Cathy Freeman
At her home Olympics in 2000, Cathy Freeman was the first Aboriginal Australian to win an individual Olympic gold medal.
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Lyn Henderson-Yates
The first Aboriginal person to be appointed Deputy Vice Chancellor of an Australian university.
Miriam-Rose Ungunmerr-Baumann
Aboriginal Australian painter and educator
Dr Margaret Williams Weir
The first Aboriginal person to matriculate to an Australian university. In January 1957 the University of Queensland offered her a scholarship and she commenced an arts degree.
Angelina Noble
Aboriginal Australian translator and missionary
Helena Clarke
Australian Indigenous rights activist
Ngingali Cullen
Aboriginal Australian activist and nurse
Vai Stanton
Aboriginal Australian welfare worker and elder of Kungarakany and Gurindji descent
Pat Turner
Aboriginal Australian feminist and indigenous rights activist
Tarereenore
Aboriginal leader from the nineteenth century that organised an armed resistance against white colonists in now-Tasmania, Australia.