List of Australian of the Year Award recipients

• 2004 Steve Waugh (b. 1965)
• 2003 Professor Fiona Stanley AC (b. 1946)
• 2002 Patrick Rafter (b. 1972)
• 2001 Lt General Peter Cosgrove AC MC (b. 1947)
• 2000 Sir Gustav Nossal AC CBE FAA FRS (b. 1931)
• 1999 Mark Taylor (b. 1963 )
• 1998 Cathy Freeman (b. 1973 )
• 1997 Professor Peter Doherty (b. 1940 )
• 1996 Doctor John Yu AM (b. 1934)
• 1995 Arthur Boyd AC OBE (b. 1920 )
• 1994 Ian Kiernan OAM (b. 1940 )
• 1993 ++ No award given
• 1992 Mandawuy Yunupingu (b. 1956 )
• 1991 Archbishop Peter Hollingworth AO OBE (b. 1935 )
• 1990 Fred Hollows AC (1929 – 1993)
• 1989 Allan Border AO (b. 1955 )
• 1988 Kay Cottee AO (b. 1954 )
• 1987 John Farnham (b. 1949)
• 1986 Dick Smith (b. 1944 )
• 1985 Paul Hogan AM (b. 1939 )
• 1984 Lois O'Donoghue CBE AM (b. 1932 )
• 1983 Robert de Castella MBE (b. 1957 )
• 1982 Sir Edward Williams KCMG KBE (1921 – 1999)
• 1981 Sir John Crawford AC CBE (b. 1910 )
• 1980 Manning Clark AC (1915 – 1991)
• 1979 + Senator Neville Bonner AO
• 1979 + Harry Butler CBE (b. 1930)
• 1978 + Alan Bond
• 1978 + Galarrwuy Yunupingu AM (b. 1948)
• 1977 + Sir Murray Tyrall KCVO CBE
• 1977 + Dame Raigh Roe DBE (b. 1923 )
• 1976 Sir Edward ‘Weary’ Dunlop AC CMG OBE (1907 – 1993)
• 1975 + Sir John Cornforth AC CBE (b. 1917 )
• 1975 + Major General Alan Stretton AO CBE
• 1974 Sir Bernard Heinze AC (1894 – 1982)
• 1973 Patrick White (1912 – 1990)
• 1972 Shane Gould MBE (b. 1956)
• 1971 Evonne Goolagong Cawley AO MBE (b. 1951)
• 1970 His Eminence Cardinal Sir Norman Gilroy KBE (1896 –1977)
• 1969 The Rt Hon Richard Gardiner Casey Baron of Berwick, Victoria and of the City of Westminister KG GCMG CH (1890 – 1976)
• 1968 Lionel Rose MBE (b. 1948 )
• 1967 The Seekers
• 1966 Sir Jack Brabham OBE (b. 1926 )
• 1965 Sir Robert Helpmann CBE (1909 – 1986)
• 1964 Dawn Fraser MBE (b. 1937 )
• 1963 Sir John Eccles AC (1903 – 1997)
• 1962 Alexander 'Jock' Sturrock MBE (b. 1915 )
• 1961 Dame Joan Sutherland OM AC DBE (b. 1926 )
• 1960 Sir MacFarlane Burnet OM AK KBE (1899 – 1985)

+ Between 1975 and 1979 the Canberra Australia Day Council also recognised an Australian of the Year.

++ The award dating system changed - no award made in this year.

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