Wikipedia:WikiProject Western Australia/100 Most Influential Western Australians
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In December 2006, The West Australian published a list entitled the 100 Most Influential Western Australians. The list was developed by a committee including several eminent West Australian historians. It is considered that articles for each of the 100 people be considered as 'vital articles' for WikiProject Western Australia. Missing, Stub and Start class articles should be created or improved.
A discussion was held previously and archived at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Western_Australia/Archive1#Vital_articles.
1979
[edit]- Note that in 1979 at the sequicentenary - there were over 100 individuals who were chosen for plaques in St Georges Terrace - https://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/WAY_79#St Georges Terrace plaques
2006
[edit]| Article | Class | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Fred Alexander | Start | An Australian historian who specialised in foreign affairs and policy, the founding Head of the University of Western Australia's Department of History as well as the founder of the Festival of Perth. |
| P. C. Anderson | Start | An influential educator, who was the Headmaster at Scotch College, Perth for 41 years. |
| Daisy Bates | C | Journalist and Australian aboriginal welfare worker |
| Nicolas Baudin | Start | Early 19th century French explorer |
| Harry Boan | Start | An Australian businessman and politician, who established the Boans Department store in Perth, Western Australia. |
| William E. Bold | C | Long time town clerk at the City of Perth. An early influential Western Australian town planner |
| Alan Bond | C | Australian businessman, founder of Bond Corporation, financial backer of successful 1983 America's Cup challenger Australia II |
| David Brand | C | The 19th and longest serving Premier of Western Australia |
| Norman Brearley | Start | A World War 1 fighter ace and founder of Western Australian Airways Ltd |
| Sir Lance Brisbane | Start | Industrialist and advisor to Sir Charles Court |
| Charles Edward Broadhurst | C | A pioneer pastoralist and pearler in colonial Western Australia. A former member of the Western Australian Legislative Council |
| Laurence Brodie-Hall | Start | Miner, expanded Western Australia School of Mines, State Chairman of CSIRO |
| Charles Bunning | Start | Chairman of Bunnings, numerous directorships including Swan Brewery, Town & Country Building Society, National Mutual. President of the WACA. |
| Brian Burke | C | The 23rd Premier of Western Australia and Australia's ambassador to Ireland and the Holy See |
| Francis Burt | Disambig | The 11th Chief Justice of Western Australia and 29th Governor of Western Australia |
| Sir Frank Callaway | Start | UWA music educator, WA Arts Advisory Board chairman |
| Peter Carnley | C | The Archbishop of Perth (1981-2005) and Primate of the Anglican Church of Australia (2000-2005) |
| Joe Chamberlain (Australian politician) | Stub | An influential ALP State Secretary in Western Australia, who became a Federal Party president and secretary. Not to be confused with Joseph Chamberlain, British politician and statesman. |
| Ric Charlesworth | Start | A sports and performance consultant and a former Australian cricketer and field hockey player and coach. |
| Katherine Clutterbuck | C | Known as Sister Kate, an Anglican Nun, who pioneered a cottage home system for looking after orphan babies and children in Western Australia |
| Eric Edgar Cooke | C | An Australian serial killer in the 1960s and the last person to be hanged in Western Australia |
| Nugget Coombs | B | An Australian economist and public servant. Governor of the Commonwealth Bank and Governor of the Reserve Bank |
| Charles Court | C | Was a Western Australian politician, the 21st Premier of Western Australia (for 12 years) and the member for the seat of Nedlands for nearly 30 years. |
| Edith Cowan | B | An Australian politician, social campaigner and the first woman elected to an Australian parliament. |
| James Cruthers | Start | Chairman TVW-7, Australian Film Commission |
| John Curtin | B | An Australian federal politician and the 14th Prime Minister of Australia |
| Jack Davis | C | An Australian 20th Century playwright and poet, also an Indigenous rights campaigner. |
| Claude de Bernales | C | An early 20th century mining entrepreneur. |
| Shirley Strickland | C | An Olympic and British Empire Games gold medal winning athlete and 1955 100 m world record holder. |
| Willem de Vlamingh | Start | Dutch explorer, mapped and sketched the West Australian coastline. |
| Pat Dodson | Start | A former Chairman of the Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation, a former Commissioner into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody and former Roman Catholic priest. |
| James Drummond | B | A botanist and naturalist, who was an early settler in Western Australia. |
| Russell Dumas | Start | The chief engineer at the Public Works Department, responsible for numerous wheat-belt water supply projects. Also responsible for the establishment and development of the Kwinana industrial area. |
| Mary Durack | C | An Australian writer and historian, author of Kings in Grass Castles and Keep Him My Country.. |
| Trevor Eastwood | Stub | The CEO and then Chairman of Wesfarmers. Also a former director of Qantas and West Australian Newspapers. |
| Herb Elliott | Start | An Olympic and Commonwealth Games gold medal winning athlete and former 1500 m world record holder. |
| Rica Erickson | C | An Australian naturalist, botanical artist, historian, author and teacher. |
| Graham Farmer | B | A retired Australian rules football player and coach, who is also an official Legend of Australian rules football. |
| Margaret Feilman | Start | Urban planner, helped establish the WA National Trust |
| John Forrest | B | An Australian explorer, leading three expeditions into the interior of Western Australia, the Surveyor General of Western Australia, the first Premier of Western Australia and a cabinet minister in Australia's first federal parliament. |
| Patricia Giles | Start | A women's activist, a former Australian Senator and the former President of the International Alliance of Women. |
| Augustus Gregory | C | An English-born Australian explorer, who undertook four major expeditions of northern Australia. |
| Francis Gregory | C | An English-born Australian explorer and politician. |
| Guy Grey-Smith | Start | A Western Australian painter, printmaker and ceramicist. |
| Brian Grieve | Start | Botanist and co-author of How to Know Western Australian Wildflowers |
| John Winthrop Hackett | B | Was a proprietor and editor of several newspapers in Western Australia, a politician and the first Chancellor at the University of Western Australia . |
| Dr Guy Hamilton | Stub | A doctor and mental health services advocate. |
| Lang Hancock | B | An Australian iron ore magnate, responsible for discovering the world's largest iron ore deposit in 1952. |
| Charles Harper | Start | North-west pastoralist and pearler |
| Rolf Harris | C | |
| William Harris | Stub | Civil liberties campaigner for aboriginal rights |
| Paul Hasluck | C | |
| Bob Hawke | B | |
| Rechelle Hawkes | Start | The former captain of the Australian Women’s Hockey Team, winner of three Olympic gold medals at three separate Olympic Games. |
| Talbot Hobbs | C | |
| Cyril Jackson | Start | Inspector-General of Education |
| Jandamarra | B | |
| Roberta Jull | Start | The first female doctor to establish a medical practice in Western Australia. |
| Michael Kailis | Stub | Head of M.G. Kailis Group. Parents were of the many immigrants from Kastellorizo, Greece |
| Catherine King | Start | ABC Radio broadcaster |
| Carmen Lawrence | C | |
| Dennis Lillee | Start | |
| J. W. R. Linton | Start | An influential West Australian artist and teacher, who was the Head of Arts at Perth Technical College and a trustee of the Public Museum and Art Gallery of Western Australia. |
| Mollie Lukis | Start | A prominent Western Australian archivist and promoter of women's rights. Archivist under James Battye |
| Jack Mann | Start | An influential pioneer of the Western Australian wine industry, in his position as chief winemaker at Houghton Winery, |
| Barry Marshall | Start | An Australian physician, Nobel Laureate and researcher who is credited with the 1979 re-discovery of the bacterium Helicobacter pylori. Jointly nominated with Robin Warren |
| James Mitchell | Start | |
| Georgiana Molloy | Start | |
| Sally Morgan | C | |
| Walter Murdoch | C | |
| A. O. Neville | C | |
| C. Y. O'Connor | B | |
| Walter Padbury | Start | |
| Joseph Parsons | Stub | A long-serving principal of Perth Modern School (27 years) and an influential West Australian educator. |
| George Temple-Poole | B | A British-born architect and public servant, who as Western Australia's Government architect, during the gold boom, designed a 'series' of Federation style public buildings throughout Western Australia. |
| Katharine Susannah Prichard | C | An Australian author and co-founding member of the Communist Party of Australia. |
| Paul Rigby | Start | An award-winning Australian cartoonist who worked for newspapers in Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States. |
| Bessie Rischbieth | B | An influential and early Australian feminist and social activist. |
| John Roberts | Start | |
| John Septimus Roe | C | |
| Rosendo Salvado | Start | |
| Frederick Samson | Start | Fremantle identity and mayor for 21 years |
| John Sanderson | C | |
| John Scaddan | C | |
| Bon Scott | C | |
| George Shenton | B | 1842-1909 |
| Fiona Stanley | C | |
| Gordon Stephenson | C | An British-born town planner and architect, whose 1955 Plan for the Metropolitan Region significantly shaped the growth and development of Perth, Western Australia. |
| James Stirling | B | |
| Kerry Stokes | C | |
| Rover Thomas | Stub | An Indigenous Australian artist |
| John Thomson | Stub | GM Wesfarmers. Established 6WF before it was taken over by the ABC |
| Prof. Eric Underwood | Start | Agricultural researcher and educator |
| Jo Vallentine | C | A peace activist and a former Australian Senator for Western Australia, representing firstly the Nuclear Disarmament Party, then as an independent and finally as a member of the Greens Western Australia. |
| Thomas Wardle | Start | A businessman and supermarket proprietor, who established the 'Tom the Cheap' supermarket chain. Was also the Lord Mayor of Perth and prominent philanthropist. The owner of Dirk Hartog Island. |
| Robin Warren | Start | An Australian pathologist, Nobel Laureate and researcher who is credited with the 1979 re-discovery of the bacterium Helicobacter pylori. Jointly nominated with Barry Marshall |
| Ronald Wilson | Start | A distinguished Australian lawyer, judge and social activist who served on the High Court of Australia and was the President of the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission |
| Tim Winton | C | An Australian novelist and short story writer, author of Cloudstreet and Dirt Music |
| John Wollaston | Start | An Anglican clegyman who was instrumental in the establishment of the Church of England in Western Australia. |
| John Worsfold | Start | |
| Margaret Wylie | Stub | b. 1870. Author of the Golden Wattle Cookery Book and teacher of home economics for many years |
| Yagan | B |
2013
[edit]In November 2013, the same newspaper tried 100 Most Influential with the qualifiying the business leaders who shaped WA 1829 to 2013 - Ben Harvey and Daniel Hatch.[1]
- Note: The red links in the table below use "(businessman)" for disambiguation, if needed. Please check if another term is more appropriate when creating articles.
2023
[edit]For the 190th Anniversary of The West Australian, the newspaper published a list of "The 100 People Who Shaped Our State" https://190years.thewest.com.au/the-100-people-who-shaped-our-state/ (Archived at Trove)
References
[edit]- ^ Harvey, Ben; Hatch, Daniel (29 November 2013). 100 most influential: The business leaders who shaped WA – 1829-2013 (PDF). The West Australian. Archived (PDF) from the original on 27 January 2020.