World's most famous Australian

[Iain]

Prince Leonard of Hutt, if that is Australia, did he secede?

[beejay1]

Nah, he failed miserably.

beejay1
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[The Big O]

Gotta be Elle McPherson

[ssgt]

Sir Thomas Blamey, Weary Dunlop to add a couple

[vsquizz]

Undoubtedly its Waltzing Matilda...known wherever an Aussie went and got drunk.

Victor Chang

Fred Hollows

Breaker Morant

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Smithy (CKS)...least he's got an airport named after him.

In India once I was trying to converse with a taxi driver which was proving difficult to say the least; probably on account of he not seeming to be able to speak any english and myself not being able to converse fluently in Indian:confused: . ....I digress, anyway.. we had been travelling around a bloody great building which looked somewhat like the coliseum in drag, only a lot bigger.

I was eventually able to convey my interest in the building to which the taxi driver's face lit up like a paying poker machine and he expressed his two words of English with great knowing and admiration "DAVID BOON". came his reply. So there ya go, the worlds most famous Aussie was obviously a Taswegian with a big moustache and a penchant for a coldie .

Ya had to be there...

I think I might change my name to Opera (House)

Cheers

[Groggy]

Nicole Kidman
The Wiggles
Olivia Newton-John

John Newcomb
Shirley Strickland
Dawn Fraser

Mary Donaldson (Crown Princess of Denmark)

John Howard - is a lot more popular overseas than in Australia. Personally I don't like him, but he is larger on the world stage than any other PM we've had.

[Bob Willson]

Australia doesn't have a lot of heroes, but my own hero is Dick Smith. He should be well known for his exploits as well but he probably isn't.
Having said that, I probably have to agree that Elle is our best known export and one of the few who continue to publicly recognise their country of origin.

[doublejay]

I probably have to agree that Elle is our best known export and one of the few who continue to publicly recognise their country of origin.

As opposed to all those famous Aussies who were actually born elsewhere.

e.g.,
Nicole Kidman - Hawaii
Mel Gibson - New York
Russell Crowe - New Zealand
and all those ocker athletes with the unpronounceable Eastern European names

[aussiecolector]

Ned Kelly was Irish!

He was born of Irish parents but in Australia (I think).

[silentC]

True.

[Daddles]

Look, out of all the really famous people feared by people who count, it's hard to choose between Zed, Bitingmidge or Christopha.

Richard

[Zed]

Modesty prevents me from nominating myself........

words of wisdom :

lets face it fame is like a pimple on an @rse, stands out for a while, is bloody uncomfortable, explodes a lot of spume all over the place (or recedes out of sight without a whimper) and at the end of the day not worth a brass razoo.

give me money any day so I can use it to hide in the country and not pay taxes.

the worst thing we do is idolise spastics who stand out for making a few good movies, made some money or killed lots of people (dont laugh look at Hitler & stalin everyone knows who they were).

My real vote goes to the guy who invented the hills hoist or the victa lawn mower or the chick who nationalised nursing etc.... f*ck the rest of them - who gives a rats about who tom or nicole are shagging ? let alone inbred charlie and those others who rule countries based upon who cleared the aenemic chute first!

[PAH1]

I'm with Zed a bit on this one.

Frank Fenner- Immunology Nobel Laureate
Graeme Cox- Mitochondrial function- should have been a laureate
Graham Farqhuar- Photosynthesis- probably will be
Dr Best -Pennicillin
Sunshine harvestor company-first in the world to invent the combine harvestor
The ..... braothers who invented the first combined cane harvestor
Victor Chang heart surgeon
Peter Waterhouse- Discoverer of RNA interference (the hottest topic in biology at the moment)
The guy who invented the stump jump plough

All of these are australian or at least living in australia when they made their discoveries/inventions.

[MikeL]

Like him or not, Greg Norman would have to be worth a vote. What he did for Golf in this country wouldn't or couldn't have been acheived by 20 others.. just my opinion...

[Daddles]

Cripes, a bloke tries to get all serious with this thread and nominate some real stars and you blokes go all silly and nominate deserving bods.

Richard