List of Indigenous Australian sportspeople

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

Association football (Soccer)

• Fred Agius
• Gordon Briscoe
• James Brown
• Jacob Collard
• Travis Dodd
• Shadeene Evans
• Frank Farina
• Jada Mathyssen-Whyman
• Tahj Minniecon
• John Moriarty
• Jade North – first Indigenous association footballer to captain Socceroos and captain national league championship
• Tanya Oxtoby
• Charles Perkins
• Tate Russell
• Adam Sarota
• Gema Simon
• Kyah Simon
• Lorenzo Sipi
• Bridgette Starr
• Allira Toby
• Kasey Wehrman
• David Williams
• Gianni Stensness
• Harry Kewell
• Harry Williams
• Lydia Williams

Athletics (track and field)

• Lynch Cooper
• Robert Crowther
• Cathy Freeman
• Benn Harradine
• Percy Hobson
• Patrick Johnson
• Bobby Kinnear
• Nova Peris-Kneebone
• Josh Ross
• Kyle Vander Kuyp

Australian rules football

Basketball

• Rohanee Cox
• Nathan Jawai, first Indigenous Australian to play in the NBA
• Patty Mills
• Danny Morseu

Boxing

• 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
• Eugene Eades
• Austin Eades
• Renold Quinlan
• Paul Fleming
• Keith Saunders
• Bradley Hore

Cricket

• 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

• Kyle Anderson
• Beau Anderson

Field hockey

• Des Abbott
• Joel Carroll
• Baeden Choppy
• Lorelle Morrissey
• Nova Peris-Kneebone
• Brooke Peris

Horse racing

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

Motorsport

• Jeff Leisk, Motocross
• Craig Anderson, Motocross
• Chad Reed, Motocross
• Brendon Cook, car racing
• Darren McDonald, Auscar

Rugby league

Rugby union

Rugby Sevens

• Shannon Walker
• Bo de la Cruz
• Maurice Longbottom
• John Porch
• Tanisha Staton
• Mahalia Murphy
• Taleena Simon

Swimming

• Ben Austin
• Samantha Riley

Tennis

• 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