List of Australian of the Year Award recipients
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- 2005 Fiona Wood
- 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 The award dating system changed - no award made
- 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 Frank Macfarlane Burnet OM AK KBE (1899 1985)