List of prominent Aborigines

Prominent aboriginal people

The following prominent Aborigines from the following areas are named, without claiming to be exhaustive:

Arts and Culture

• Christina Anu from Torres Strait Island , member of the Bangarra Dance Theater
• Mark Atkins , internationally known didgeridoo player
• Wayne Blair , director of the film The Djarn Djarns , which received the Children's Short Film Award at the 2005 Berlinale
• Burnum Burnum , activist, actor, artist, writer, teacher, and storyteller
• Destiny Deacon , photo and object artist, participant in Documenta 11
• Ernie Dingo , film and television actor
• Richard Frankland , singer and songwriter, writer and director
• Paul Goldman , Australian Rules film producer
• David Gulpilil , film and television actor
• Djalu Gurruwiwi , elder of the Galpu clan and traditional didgeridoo player
• Emily Kngwarreye , painter who won some of the highest prices
• Ruby Langford Ginibi , writer and historian
• David Hudson , internationally known musician specializing in the didgeridoo
• Deborah Mailman , actress
• Jessica Mauboy , singer and actress
• Sally Morgan , writer and artist
• Mudrooroo , writer and screenwriter
• Albert Namatjira , Aboriginal painter from Central Australia, who became famous in the middle of the 20th century for his very colorful landscapes
• Jimmy Pike , painter
• Doris Pilkington , author of the novel Rabbit-Proof Fence , which was filmed in 2002 under the title Long Walk Home
• Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri , Aboriginal painter from the Western Desert region, who developed the painting style of dot painting
• Archie Roach , musician and songwriter for the song Took the Children Away
• George Rrurrambu , member of the band Indigenous Roots
• Don Tjungurrayi , painter
• Mandawuy Yunupingu , member of the band Yothu Yindi , "Australian of the Year" 1992, the first qualified teacher of his people
• The Stiff Gins , an acoustic group
• Harold Thomas , artist, designed the Aboriginal flag.

history

• Bennelong , was captured by the white settlers in 1789 and from then on served as a mediator between cultures as he learned English.
• Barangaroo , Bennelong's wife, who remained critical of the whites.
• Billibellary , signed the Bateman's Treaty and initially helped establish the Native Police Corps
• William Lanne , celebrity as the last “thoroughbred” Tasmanian
• Yagan (Noongar) , is considered a resistance fighter from the 19th century.
• Pemulwuy , Aboriginal leader, united some tribes and started the first guerrilla fight against the colonizers.
• Truganini , celebrity as the last “thoroughbred” Tasmanian woman
• Windradyne , war leader of the Wiradjuri

politics

• Alison Anderson ATSIC Commissioner as elected indigenous representative
• Neville Bonner , first Aboriginal in the Australian Parliament between 1971 and 1985 for the Liberal Party (Australia)
• Ernie Bridge , former Minister in Western Australia
• Linda Burnley , Member of the New South Wales Parliament , first female indigenous minister in NSW
• Adam Giles , First Chief Minister in the Northern Territory
• John Ah Kit , Deputy Chief Minister of the Northern Territory
• Paul Coe , activist for aboriginal rights
• Mick Dodson , Aboriginal Rights activist, Australian of the Year 2009
• Carol Martin , Member of the Western Australian Parliament
• Oodgeroo Noonuccal , political activist and first Aboriginal woman to publish a book
• Pat O'Shane , New South Wales Magistrate
• Aden Ridgeway , Member of the Australian Democrats and Senator for New South Wales
• Marion Scrymgour The first indigenous woman in the Northern Territory Parliament and Minister

Sports

• Graham Farmer , also known as "Polly" Farmer, a Noongar , was one of the most famous Australian football players .
• Cathy Freeman , an Olympic athlete, who at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney lit the Olympic flame and the 400-meter race gold medal won.
• Adam Goodes , Australian Football Brownlow Medal winner .
• Evonne Goolagong , tennis star who won seven Grand Slam tournaments .
• Patrick Johnson , athlete. He was the first non-African to complete the 100-meter run in less than 10 seconds.
• Michael Long and Nicky Winmar , Australian Football.
• Patrick "Patty" Mills , NBA basketball player.
• Douglas Nicholls , a Yorta Yorta and football star . He was later accepted as a clergyman and became the first governor of an Australian Aboriginal state.
• Lionel Rose , boxer , first Aboriginal boxing champion (bantamweight (WBA / WBC)).
• Gavin Wanganeen , Australian Football Brownlow Medal winner .
• Harry Williams , footballer, the first Aboriginal to play for the Australian national team in the 1970s.
• Jade North , footballer who became the first Aboriginal captain of the national team.

Other

• Maria Locke first Aboriginal woman to legally marry a white man
• Oodgeroo Noonuccal , author, actor, teacher
• Alf Palmer or Jinbilnggay, the last native speaker of the Warrungu
• Charles Perkins , the first graduate Aboriginal, soccer player, writer
• David Unaipon , preacher and inventor
• Stan Grant , news anchor for the national state television network SBS
• Karla Grant , presenter on the national state television broadcaster SBS
• Samantha Harris model