Talented Tasmanians

SPORTSPEOPLE

David Boon – Former Test cricketer.
Ricky Ponting – Australian Test and One Day cricket captain.
Peter Hudson, Roy Cazaly, Darrel Baldock, Royce Hart and Ian Stewart – Australian Rules football legends and Tasmanian Team of the Century inductees.
Alistair Lynch – Won three successive AFL premierships with Brisbane Lions, first Tasmanian to play 300 VFL/AFL games.
John Bowe and Marcos Ambrose – Australian V-8 Supercar champions
David Foster – World Champion axeman (woodchopper).
Simon Burgess, Darren Balmforth, Stephen Hawkins, Dana Faletic and Kerry Hore – World champion rowers
Craig Walton –World Champion triathlete
Matthew Wells – Captain of world champion Australian Men’s Hockey team and 2004 Athens Olympics gold medallist. 

MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT

Errol Flynn – Hollywood actor, films include The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938).
Charles Wooley – Journalist, television and radio presenter.
Essie Davis – AFI award-winning actress.
Posie Graham-Evans – Creator and producer, Hi-5 children’s television program.
Michael McMahon (Producer) and Scott Millwood (Director) – AFI award-winners.
Simon Baker – Film and television actor
Neil Davis – acclaimed photo-journalist during Vietnam War, died during coup in Bangkok in 1985.

AUTHORS & WRITERS

Richard Flanagan – Author, works include Gould’s Book of Fish (2001) and The Sound of One Hand Clapping (1997).
Martin Flanagan – Writer, journalist/commentator.
Margaret Scott – Poet, author, comedian, academic, died 2005.
C J Koch – Author of The Year of Living Dangerously (1978).
Amanda Lohrey – Author of The Morality of Gentlemen (1984).
Nicholas Shakespeare - British writer now living in Tasmania, author of In Tasmania (2004).
Arabella Edge – British novelist now living on the east coast of Tasmania. Author of The Raft (2006)and In Company (2001).
Katherine Scholes – Author of The Rain Queen (2001) and Stone Angel (2006), has sold over 600,000 novels in Europe and the United Kingdom.
Heather Rose – Author of White Heart (1999) and The Butterfly Man (2005).
Danielle Wood –Vogel Award-winning author of The Alphabet of Light and Dark (2003).

POLITICS, LAW & BUSINESS

Dr Bob Brown – Politician, Greens Senator for Tasmania.
Joseph Lyons – Tasmania’s only Prime Minister: 6 January 1932 to 7 April 1939 (first PM to die in office).
Dame Enid Lyons – First female member of the House of Representatives.
Sir Wilmot Hudson Fysh KBE – Co-founder of Qantas in 1919.
Professor Tim McCormack – Provided advice on international law to judges in the Milosevic trial in The Hague, the Netherlands.

ROYALTY & MILITARY

Field Marshall Bernard Law Montgomery – Famous General of the Second World War, lived in Hobart from 1889-1901, commanded the Eighth Army in Africa.
Crown Princess Mary of Denmark – Formerly Mary Donaldson of Hobart, married Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark on May 14th 2004.

 

 

ART & DESIGN

Christine Hiller (Kit) – Artist
Geoffrey Dyer – Painter, 2003 Archibald Prize winner
Alannah Hill – Fashion designer
Peter Dombrovskis – Latvian refugee and legendary Tasmanian wilderness photographer (1945-1996).
Olegas Truchanas – Lithuanian-refugee and photographer; tragically drowned while on the Gordon River in 1972. His body was discovered by Peter Dombrovskis.
Les Blakebrough – Master Potter recently named Australia’s ‘Living National Treasure’.
Philip Wolfhagen – Landscape painter.