Top 40 most important and famous people from Australia - Statistics

General Stats
  • This quiz has been taken 36 times
  • The average score is 13 of 40
Answer Stats
Hint Answer % Correct
Actor, famous for his role as Wolverine in the X-Men film series Hugh Jackman
82%
Actor, famous for his role as Thor Chris Hemsworth
70%
Actor, famous for his roles in The Dark Knight and Brokeback Mountain, winner of Academy Award in 2009 Heath Ledger
70%
Actress famous for her roles as Harley Quinn in the Suicide Squad film series Margot Robbie
70%
Female singer, I Should Be So Lucky, The Loco-Motion, Hand on Your Heart Kylie Minogue
67%
Actress famous for her roles in The Hours and Moulin Rouge!, winner of Academy Award in 2003 Nicole Kidman
67%
Singer and actress, If You Love Me, Let Me Know, Have You Never Been Mellow and she starred in the musical film Grease Olivia Newton-John
58%
Actress, famous for her roles in The Lord of the Rings trilogy and The Aviator, two times winner of Academy Award Cate Blanchett
55%
Activist, founder of WikiLeaks Julian Assange
55%
Female singer, Unstoppable, Titanium Sia
55%
Female tennis player, winner of 24 Grand Slam single titles Margaret Court
52%
The greatest cricket player of all time Don Bradman
48%
Female tennis player, winner of 3 Grand Slam single titles, retired in 2022 Ashleigh Barty
45%
Actor, famous for his roles in Les Miserables and The King Speech, winner of Academy Award in 1997 Geoffrey Rush
42%
Prime Minister from 2022 Anthony Albanese
39%
Formula One driver since 2011, raced with Toro Rosso, Red Bull, Renault and McLaren Daniel Ricciardo
39%
Swimmer specialised in freestyle, five times winner of Olympic gold medal Ian Thorpe
39%
Driver, three times Formula One champion in 1950s and 1960s Jack Brabham
36%
Tennis player, winner of 11 Grand Slam single titles Rod Laver
36%
Director of Elvis and The Great Gatsby Baz Luhrmann
30%
Prime minister for over 18 years from 1939 to 1941 and again from 1949 to 1966 Robert Menzies
30%
Singer and actress. In the early 1990s, she played Beth Brennan in the Australian soap opera Neighbours Natalie Imbruglia
27%
Writer, author of Clancy of the Overflow and The Man from Snowy River Banjo Paterson
18%
Director of Dead Poets Society, Fearless and The Truman Show Peter Weir
18%
Prime Minister who led the country during World War One, but his influence on national politics spanned several decades Billy Hughes
15%
Driver, two times MotoGP champion in 2007 and 2011 Casey Stoner
15%
Rugby player, world champion in 1991 David Campese
15%
Explorer, key leader during the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration Douglas Mawson
15%
Pathologist, famous for his role in the development of penicillin, winner of Nobel Prize in Medicine in1945 Howard Florey
15%
Prime Minister who led the country during World War Two John Curtin
15%
Tennis player, winner of 12 Grand Slam single titles Roy Emerson
15%
Writer, the most famous Australian writer of the colonial period and is often called Australia's greatest short story writer Henry Lawson
12%
Military commander considered one of the best Allied generals of World War One and the most famous commander in Australian history John Monash
12%
Physicist, who played an important step in the development of X-ray crystallography, winner of Nobel Prize in Physics in 1915 Lawrence Bragg
12%
Writer, author of The Book Thief Markus Zusak
12%
Female swimmer, most decorated Australian Olympic athlete Emma McKeon
9%
Immunologist, he received the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1996 Peter Doherty
9%
Chemist, winner of Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1975 for his work on the stereochemistry of enzyme-catalysed reactions John Cornforth
6%
Virologist known for his contributions to immunology. Winner of Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1960 for predicting acquired immune tolerance and he developed the theory of clonal selection Macfarlane Burnet
6%
Writer, author of Voss and The Tree of Man, winner of Nobel Prize in Literature in 1973 Patrick White
6%
No matching quizzes found
Score Distribution
Percent of People with Each Score
Percentile by Number Answered
Your Score History
You have not taken this quiz