List of Australian of the Year Award recipients

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This is a list of the Australian of the Year Award^[1] recipients.

2007 Professor Tim Flannery (b. 1956)
2006 Professor Ian Frazer (b. 1953)
2005 Dr Fiona Wood AM (b. 1958)
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 (1921-99)
1981 Sir John Crawford AC CBE (1910-84)
1980 Manning Clark AC (1915-91)
1979 Senator Neville Bonner AO (1922-99)
1979 Harry Butler CBE (b. 1930)
1978 Alan Bond (b. 1938)
1978 Galarrwuy Yunupingu AM (b. 1948)
1977 Sir Murray Tyrrell KCVO CBE (1913-94)
1977 Dame Raigh Roe DBE (b. 1923)
1976 Sir Edward ‘Weary’ Dunlop AC CMG OBE (1907-93)
1975 Sir John Cornforth AC CBE (b. 1917 )
1975 Major General Alan Stretton AO CBE (b. 1922)
1974 Sir Bernard Heinze AC (1894–1982)
1973 Patrick White (1912-90)
1972 Shane Gould MBE (b. 1956)
1971 Evonne Goolagong Cawley AO MBE (b. 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 (b. 1948)
1967 The Seekers
1966 Sir Jack Brabham OBE (b. 1926)
1965 Sir Robert Helpmann CBE (1909-86)
1964 Dawn Fraser MBE (b. 1937)
1963 Sir John Eccles AC (1903-97)
1962 Alexander 'Jock' Sturrock MBE (1915-1997)
1961 Dame Joan Sutherland OM AC DBE (b. 1926)
1960 Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet OM AK KBE (1899–1985)