The Ausfamous 100 Of Our Time

Two Academy Awards; one of the finest actors working.

Academy Award winner and producer of her own slate.

Tony Award winner and a global leading man.

Star and producer; her company LuckyChap produced Barbie.

A global pop career across five decades.

Former world No. 1; three Grand Slam singles titles.

Olympic 400m champion, Sydney 2000.

Five Olympic gold medals.

Melbourne-born McLaren driver and Grand Prix winner.

Matildas captain and prolific goalscorer.

Australia’s most decorated Olympian.

Back-to-back Olympic 100m and 200m backstroke champion.

Olympic 400m freestyle champion in Tokyo and Paris.

Olympic 200m freestyle champion, Paris 2024.

Three Olympic gold medals and a record haul of world titles.

Captained Australia to the 2023 World Test Championship and World Cup.

One of the greatest all-rounders the game has seen.

A modern great of Test batting.

Australia’s leading men’s singles player.

Two calendar-year Grand Slams; Melbourne Park’s arena bears his name.

Seven Grand Slam singles titles.

Golden Slam winner; Australian of the Year, 2022.

Paralympic champion and advocate.

Dual Brownlow Medallist; Australian of the Year, 2014.

1,066 career goals.

Four-time Dally M Medallist and 2015 premiership hero.

First Australian to win the Masters, 2013.

Olympic 100m hurdles champion, London 2012.

Champion Golfer of the Year at the 150th Open, 2022.

Perth-born major champion.

Eight world surfing titles.

Three world surfing titles.

Nine Grand Prix wins; now a leading driver manager.

Two MotoGP world championships.

Built Canva from Perth into a global design platform.

Co-founder of Atlassian and a major clean-energy investor.

Co-founder of Atlassian.

Australia’s richest person, 2026 Rich List.

Founded Fortescue.

Executive chairman of Visy and Pratt Industries.

Founder of Meriton.

Chairman of Seven Group Holdings.

Founding editor of Cleo; former ABC chair.

Prime Minister since 2022.

Second-longest-serving Prime Minister.

Treasurer and Prime Minister of the reform era.

Australia’s first female Prime Minister.

Delivered the National Apology to the Stolen Generations, 2008.

First woman to serve as Governor-General.

Cape York leader and advocate for Indigenous recognition.

First Aboriginal woman elected to the House of Representatives.

Australian of the Year, 2021.

Nobel laureate, 2009.

Nobel laureate, 2011, for the accelerating universe.

Nobel laureate, 1996.

Co-inventor of spray-on skin.

Co-developer of the HPV vaccine.

Atomic-scale quantum computing; Australian of the Year, 2018.

Nobel laureate, 2005.

Mammalogist, explorer and author.

Dr Karl, the nation’s explainer.

Creator of Mad Max; Fury Road won six Academy Awards.

Strictly Ballroom, Moulin Rouge!, Elvis.

Four Academy Awards for costume and production design.

Picnic at Hanging Rock, Gallipoli, The Truman Show.

Academy, Emmy and Tony Award winner.

From Muriel’s Wedding to Hereditary.

A mainstay of comedy and drama on both coasts.

Global leading man.

Brisbane-born actor of Euphoria, Saltburn and Frankenstein.

Golden Globe winner for The Crown.

First Aboriginal actor to win the AFI Award for Best Actress.

Bad Seeds frontman, author and artist.

Songwriter of the national story.

Songwriter behind global hits for herself and others.

The mind behind Tame Impala, Perth’s great musical export.

Perth-raised pop artist of global reach.

Darwin-born singer and actor.

Composer and lyricist of Matilda the Musical.

Multi-platinum singer-songwriter.

Cold Chisel frontman and best-selling solo artist.

Cloudstreet, Breath, and four Miles Franklin Awards.

Monkey Grip, This House of Grief and her celebrated diaries.

Booker Prize, 2014, for The Narrow Road to the Deep North.

Waanyi novelist; Carpentaria and Praiseworthy.

Big Little Lies and Nine Perfect Strangers.

The Book Thief.

Pritzker laureate, 2002.

Built Zimmermann from Paddington Markets into a global house.

Couture-level craft; a fixture of Australian Fashion Week.

Melbourne-born couturier based in Paris.

‘The Body’, and a business empire after it.

Model and founder of KORA Organics.

Adelaide-raised, among the most booked models in the world.

Chef and champion of native Australian ingredients.

Rockpool founder; decades shaping Australian dining.

Executive chef of Quay and Bennelong.

Archibald Prize winner, 2011; official war artist.

Represented Australia at the Venice Biennale, 2017.

Her hyperreal creatures are known worldwide.