List of Tasmanians

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This is a list of well known Tasmanians.

[edit] Prominent Tasmanians (by birth or association)

• Arts:
  • Actors - Simon Baker, Bob Cooke, Errol Flynn
  • Choreographers - Graeme Murphy
  • Composers - Matthew Dewey, Maria Grenfell, Don Kay, Constantine Koukias, Douglas Knehans, Kitty Parker, Peter Sculthorpe
  • Comic artist - Sols (Alan Salisbury)
  • Musicians - Monique Brumby, David Titherley
  • Painters - Geoff Dyer, John Glover,
  • Photographers - Peter Dombrovskis, Alan Moyle, Olegas Truchanas
  • Writers - Richard Davey, Richard Flanagan, Christopher Koch, Margaret Scott, Julien Tempone
• Historic:
  • Alec Campbell, longest surviving war veteran from the Battle of Gallipoli
  • Harold Gatty, navigator and aviation pioneer
  • Ettie Rout, journalist and wartime sexual health campaigner
  • Truganini, last full-blood Tasmanian aborigine
• Politics:
  • Federal - Michael Ferguson, Mark Baker, Dick Adams,Lance Barnard, Neal Blewett, Bob Brown, Brian Harradine, Dame Enid Lyons, Joseph Lyons
  • State - Jim Bacon, Paul Lennon, Eric Reece
• Sport:
  • Australian rules football - Darrel Baldock, Peter Hudson, Laurie Nash, Matthew Richardson, Paul Williams
  • Swimming - Melissa Carlton
  • Motor racing - Marcos Ambrose
  • Chess - Ian Rogers
  • Cricket - David Boon, Ricky Ponting, Max Walker
  • Other - David Foster (Woodchopping)

• Science:
  • Elizabeth Blackburn

• Recent Notables:
  • Mary Donaldson, now the Crown Princess Mary of Denmark
  • Martin Bryant, Mass murderer - Port Arthur Massacre