The following is a list of notable

Aboriginal Australian Aboriginal Australians are the various Indigenous peoples of the Australian mainland and many of its islands, such as Tasmania, Fraser Island, Hinchinbrook Island, the Tiwi Islands, and Groote Eylandt, but excluding the Torres Strait Islands ...

people of

Noongar The Noongar (, also spelt Noongah, Nyungar , Nyoongar, Nyoongah, Nyungah, Nyugah, and Yunga ) are Aboriginal Australian peoples who live in the south-west corner of Western Australia, from Geraldton on the west coast to Esperance on the so ...

identity, from the south-west corner of

Western Australia Western Australia (commonly abbreviated as WA) is a state of Australia occupying the western percent of the land area of Australia excluding external territories. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Southern Ocean to th ...

Academics

Hannah McGlade Hannah McGlade CF (born 6 June 1969) is an Australian academic, human rights advocate and lawyer. She is a Kurin Minang Noongar woman of the Bibulman nation and is an associate professor at Curtin University's law school. She was appointed Sen ...

Leonard Collard Leonard Michael Collard (born 24 December 1959) is a Noongar elder, professor and Australian Research Council chief investigator at the School of Indigenous Studies, University of Western Australia. Collard is a Whadjuk/ Balardong Noongar, the ...

* Elfie Shiosaki

Activists

George Abdullah George Cyril Abdullah (9 August 1919 – 6 August 1984) was an Aboriginal community leader who promoted Indigenous rights by participating in a number of organisations and committees in Perth, Western Australia. Early life life Abdullah was ...

Corina Abraham Corina Patricia Abraham is a Whadjuk, Whadjuk Noongar woman. In 2016, she challenged the Western Australian Government for failure in procedural fairness during its change to the Aboriginal Heritage status of the land to be impacted by the exte ...

* Fanny Balbuk *

Robert Bropho Robert Charles Bropho (9 February 1930 – 24 October 2011) was a Ballardong Noongar Australian Aboriginal, rights activist and convicted serial child sex offender from Perth, Western Australia. Bropho was leader of the Swan Valley Nyungah ...

Bessie Flower Bessie Flower or Bessie Cameron (c. 1851–1895) was a Minang Noongar woman from Albany, Western Australia. Flower was educated at Annesfield, and developed a strong connection to headmistress Anne Camfield. Throughout her life she fought for ...

* William Harris (civil rights leader) * Clarrie Isaacs

Actors

Shareena Clanton Shareena Clanton (born 1990) is an Australian film, television and theatre actress. She is known for her role as Doreen Anderson on the television drama series ''Wentworth'' (2013–2017). Personal life Clanton was born in Perth, Western Austr ...

Kylie Farmer Kylie Bracknell, formerly Kylie Farmer and also known as Kaarljilba Kaardn, is an Aboriginal Australian writer, director and actress. Career Farmer played Juliet in a run of ''Romeo and Juliet'' with the Australian Shakespeare Company, featured i ...

Kelton Pell Kelton Pell is an Aboriginal Australian (Noongar) stage, TV and film actor, best known for his role as the court liaison officer, Sam Wallan, in the SBS legal drama '' The Circuit'' set in north-western Australia. Pell is from Western Australia. ...

Tuuli Narkle Tuuli Narkle is an Australian actress. For her performance in '' Mystery Road: Origin'' she won the 2022 AACTA Award for Best Lead Actress in a Television Drama. Narkle began her career on stage with an appearance as Ruby in ''Stolen'' and in ...

Artists

Revel Cooper Revel Ronald Cooper (c. 1934 – 1983) was an Indigenous Australian artist. He was a prominent member of a Noongar art movement that emerged among children living at Carrolup Native Settlement during the late 1940s and early 1950s. Early life ...

Sharyn Egan Sharyn Egan (born 1957) is a Noongar, Nyoongar artist known for her work in painting, sculpture, weaving and . Based in Fremantle, Western Australia, Egan's works are held in the collections of the National Museum of Australia and the Berndt Mus ...

Ken Farmer Kenneth William George Farmer (25 July 1910 – 5 March 1982) was an Australian rules footballer who played for the North Adelaide Football Club in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL). Dubbed the ' Bradman of football' in So ...

* Laurel Nannup *

Shane Pickett Shane Pickett (born 1957, Quairading, Western Australia. Died 15 January 2010, Perth, Western Australia) was one of the foremost Nyoongar artists. Combining his deep knowledge and concern for Nyoongar culture with a confident and individual style ...

Tjyllyungoo Tjyllyungoo is the traditional name of the landscape painter Lance Chadd, a Noongar man from Western Australia. Tjyllyungoo's paintings are internationally recognised and held in a number of collections. Born in 1954, he grew up in the south-west ...

Authors

Charmaine Bennell Charmaine Bennell is a Noongar author and illustrator from Western Australia. Her published books are written in the Noongar language, the language of Indigenous Australians in the South West of Western Australia. She is the daughter of Glen and P ...

* Eddie Bennell * Claire G. Coleman * Glenys Collard *

Jack Davis (playwright) Jack Leonard Davis (11 March 1917 – 17 March 2000) was an Australian 20th-century Aboriginal playwright, poet and Aboriginal Australian activist. Academic Adam Shoemaker, who has covered much of Jack Davis‘ work and Aboriginal literature, ...

Graeme Dixon Graeme Dixon is a Noongar poet. He was born in Perth, Western Australia in 1955. His mother is a Noongar from Katanning, Western Australia, Katanning and his father an English migrant orphan who grew up at Fairbridge Farm. He is a member of the St ...

(poet) *

Dallas Winmar Dallas Winmar is a Western Australian writer who first worked with Company B in 2001 on the staging of her play ''Aliwa!''. This play was first showcased in Perth by Yirra Yaakin Noongar Theatre and developed at the Australian National Playwr ...

Kim Scott Kim Scott (born 18 February 1957) is an Australian novelist of Aboriginal Australian ancestry. He is a descendant of the Noongar people of Western Australia. Biography Scott was born in Perth in 1957 and is the eldest of four siblings with a ...

Archie Weller Archie Weller (born 13 July 1957) is an Australian writer of novels, short stories and screen plays. Early life Archie Weller was born in Subiaco, Western Australia, and grew up on a farm, ''Wonnenup'', near Cranbrook in the Great Southern r ...

Elders

Ken Colbung Kenneth Desmond Colbung AM MBE (2 September 1931 – 12 January 2010), also known by his indigenous name Nundjan Djiridjarkan, was an Aboriginal Australian leader from the Noongar people who became prominent in the 1960s. He was appointed an MB ...

Midgegooroo Midgegooroo (died 22 May 1833) was an Aboriginal Australian elder of the Nyungar nation, who played a key role in Aboriginal resistance to white settlement in the area of Perth, Western Australia. Everything documented about Midgegooroo (various ...

Ben Cuimermara Taylor Benedict "Ben" Taylor AM, also known as Cuimara (born 15 October 1938) is a Noongar elder from the south-west of Western Australia. Taylor is a well-known Indigenous activist. Early life Taylor grew up in Walebing, near New Norcia. His mother ...

Angus Wallam Angus Wallam (1926 – October 2014) was a Noongar Aboriginal elder from Wagin, Western Australia. He received the Wagin Australia Day Citizenship Award for his work with Indigenous youth and community. He grew up at Marribank Mission (also kn ...

Musicians

* Della Rae Morrison *

Gina Williams Gina Williams is an Australian singer-songwriter from Western Australia. Williams has released five studio albums and is the recipient of seven West Australian Music Industry Awards. Early life Williams is a Ballardong, Noongar woman, one o ...

Dallas Woods Dallas Woods, is an Indigenous Australian rapper and musician. Woods is known for his role on ABC Kids' ''Move It Mob Style'' and in 2018 as Baker Boy's support act on his national tour. Woods gained attention by winning the New Talent Song ...

Politicians

Dorinda Cox Dorinda Rose Cox (born c. 1976) is an Australian politician and a Yamatji-Noongar woman. She is the first Indigenous woman to represent Western Australia in the Senate. In 2020 she won preselection as the Australian Greens' lead Senate candidate ...

Carol Martin (politician) Carol Anne Martin (née Pilkington; born 13 October 1957) is a former Australian politician who served as a Labor Party member of the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia between 2001 and 2013, representing the seat of Kimberley. She was ...

Ken Wyatt Kenneth George Wyatt (born 4 August 1952) is a former Australian politician who was a member of the House of Representatives from 2010 to 2022, representing the Division of Hasluck for the Liberal Party. He is the first Indigenous Australian el ...

Religious figures

Veronica Willaway Veronica Therese Willaway OSB (born 9 December 1944) also known as Sister Veronica, is a Yued Noongar woman from New Norcia in Western Australia. She spent her childhood at St Joseph's school and orphanage, an institution for Aboriginal gi ...

Mohammed Junaid Thorne Mohammed Junaid Thorne is an Australian Islamic preacher of Aboriginal heritage from Perth, Western Australia. Thorne is noted for his controversial views on Islamic militant groups including Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. Thorne is a member ...

Resistance fighters

Calyute Calyute (''Floruit, fl.'' 1833–1840), also known as Kalyute, Galyute or Wongir, was an Indigenous Australian resistance leader who was involved in a number of reprisal attacks with white settlers and members of other tribes in the early days of ...

Yagan Yagan (; – 11 July 1833) was an Aboriginal Australian warrior from the Noongar people. Yagan was pursued by the local authorities after he killed Erin Entwhistle, a servant of farmer Archibald Butler. It was an act of retaliation after ...

Scientists

Sandra Eades Sandra Eades (born 1967) is a Noongar physician, researcher and professor, and the first Aboriginal medical practitioner to be awarded a Doctorate of Philosophy in 2003. As of March 2020 she is Dean of Medicine at Curtin University. Early li ...

Sportspeople

Harley Bennell Harley Bennell (born Harley Nannup; born 2 October 1992) is a former Australian rules footballer who last played for the Melbourne Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). He was drafted with the second selection in the 2010 A ...

Shai Bolton Shai Bolton ( ; born 8 December 1998) is a professional Australian rules footballer playing for the Richmond Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). He was drafted by Richmond in the second round of the 2016 draft and made his ...

Barry Cable Barry Thomas Cable MBE (born 22 September 1943) is a former Australian rules footballer and coach. Considered one of the greatest rovers in the sport's history, he played in 379 premiership games in the Western Australian Football League (WAFL) ...

Cyril Collard Cyril Collard (; 19 December 1957, Paris − 5 March 1993, Paris) was a French author, filmmaker, composer, musician and actor. He is known for his unapologetic portrayals of bisexuality and HIV in art, particularly his autobiographical novel and ...

Shannon Cox Shannon Cox (born 7 March 1986) is a former Australian rules footballer for the Collingwood Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). Cox, an Indigenous footballer, was picked up as a rookie by Collingwood at the 2005 National ...

Graham Farmer Graham Vivian "Polly" Farmer (10 March 1935 14 August 2019) was an Australian rules footballer who played for the Geelong Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL) and the East Perth Football Club and West Perth Football Club in th ...

* Jeff Farmer *

Lance Franklin Lance Franklin (born 30 January 1987), also known as Buddy Franklin, is a professional Australian rules footballer playing for the Sydney Swans in the Australian Football League (AFL). He previously played for the Hawthorn Football Club from 20 ...

* Jonathon Griffin *

Roger Hayden Roger Hayden (born 9 December 1980) is a former Australian rules footballer. He played as a back pocket for the Fremantle Football Club after beginning his senior football career with South Fremantle Football Club in the West Australian Footba ...

Andrew Krakouer Andrew James Krakouer (born 4 February 1983) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the Richmond Football Club and Collingwood Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). Early life Krakouer is the son of Jim Krakou ...

Nathan Krakouer Nathan Krakouer (born 5 May 1988) is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for the Port Adelaide Football Club and Gold Coast Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). He is the nephew of former North Melbour ...

Phil Krakouer Phillip Brent Krakouer (born 15 January 1960) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the North Melbourne Football Club during the 1980s. Notable for his speed, freakish skills and an uncanny ability to pass the ball to his brothe ...

Jimmy Krakouer James Gordon Krakouer (born 13 October 1958) is a former Australian rules footballer who played in the 1980s and '90s for North Melbourne and St Kilda in the VFL and Claremont in the WAFL. He is the father of former Richmond and Colling ...

Peter Matera Peter Matera (born 3 April 1969) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the West Coast Eagles in the Australian Football League (AFL). Hailing from the West Australian country town of Wagin, Matera was born of an Italian fat ...

Marlion Pickett Marlion Pickett (born 6 January 1992) is a professional Australian rules footballer playing for the Richmond Football Club in the Australian Football League The Australian Football League (AFL) is the only fully professional competition o ...

Paddy Ryder Patrick Ryder (born 14 March 1988) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the , and St Kilda Football Clubs in the Australian Football League (AFL). Ryder was noted for his speed, agility and leap for someone of his size and ...

Donnell Wallam Donnell Wallam (born 23 January 1994) is an Australian netball player for the Queensland Firebirds. In October 2022, Wallam became the third Indigenous netballer to represent the Australian Diamonds following Marcia Ella and Sharon Finnan. W ...

Lydia Williams Lydia Grace Yilkari Williams (born 13 May 1988) is an Australian professional soccer player who plays as a Goalkeeper (association football), goalkeeper for Women's Super League club Brighton & Hove Albion W.F.C., Brighton & Hove Albion and the ...

Nicky Winmar Neil Elvis "Nicky" Winmar (born 25 September 1965) is a former Australian rules footballer, best known for his career for and the in the Australian Football League (AFL), as well as in the West Australian Football League. Growing up in Pin ...

* Alex Winwood * Shane Yarran *

Chris Yarran Christopher Yarran (born 19 December 1990) is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for the Carlton Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). He was also listed with the Richmond Football Club but did not pla ...

Other

Brooke Blurton Brooke Blurton (born 1 January 1995) is an Australian youth worker and media personality. She is best known for being a participant in the reality television franchise '' The Bachelor'', where she was a contestant on the sixth Australian season ...

Karla Hart Karla Hart is a writer, film-maker, dancer, actress and director and has been the event co-ordinator for Wardarnji Festival 2011- 2015, is currently the Drive time presenter for Noongar Radio which broadcasts in Perth Perth is the capi ...

Mokare Mokare (c. 1800 - 26 June 1831) was a Noongar Aboriginal man from the south-west corner of Australia, who was pivotal in aiding European exploration of the area. Life Mokare was from the Minang clan of Noongar people. He had at least two b ...

Angela Ryder Angela Ryder is a Wilman Noongar from Western Australia who is chairwoman of the Langford Aboriginal Association and the manager of Aboriginal programs with Relationships Australia. Ryder was born in Katanning, and is a member of the Stolen Gener ...

Cassius Turvey Cassius Turvey was a 15-year-old Australian boy who was assaulted on 13 October 2022 in Perth, Western Australia, and died ten days later of his injuries. His death sparked vigils and rallies across Australia and internationally. A 21-year-old m ...

Yellagonga Yellagonga (d. 1843) was a leader of the Whadjuk Noongar on the north side of the Swan River. Colonists saw Yellagonga as the owner of this area. However, land rights were also traced through women of the group. Yellagonga could hunt on wetlands ...

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