This is a list of the Australian of the Year Award[1] recipients.
- 2007 Professor Tim Flannery (born 1956)
- 2006 Professor Ian Frazer (born 1953)
- 2005 Dr Fiona Wood AM (born 1958)
- 2004 Steve Waugh (born 1965)
- 2003 Professor Fiona Stanley AC (born 1946)
- 2002 Patrick Rafter (born 1972)
- 2001 Lt General Peter Cosgrove AC MC (born 1947)
- 2000 Sir Gustav Nossal AC CBE FAA FRS (born 1931)
- 1999 Mark Taylor (born 1963)
- 1998 Cathy Freeman (born 1973)
- 1997 Professor Peter Doherty (born 1940)
- 1996 Doctor John Yu AM (born 1934)
- 1995 Arthur Boyd AC OBE (born 1920)
- 1994 Ian Kiernan OAM (born 1940)
- 1993 The award dating system changed - no award made
- 1992 Mandawuy Yunupingu (born 1956)
- 1991 Archbishop Peter Hollingworth AO OBE (born 1935)
- 1990 Fred Hollows AC (1929–1993)
- 1989 Allan Border AO (born 1955)
- 1988 Kay Cottee AO (born 1954)
- 1987 John Farnham (born 1949)
- 1986 Dick Smith (born 1944)
- 1985 Paul Hogan AM (born 1939)
- 1984 Lois O'Donoghue CBE AM (born 1932)
- 1983 Robert de Castella MBE (born 1957)
- 1982 Sir Edward Williams KCMG KBE (1921–1999)
- 1981 Sir John Crawford AC CBE (1910–1984)
- 1980 Manning Clark AC (1915–1991)
- 1979 Senator Neville Bonner AO (1922–1999)
- 1979 Harry Butler CBE (born 1930)
- 1978 Alan Bond (born 1938)
- 1978 Galarrwuy Yunupingu AM (born 1948)
- 1977 Sir Murray Tyrrell KCVO CBE (1913–1994)
- 1977 Dame Raigh Roe DBE (born 1923)
- 1976 Sir Edward ‘Weary’ Dunlop AC CMG OBE (1907–1993)
- 1975 Sir John Cornforth AC CBE (born 1917)
- 1975 Major General Alan Stretton AO CBE (born 1922)
- 1974 Sir Bernard Heinze AC (1894–1982)
- 1973 Patrick White (1912–1990)
- 1972 Shane Gould MBE (born 1956)
- 1971 Evonne Goolagong Cawley AO MBE (born 1951)
- 1970 His Eminence Sir Norman Cardinal Gilroy KBE (1896–1977)
- 1969 The Rt Hon Richard Gardiner Casey Baron Casey KG GCMG CH DSO MC PC (1890–1976)
- 1968 Lionel Rose MBE (born 1948)
- 1967 The Seekers
- 1966 Sir Jack Brabham OBE (born 1926)
- 1965 Sir Robert Helpmann CBE (1909–1986)
- 1964 Dawn Fraser MBE (born 1937)
- 1963 Sir John Eccles AC (1903–1997)
- 1962 Alexander 'Jock' Sturrock MBE (1915–1997)
- 1961 Dame Joan Sutherland OM AC DBE (born 1926)
- 1960 Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet OM AK KBE (1899–1985)
See also
- List of Senior Australian of the Year Award recipients
- List of Young Australian of the Year Award recipients
