THE FULL LIST OF AUSTRALIANS OF THE YEAR
2016 - To be announced, Monday January 25
2015 - Rosie Batty
2014 - Adam Goodes
2013 - Ita Buttrose
2012 - Geoffrey Rush
2011 - Simon McKeon
2010 - Prof Patrick McGorry
2009 - Prof Mick Dodson
2008 - Lee Kernaghan
2007 - Prof Tim Flannery
2006 - Prof Ian Frazer
2005 - Dr Fiona Wood
2004 - Steve Waugh
2003 - Prof Fiona Stanley
2002 - Pat Rafter
2001 - Lt Gen Peter Cosgrove
2000 - Sir Gustav Nossal
1999 - Mark Taylor
1998 - Cathy Freeman
1997 - Prof Peter Doherty
1996 - Dr John Yu
1995 - Arthur Boyd
1994 - Ian Kiernan
1992 - Mandawuy Yunupingu
1991 - Archbishop Peter Hollingworth
1990 - Dr Fred Hollows
1989 - Allan Border
1988 - Kay Cottee
1987 - John Farnham
1986 - Dick Smith
1985 - Paul Hogan
1984 - Lowitja O'Donoghue
1983 - Robert de Castella
1982 - Sir Edward Williams
1981 - Sir John Crawford
1980 - Manning Clark
1979 - Harry Butler, Senator Neville Bonner
1978 - Alan Bond, Galarrwuy Yunupingu
1977 - Sir Murray Tyrrell, Dame Raigh Roe
1976 - Sir Edward 'Weary' Dunlop
1975 - Major General Alan Stretton
1975 - Sir John Cornforth
1974 - Sir Bernard Heinze
1973 - Patrick White
1972 - Shane Gould
1971 - Evonne Goolagong
1970 - Cardinal Sir Norman Gilroy
1969 - Richard Gardiner Casey
1968 - Lionel Rose
1967 - The Seekers
1966 - Sir Jack Brabham
1965 - Sir Robert Helpmann
1964 - Dawn Fraser
1963 - Sir John Eccles
1962 - Alexander 'Jock' Sturrock
1961 - Dame Joan Sutherland
1960 - Sir Macfarlane Burnet
* Source: National Australia Day Council. No award given in 1993
