Athletics

• Cathy Freeman
  Cathy Freeman
  Catherine Astrid Salome "Cathy" Freeman, OAM is former Australian sprinter, who specialised in the 400 metres event. She became the Olympic champion for the women's 400 metres at the 2000 Summer Olympics, at which she lit the Olympic Flame.Freeman was the first ever Aboriginal...
  
  
• Patrick Johnson
  Patrick Johnson (sprinter)
  Patrick Johnson is an Australian athlete. He is the current Oceanian and Australian record holder in the 100 metres with a time of 9.93 seconds, achieved in Mito, Japan, on 5 May 2003. The time has made him the 17th fastest man in history at the time and 38th man to crack the 10-second barrier...
  
  
• Nova Peris-Kneebone
• Josh Ross

Australian rules football

• Chance Bateman
  Chance Bateman
  Chance Bateman is an Australian rules footballer who currently plays for Hawthorn in the Australian Football League ....
  
  
• Peter Burgoyne
  Peter Burgoyne
  Peter Gabriel Burgoyne is a former Australian rules footballer with Port Adelaide in the Australian Football League. He played primarily in midfield and on the half back flank.-Early life:...
  
  
• Shaun Burgoyne
  Shaun Burgoyne
  Shaun Playford Burgoyne is an Australian rules footballer playing with the Hawthorn Football Club in the Australian Football League...
  
  
• Barry Cable
  Barry Cable
  Barry Cable is an Australian former Australian rules footballer who played in the West Australian National Football League and Victorian Football League . Cable played as a rover. He won the Sandover Medal three times while playing with the Perth Football Club.-Club career:Cable played 225 games...
  
  
• Leon Davis
  Leon Davis (footballer)
  Leon Davis is an Australian rules footballer in the Australian Football League.Drafted to Collingwood in 1999 as a small forward, Davis is of Aboriginal heritage. Davis made an early impression at the Pies and played Round 1 in his debut season. He showed that he was capable of turning a match but...
  
  
• Graham "Polly" Farmer
  Graham Farmer
  Graham Vivian "Polly" Farmer, MBE is a retired Australian rules football player and coach. Born in Western Australia, he joined the East Perth Football Club as a ruckman in 1953, where he won several awards and contributed to the team winning three premierships...
  
  
• Jeff Farmer
  Jeff Farmer (footballer)
  Jeff Farmer is a former Australian rules footballer of Aboriginal descent. He was the first indigenous player to kick 400 goals in the Australian Football League .-Melbourne career:...
  
  
• Lance Franklin
  Lance Franklin
  Lance "Buddy" Franklin, Jr is a professional Australian rules footballer currently playing for the Hawthorn Football Club in the Australian Football League . Nicknamed 'Buddy', Franklin primarily plays as a centre half-forward, but also spends some time in the midfield, where he plays along the wing...
  
  
• Adam Goodes
  Adam Goodes
  Adam Goodes is a professional Australian rules football player with the Sydney Swans in the Australian Football League ....
  
  
• Des Headland
  Des Headland
  Desmond "Des" Headland, Jr is an Australian rules footballer currently playing for Subiaco in the West Australian Football League. He plays as a half-forward flanker or midfielder. Headland was selected with the first overall draft pick in the 1998 AFL Draft by the Brisbane Lions...
  
  
• Syd Jackson
• Chris Johnson
• Jim
  Jim Krakouer
  James Gordon "Jim" Krakouer was an Australian rules footballer in the 1980s for North Melbourne and St Kilda in the VFL and Claremont in the WAFL...
  
   and Phil Krakouer
  Phil Krakouer
  Phillip Brent "Phil" Krakouer 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 brother, Jim Krakouer, who also played for North Melbourne...
  
  
• Chris Lewis
  Chris Lewis (Australian rules footballer)
  Christoper Lockley "Chris" Lewis is a former Australian rules footballer who played over 200 AFL senior games for the West Coast Eagles....
  
  
• Michael Long
• Peter Matera
• Norm McDonald
• Andrew McLeod
  Andrew McLeod
  Andrew Luke McLeod is a former Australian rules footballer for the Adelaide Football Club. He is the games record holder for Adelaide, having played 340 games....
  
  
• Stephen Michael
  Stephen Michael
  Stephen Albert Michael in Kojonup, Western Australia is a former Australian rules footballer.-Playing career:A Noongar Australian Aborigine, Michael played in the WAFL between 1975 and 1985 with the South Fremantle Football Club, playing 243 games and kicking 231 goals. He played in South's 1980...
  
  
• Sir Douglas Nicholls
  Douglas Nicholls
  Sir Douglas Ralph "Doug" Nicholls KCVO, OBE, was a prominent Aboriginal Australian from the Yorta Yorta people. He was a professional athlete, Churches of Christ pastor and church planter, ceremonial officer and a pioneering campaigner for reconciliation.Nicholls was the first Aboriginal person to...
  
   - Australian rules football
  Australian rules football
  Australian rules football, officially known as Australian football, also called football, Aussie rules or footy is a sport played between two teams of 22 players on either...
  
  er and Governor of South Australia
• Michael O'Loughlin
  Michael O'Loughlin
  Michael Kevin O'Loughlin is a former professional Australian rules footballer, who played his entire Australian Football League career with the Sydney Swans....
  
  
• Danyle Pearce
  Danyle Pearce
  Danyle Pearce is a professional Australian rules footballer playing with the Port Adelaide Football Club in the Australian Football League.- Early life :...
  
  
• Maurice Rioli
  Maurice Rioli
  Maurice Rioli was an Australian rules football player best known for his time spent with the Richmond Football Club in the Victorian Football League...
  
  
• Cyril Rioli
  Cyril Rioli
  Cyril Rioli is a professional Australian rules footballer currently playing with the Hawthorn Football Club in the Australian Football League...
  
  
• Gavin Wanganeen
  Gavin Wanganeen
  Gavin Adrian Wanganeen is a retired Australian rules footballer, playing in two Australian Football League premierships with Essendon and Port Adelaide. Wanganeen is a Brownlow Medallist and is considered one of the finest indigenous players ever...
  
  
• Darryl White
  Darryl White
  Darryl White is a former Australian rules footballer whose career with the Brisbane Bears and Lions in the Australian Football League lasted from 1992 to 2005....
  
  
• Mark L. Williams
  Mark L. Williams
  Mark Williams is a former indigenous Australian rules footballer who played with Hawthorn and Essendon in the Australian Football League...
  
  
• Nicky Winmar
  Nicky Winmar
  Neil Elvis "Nicky" Winmar is a former Australian Footballer of an indigenous background who played for the St Kilda Football Club in the Australian Football League.- AFL career :...
  
  
• David Wirrpanda
  David Wirrpanda
  David Selwyn Wirrpanda is a former Australian rules footballer, who played for the West Coast Eagles in the Australian Football League between 1996 and 2009...
  
  

Basketball

• Nathan Jawai
  Nathan Jawai
  Nathan Jawai is an Indigenous Australian professional basketball player. He currently plays for the Russian team UNICS Kazan.-Pro career:...
  
   — the first Indigenous Australian to play in the NBA
  National Basketball Association
  The National Basketball Association is the pre-eminent men's professional basketball league in North America. It consists of thirty franchised member clubs, of which twenty-nine are located in the United States and one in Canada...
  
  
• Patrick Mills
  Patrick Mills
  Patrick "Patty" Sammie Mills is an Indigenous Australian professional basketball player who plays as a point guard for the Xinjiang Flying Tigers....
  
  
• Danny Morseu
  Danny Morseu
  Danny Morseu is an Australian basketball player who played on the Australian national basketball team in the 1980 Summer Olympics and 1984 Summer Olympics.-International career:...
  
  

Boxing

• Jerry Jerome
  Jerry Jerome
  Jerry Jerome was the 1912 Australian middleweight boxing champion. Born just outside Dalby, Queensland he was the first Indigenous Australian to win a major boxing title. He died in Cherbourg, Queensland. In his professional career he had 24 losses and 40 wins, with 34 by knock-out.- References :...
  
   first Aboriginal boxing champion, 1912 Middleweight
• Anthony Mundine
  Anthony Mundine
  Anthony Mundine is an Australian professional boxer and former rugby league footballer.He is the current interim WBA Light Middleweight Champion boxer, former two-time WBA Super Middleweight Champion, former IBO Middleweight Champion and New South Wales State of Origin representative footballer....
  
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• Lionel Rose
  Lionel Rose
  Lionel Edmund Rose MBE was an Australian bantamweight boxer, the first Indigenous Australian to win a world title.-Early life:...
  
   
• Dave Sands
  Dave Sands
  Dave Sands, born David Ritchie, was an Australian Aborigine boxer. He established himself as a leading contender for the World Middleweight Title, only to die prematurely in a motor vehicle accident at the age of 26....
  
   
• Neville "Chappy" Williams
  Neville Williams
  Neville "Chappy" Williams is an elder of the Wiradjuri Nation, in Western New South Wales. Known as "Uncle Chappy" to those who follow indigenous Australian customs, he is a regular at the Aboriginal Tent Embassy in Canberra and a key opponent of the Barrick Gold Corporation's gold mine project at...
  
  
• Wally Carr
  Wally Carr
  Wally "Wait-awhile-Wal" Carr is a former boxer. An Aboriginal Australian, he was born 11 August 1954 in Wellington, NSW. Described by Boxing 1970-1980 as having "boxing ability to burn" and "outstanding skills",1 Wally Carr had 101 professional fights...
  
  

Cricket

• Jason Gillespie
  Jason Gillespie
  Jason Neil Gillespie is an Australian cricketer who formerly represented Australia at international level, in both Tests and One Day Internationals, and South Australia, Yorkshire and Glamorgan at first-class level. His primary role is as a right-arm fast-medium bowler, but he is also a competent...
  
  
• Johnny Mullagh
  Johnny Mullagh
  Johnny Mullagh , was part of the famous 1868 Aboriginal cricket tour of England. He was a skilful all-rounder, being a right arm bowler and right-handed batsman....
  
    1860s cricketer, one of the first eleven
  1868 Aboriginal cricket tour of England
  The Australian Aboriginal cricket team in England in 1868 was a side composed of Australian Aborigines which toured England between May and October of that year, thus becoming the first organised group of Australian cricketers to travel overseas...
  
  
• Eddie Gilbert
  Eddie Gilbert (cricketer)
  Eddie Gilbert was a Queensland Aboriginal cricketer. He was an exceptionally fast bowler.-Early years:...
  
    1930s Queensland
  Queensland
  Queensland is a state of Australia, occupying the north-eastern section of the mainland continent. It is bordered by the Northern Territory, South Australia and New South Wales to the west, south-west and south respectively. To the east, Queensland is bordered by the Coral Sea and Pacific Ocean...
  
   cricketer
• Jack Marsh
  Jack Marsh
  Jack Marsh was an Australian first-class cricketer of Australian aboriginal descent who represented New South Wales in six matches from 1900–01 to 1902–03. A right-arm fast bowler of extreme pace, Marsh was blessed with high athletic qualities and was regarded as one of the outstanding talents of...
  
  

Soccer

• Fred Agius
  Fred Agius
  Frederick "Fred" Agius is an Australian football player currently playing for Cendrawasih Papua F.C.. In 2003 he played Australian rules football for Central District in the SANFL reserve grade making him one of few people to play at semi-professional level in both football and Australian...
  
  
• Morgan Cawley
  Morgan Cawley
  Morgan Cawley is an Australian football player. Cawley last played for the Coniston Lions in the Illawarra Premier League in New South Wales. He is the son of former tennis player Evonne Goolagong Cawley....
  
  
• Travis Dodd
  Travis Dodd
  Travis Dodd is an Indigenous Australian football player who plays for Perth Glory in the A-League. He plays as an attacking midfielder or winger.-Club career:...
  
  
• Tahj Minniecon
  Tahj Minniecon
  Tahj James Rodney Minniecon is an Indigenous Australian football striker who plays for in the A-League. He is known for his speed around the penalty box.-Early life:...
  
  
• John Moriarty
• Jade North
  Jade North
  Jade Bronson North is an Indigenous Australian association football player. He played as a centre back or full back for the FC Tokyo in the J. League Division 2...
  
   - first Indigenous association footballer to captain Socceroos and captain national league championship
• Tanya Oxtoby
  Tanya Oxtoby
  Tanya Oxtoby is an Australian football player and coach currently playing for Perth Glory in the Australian W-League.- Playing career :...
  
  
• Charles N. Perkins
• Tashina Roma
  Tashina Roma
  Tashina Roma is an Australian association footballer currently playing for Australian W-League team Queensland Roar.Roma was 2008 Brisbane Women's Premier League Player of the Year.-Honours:...
  
  
• Kyah Simon
  Kyah Simon
  Kyah Pam Simon is an Australian female football player. She currently plays for Sydney FC in the Australian W-League.Kyah made her debut against Melbourne Victory on Saturday, 25 October 2008...
  
  
• Kasey Wehrman
  Kasey Wehrman
  Kasey Wehrman is an Australian football midfielder who currently plays for the Newcastle Jets in Australia's Hyundai A-League. Wehrman is an Indigenous Australian...
  
  
• David Williams
  David Williams (footballer)
  David Williams is an Indigenous Australian professional football player who is currently playing for Hyundai A-League club Melbourne Heart.-Youth career:...
  
  
• Harry Williams
• Lydia Williams
  Lydia Williams
  Lydia Williams is an Australian football player, who currently plays for Canberra United FC in the Australian W-League.-Early life:...
  
  

Rugby league football

• Arthur Beetson
  Arthur Beetson
  Arthur Henry "Artie" Beetson, OAM , was an Australian rugby league footballer and coach. He represented Australia and Queensland from 1964 to 1981. His position was at prop. Beetson became the first Indigenous Australian to captain his country in any sport. and is frequently cited as the best...
  
   - The first Aboriginal to captain Australia in any sport (1973).
• Amos Roberts
  Amos Roberts
  Amos Roberts is an Australian professional rugby league footballer for English club Wigan Warriors of Super League. A country New South Wales representative prolific try-scoring back, he previously played in Australasia's National Rugby League for the St...
  
  
• Andrew Walker (also rugby union)
• Anthony Mundine
  Anthony Mundine
  Anthony Mundine is an Australian professional boxer and former rugby league footballer.He is the current interim WBA Light Middleweight Champion boxer, former two-time WBA Super Middleweight Champion, former IBO Middleweight Champion and New South Wales State of Origin representative footballer....
  
   (also boxing)
• Carl Webb
  Carl Webb
  Carl Webb , is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer for the Parramatta Eels of the National Rugby League. An Australian international and Queensland State of Origin representative forward, he previously played for the Brisbane Broncos and the North Queensland Cowboys...
  
  
• Cliff Lyons
  Cliff Lyons
  Cliff Lyons is an indigenous Australian former international-level rugby league footballer of the 1980s and 90s...
  
  
• Daine Laurie
  Daine Laurie
  Daine Laurie is an Indigenous Australian professional rugby league footballer currently playing for the Newcastle Knights in the NRL. Laurie primarily plays as a prop and can operate in the second-row....
  
  
• Dale Shearer
  Dale Shearer
  Dale Shearer is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer of the 1980s and 90s. A Queensland State of Origin and Australian international representative winger/fullback of Aboriginal heritage, he played club football in Queensland, New South Wales and England...
  
  
• David Peachey
  David Peachey
  David Peachey is a former professional rugby league footballer of the 1990s and 2000s. An Australian international and New South Wales State of Origin representative fullback, he played the majority of his club football in the National Rugby League for the Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks...
  
  
• Dean Widders
  Dean Widders
  Dean Richard Widders , an Indigenous Australian, is a former professional rugby league player.-Childhood:...
  
  
• Eric Simms
• George Green
  George Green (rugby league)
  Edward George Green , is reputed to have been the first Indigenous Australian to play rugby league at first-grade level in Australia...
  
  
• George Rose
• Gorden Tallis
  Gorden Tallis
  Gorden James Tallis is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played from 1992 to 2004. He captained Australia and Queensland as well as the Brisbane Broncos club, with whom he won three premierships and one Clive Churchill Medal...
  
  
• Greg Inglis
  Greg Inglis
  Greg Inglis is an Australian professional rugby league player for the South Sydney Rabbitohs. A Queensland State of Origin and Australian international representative outside back, Inglis joined the Rabbitohs in 2011 after much controversy.Inglis is a versatile back, having played in several...
  
  
• Jamal Idris
  Jamal Idris
  Jamal Dasuki Idris is an Australian professional rugby league footballer for the Gold Coast Titans of the National Rugby League. He previously played for the Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs. A New South Wales State Of Origin representative, he has also played for the Indigenous Australian...
  
  
• Jamie Soward
  Jamie Soward
  Jamie Soward is an Australian professional rugby league footballer for the St. George Illawarra Dragons of National Rugby League...
  
  
• John Ferguson
• Johnathan Thurston
  Johnathan Thurston
  Johnathan Dean Thurston is an Indigenous Australian professional rugby league footballer in the NRL with the North Queensland Cowboys whom he co-captains...
  
  
• Justin Hodges
  Justin Hodges
  Justin Hodges is an Australian professional rugby league footballer for the Brisbane Broncos of the National Rugby League...
  
  
• Kevin Yow Yeh
  Kevin Yow Yeh
  Kevin Yow Yeh was an Australian rugby league player for the Balmain Tigers in the New South Wales Rugby League premiership competition, his position of choice was on the wing. His great-nephew is current Brisbane Broncos player Jharal Yow Yeh.Yow Yeh began his career in Gladstone, and played for...
  
  
• Larry Corowa
  Larry Corowa
  Larry Corowa is an Indigenous Australian former professional rugby league footballer of the 1970s, 80s and 90s. An Australian international and New South Wales interstate representative winger, he played club football for the Balmain Tigers and the Gold Coast Seagulls in the New South Wales Rugby...
  
  
• Laurie Daley
  Laurie Daley
  Laurie Daley OA is an Australian rugby league football commentator and former player of Indigenous Australian descent. He represented Australia on 26 occasions and has since been named as one of the nation's finest players of the 20th century...
  
  
• Lionel Morgan
  Lionel Morgan (rugby league)
  Lionel Morgan is an Indigenous Australian former rugby league footballer, named amongst the nation's finest of the 20th century, and current coach. Morgan was the first Indigenous Australian to be selected to play in a recognised rugby league Test match...
  
  
• Mal Cochrane
  Mal Cochrane
  Mal Cochrane is an Indigenous Australian former professional rugby league player for the Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles in the New South Wales Rugby League premiership...
  
  
• Matt Bowen
  Matt Bowen
  Matthew Jeremy "Matt" Bowen is an Australian rugby league player. He has spent his whole professional career with the North Queensland Cowboys in the National Rugby League , playing in over 200 matches and holding the club's record for the player with the most NRL appearances. He appeared in the...
  
  
• Matt Sing
  Matt Sing
  Matthew Charles Sing is an Australian semi-retired professional rugby league footballer for the Central Comets in the Queensland Cup. His first grade career spanned much of the 1990s and 2000s...
  
  
• Milton Thaiday
  Milton Thaiday
  Milton Thaiday is a former Aboriginal rugby league player for the Newcastle Knights in the National Rugby League competition....
  
  
• Nathan Blacklock
  Nathan Blacklock
  Nathan Blacklock is an Australian former rugby league and rugby union player who primarily played as a winger.-Playing career:...
  
  
• Nathan Merritt
  Nathan Merritt
  Nathan Merritt is an Australian professional rugby league footballer for the South Sydney Rabbitohs of the National Rugby League. He has also previously played for the Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks. His position of choice is either on the wing or at fullback. Merritt is an Indigenous Australian who...
  
  
• PJ Marsh
  PJ Marsh
  Peter-John "PJ" Marsh is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played for a number of clubs in the National Rugby League. He has also played representative rugby league for Queensland in State of Origin. He is named after his uncle, Peter John Marsh, who was killed in a car...
  
  
• Preston Campbell
  Preston Campbell
  Preston Campbell, is an Indigenous Australian professional rugby league footballer for the Gold Coast Titans of the National Rugby League...
  
  
• Ricky Walford
  Ricky Walford
  Ricky Walford is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer of the 1980s and 90s. He played for the Sydney Roosters, North Sydney Bears and the St. George Dragons...
  
  
• Sam Backo
  Sam Backo
  Sam Backo is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer of the 1980s who has been named as one of the greatest Aboriginal players of the 20th century. He represented Australia and Queensland, and played club football in the New South Wales Rugby League premiership for the Canberra...
  
  
• Sam Thaiday
  Sam Thaiday
  Samuel H. "Sam" Thaiday is an Australian professional rugby league footballer who captains the Brisbane Broncos of the National Rugby League. An Australian international and Queensland State of Origin representative forward, he has spent all of his career at the Broncos, with whom he won the 2006...
  
  
• Scott Prince
  Scott Prince
  Scott Prince is an Australian professional rugby league footballer and current captain of the Gold Coast Titans club of the National Rugby League...
  
  
• Steve Renouf
  Steve Renouf
  Stephen Renouf is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer of the 1980s, 90s and 2000s. Of Aboriginal and European descent, he was known as one of the sport's greatest centres. Renouf set numerous records for the Brisbane Broncos club and is considered one of the greatest...
  
  
• Timana Tahu
  Timana Tahu
  Timana James Aporo Tahu is an Australian professional rugby league footballer and former rugby union player, a dual-code international, currently playing for the Newcastle Knights in the National Rugby League. He formerly played for the New South Wales Waratahs in the Super 14 competition...
  
  
• Wally McArthur
• Wendell Sailor
  Wendell Sailor
  Wendell Jermaine Sailor is an Australian former professional rugby football player who represented his country in both rugby league and rugby union – a dual code international. He is an Australian Torres Strait Islander.Sailor's large frame and bullocking style changed the way wingers played rugby...
  
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Rugby Union

• Kurtley Beale
  Kurtley Beale
  Kurtley Beale is an Australian representative rugby union player. His primary position is fullback.- Youth :Beale signed to the Waratahs while a 16 year old at St Joseph's College, Hunters Hill. Before leaving school Beale captained the Australian Schoolboys and regularly attended training...
  
  
• Gary Ella
• Glen Ella
• Mark Ella
  Mark Ella
  Mark Gordon Ella is an Indigenous Australian former rugby union player, often considered as one of his country's all-time greats in that sport. In a relatively short career , Mark Ella established himself as one of the all-time greats in world rugby union...
  
  
• Anthony Fainga'a
• Saia Fainga'a
• Milton Thaiday
  Milton Thaiday
  Milton Thaiday is a former Aboriginal rugby league player for the Newcastle Knights in the National Rugby League competition....
  
  
• Andrew Walker
• Jim Williams