economy of Australia
Australia is a highly developed country with a mixed-market economy. As of 2022, Australia was the 14th-largest national economy by nominal GDP (Gross Domestic Product), the 20th-largest by PPP-adjusted GDP, and was the 22nd-largest goods ...
South Pacific
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, with a GDP of approximately US$1.6 trillion. Australia's total wealth is 6.4 trillion dollars. In 2011, it was the 13th-largest national economy by nominal GDP.Field listing - GDP (official exchange rate) CIA World Factbook
Businessperson
A businessperson, businessman, or businesswoman is an individual who has founded, owns, or holds shares in (including as an angel investor) a private-sector company. A businessperson undertakes activities (commercial or industrial) for the ...
s involved in different activities, whether commercial or industrial, for the purpose of generating revenue from a combination of human, financial, and physical capital are listed here.
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Peter Abeles
Sir Peter Emil Herbert Abeles, AC (25 April 192425 June 1999) was an Australian transportation magnate. A refugee from Hungary, he became a businessman in Australia, and was knighted in 1972.
Career
Abeles was born in Vienna, in Austria, but ...
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Stefan Ackerie
Stefan Ackerie (born 1941), usually known by the mononym Stefan, is a businessman who owns a chain of hairdressing salons in Brisbane, Australia.
Early life
He was born in 1941 in Batroun, Lebanon. His family migrated when he was 15 to Adelaide, ...
Rodney Adler
Rodney Stephen Adler (born 19 August 1959) is an Australian whose family founded the FAI Insurances group, of which he became chief executive in 1989, and which was at one stage Australia's third largest general insurer. Adler became a director of ...
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Ross Adler
Norman Ross Adler (born 13 December 1944) is an Australian business executive, was the managing director of Santos Limited from 1986 to 2000.James Ainslie
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Don Argus
Donald Robert Argus (born 1 August 1938) is an Australian businessman, chairman of Bank of America Australia advisory board and member of Monash University's Monash Business School advisory board. He is a former member of Bank of America's ...
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Geoffrey H. Arnott
Geoffrey Harold Arnott (4 February 19023 April 1986) was an Australian company director and chairman of Arnott's Biscuits.
Early life
Arnott was born in Waratah, New South Wales, and attended Newington College
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Halse Rogers Arnott
Halse Rogers Arnott (1879May, 1961) was an Australian medical practitioner, company director and chairman of Arnott's.
Family and early life
Arnott was born in Newcastle, New South Wales, the youngest son of William Arnott (1827–1901) w ...
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Reg Bartley
Reginald James Bartley (3 February 1899 – 16 January 1982) was a businessman, company director and List of Mayors and Lord Mayors of Sydney, Lord Mayor of Sydney.
Life
Born in Armidale, New South Wales, Armidale, New South Wales on 3 Feb ...
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Jean Battersby
Jean Battersby, (28 March 1928 – 24 February 2009) was an Australian arts executive and adviser, and the founding chief executive officer of the Australian Council for the Arts in 1968.
Early life
Born Jean Robinson in Drouin, Victoria, sh ...
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Maggie Beer
Maggie Beer (born Margaret Anne Ackerman, 19 January 1945) is an Australian chef, food author, restaurateur, and food manufacturer. Beer is one of the judges on ''The Great Australian Bake Off'' alongside Matt Moran and is also a regular guest ...
James Boag I
James Boag I ( – 9 November 1890) was the founder and proprietor of J. Boag & Sons, owner of the Boag's Brewery in Launceston, Tasmania, Australia.
Boag was born in Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland. He emigrated to Australia with his wif ...
Walter Bugno
Walter Bugno is the chief executive officer of IGT International a division of IGT plc
Life and career
Bugno was previously the chief executive officer of Bokks, the London-based global luxury brand supply network. From 2006 to 2009 he was chief ...
Rod Butterss
Roderick "Rod" Butterss is an Australian investor, with stakes in property development and the recruiting industry.
During the late 1970s, Butterss played in the St Kilda Football Club reserves side, but never made it to senior level. He develop ...
David James Campbell
David James Campbell (born 6 June 1983) is an advertising executive, writer and film director from Adelaide, South Australia, known for his 2013 film '' Lemon Tree Passage''.
Career
After dropping out from Blackwood High School in 2000, he ...
James Cavill
James Freeman Cavill (c.1862 –1952 in Surfers Paradise, Queensland) a Brisbane hotelier, was one of the pioneers of the Gold Coast, Australia.
Early life
Information about his early life is sketchy as he told a number of conflicting stories, ...
Leigh Clifford
Richard Leigh Clifford (born 1948) is an Australian businessman and corporate executive who served as Chairman of Qantas from 2007 to 2018. Clifford was appointed Chairman at the company's November 2007 Annual General Meeting, succeeding Margaret ...
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George Coles George Coles may refer to:
* George Coles (Cambridge University cricketer) (1798–1865), English amateur cricketer
* George Coles (politician) (1810–1875), Canadian politician; first Premier of Prince Edward Island
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John Connor
John Connor is a fictional Character (arts), character in the Terminator (franchise), ''Terminator'' franchise. Created by screenwriter, writer and film director, director James Cameron, the character is first referred to in the 1984 film ''The T ...
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Garrie Cooper
Garrie Clifford Cooper (22 December 1935 - 25 April 1982) was the founder of the highly successful Elfin Sports Cars and a competitive racing driver in his own right, winning the 1968 Singapore Grand Prix, the 1968 Australian 1½ Litre Champi ...
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Roger Corbett
Roger Campbell Corbett (born 6 September 1942) is an Australian businessman. From January 1999 to September 2006, Corbett served as CEO of Woolworths Limited, a large retailing conglomerate.
Career
Educated at Shore School, Corbett graduated f ...
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Chris Corrigan
Chris Corrigan (born 1946) is an Australian businessman. He was the managing director of the Patrick Corporation until it was taken over in 2006.
Born in country New South Wales, he was educated at Bowral High School, the Australian National Uni ...
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Owen Cox
Sir Edward Owen Cox (21 January 1866 – 30 July 1932), known as Owen Cox, was a Welsh-born Australian businessman and politician.
Cox was born in South Wales, was educated at Christ's Hospital, and went to sea at the age of fourteen. H ...
Simon Currant
Simon Currant, AM is a tourism developer in Tasmania, Australia. Currant currently serves as a director of the Tourism Council of Tasmania and a Director of TT-Line Pty. Ltd.
His past tourism developments include the Strahan Village, Cradle Moun ...
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Douglas Daft
Douglas Neville Daft (born 20 March 1943 in Cessnock, New South Wales) is an Australian businessman.
He graduated from the University of New England in Armidale, New South Wales in 1963 with a Bachelor of Arts degree, majoring in Mathematics. ...
Damien De Bohun
Damien De Bohun is the former Head of the A-League. He was previously in charge of game and market development for Cricket Australia
Cricket Australia (CA), formerly known as the Australian Cricket Board (ACB), is the governing body for pro ...
Geoff Dixon
Geoff Dixon (born 1939 in Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia) is an Australian corporate executive and former CEO and managing director of Qantas.
Qantas
Geoff Dixon was appointed chief executive officer and managing director of Qantas in ...
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Ian Duffell
Ian Duffell, is an English businessman with international experience in the entertainment and leisure industries. Initially, he worked in the UK as a Marketing Executive for Sony Corporation with responsibility for launching products such as the ...
Rick Farley
Richard Andrew Farley (9 December 1952 – 13 May 2006) was an Australian journalist, politician, land rights and civil rights activist for the rights of Indigenous Australians. He emerged in the public's eye as a prominent member of the Council ...
Andrew Forrest
John Andrew Henry Forrest (born 18 November 1961), nicknamed Twiggy, is an Australian businessman. He is best known as the former CEO (and current non-executive chairman) of Fortescue Metals Group (FMG), and has other interests in the mining i ...
Lyall Gorman
Lyall Norman Gorman is the Group CEO of the Manly Sea Eagles. Formally the group CEO of the Cronulla Sutherland Sharks. His appointment to the Sharks on 25 November 2014 follows a tumultuous period for the Sharks after two years of ASADA investiga ...
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Ainsley Gotto
Ainsley Gotto (14 February 1946 – 25 February 2018) was an Australian public servant and entrepreneur, who was the private secretary to John Gorton, the Prime Minister of Australia in the late 1960s.
Early life
Gotto was born in the Brisbane ...
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John Grill
John Grill Officer of the Order of Australia, AO (born 1945) was the founder and chief executive officer of Australian-based engineering company, Worley (company), Worley.
Biography
He graduated with Honours in Civil Engineering from the Universi ...
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Bruno Grollo
Bruno Gordano Grollo (born 1942, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Victoria) is an Australian businessman, property developer, former Director of Grocon and is noted for his controversy surrounding the Swanston Street Wall incident on 29 March 20 ...
Simon Hackett
Simon Walter Hackett is an Australian technology entrepreneur. He is the co-founder (with Robyn Taylor) of Internode Pty Ltd, an Australian national broadband services company.
He is a 1986 graduate of the University of Adelaide, holding a b ...
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Walter Russell Hall
Walter Russell Hall (22 February 1831 – 13 October 1911) was an Australian businessman and philanthropist.
Biography
Hall was born in Kington, Herefordshire, England, eldest son of Walter Hall, glover (later a miller), and his wife Elizabeth ...
Wilhelm Harnisch
Wilhelm Harnisch is the Chief Executive Officer of Master Builders Australia, the principal Australian Lobby Group for the building and construction industry. He is based in Canberra, Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of A ...
Fred Hilmer
Frederick George Hilmer AO (born 2 February 1945) is an Australian academic and business figure. He was the president and eighth vice-chancellor of the University of New South Wales, an appointment he held from June 2006 till January 2015. He h ...
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Samuel Hordern
Sir Samuel Hordern (24 September 1876 – 3 June 1956) was an Australian businessman, animal breeder and philanthropist. Born into the prominent Sydney trading family, Hordern directed the family company of Anthony Hordern & Sons from 1909 t ...
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Sean Howard
Sean Martin Howard is an Australian entrepreneur, founder of OzEmail, at one time Australia's largest Internet company.
In the 1980s Howard founded '' Australian Personal Computer'', Australia's top-selling computer magazine. He also developed ...
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Peter Hurley
Peter Hurley is the President of the South Australian branch of the Australian Hotels Association and on the board of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) is the national broadcaster of Aust ...
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Ronald Irish
Sir Ronald Arthur Irish (26 March 1913 – 12 July 1993)Obituary in ''The Sydney Morning Herald'', 17 July 1993 attended Fort Street High School in the 1930s. He later became Chairman of Rothmans of Pall Mall (Australia), now British American ...
Kevin Jacobsen
Kevin George Jacobsen OAM (born 29 July 1939 in Sydney) is an Australian entertainment entrepreneur and former musician, who is the head of the ''Jacobson Entertainment Group''
Along with his brothers, singer Col Joye and Keith, he was a mem ...
Kevin Kalkhoven
Kevin Oscar Newton Kalkhoven (1944 – 4 January 2022) was an Australian venture capitalist and auto racing magnate based in California. He served as CEO of JDS Uniphase and was an investor in Cosworth Group Holdings Limited, an automotive tech ...
Steve Killelea
Stephen Killelea AM is an Australian IT entrepreneur and founder of the Institute for Economics and Peace, a global think tank.
Career
In August 1988, Killelea formed the Australian company IR, which was listed on the Australian Stock Exchange ...
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Grant King
Grant King is an Australian engineer and business executive. He retired as Managing Director of Origin Energy in October 2016, and in November 2016 became President of the Business Council of Australia.
Career
* prior to 1994 General Manager, AGL ...
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Wallace King
Wallace King was an African American blackface minstrel performer from the 19th century. He played with Callender's Georgia Minstrels, and in 1882 was second to only Billy Kersands in pay and popularity. King was a "Sweet Singing Tenor" and known ...
Marius Kloppers
Marius Jacques Kloppers (born 26 August 1962) is a South African-born Australian businessman and former CEO of BHP Billiton, the world's largest mining company. He was also Executive Director and Chairman of the Group Management Committee from 2 ...
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Ron Knapp
Ron Knapp was the CEO of the Australian Aluminium Council from 2002 to 2008, having previously led the World Coal Institute. In December 2008 he became Secretary-General of the International Aluminium Institute
International is an adjective (also ...
John Lawes
Sir John Bennet Lawes, 1st Baronet, Royal Society, FRS (28 December 1814 – 31 August 1900) was an English entrepreneur and agricultural scientist. He founded an experimental farm at his home at Rothamsted Manor that eventually became Rothams ...
Andrew Lindberg
Andrew Alexander Lindberg (born 29 April 1953) is an Australian businessman.
From 2000 until February 2006, he held the positions of managing director and board member of AWB Limited. He resigned from these positions in the wake of his appearance ...
Geoff Lord
Geoff Lord (born ) is an Australian
Australian(s) may refer to:
Australia
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James Robinson Love
James Robinson Love (1836–1914) was an Australian merchant and founder of J. R. Love & Co Ltd and Kinkara Tea.
Love was the son of the politician William Love and Ellinor Robinson, both immigrants from Ireland, and brother of magistrate Mi ...
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Alexander MacRae
Alexander John MacRae (25 December 1889 – 30 November 1938) was a sports entrepreneur and clothing manufacturer. Born in Scotland, he emigrated to Australia where, in 1914, he founded the company that became the swimwear giant Speedo.
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Michael Malouf
Michael Kevin Malouf (born 5 November 1953) is an Australian executive, serving as an executive or chief executive officer at various institutions.
Administration career
Malouf most recent tenure was being CEO at VicRoads from 2018 to 4 March 2 ...
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Gary March
Gary March is an Australian investor, the founder and former director of Concept Sports International, now known as Beyond Sportswear Limited and former president of the Richmond Football Club until 2013.
Gary took over the presidency from Clin ...
John McFarlane
John McFarlane OBE (born 14 June 1947) is a British businessman. He served as Group Chairman of Barclays from 2015 to 2019.
Early life
He was born in Dumfries and attended Dumfries Academy. He was educated at the University of Edinburgh, Cra ...
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Simon McKeon
Simon Vincent McKeon (born 19 December 1955) is an Australian lawyer, businessman, and administrator. He has been chancellor of Monash University, and non-executive director of Rio Tinto, Spotless Group, and National Australia Bank. He is ret ...
Rod Menzies
Rodney William "Rod" Menzies (31 August 1945 - 25 April 2022) born in Melbourne) was an Australian entrepreneur. In 1969 he founded Menzies International, a private company, which is one of Australia's 500 most profitable private companies. Menzie ...
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Glen Milliner
Glen Richard Milliner (born 14 April 1948) is an Australian compositor, businessman and politician who was a Labor member of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland for the electoral district of Everton from 1977 to 1992, and then for the ne ...
Charbel Nader
Charbel Nader is an Australian investment banker who was the architect of a number of innovative Film Financing transactions in the 1990s the most notable being a series of Village Roadshow off balance sheet film financings which funded Films suc ...
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Trevor O'Hoy
Trever O'Hoy was the President and CEO of Foster's Group from 2004 until 10 June 2008.
He was educated at Monash University, where he obtained a Bachelor of Economics in 1976. He has attended the Harvard Business School Advanced Management Progra ...
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Kerry Packer
Kerry Francis Bullmore Packer (17 December 1937 – 26 December 2005) was an Australian media tycoon, and was considered one of Australia's most powerful media proprietors of the twentieth century. The Packer family company owned a controlling ...
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Clyde Packer
Robert Clyde Packer (22 July 19358 April 2001), usually known as Clyde Packer, was the son of Australian newspaper magnate Frank Packer and the elder brother of media baron Kerry Packer. From 23 April 1964 to 22 April 1976 he was a Member of th ...
Rocco Pantaleo
Rocco Pantaleo (9 September 1956 – 26 March 2010) was an Italian restaurateur, businessman and philanthropist,
Biography
Pantaleo who was born in Calabria, Italy emigrated to Australia in 1977 to find work. In 1985 he co-founded the restaurant ...
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John Pascoe
John Henry Pascoe (born 10 December 1948) is a former Chief Justice of the Family Court of Australia and Deputy Chancellor of the University of New South Wales.
Background and career
Pascoe was raised in and , the only child of a grazier ...
William Frederick Pattinson
William Frederick Pattinson (1889–1970) was an Australian medical doctor and businessman, and chairman of Washington H. Soul Pattinson and Choiseul Investments. Pattinson was the eldest son of businessman Lewy Pattinson and grew up in Balmain ...
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Jim Petrich
Cosmo James Petrich is an Australian businessman.
He lives in Yungaburra, Queensland.
Awards and recognition
Petrich was awarded the Centenary Medal in 2001, cited for:
"''long service and leadership to the grazing industry in the Northern Te ...
Gordon Pickard
Gordon Pickard (born 1942) is a real estate developer and philanthropist and considered one of the richest businesspeople from the state of South Australia.
Pickard emigrated from England as a child. Since 1967, he has been forming companies w ...
Andrew Plympton
Andrew Plympton was the President of St Kilda Football Club between 1993 and 2000, during which time the club enjoyed improved success from the previous barren 20 years.
Under Andrew Plympton's administration St Kilda advanced to the 1997 G ...
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Nick Politis
Nicholas George Politis (born 1944) is an Australian businessman and chairman of the Sydney Roosters in the National Rugby League (NRL) competition. Politis is also responsible for the first sponsor on a professional rugby league team's jersey. ...
Ian Potter
Sir William Ian Potter (25 August 190224 October 1994), known as Ian Potter, was an Australian stockbroker, businessman and philanthropist. Potter was knighted in 1962. The Ian Potter Foundation, which he established in 1964, has made grants to ...
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Cathie Reid
Cathie Reid AM is an Australian businesswoman who was inducted into the Australian Businesswomen's Hall of Fame in 2015 and included in the '' Australian Financial Review Top 100 Women of Influence. In June 2019, Reid was honoured with a Member o ...
Bill and Imelda Roche
Imelda Joan Roche (born ) and her last husband, Bill Roche (2022), is an Australian entrepreneur and property investor who established Nutrimetics International (Australia) Pty Limited in 1968.
Biography
The couple met in a supermarket in 19 ...
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Edmund Rouse
Edmund Alexander Rouse (2 February 1926 – 28 July 2002) Don Woolford, ''AAP Gene ...
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Trevor Rowe
Trevor Cyril Rowe, , is an Australian businessman, and has held numerous executive positions in the public and private sectors. In his current position is as non-executive chairman of Rothschild Australia after stepping out of the executive cha ...
Graeme Samuel
Graeme Julian Samuel AC (born 31 May 1946) is an Australian businessman. He was the Managing Director and head of the Melbourne office of M&A advisory firm Greenhill Caliburn, and is a member of the Australian National University Council. H ...
John Singleton
John Daniel Singleton (January 6, 1968 April 28, 2019) was an American director, screenwriter, and producer. He made his feature film debut writing and directing ''Boyz n the Hood'' (1991), for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for B ...
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Maha Sinnathamby
Maha Sinnathamby (born 10 December 1939 in Rantau, Seremban, Malaysia) is an Australian businessman and property developer. He is the entrepreneur behind the Greater Springfield Development in Queensland, the largest master-planned community ...
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Steven Skala
Steven Michael Skala (born 6 October 1955 in Brisbane, Queensland) is an Australian Investment banking, investment banker, company director, lawyer and philanthropist.
Biography
Mr Skala has a distinguished career of service including on the b ...
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David Smorgon
David Smorgon (born 8 May 1947) is an Australian businessman and member of the Smorgon family.
Business career
David joined the family business at the age of 23. David advanced to be a senior executive at Smorgon Consolidated Industries, whi ...
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Graham Smorgon
Graham Smorgon is a prominent Australian businessman and a member of the Smorgon family – one of Australia's wealthiest and most powerful and influential families.
Business career
He was appointed as Chairman of Smorgon Consolidated in 19 ...
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Victor Smorgon
Victor Smorgon (2 January 1913 – 3 July 2009) was an Australian industrialist, arts patron and benefactor, who was founder and former head of the Victor Smorgon Group.
Biography
Smorgon was born in 1913 in Heidelberg, a German settlement ...
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Robert Somervaille
Robert Duncan Somervaille AO (29 October 1921 – 14 April 2008) was an Australian lawyer and company director. He was born in Strathfield and was educated at The Scots College and Scotch College.
He served as the Chairman of the Australian ...
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Malcolm Speed
Malcolm Walter Speed (born 14 September 1948) is an Australian businessman and the former CEO of the International Cricket Council.
Before he entered the world of cricket, he was a barrister in Melbourne. He was originally the Chief Executive ...
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Kerry Stokes
Kerry Matthew Stokes (born John Patrick Alford on 13 September 1940) is an Australian businessman. He holds business interests in a diverse range of industries including electronic and print media, property, mining, and construction equipment. ...
Greg Swann
Greg Swann (born 1962) is an Australian Football League (AFL) chief executive officer of the Brisbane Lions, an Australian rules football club based in Brisbane competing in the Australian Football League. He has been in the role since July 20 ...
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Rudie Sypkes
Rudie Sypkes (20 May 1950 – 8 February 2008) was an Australian businessman from Tasmania. Sypkes was the co-founder of the Chickenfeed retail chain.
Biography
Sypkes was born in Tasmania to immigrant parents from the Netherlands. He began hi ...
Tan Chin Nam
Dato' Tan Chin Nam (; 18 March 1926 – 21 October 2018) was a Malaysian entrepreneur and developer. His family is the majority shareholder of IGB Corporation Berhad.
Tan was reportedly one of the richest men in Malaysia and had several compan ...
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Nick Tana
Nick Tana is the former chairman of the Australian association football club Perth Glory. He had been the chairman and the majority shareholder of Perth Glory from the club's inception in 1995 until 2006.
Tana is the former owner of fast food ch ...
David Thodey
David Ingle Thodey (born 14 May 1954) is an Australian businessman who is a former chief executive officer of Telstra and currenchairmanof accounting software company Xero.
Thodey was born in Perth, Western Australia. He was educated at Nels ...
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Albert Toll
Albert Frederick Toll (1865-1960) was the founder of Australia and New Zealand's largest transport company, Toll Group and Toll NZ and a former mayor of Wickham, New South Wales.
He founded Toll in 1888, when he hauled coal with a horse and a ca ...
Roelf Vos
Roelf Vos (1921 – 2 December 1992) was a Dutch Australian businessman who established a supermarket chain carrying his name initially in Launceston, and later throughout northern Tasmania. The equivalent in the south of the state was Purity ...
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Henry Waymouth
Henry Waymouth (21 January 1775– 23 January 1848), also spelt Weymouth, was a Baptist activist and campaigner, and a founder of the South Australian Company.
Waymouth was born in Exeter, the son of Henry (d.1803) and Sarah Waymouth (née Brya ...
Nicholas Whitlam
Nicholas Richard Whitlam (born 6 December 1945) is an Australian businessman and corporate director. He is the son of former Prime Minister Gough Whitlam and Margaret Whitlam.
Career
Whitlam first became publicly prominent in 1981 when he was ...
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Walter Worboys
Sir Walter John Worboys (22 February 1900 – 17 March 1969), was an Australian-born British businessman and chemist. He is best known for widely reforming road traffic signage in the United Kingdom.
Biography
He was born in Perth, Western ...
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Charles William Wren
Charles William Wren (15 November 1856 – 19 April 1934) was an Australian banker. Wren was born in North Adelaide, South Australia and died in Italy.
Wren became the accountant and branch inspector for the English, Scottish and Australian Ban ...
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Arthur Yates
Arthur Yates (10 May 1861 – 30 July 1926) was an Australian horticulturist and seedsman who founded the horticultural supply company Yates.
Early life
Yates was born on 10 May 1861 in Stretford, Lancashire, England, one of the six sons of see ...
William Younghusband
William Younghusband (1819 – 5 May 1863), sometimes known as "William Younghusband junior", was a businessman and politician in the colony of South Australia; one of the promoters of the Murray River Steam Navigation Company, which enabled Ca ...