http://www.curriculum.edu.au/democracy/biographies/biographies.htm

Australian identity weblinks
 http://members.ozemail.com.au/~slacey/austidentity.htm

List of Australians
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Australians

Australia - Famous people. Profiles of some famous Australians
http://wvs.be.schule.de/faecher/englisch/australia/people.html

Famous Australians - A selection of links to biographies http://www.stpauls.nsw.edu.au/SchoolLibrary/yr10faus.htm

South Australian prominent people
 http://www.history.sa.gov.au/history/sa_history/prominent_people/atoz.htm

Aboriginal People

http://www.eddept.wa.edu.au/Abled/aspres/famous.htm

Explorers

Australian explorers
 http://www.teachers.ash.org.au/jmresources/achievers/explorers.html

Australian explorers
http://www.davidreilly.com/australian_explorers/

Australian explorers
 http://www.pacificislandtravel.com/books_and_maps/australianexplorers.asp

Australian explorers, discoverers and pioneers. Provides a timeline and links to explorers of Australia
http://gutenberg.net.au/explorers.html#exploretimeline

Nineteenth century exploration of Australia. Provides links to information about 21 explorers and includes a map, in three sections, that summarizes the routes taken by the these inland explorers.
 http://www.wku.edu/~smithch/australia/

Australian explorers
http://www.trinity.wa.edu.au/plduffyrc/subjects/sose/austhist/austexp.htm

Literature and Theatre

List of Australians - Literature and theatre
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Australians#Literature_and_theatre

Music and Art

List of Australians - Music
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Australians#Music

List of Australians - Art
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Australians#Creative_art

In the artist's footsteps
 http://www.artistsfootsteps.com/

Politics and Government

Australia's prime ministers listed in order
 http://www.kidcyber.com.au/topics/austPMsIndex.htm

Prime ministers of Australia
 http://www.nma.gov.au/schools/school_resources/

Australian prime ministers
 http://www.pm.gov.au/your_pm/prime_ministers.html

Australia's prime ministers - Meet a PM
 http://primeministers.naa.gov.au/meetpm.asp

List of Australians - Politics
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Australians#Politics

Tips on: Famous Australian Politicians
 http://australian.lifetips.com/subcat/64790/famous-australians/

Science, Technology and Medicine

Bright sparcs : a register of more than 4,000 people involved in the development of science, technology and medicine in Australia.
http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/bsparcshome.htm

Australian Nobel Prize winners
 http://www.tallpoppies.net.au/australianachievers/oznp.htm

Great Australian achievers
 http://www.tallpoppies.net.au/australianachievers/

List of Australians - Science and Technology
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Australians#Science_and_technology

Australian Academy of Science Biographical memoirs
 http://www.science.org.au/academy/memoirs/

Famous Australian scientists. Scroll down to find a comprehensive list of individual scientists in alphabetical order
http://science.uniserve.edu.au/school/curric/stage4_5/famsci.html

List of Australians - Medical
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Australians#Medical

Sports People

List of Australians - Sports
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Australians#Sports

Australia's past champions
 http://www.commonwealthgames.org.au/GamesInfo/General/

Saxton Speaker's Bureau. This website has information and profiles on some of Australia's champions
 http://www.saxton.com.au/searchindex/CommonwealthGames1.html

Olympic Athletes profiles
 http://www.abc.net.au/news/olympics/athletes/default.htm

Australian Athlete profiles
 http://www.athletics.org.au/athletes/index.cfm

Women

Notable Australian Women. Provides links to biographies and information about 10 significant Australian women
 http://www.teachers.ash.org.au/jmresources/achievers/women.html

Great Australian women
 http://www.sofweb.vic.edu.au/gender/projects/gaw/bioLY/index.htm

Australian women : People Browse List - A. For women whose surnames start with other letters of the alphabet, click on to the relevant letters
 http://www.womenaustralia.info/br_a_people.htm

©2002-2006 Jackie Miers
Magill Primary School
South Australia

Page last updated January 2006
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