Australian Knights
by Sylviastel | created - 21 Oct 2014 | updated - 24 Oct 2014 | PublicPeter Abeles
Charles Adermann
James Agnew
Keith Aickin
Carleton Allen
Ken Anderson (politician)
Robert Anderson (Australian General)
William Charles Angliss
Stanley Argyle
Will Ashton
Robert Askin
William Aston
Clive Baillieu (1st Baron of Baillieu)
Henry Baker (politician)
Richard Baker (Australian politician)
James Balderstone
Redmond Barry
Peter Barter
Edmund Barton
Henry Barwell
Garfield Barwick
Walter Bassett
Thomas Bavin
Philip Baxter
Noel Bayliss
Howard Beale (politician)
George Beeby
Brian Bell (businessman)
George John Bell
Phillip Bennett
Thomas Bent
Frank Berryman
Robert Best (politician)
Angus Bethune (politician)
Max Bingham
Charles Blackburn
Richard Blackburn
Robert Blackwood (chancellor)
James Blair (Australian Judge)
Arthur Blyth
Henry Bolte
John Langdon Bonython
John Lavington Bonython
James Boucaut
Nigel Bowen
John Bowser
Richard Boyer (broadcaster)
Leighton Bracegirdle
Edward Braddon
Henry Braddon
John Cox Bray
Gerard Brennan
William Bridges (General)
Norman Brookes
George Brookman
Michael Bruxner
John Bunting (diplomat)
Stanley Burbury
Frank Macfarlane Burnet
James Burns (shipowner)
Francis Burt
Richard Butler
Richard Layton Butler (Australian politician)
John Butters
Maurice Byers
Frank Callaway
Bernard Callinan
Donald Charles Cameron (politician)
Ewen Paul Cameron
Walter Campbell (judge)
Roderick Carnegie
John Carrick (Australian politician)
Joseph Carruthers
Richard Casey (Baron Casey)
Walter Cawthorn
Gordon Chalk
Fred Chaney Sr.
Austin Chapman
Harry Chauvel
Frederick Oliver Chilton
Raphael Cilento
John Clancy (Judge)
Harold Winthrop Clapp
Lindesay Clark
Hector Clayton
Ian Clunies Ross
John Cockburn (Australian Politician)
Arthur Cocks (politician)
George Coles (entrepreneur)
John Augustine Collins
John Colton (politician)
Joseph Cook
Thomas Coombe
Pope Alexander Cooper
Walter Cooper (politician)
Virgil Patrick Copas
Douglas Copland
Magnus Cormack
John Cornforth
Robert Cosgrove
Bob Cotton
John Cowan (South Australian politician)
Alfred Cowley
Charles Cowper
Norman Lethbridge Cowper
Owen Cox
John Gregory Crace
John Cramer (Australian politician)
John Crawford (economist)
William Rooke Creswell (neurophysiologist)
Walter Crocker
James Cruthers
William Portus Cullen
Leo Cussen
Charles Cutler
Roden Cutler
Thomas Daly (General)
Frederick Matthew Darley
James Ralph Darling
Edgeworth David
Charles Davidson (politician)
John Mark Davies
Daryl Dawson
Arthur Dean
William Deane
Hugh Denison
David Derham
Peter Derham
James Robert Dickson
Owen Dixon
William Dixson
John Stokell Dodds
Alick Downer
John Downer
Tom Drake Brockman
Talbot Duckmanton
Frank Gavan Duffy
James Duhig
Russell Dumas
Edward Dunlop
Albert Dunstan
Donald Dunstan (Governor)
John Dwyer (Australian judge)
Gilbert Dyett
Hughie Edwards
Llewellyn Edwards
Jack Egerton
Frederic Eggleston
Thomas Elder
Kevin Ellis (politician)
Thomas Ewing (Australian politician)
Arthur Fadden
David Fairbairn (politician)
George Fairbairn (politician)
Allen Fairhall
Neil Hamilton Fairley
Howard Florey
Geoffrey Foot
Edward Ford (physician)
John Forrest
Josiah Francis
Simon Fraser (Australian politician)
James Darcy Freeman
George Freeth
Leslie Froggatt
Wilfred Fullagar
Ben Fuller (producer)
George Fuller (Australian politician)
John Fuller (Australian politician)
Hudson Fysh
Philip Fysh
Victor Garland
Robert Garran
Guy Gaunt
John Gellibrand
Arthur George
Harry Gibbs
Frank Gibson (politician)
Robert Gibson (businessman)
Thomas William Glasgow
Archibald Glenn
James Gobbo
Philip Goldfinch
David Gordon (Australian politician)
John Gorton
Albert Gould
Guy Green (judge)
Richard Green (politician)
Augustus Charles Gregory
Samuel Griffith
Andrew Grimwade
John Grindrod
Littleton Groom
Roy Grounds
Henry Gullett
John Winthrop Hackett
Reginald Halse
Rupert Hamer
Keith Hancock
Mostyn Hanger
Colin Hannah
Hastings Harrington
Eric Harrison
James Harrison (Australian governor)
Laurence Hartnett
Paul Hasluck
Frank Hassett
David Hay (diplomat)
Edward Hayward
Ivor Hele
Thomas Henley
Denham Henty
Edmund Herring
Leslie Herron
William Heseltime
Lenox Hewitt
Randal Heymanson
Hans Heysen
Leo Hielscher
John Michael Higgins (metallurgist)
Thomas Hiley
Cecil Hincks
John Hoad
Talbot Hobbs
Edward Holden
Frederick Holder
John Holland (engineer)
Leslie Joseph Hooker
Samuel Hordern
Claude Hotchin
Neville Howse
William Hudson (engineer)
Davis Hughes
Thomas Hughes (Sydney Mayor)
Alan Hulme
Ross Hutchinson
Leonard Huxley
William Irvine (Australian politician)
Isaac Isaacs
Gordon Jackson (businessman)
Lawrence Jackson (Australian judge)
Robert Jackson (UN Administrator)
Kenneth Jacobs
Claude James
Walter James
Asher Joel
Elliott Johnson (politician)
Charles Lloyd Jones
Fletcher Jones
George Jones (RAAF Officer)
Henry Jones (entrepreneur)
Keith Jones (surgeon)
Frederick Richard Jordan
Percy Joske
George Julius
James Kennedy (Australian politician)
Wilfrid Kent Hughes
John Kerr (Governor General)
Sidney Kidman
James Killen
Charles Kingsland
Walter Kingsmill
Richard Kirby (Arbitrator)
Frank Kitto
H.M. Knight
Adrian Knox
William Knox (Queensland politician)
Wallace Kyle
Charles Latham
John Latham (Judge)
Condor Laucke
John Lavarack
Peter Lawler (public servant)
Harry Lawson
Ernest Augustus Lee Steere
Walter Lee (Australian politician)
Ernest Henry Lee Steere
James George Lee Steere
Henry Lefroy
William Leggatt
Elliott Lewis
John Lienhop
Albert Lind
Daryl Lindsay
Lionel Lindsay (artist)
Frank Little (Bishop)
Marcus Loane
Edward Lucas
Philip Lynch
William Lyne
Denzil MacArthur Onslow (Australian politician)
James MacBain
Peter MacCallum
Arthur MacDonald
Iven MacKay
Charles MacKellar
Bertram MacKennal
George Macleay
John Madden (judge)
Robert Madgwick
Herbert Maitland
Thomas Maltby
Walter Manifold
Frederick Mann
William Patrick Manning
Alan Mansfield
Charles Marr
David Martin (Governor)
Harold Brownlow Martin
David Orme Masson
Walter Massy-Greene
Louis Matheson
Baron Robert May of Oxford
Philip McBride
John McCall (politician)
John McCauley
Ken McCaw
James Whiteside McCay
James McCulloch
Emmet McDermott
John McDonald (Victorian politician)
Warren McDonald
Malcolm McEacharn
William McKell
Ross McLarty
John McLeay Sr.
William McMahon
Robert McMillan (Australian judge)
William McMillan
Alister McMullin
Neville McNamara
Alan McNicoll
Walter McNicoll
John McPhee (politician)
William Murray McPherson
Edward McTiernan
Leslie Melville
Douglas Menzies
Charles Merrett
Archie Michaelis
Denison Miller
James Mitchell (Australian politician)
William Henry Fancourt Mitchell
John Moore (Australian Judge)
Newton Moore
William Harrison Moore
Arthur Morgan (Queensland politician)
Kenneth Morris (politician)
Peter Morris (surgeon)
William Morrow (physician)
Leslie Morshead
Laurence Muir
Alister Murdoch
Keith Murdoch
Walter Murdoch
Brian Murray (Governor)
George John Robert Murray (Mayor)
Hubert Murray
Rupert Myers
Crawford Nalder
Mellis Napier
Eric Neal
John Newlands (Australian politician)
Douglas Nicholls
Frank Nicklin
John Nimmo (Judge)
Sidney Nolan
Bill Northam
John Northcott
Mark Oliphant
Hubert Opperman
Neil O'Sullivan
William Owen (Judge)
Earle Page
Shane Paltridge
George Pape
Arvi Parbo
Archibald Park
Stephen Henry Parker
Henry Parkes
Archdale Parkhill
James Patterson (Australian politician)
Alexander Peacock
George Pearce
Richard Peek (admiral)
William Pettingell
J.G. Phillips
Robert Philip
Roslyn Philp
John Pidgeon
Thomas Playford IV
Reg Pollard (General)
Ian Potter
Noel Power
Charles Powers
Grenfell Price
John Quick (politician)
Alan Ramsay
James Ramsay (Australian governor)
John Ramsay (surgeon)
Cornthwaite Rason
Charles Read (RAAF Officer)
Geoffrey Reed
William Refshauge
George Reid (Australian politician)
George Rich
Richard Watkins Richards
Ernest Riddle
Horace Robertson
Macpherson Robertson
Arthur Robinson (Australian politician)
Thomas B. Robinson
Percival Halse Rogers
Charles Rosenthal
Sydney Rowell
James Rowland (RAAF Officer)
Norman Rydge
Arthur Rylah
Granville Ryrie
Frederick Thomas Sargood
Stanley Savige
Frederick Scherger
Walter D. Scott
Keith Seaman
Francis Palmer Selleck
Frederick Shedden
Nicholas Shehadie
Rupert Shoobridge
George Bowen Simpson
Bruce Small
David Smith (public servant)
James Joynton Smith
Keith MacPherson Smith
Ross MacPherson Smith
Victor Smith
Billy Snedden
John Soundy
Robert Sparkes
Walter Baldwin Spencer
John Spicer (Australian politician)
Bill Spooner (politician)
Charles Spry
Hayden Starke
Ninian Stephen
Bertram Stevens (politician)
David Stevenson (admiral)
Frederick Stewart (Australian politician)
John Lancelot Stirling
Edward Albert Stone
Kenneth Street (jurist)
Laurence Street
Philip Whistler Street
Arthur Streeton
Bernard Sugarman
Reginald Swartz
George Adlington Syme
Josiah Symon
Arthur Tange
Alan Taylor (Judge)
Allen Taylor
Patrick Gordon Taylor
John Teasdale (wheat farmer)
Frederick Tout
Vernon Treatt
Donald Trescowthick
Arthur Trethowan
Winton Turnbull
George Turner (Australian politician)
Murray Tyrrell
Joseph Verco
Lawrence Wackett
Charles Wade
Samuel Walder
William Walkley
Gordon Wallace (Judge)
Cyril Walsh
Thomas Wardle
William Webb (Judge)
Henry Wells (General)
Alfred White (politician)
Brudenell White
Ernest White
Dudley Williams (Judge)
Edward Williams (Queensland Judge)
Richard Williams (RAAF Officer)
Eric Willis
Keith Wilson (politician)
Ronald Wilson
Victor Wilson
Victor Windeyer
Henry Winneke
Edward Wittenoom
Frank Woods (Archbishop of Melbourne)
Edward Woodward (Judge)
Eric Woodward
Reg Wright
Roy Wright (physiologist)
Harold Wyndham
Guildford Clyde Young
Harold Young
John Young (Jurist)
Walter James Young
William Zeal
David Zeidler
1. Reginald Ansett
Self | This Day Tonight
Reginald Ansett was born on February 13, 1909 in Inglewood, Victoria, Australia. He was married to Joan McAuliffe Adams and Grace Doreen Nicol. He died on December 23, 1981 in Mount Eliza, Victoria, Australia.
2. William Dobell
Self | Visnews
William Dobell was born on September 24, 1899 in Cooks Hill, Newcastle, Colony of New South Wales (now Australia).
3. Russell Drysdale
Writer | The Critics
Russell Drysdale was born on February 7, 1912 in Bognor, Sussex, England, UK. He was a writer, known for The Critics (1959), Art from Australia (1963) and New Release (1965). He was married to Maisie Smith and Elizabeth Stephen. He died on June 29, 1981 in Westmead, Sydney, New South Wales, ...
6. Joh Bjelke-Petersen
Self | The Don Lane Show
Joh Bjelke-Petersen was born on January 13, 1911 in Dannevirke, New Zealand. He was married to Flo Bjelke-Petersen. He died on April 23, 2005 in Kingaroy, Queensland, Australia.
7. Thomas Blamey
Thomas Blamey was born in 1884 in Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia. He was married to Olga Ora Farnsworth and Minnie Caroline Millard. He died on May 27, 1951 in Heidelberg, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
8. Jack Brabham
Transportation_department | Grand Prix
Three-time Formula 1 World Champion Jack Brabham had a long and fruitful career in racing. The Australian native won numerous titles in his home country before taking on the world. After Brabham entered the prestigious Formula 1 series, he raced for the Cooper Car Co., who provided him with his ...
9. Charles Court
Self | Nickel Queen
Charles Court was born on September 29, 1911 in Crawley, Sussex, England, UK. He was married to Judith Mildred Butt and Rita Maud Steffanoni. He died on December 22, 2007 in Nedlands, Western Australia, Australia.
10. Zelman Cowen
Self | The 7.30 Report
11. Rod Eddington
Self | Bloomberg Game Changers
12. Don Bradman
Self | The Flying Doctor
Generally regarded as the greatest cricketer ever to play the game, Don Bradman averaged 99.94 runs per innings during his illustrious career. He continued to play test cricket until the age of 40, when in 1948 he led an Australian team touring England, UK. The team did not lose a match on that ...
13. William Lawrence Bragg
Self | X-ray Diffraction
He was the youngest person ever to receive a Nobel Prize at the age of twenty-five until he was surpassed in 2014 by Malala Yousafzai who won at the age of seventeen.
14. David Brand
15. William Dargie
Self | Painting People
William Dargie was born on June 4, 1912 in Footscray, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
16. John Hackett
Self | Viewpoint
John Hackett was born on November 5, 1910 in Perth, Western Australia, Australia. He died on September 10, 1997.
British Army General
17. Edward Hallstrom
18. Charles Kingsford Smith
Self | Splendid Fellows
Charles Kingsford Smith was born on February 9, 1897 in Hamilton, Queensland, Australia. He died on November 8, 1935 in at sea en route to Australia.
19. John Kirwan
Self | The Dan Nicholl Show
He was awarded the M.B.E. (Member of the Order of the British Empire) before being awarded the O.N.Z.M. (Officer of the Order of New Zealand Merit) in the 2007 Queen's Birthday Honors List for his services to mental health.
politician
20. John McEwen
Self | Toki no hito
John McEwen was born on March 29, 1900 in Chiltern, Victoria, Australia. He was married to Mary Eileen Byrne and Anne Mills McLeod. He died on November 20, 1980 in Toorak, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
22. Bernard Heinze
Self | Sydney Symphony Orchestra
Bernard Heinze was born on July 1, 1894 in Shepparton, Victoria, Australia. He died on June 10, 1982 in Bellevue Hill, Australia.
23. Robert Helpmann
Actor | Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Robert Murray Helpmann was born in Mount Gambier, Australia, as the eldest of three children born to stock and station agent James Murray Helpman and Mary Gardiner.
After the family moved to Adelaide in 1914, Helpmann was educated at Prince Alfred's College, but he soon left school at the age of 14 ...
24. David Higgins
Self | Celebrity Masterchef
He was awarded the Knight Bachelor of the Order of the British Empire in the 2011 Queen's Birthday Honours List for his services to Regeneration. he was the first and former chief executive for the Olympic Delivery Authority.
businessman
25. Robert Gordon Menzies
Self | The Queen in Australia
Robert Gordon Menzies was born on December 20, 1894 in Jeparit, Victoria, Australia. He was married to Pattie Maie Menzies. He died on May 15, 1978 in Malvern, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
26. John Monash
John Monash was born on June 27, 1865 in West Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. He was married to Hannah Victoria Moss. He died on October 8, 1931 in Toorak, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
27. Mungo MacCallum
Writer | The Gillies Republic
Mungo MacCallum was born on December 21, 1941 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. He was a writer, known for The Gillies Republic (1986), Switch on Bigga (1953) and The Critics (1959). He died on December 9, 2020 in Ocean Shores, New South Wales, Australia.
Mungo William MacCallum
28. Charles Mackerras
Soundtrack | Now You See Me 2
Charles Mackerras was born on November 17, 1925 in Schenectady, New York, USA. He was a composer and actor, known for Now You See Me 2 (2016), You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger (2010) and The Upside (2017). He died on July 14, 2010 in London, England, UK.
29. Gustav Nossal
Self | Nova
He was awarded the Companion of the Order of Australia Medal in the 1989 Queen's Birthday honors for service to medicine, to science and to the community.
30. Frank Packer
Self | This Day Tonight
Frank Packer was born on December 3, 1906 in Darlinghurst, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. He was married to Florence Mathilde Adeline Violet Porges and Gretel Joyce Bullmore. He died on May 1, 1974 in Camperdown, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
31. Eric Pearce
Actor | Hunter
Eric Pearce was born on March 5, 1905 in England, UK. He was an actor, known for Hunter (1967), Yo Gabba Gabba! (2007) and ..Deadline.. (1982). He died on April 12, 1997 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
broadcaster
32. John Rossiter
Composer | Eulogy
John Rossiter is known for Eulogy (2015), The OA (2016) and Ultraviolet (2017).
33. John William See
Writer | Hill Street Blues
John William See is known for Hill Street Blues (1981).
35. George Thalben-Ball
Soundtrack | Seance on a Wet Afternoon
George Thalben-Ball was born on June 18, 1896 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. He is known for Seance on a Wet Afternoon (1964), Clean Slate (1994) and Alison Balsom - Der Glanz der Trompete (2010). He was married to Jennifer Bate and Grace Evelyn Chapman. He died on January 18, 1987 in ...
36. Thomas White
Actor | Victory Calls to You, Canada
Thomas White is known for Victory Calls to You, Canada (1917), Points of View (1955) and Meet (1957).
Australian politician
37. Wallace Rae
Music_department | Howzat! Kerry Packer's War
Wallace Rae is known for Howzat! Kerry Packer's War (2012).
39. Percy Spender
Self | Longines Chronoscope
Percy Spender was born on October 5, 1897 in Darlinghurst, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. He was married to Eileen Esdaile, Averil Watkins Trenerry and Jean Maud Henderson. He died on May 3, 1985 in Darling Point, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
40. Hubert Wilkins
Cinematographer | New Worlds for Old: Quaker Relief in Stricken Europe
Hubert Wilkins is known for New Worlds for Old: Quaker Relief in Stricken Europe (1923), Coppermine (1992) and Antarctica: On the Great White Trail South (1920).
41. James Wolfensohn
Self | Jonathan Dimbleby
James Wolfensohn was born on December 1, 1933 in Sydney, Australia. He was married to Elaine Botwinick. He died in 2020 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA.
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