AUSTRALIAN OF THE YEAR WINNERS
2018 - Professor Michelle Yvonne Simmons, quantum physicist
2017 - Emeritus Professor Alan Mackay-Sim, biomedical scientist treating spinal cord injuries
2016 - David Morrison, equality advocate and former Army chief
2015 - Rosie Batty, family violence campaigner
2014 - Adam Goodes, AFL player and community leader
2013 - Ita Buttrose, media icon
2012 - Geoffrey Rush, Oscar-winning actor
2011 - Simon McKeon, social entrepreneur
2010 - Professor Patrick McGorry, mental health expert
2009 - Professor Michael Dodson, Aboriginal leader and advocate for reconciliation
2008 - Lee Kernaghan, country music legend
2007 - Professor Tim Flannery, scientist, environmentalist and writer
2006 - Professor Ian Frazer, clinical immunologist and inventor of the cervical cancer vaccine
2005 - Dr Fiona Wood, plastic surgeon and 'Spray-on Skin' pioneer
2004 - Steve Waugh, test Cricket Captain
2003 - Professor Fiona Stanley, epidemiologist and child health expert
2002 - Patrick Rafter, champion tennis player
2001 - Peter Cosgrove, former commander of the East Timor peacekeeping force and current Governor-General of Australia
2000 - Sir Gustav Nossal, leading Australian scientist and reconciliation campaigner
1999 - Mark Taylor, test cricket captain
1998 - Cathy Freeman, world champion athlete
1997 - Professor Peter Doherty, winner of the Nobel Prize for medicine
1996 - Dr John Yu, paediatrician and hospital administrator
1995 - Arthur Boyd, leading Australian artist and public benefactor
1994 - Ian Kiernan, environmental campaigner and Clean Up Australia founder
1993 - No award made - award dating system changed
1992 - Mandawuy Yunupingu, Aboriginal educator, musician and ambassador
1991 - Archbishop Peter Hollingworth, social justice advocate
1990 - Professor Fred Hollows, ophthalmologist and humanitarian
1989 - Alan Border, test cricket captain
1988 - Kay Cottee, solo yachtswoman
1987 - John Farnham, singer and musician
1986 - Dick Smith, entrepreneur, adventurer and philanthropist
1985 - Paul Hogan, award-winning actor
1984 - Lowitja O'Donoghue, Aboriginal leader
1983 - Robert de Castella, world champion marathon runner
1982 - Sir Edward Williams, Brisbane Commonwealth Games chairman
1981 - Sir John Crawford, architect of Australia's post-war growth
1980 - Manning Clark, historian
1979 - Senator Neville Bonner, first Aboriginal senator
1979 - Harry Butler, conservationist and naturalist
1978 - Alan Bond, entrepreneur and America's Cup financier
1978 - Galarrwuy Yunupingu, Aboriginal leader and land rights advocate
1977 - Sir Murray Tyrrell, official secretary to six governors-generals
1977 - Dame Raigh Roe, Country Women's Association president
1976 - Sir Edward "Weary" Dunlop, surgeon and prisoner of war
1975 - Major General Alan Stretton, commander of the Cyclone Tracy relief operation
1975 - Sir John Cornforth, winner of the Nobel Prize for chemistry
1974 - Sir Bernard Heinze, orchestra conductor and musician
1973 - Patrick White, winner of the Nobel Prize for literature
1972 - Shane Gould, Olympic swimmer
1971 - Evonne Goolagong Cawley, tennis champion
1970 - Sir Norman Thomas Gilroy, first Australian-born cardinal
1969 - Richard Gardiner Casey, Governor General of Australia
1968 - Lionel Rose, world champion boxer
1967 - Athol Guy, Judith Durham, Keith Potger, Bruce Woodley (The Seekers), chart-topping singing group
1966 - Sir Jack Brabham, world champion motor racing driver
1965 - Sir Robert Helpmann, actor, dancer, producer and choreographer
1964 - Dawn Fraser, triple Olympic gold medallist
1963 - Sir John Eccles, winner of the Nobel Prize for medicine
1962 - Alexander Jock Sturrock, America's Cup skipper and champion yachtsman
1961 - Dame Joan Sutherland, leading opera singer
1960 - Sir Macfarlane Burnet, winner of the Nobel Prize for medicine
