Australian of the Year

• 1960 Sir MacFarlane Burnet
• 1961 Dame Joan Sutherland
• 1962 Alexander ‘Jock’ Sturrock
• 1963 Sir John Eccles
• 1964 Dawn Fraser
• 1965 Sir Robert Helpmann
• 1966 Sir Jack Brabham
• 1967 The Seekers
• 1968 Lionel Rose
• 1969 The Rt Hon Richard Gardiner
• 1970 Cardinal Sir Norman Gilroy
• 1971 Evonne Goolagong Cawley
• 1972 Shane Gould
• 1973 Patrick White
• 1974 Sir Bernard Heinz
• 1975 Sir John Cornforth
• 1975 Major General Alan Stretton
• 1976 Sir Edward ‘Weary’ Dunlop
• 1977 Sir Murray Tyrall
• 1977 Dame Raigh Roe DBE
• 1978 Alan Bond
• 1978 Galarrwuy Yunupingu
• 1979 Senator Neville Bonnor
• 1979 Harry Butler
• 1980 Manning Clark
• 1981 Sir John Crawford
• 1982 Sir Edward Williams
• 1983 Robert de Castella
• 1984 Lois O’Donoghue
• 1985 Paul Hogan
• 1986 Dick Smith
• 1987 John Farnham
• 1988 Kay Cottee
• 1989 Allan Border
• 1990 Fred Hollows
• 1991 Archbishop Peter Hollingworth
• 1992 Mandawuy Yunupingu
• 1993 no award given due to changing date system
• 1994 Ian Kiernan
• 1995 Arthur Boyd
• 1996 Doctor John Yu
• 1997 Professor Peter Doherty
• 1998 Cathy Freeman
• 1999 Mark Taylor
• 2000 Sir Gustav Nossal
• 2001 Lt General Peter Cosgrove
• 2002 Patrick Rafter
• 2003 Professor Fiona Stanley
• 2004 Steve Waugh
• 2005 Fiona Wood
• 2006 Professor Ian Frazer
• 2007 Tim Flannery
• 2008 Lee Kernaghan
• 2009 Mick Dodson
• 2010 Professor Patrick McGorry
• 2011 Simon McKeon
• 2012 Geoffrey Rush
• 2013 Ita Buttrose
• 2014 Adam Goodes
• 2015 Rosie Batty
• 2016 David Morrison
• 2017 Alan Mackay-Sim
- Biomedical scientist treating spinal cord injuries
• 2018 Michelle Simmons
- Scientia Professor of Quantum Physics in the Faculty of Science at the University of New South Wales
• 2019 Craig Challen SC, OAM and Richard Harris SC, OAM
- Cave divers who participated in the Tham Luang cave rescue
• 2020 Dr James Muecke AM
- Eye surgeon and founder of Sight for All
• 2021 Grace Tame
- Advocate for survivors of sexual assault

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