List of Indigenous Australian sportspeople

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Aboriginal Cricket Team with Tom Wills (coach and captain), Melbourne Cricket Ground, December 1866

This is a list of indigenous Australian (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) athletes and sportspeople. Sports is one of the areas of mainstream Australian society in which Indigenous Australians have been able to break through in some degree.

American football[]

Jesse Williams
  • Jesse Williams (American football)

Association football (Soccer)[]

See also: Category:Indigenous Australian soccer players
Lydia Williams

Athletics (track and field)[]

See also: Category:Indigenous Australian track and field athletes
Cathy Freeman

Australian rules football[]

See also: List of VFL/AFL and AFL Women's players of Indigenous Australian descent
See also: Category:Indigenous Australian players of Australian rules football

  • Basketball[]

    Nathan Jawai
    See also: Category:Indigenous Australian basketball players
    • Rohanee Cox
    • Nathan Jawai, first Indigenous Australian to play in the NBA
    • Patty Mills
    • Danny Morseu

    Boxing[]

    See also: Category:Indigenous Australian boxers
    • Anthony Mundine, holds WBC Silver Super Welterweight title, & former Interim WBA Light Middleweight Champion, 2 time WBA Super Middleweight Champion, IBO Middleweight Champion.
    • Daniel Geale, former IBF, IBO and WBA Super Middleweight Champion.
    • Lionel Rose, held WBC & WBA World bantamweight titles. The first Koori "Indigenous Australian" to win a World title.
    • Robbie Peden, former IBF Super Featherweight Champion.
    • Dave Sands, held the Australian middleweight, light heavyweight and heavyweight titles and won the Commonwealth middleweight title, world boxing hall of famer.
    • Wally Carr, held the Australasian Light Middleweight title, Australian Junior Middleweight, Middleweight, Super Middleweight, Light Heavyweight Title, Commonwealth Middleweight title and Oriental Middleweight title.
    • Tony Mundine, held the Australian middleweight, light heavyweight, cruiserweight and heavyweight titles, Commonwealth middleweight and light heavyweight titles.
    • Ron Richards, held the Australian heavyweight, middleweight, light heavyweight title, Commonwealth middleweight title.
    • Jerry Jerome, first Indigenous Australian to win a major boxing title, Australian Middleweight Champion.
    • Joe Williams
    • Neville "Chappy" Williams
    • Elley Bennett
    • Hector Thompson
    • Frank Roberts, Australia's first Indigenous Olympic boxer.
    • Lawrence Austin
    • Damien Hooper
    • Cameron Hammond
    • Renold Quinlan
    • Paul Fleming
    • Keith Saunders
    • Bradley Hore

    Cricket[]

    See also: Category:Indigenous Australian cricketers and Imparja Cup
    Eddie Gilbert
    • Scott Boland, only the second male Indigenous Australian as of 2021 to play Test Cricket for Australia.[1]
    • Dan Christian
    • Ashleigh Gardner, first Indigenous Australian woman to play in a cricket World Cup.[2]
    • Eddie Gilbert, 1930s Queensland cricketer
    • Jason Gillespie, first male indigenous Australian to play cricket for Australia, and until Scott Boland's debut in 2021, the only one to play Test Cricket for Australia.[3]
    • Jack Marsh
    • John McGuire, captain of an Aboriginal XI that toured England in 1988
    • Johnny Mullagh, 1860s cricketer, who was a member of the Aboriginal cricket team that toured England in 1868
    • Edna Newfong (Crouch) and Mabel Crouch (Campbell), were members of the Queensland XI women's cricket team that played England in 1934-35. They were the first indigenous women to represent Australia in any sport.
    • D'Arcy Short
    • Faith Thomas, first female Indigenous Australian in the Australian Women's Cricket Team and thus the first Indigenous Australian woman to play Test cricket.

    Darts[]

    Field hockey[]

    See also: Category:Indigenous Australian field hockey players

    Horse racing[]

    • Darby McCarthy, jockey
    • Frank Reys, jockey
    • , jockey, Indigenous histories

    Motorsport[]

    Rugby league[]

    See also: Category:Indigenous Australian rugby league players

    Rugby union[]

    See also: Category:Indigenous Australian rugby union players

    Rugby Sevens[]

    Swimming[]

    Tennis[]

    See also: Category:Indigenous Australian tennis players
    Evonne Goolagong
    • Evonne Goolagong, Won 7 Grand Slam Singles titles. They were all in the open era.
    • Ashleigh Barty

    See also[]

    • Indigenous Australian Olympians
    • Indigenous Australian Paralympians

    References[]

    1. ^ https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/cricket/australian-victoria-test-cricket-pat-cummins-jason-gillespie-b1982194.html
    2. ^ "Ashleigh Gardner stands on the cusp of history". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 26 June 2017.
    3. ^ "10 legendary Aboriginal cricketers who bowled us over".
    4. ^ a b c "Significant Aboriginal People in Sydney". City of Sydney. Retrieved 12 January 2012.
    5. ^ "Gary Ella". ESPN Scrum. ESPN. Retrieved 12 January 2012.
    6. ^ "Glen Ella". ESPN Scrum. ESPN. Retrieved 12 January 2012.
    7. ^ "Mark Ella". ESPN Scrum. ESPN. Retrieved 12 January 2012.
    8. ^ https://www.rugby.com.au/news/2017/07/06/10/13/wallabies-beale-indigenous
    9. ^ "Issue 34, April 2009". Hearsay, The Journal of the Bar Association of Queensland. Retrieved 4 March 2017.
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