50位著名的澳大利亚人

rdcwayx

新近借了本书,2003年版，谈到了50位著名的澳大利亚人,我把它全部列出来，看看大家能认识几位。

Robyn Archer - singer, writer and director (www.robynarcher.com.au)
Ron Barassi - One of the great legends of Australian Rules Football.
Don Bradman - The world's greatest batsman (www.donbradman.com.au)
Peter Brock - Australia's most successful racing-car driver (www.brock05.com)
Robert O'Hara Burke - An explorer (www.burkeandwills.net)
Evonne Cawley - Tennis players, first Aboriginal Australian to win at Wimbledon
Victor Chang - The surgeon who performed Australia's first heart-lung transplant (www.victorchang.com.au)
Caroline Chisholm - A Social worker who helped women and children in the nineteenth century
Alfred Deakin - Australia's first Attorney-General and on of the founding fathers of Federation
Edward 'Weary' Dunlop - A surgeon who took exceptional care of prisoners of war during World War II
Matthew Flinders - An explorer who drew the first detailed maps of Australia and its coastline
Howard Florey - A scientist who developed penicillin
Errol Flynn - An actor who scandalised Hollywood with his swashbuckling ways
John Flynn - Funder of the Royal Flying Doctor Service
Dawn Fraser - An Olympic champion considered to be the world's best-ever female swimmer (www.dawnfraser.com.au)
Cathy Freeman - A champion sprinter and the first Aboriginal runner to represent Australia at the Olympic Games (www.cathyfreeman.com.au)
May Gibbs - A writer and illustrator who created the Gumnut Babies, Snugglepot and Cuddlepio (Wwww.maygibbs.com.au)
Percy Grainger - Thought to be one of the best composers of the twentieth century
Germaine Greer - A writer
Fred Hollows - An eye doctor
Barry Humphries - The entertainer
Paul Jennings - A writer for kids
Daniel Johns - The lead singer and songwriter of silverchair. (www.charipage.com; www.silverchair.nu)
Ned Kelly - Australian folk hero, legend and famous bushranger
Nicole kidman - An internationally famous actor
Charles Kingsford Smith - A flying ace
Wally Lewis - One of Australia's greatest rugby league players (www.rleague.com/interactive/trivia)
Norman Lindsay - An exceptionally creative writer and artist
Eddie Mobo - An Aboriginal activist who gained land rights for his people
Mary Mackillop - A catholic nun who is likely to become Australia's first saint
Jesse Martin - The youngest person to sail non-stop around the world on his own.

[ 本帖最后由 rdcwayx 于 2008-3-29 05:50 编辑 ]

rdcwayx

继续

Douglas Mawson - A scientist and Antarctic explorer and one of the first Australians to reach the South Magnetic Pole (www.mawson.sa.gov.au)
Nellie Melba - An opera singer who become Australia's first international star
Robert Menzies - Australia's longest serving Prime Minister
Kylie Minogue - One of the most successful pop stars in the world
Harry 'Breader' Morant - An Australian soldier who was controversially executed by firing squad during the Boer War
Johnny O'keefe - Australia's first rock'n'roll star
Banjo Paterson - one of Australia's favourite bush poets
Gillian Rolton - The first Australian woman to win Olympic gold in a horse-riding event
Lionel Rose - One of Australia's best boxers and the first Aboriginal boxer to win a world championship
Louise Sauvage - the best female wheelchair road-and-track racer in the world
Catherine Helen Spence - A writer and a champion of women's and children's rights
Andy Thomas - The first Australian to go into space
Ian Thorpe - One of the world's most successful swimmers
Truganini - A Tasmanian Aborigine of the Palawah people
Nancy Wake - A hero who help the French resistance fighters during World War II
Shane Warne - One of the greatest and most controversial players in the histroy of cricket
Karrie Webb - One of the best female golfers in the world
Judith Wright - One of Australia's leading poets.
Nat Young - One of the world's greatest surfers (www.natyoung.com)

[ 本帖最后由 rdcwayx 于 2008-3-26 23:21 编辑 ]

烟火流离

Cathy Freeman
Ned Kelly
Nicole kidman
Kylie Minogue
Ian Thorpe
....只认识5个...十分之一...哭....偶补课去了

astina

原帖由 烟火流离 于 2008-3-28 20:17 发表
Cathy Freeman
Ned Kelly
Nicole kidman
Kylie Minogue
Ian Thorpe
....只认识5个...十分之一...哭....偶补课去了

我比你多认识一个Shane Warne ，因为他老有桃色新闻

西关少爷

Dr Victor Chang - Australian of the 20th Century

I met his father the other day, he is 100 yr old and very healhy.

Ebiz

Dr Victor Chang ,才看过关于他的纪录片，可惜S了太早了

rdcwayx

原帖由 西关少爷 于 2008-3-28 19:44 发表
Dr Victor Chang - Australian of the 20th Century

I met his father the other day, he is 100 yr old and very healhy.

是吗？他父亲住在悉尼campsie吗？

rdcwayx

原帖由 Ebiz 于 2008-3-28 20:06 发表
Dr Victor Chang ,才看过关于他的纪录片，可惜S了太早了

简单介绍一下这位澳籍华裔Dr Victor Chang。
Victor Chang 的父母都是在澳洲出生的，但是Victor本人是在上海出生的。他母亲因为乳癌在33岁就过世，于是他就立志学医，读了医学院。一次偶然的机会，和一位心脏手术医生谈话后，转为专攻心脏手术，事业蒸蒸日上，他一共做了260例心脏移植手术。并实施了澳洲首例心肺移植手术（heart-lung transplant). 但是在他55岁的时候，被两个持枪人绑架，索要300万赎金，拒绝后，被撕票。

[ 本帖最后由 rdcwayx 于 2008-3-29 05:44 编辑 ]

西关少爷

原帖由 rdcwayx 于 2008-3-29 06:31 发表


是吗？他父亲住在悉尼campsie吗？

what? He is a richman -  North Shore 滴干活

jasonliu234

lz也算其中之一了

艾窝窝

2003 版本的, 要是现在再发行, 不知道她算不算
MARY DONALDSON 丹麦王妃

rdcwayx

原帖由 西关少爷 于 2008-3-29 06:46 发表

what? He is a richman -  North Shore 滴干活

书里面介绍他们以前住在campsie的。

wanzi

汗。。只认识些唱歌，抢劫，搞体育的

rosa

顶