20 Famous People from Australia/Oceania

Liam Hemsworth, Australian

Lleyton Hewitt, Australian

Heath Ledger, Australian

Mel Gibson, Australia

Mark Philippoussis, Australian

Steve Irwin, Australian

Ernest Rutherford, New Zealand

Hugh Jackman, Australian

Cody Simpson, Australian

Russell Crowe, New Zealand

Twenty Famous People of Australia/Oceania

Bindi Irwin, Australian

Edmund Hillary, New Zealand

Keith Urban, New Zealand

Nicole Kidman, Australian

Peter Jackson, New Zealand

Oshen, Papua New Guinea

Accomplishments

Stanley Gene, Papua New Guinea

Accomplishments

Justin Wellington, Papua New Guinea

Adrain Lam, Papua New Guinea

Accomplishments

• In 2003, Kidman received a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame

Accomplishments

• climbed Mount Everest
• philanthropist

Accomplishments

• Irwin won a Daytime Emmy Award in 2008 for Outstanding Performer in a Children's Series for her work in Bindi: The Jungle Girl.
• also received a nomination for Outstanding Original Song for her anti-whaling song, "Save Me."
• In 2010, she starred as Kirra in Free Willy: Escape from Pirate's Cove.

• Ledger received numerous awards for his Joker role in The Dark Knight. On 10 November 2008, he was nominated for two People's Choice Awards related to his work on the film

Accomplishments

• 2001–ATP Player of the Year
• 2001–Most Popular South Australian
• 2002–ATP Player of the Year
• 2002–Australia's Male Athlete
• 2002–ESPY Best Male Tennis Player
• 2003–Young Australian of the Year
• 2003–Vogue Australia Sportsman of the Year
• 2003–Most Popular South Australian

• 2002 Nominated Oscar Best Actor in a Leading Role
• for: A Beautiful Mind (2001).
• 2001 Won Oscar Best Actor in a Leading Role
• for: Gladiator (2000).
• 2000 Nominated Oscar Best Actor in a Leading Role
• for: The Insider (1999).

• 2010 Nominated Teen Choice Awards Choice Movie: Drama The Last Song
• 2010 Nominated Teen Choice Awards Choice Movie: Chemistry The Last Song
• 2010 Won Nickelodeon Australian Kids' Choice Awards Kids Choice: Fave kiss The Last Song
• 2012 Pending MTV Movie Awards Best Breakthrough Performance The Hunger Games
• 2012 Pending MTV Movie Awards Best Cast (shared with Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Elizabeth Banks, Woody Harrelson and Lenny Kravitz) The Hunger Games

Won 2001 Na Hoku Hanohano Award for Reggae Album of the Year [3

2010 Nickelodeon Australian Kids Choice Awards 2010 Fresh Aussie Musos Won

Breakthrough Of The Year Awards 2010 Breakthrough Internet Sensation Won

J-14 Teen Icon Awards 2010 Iconic Fan Favorite Nominated

Icon of Tomorrow Nominated

Capricho Awards 2010 International Singer Nominated

Hollywood Teen TV Awards "Teen Pick Music: Male Artist" Nominated

2011 Nickelodeon Australian Kids Choice Awards 2011 Super Fresh Award Won

Aussie Musos Won

Awesome Aussie Won

2012 2012 Kids' Choice Awards Favorite Aussie Superstar Won

2004 Best Director The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King Won

Best Writing Won

2006 Best Director King Kong Won

• played and coached rugby

• song writer
• singer

• Winner 1999 Indian Wells Hard Carlos Moyà 5–7, 6–4, 6–4, 4–6, 6–2
• Winner1.14 October 1996Toulouse, FranceHard Magnus Larsson6–1, 5–7, 6–4
• Winner2.3 March 1997Scottsdale, USAHard Richey Reneberg6–4, 7–6(7–4)
• Winner3.28 April 1997Munich, GermanyClay Àlex Corretja7–6(7–3), 1–6, 6–4
• Winner4.9 June 1997London (Queen's Club), UKGrass Goran Ivanišević7–5, 6–3

• Australian actor and producer that is invloved in film, musical theater, and television.
• 2009 Best Performance By A Human Male at the 2009 Spike Video Game Awards as Wolverine in X-Men Origins: Wolverine
• 2010 People's Choice Award for Favorite Action Star – X-Men Origins: Wolverine
• 2011 Scream Award for Best Cameo - X-Men: First Class
• 2012 People's Choice Award for Favorite Action Movie Actor - Real Steel

• Australian Film Institute: Global Achievement Award (2002)[188]
• Honorary Doctorate Recipient and Undergraduate Commencement Speaker, Loyola Marymount University (2003)[189]
• World's most powerful celebrity by US business magazine Forbes (2004)[190]
• Hollywood Reporter Innovator of the Year (2004)[191]
• Honorary fellowship in Performing Arts by Limkokwing University (2007)[192]
• Outstanding Contribution to World Cinema Award at the Irish Film and Television Awards (2008)[193]

• discovered a new species of turtles
• hosted own TV show
• changed the way people thought about endangered animals

• He was knighted in 1914.
• In 1916 he was awarded the Hector Memorial Medal.
• He was admitted to the Order of Merit in 1925 and raised to the peerage as Baron Rutherford of Nelson, in 1931,[9] a title that became extinct upon his unexpected death in 1937.

• 2009 Academy of Country Music Awards Vocal Event of the Year; "Start A Band" (w/ Brad Paisley)
• Country Music Association Awards Musical Event of the Year; "Start A Band" (w/ Brad Paisley)
• CMT Music Awards Collaborative Video of the Year; "Start A Band" (w/ Brad Paisley)
• American Music Awards Country – Favorite Male Artist
• 2010 Grammy Awards Best Male Country Vocal Performance; "Sweet Thing"
• People's Choice Awards Favorite Male Artist
• CMT Music Awards Best Male Video
• 2011 Grammy Awards Best Male Country Vocal Performance; "'Til Summer Comes Around"
• Teen Choice Awards Choice Music: Male Country Artist

• former rugby player
• coach of a rugby national team

• Nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture for his performance as the Joker in The Dark Knight

• Academy Award for Best Actress, Kidman has received Best Actress awards from the following critics' groups or award-granting organisations: the Hollywood Foreign Press (Golden Globes), the Australian Film Institute, Blockbuster Entertainment Awards, Empire Awards, Golden Satellite Awards, Hollywood Film Festival, London Critics Circle, Russian Guild of Film Critics, and the Southeastern Film Critics Association.