List of Indigenous Australian sportspeople

This is a list of indigenous Australian (Aboriginal) athletes and sportspeople. Sports is one of the areas of mainstream Australian society in which native Australians have been able to break through in some degree.

American Football

• Jesse Williams (American football)

Association Football (Soccer)

• Jamara Maza
• Fred Agius
• Gordon Briscoe
• Morgan Cawley
• Travis Dodd
• Tahj Minniecon
• John Moriarty
• Bondi Neal
• Jade North - first Indigenous association footballer to captain Socceroos and captain national league championship
• Tanya Oxtoby
• Charles N. Perkins
• Tashina Roma
• Kyah Simon
• Kasey Wehrman
• David Williams
• Harry Williams
• Lydia Williams

Athletics (track and field)

• Cathy Freeman
• Benn Harradine
• Percy Hobson
• Patrick Johnson
• Nova Peris-Kneebone
• Josh Ross
• Kyle Vander Kuyp

Australian rules football

Basketball

• Rohanee Cox
• Nathan Jawai — the first Indigenous Australian to play in the NBA
• Patty Mills
• Danny Morseu

Boxing

• Anthony Mundine Holds WBC Silver Superwelter Weight, & former interim WBA Light Middleweight Champion boxer, 2 time WBA Super Middleweight Champion, IBO Middleweight Champion.
• Daniel Geale A former IBF and former WBA (Super) Middleweight Champion.
• Lionel Rose the first Koori "Indigenous Australian" to win a world title.
• Robbie Peden A former IBF Super Featherweight.
• Dave Sands Held the Australian middleweight, light heavyweight and heavyweight titles and won the Commonwealth middleweight title, world boxing hall of famer.
• Wally Carr Held titles the Australasian Light Middleweight title, Australian Junior Middleweight, Middleweight, Super Middleweight, Light Heavyweight Title Commonwealth Middleweight title and Oriental Middleweight title.
• Tony Mundine Held the Australian middleweight, light heavyweight, cruiserweight and heavyweight titles, Commonwealth middleweight and light heavyweight titles.
• Ron Richards Held the Australian heavyweight, middleweight, light heavyweight title, Commonwealth middleweight title,
• Jerry Jerome first Indigenous Australian to win a major boxing title, Australian Middleweight Champion.
• Joe Williams
• Neville "Chappy" Williams
• Barry Prior
• Elley Bennett
• Hector Thompson
• Frank Roberts Australia's first indigenous Olympic boxer
• Jeff Dynevor is the first Aboriginal athlete to win a Commonwealth Games gold medal in 1962
• Lawrence Austin

Rising Indigenous Boxers

• Damien Hooper represented Australia at the Commonwealth and Olympic Games
• Cameron Hammond represented Australia at the Commonwealth and Olympic Games, Pro Rec-11 Wins

Cricket

• Dan Christian
• Eddie Gilbert 1930s Queensland cricketer
• Jason Gillespie
• Jack Marsh
• John McGuire, captain of an Aboriginal XI that toured England in 1988
• Johnny Mullagh, 1860s cricketer, one of the first eleven
• Edna Newfong (Crouch) and Mabel Crouch (Campbell) were members of the Queensland XI women's cricket team that played England in 1934-35. They were the first indigenous women to represent Australia in any sport.

Field hockey

• Des Abbott
• Joel Carroll
• Baeden Choppy
• Lorelle Morrissey
• Nova Peris-Kneebone

National Rugby League Players

Rugby Union

Rugby Sevens

• Shannon Walker
• Bo Dela Cruz
• Taleena Simon
• Taniesha Stanton

Swimming

• Ben Austin
• Samantha Riley

Tennis

• Evonne Goolagong

Horse racing

• Darby McCarthy, jockey
• Frank Reys, jockey

Motorsport

• Brendon Cook, car racing
• Darren McDonald - Auscar

Darts

• Kyle Anderson
• Beau Anderson

References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Significant Aboriginal People in Sydney". City of Sydney. Retrieved 12 January 2012. 
2. ↑ "Gary Ella". ESPN Scrum. ESPN. Retrieved 12 January 2012. 
3. ↑ "Glen Ella". ESPN Scrum. ESPN. Retrieved 12 January 2012. 
4. ↑ "Mark Ella". ESPN Scrum. ESPN. Retrieved 12 January 2012.