Australian knights and dames

This is an incomplete list of Australians who have been appointed a knight or a dame, being entitled to be known as "sir" or "dame" respectively. It includes living Australian knights and dames as well as dead appointees. The list excludes Australian baronets; they have the title sir, but are not knights per se.

## Criteria

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For the purposes of this list, an Australian is either:

* an Australian citizen (Australian citizenship did not exist prior to 26 January 1949), or
* a British subject who was born in or whose primary domicile was in Australia (1 January 1901 – 25 January 1949), or in the Australian colonies (26 January 1788 – 31 December 1900).

Hence, the list does not include most knighted British governors-general or colonial or state governors. Their primary domicile was, generally, in the United Kingdom, and they were only temporarily based in Australia. Those who chose to remain in Australia in retirement are listed below.

These appointments were made under:

* the British Imperial honours system. These were recommended by the Australian Government until 1982 and state governments until 1989 (in some cases, recommendations were made by other governments of the Commonwealth of Nations, principally the United Kingdom); and
* the Australian Honours System established in 1975. The categories of Knight and Dame of the Order of Australia were created by the Queen on advice from the Fraser Liberal-National coalition government in 1976, and discontinued by her on advice from the Hawke Labor government in 1986. During that period, twelve Knights and two Dames of the Order of Australia were appointed. On 25 March 2014 Tony Abbott announced the reintroduction of Knights and Dames to the Australian Honours System.[1] Two more Knights and two more Dames were created. On 2 November 2015, they were once again removed from the constitution of the Order of Australia on the advice of Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull.[2]

Appointments as knight or dame under the orders of foreign countries are not included, with the exception of British Imperial honours awarded to Australians by the UK and PNG Governments after 5 October 1992. Unlike other foreign citizens, citizens of Commonwealth realms appointed knight or dame of a British order are entitled to use the titles "Sir" or "Dame", and use the relevant post nominal. The UK government does not recognize Australian knighthoods as giving entitlement to use these titles in the UK, however.[3]

Many of the people shown had other honours, such as AC, OBE, CMG, VC, etc. These details are not relevant to this list, and are not shown.

Most of the details were sourced from It's an Honour, the Australian Government database of honours and awards. All names of those who were appointed to orders of chivalry (Order of Australia, Order of the British Empire, etc) that appear in It's an Honour are listed. Not all awards appear in It's an Honour, as awardees may elect not to have their awards included in the database. The list of knights bachelor is also incomplete.

## Order of the Garter

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Knights Companion of the Order of the Garter:

### Knights Companion (KG)

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Richard Casey | 1890 | 1969 | 1976 | Governor-General of Australia 1965–1969  | [1]; also GCMG 1965 [2] and a life peer
Paul Hasluck | 1905 | 1979 | 1993 | Governor-General of Australia 1969–1974  | [3]; also GCMG 1969 [4] and GCVO 1970 [5]
Ninian Stephen | 1923 | 1994 | 2017 | Governor-General of Australia 1982–1989  | [6]; also AK 1982 [7], GCMG 1982 [8], GCVO 1982 [9] and KBE 1972 [10]

## Order of the Thistle

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Knights of the Order of the Thistle:

### Knights (KT)

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Robert Menzies | 1894 | 1963 | 1978 | Prime Minister of Australia 1939-41, 1949–66  | [11]

* Note: Sir Robert Menzies is the only Australian ever appointed a Knight of the Order of the Thistle (Appointment made for his Scottish ancestry). The award was made in 1963, during his tenure as Prime Minister of Australia. He was also appointed a Knight of the Order of Australia (AK) in 1976.

## Order of the Bath

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Knights of the Order of the Bath:

### Knights Grand Cross (GCB)

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Name | Born | Awarded | Died | Citation | Reference and comments

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John Hackett | 1910 | 1967 | 1997 | Australian-born British General | also KCB 1962 [12]
William Heseltine | 1930 | 1990 | living | First Australian-born Private Secretary to the Sovereign (1986-1990), last Australian alive and honoured of any Knight Grand Cross grade.  | [4] also KCB, KCVO, GCVO
Isaac Isaacs | 1855 | 1937 | 1948 | Governor-General 1931-1936  | [13]; also KCMG, GCMG
Wallace Kyle | 1910 | 1966 | 1988 | Governor of Western Australia  | also KCB, KCVO
George Reid | 1845 | 1916 | 1918 | Prime Minister 1904-1905  | [14]; also KCMG, GCMG

### Knights Commander (KCB)

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Name | Born | Awarded | Died | Citation | Reference and comments

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Thomas Blamey | 1884 | 1942 | 1951  | Commander-in-Chief of the AMF  | [15]; also Knight Bachelor, GBE
William Bridges | 1861 | 1915 | 1915  | Australian Imperial Force  | [16]; King George V granted the award on 17 May 1915, and Bridges died on 18 May; however, the award was not formally gazetted until 22 May
Harry Chauvel | 1865 | 1918 | 1945  | AIF – for the capture of Jerusalem | [17]; also KCMG, GCMG
Douglas Evill | 1892 | 1943 | 1971  | Vice-Chief of the Air Staff (RAF)  | [18] Also GBE (1946). Australian-born British airman.
John Gellibrand | 1872 | 1919 | 1945  | AIF – France & Flanders  | [19]
William Glasgow | 1876 | 1919 | 1955  | AIF – France & Flanders  | [20]
John Hackett | 1910 | 1962 | 1997  |  | Australian-born British soldier; also GCB
William Heseltine | 1930 | 1986 | living  | Upgraded Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (GCB) in 1990.  | [4] also GCB, KCVO, GCVO
Talbot Hobbs | 1864 | 1918 | 1938  | Australian Imperial Force  | [21]; also KCMG
Neville Howse | 1863 | 1917 | 1930  | AIF – (Surgeon-General AAMC during WW2)  | [22]; also KCMG
George Hyde | 1877 | 1934 | 1937  | RAN – Chief of the Naval Staff from 1931 to 1935  | [23]
Wallace Kyle | 1910 | 1960 | 1988  |  | Governor of Western Australia; also GCB, KCVO
John Monash | 1865 | 1918 | 1931  | Australian Imperial Force  | [24]; also GCMG
Leslie Morshead | 1889 | 1942 | 1959  | AMF – Commanded at siege of Tobruk | [25]; also KBE
Charles Rosenthal | 1875 | 1919 | 1954  | AIF – France & Flanders  | [26]
Brudenell White | 1876 | 1927 | 1940  | Commonwealth Director of 1927 Royal Visit  | [27]; also KCMG, KCVO

## Order of Australia

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Knights and Dames of the Order of Australia:

Main article: List of Knights and Dames of the Order of Australia

### Knights (AK)

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Name | Born | Awarded | Died | Citation | Reference and comments

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Garfield Barwick |  | 1981 | 1987  | In recognition of service to the Australian Parliament, government and the law  | [28]; also Knight Bachelor, GCMG
Macfarlane Burnet |  | 1978 | 1985  | For extraordinary and meritorious service to medicine and to science particularly in the fields of microbiology and immunology  | [29]; also Knight Bachelor, KBE
Peter Cosgrove |  | 2014 | living  | Governor-General 2014–2019  | Cosgrove was appointed AK upon his appointment as Governor-General
Charles Court |  | 1982 | 2007  | In recognition of service to politics and local government  | [30]; also Knight Bachelor, KCMG
Zelman Cowen |  | 1977 | 2011  | –  | [31]; Cowen was appointed AK upon his appointment as Governor-General; also Knight Bachelor, GCMG, GCVO
Roden Cutler |  | 1981 | 2002  | In recognition of service to the Crown  | [32]; also KCMG, KCVO
Angus Houston |  | 2015 | living  | For extraordinary and pre-eminent achievement and merit in service to Australia  | [33]
Gordon Jackson |  | 1983 | 1991  | For service to industry and to the community  | [34]
John Kerr |  | 1976 | 1991  | n/a  | [35]; Kerr was the Governor-General and, as Principal Knight of the Order of Australia, his AK took effect immediately the category of Knight was established on 24 May 1976; also KCMG, GCMG, GCVO
Robert Menzies |  | 1976 | 1978  | For extraordinary and pre-eminent achievement and merit in the field of government  | [36]; also KT
Ninian Stephen |  | 1982 | 2017  | Governor-General 1982–89  | [37]; Stephen was appointed AK upon his appointment as Governor-General; also KG, GCMG, GCVO, KBE
Colin Syme |  | 1977 | 1986  | For extra-ordinary and meritorious service to industry, particularly in the fields of research and technology  | [38]; also Knight Bachelor

Note: This is a complete list of the Australians who were or are Knights of the Order of Australia. Charles, Prince of Wales, heir to the Australian throne but not himself an Australian, was also appointed AK, by amendment to the Constitution of the Order of Australia in 1981. His father, Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, was also made a Knight of the Order of Australia in 2015.

### Dames (AD)

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Name | Born | Awarded | Died | Citation | Reference and comments

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Marie Bashir |  | 2014 | living  | Governor of New South Wales 2001–2014  | [39]
Quentin Bryce |  | 2014 | living  | Governor-General 2008–2014  | [40]
Alexandra Hasluck |  | 1978 | 1993  | For pre-eminent achievement in the fields of literature and history and for extraordinary and meritorious public service to Australia  | [41]
Enid Lyons |  | 1980 | 1981  | For public and parliamentary service to Australia over many years  | [42]; also GBE

## Order of St Michael and St George

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Knights of the Order of St Michael and St George:

### Knights Grand Cross (GCMG)

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Name | Date | Citation | Reference and comments

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Robert Askin | 1975  | Premier of New South Wales | [43]; also KCMG
Henry Ayers | 1894  | Premier of South Australia | [4] also KCMG
Edmund Barton | 1902  | Prime Minister of Australia | [44]
Garfield Barwick | 1965  | Chief Justice of the High Court | [45]; also Knight Bachelor, AK
David Beattie | 1980  | Governor-General | also GCVO
Henry Bolte | 1972  | Premier of Victoria | [46]; also KCMG
Richard Casey | 1965  | Governor-General-designate | [47]; also KG and a life peer
Harry Chauvel | 1919  | AIF – for military services in Egypt | [48]; also KCB, KCMG
Bede Clifford | 1945  | Governor of Trinidad and Tobago | also KCMG, CB and MVO
Joseph Cook | 1918  | Prime Minister of Australia | [49]
Zelman Cowen | 1977  | Governor-General of Australia | [50]; also Knight Bachelor, GCVO, AK
Frederick Darley | 1901  | Chief Justice of New South Wales  | [51]; also Knight Bachelor, KCMG
Owen Dixon | 1954  | Chief Justice of the High Court  | [52]; also KCMG
Arthur Fadden | 1958  | Treasurer and Deputy Prime Minister  | [53]; also KCMG
John Forrest | 1901  | Premier of Western Australia | [54]
Robert Garran | 1937  | In recognition of service to the Commonwealth  | [55]; also Knight Bachelor, KCMG
Harry Gibbs | 1981  | Chief Justice of the High Court  | [56]; also KBE
John Gorton | 1977  | In recognition of service as Prime Minister of Australia  | [57]
Paul Hasluck | 1969  | Governor-General-designate  | [58]; also KG, GCVO
John Higgins | 1934  | Services to the Commonwealth  | [59]; also KCMG
William Irvine | 1936  | Chief Justice of Victoria  | [60]; also KCMG
Isaac Isaacs | 1932  | Governor-General of Australia  | [61]; also KCMG, GCB
John Kerr | 1976  | (Governor-General of Australia)  | [4] [62]; also AK, GCVO, KCMG
John Latham | 1935  | Attorney-General and Minister for External Affairs  | [63]
John Madden | 1906  | Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria  | [64]; also Knight Bachelor, KCMG
John McEwen | 1971  | Services to the Commonwealth  | [65]
William McKell | 1951  | Governor-General of Australia  | [66]
William McMahon | 1977  | Prime Minister of Australia  | [67]
James Mitchell | 1947  | Lieutenant-Governor of Western Australia  | [68]; also KCMG
John Monash | 1919  | AIF – For military services in France & Flanders  | [69]; also KCB
Earle Page | 1938  | Deputy Prime Minister of Australia  | [70]
Thomas Playford | 1957  | Premier of South Australia since 1938  | [71]
George Reid | 1911  | Australian High Commissioner in London  | [72]; also KCMG, GCB
Ninian Stephen | 1982  | Governor-General of Australia  | [73]; also AK, KG, GCVO, KBE
Robert Torrens | 1884  | Premier of South Australia  | also KCMG

### Knights Commander (KCMG)

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Name | Date | Citation | Reference and comments

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James Agnew | 1895 |  | [4]
Robert Anderson | 1917  | AIF – London Administrative Headquarters  | [74]
Robert Askin | 1972  | Premier of New South Wales  | [75]; also GCMG
William Aston | 1970  | Speaker of the House of Representatives  | [76]
Henry Ayers[4] | 1872  |  | [4] also GCMG
Henry Baker | 1961  | President of the Tasmanian Legislative Council  | [77]
Richard Baker[4] | 1895  |  | [4]
Redmond Barry[4] | 1877  |  | [4] also Knight Bachelor
Henry Barwell | 1922  | Premier and Attorney-General of South Australia  | [78]
Thomas Bavin | 1933  | Premier of New South Wales  | [79]
Lewis Anthony Beaumont | 1901  | n/a  | [80]
George Bell | 1941  | Speaker of the House of Representatives  | [81]
Thomas Bent | 1908  | Premier and Treasurer of Victoria  | [82]
Graham Berry[4] | 1886  |  | [4]
Robert Best | 1908  | Vice-President of the Executive Committee [sic]  | [83]
John George Bice | 1923  | South Australian Liberal Politician, born in Cornwall in 1853. Positions included Chief Secretary and acting Premier.  | [84]
Joh Bjelke-Petersen | 1984  | Premier of Queensland  | [85]
Charles Blackburn | 1960  | Chancellor of the University of Sydney  | [86]; also Knight Bachelor
James Blair | 1935  | Chief Justice of Queensland  | [87]; also Knight Bachelor
Arthur Blyth[4] | 1877  |  | [4]
Henry Bolte | 1966  | Premier of Victoria  | [88]; also GCMG
Langdon Bonython | 1919  | In recognition of service to the Commonwealth  | [89]
James Boucaut[4] | 1895  |  | [4]
David Brand | 1969  | Premier of Western Australia  | [90]
John Bray[4] | 1890  |  | [4]
Stanley Burbury | 1981  | Governor of Tasmania  | [91]; also KBE, KCVO
James Burns | 1917  | Member of the NSW Legislative Council  | [92]
Francis Burt | 1977  | Chief Justice of Western Australia  | [93]
Richard Layton Butler | 1939  | Premier of South Australia  | [94]
Donald Cameron | 1932  | In recognition of service to public and charitable services in Queensland  | [95]
John Carrick | 1982  | In recognition of service to the Parliament of Australia  | [96]
Joseph Carruthers | 1908  | Premier & Treasurer of New South Wales  | [97]
Austin Chapman | 1924  | Minister of Trade and Customs  | [98]
Harry Chauvel | 1917  | Australian Imperial Force  | [99]; also KCB, GCMG
John Cockburn[4] | 1900  |  |
Timothy Coghlan | 1918  | Agent-General for New South Wales in London  | [100]; also Knight Bachelor
John Colton[4] | 1892  |  |
Pope Cooper | 1908  | Chief Justice of Queensland  | [101]; also Knight Bachelor
Robert Cosgrove | 1959  | Premier of Tasmania  | [102]
Bob Cotton | 1978  | In recognition of service to public and parliamentary services  | [103]
Charles Court | 1979  | Premier of Western Australia  | [104]; also Knight Bachelor, AK
Charles Cowper[4] | 1871  |  |
William Rooke Creswell | 1911  | Director of Commonwealth Naval Forces  | [105] (appears as Cresswell); also KBE
Robert Crichton-Brown | 1980  | Commerce and the Commonwealth  | (also Knight Bachelor) [106] (appears as Chrichton-Brown)
William Portus Cullen | 1912  | Chief Justice of the NSW Supreme Court  | [107]; also Knight Bachelor
Roden Cutler | 1965  | Governor-designate of New South Wales  | [108]; also AK, KCVO
Frederick Darley[4] | 1897  |  | [4] also Knight Bachelor, GCMG
John George Davies | 1909  | Speaker of the Tasmanian House of Assembly  | [109]
John Mark Davies | 1918  | President of the Victorian Legislative Council  | [110]
James Dickson | 1901  | Chief secretary of Queensland  | [111]; died ten days after being knighted
Owen Dixon | 1941  | Judge of the High Court  | [112]; also GCMG
John Dodds | 1901  | n/a  | [113]; also Knight Bachelor
John Downer[4] | 1887  |  | [4]
Frank Gavan Duffy | 1929  | Judge of the High Court  | [114]
James Duhig | 1959  | In recognition of service as the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Queensland  | [115]
Thomas Peel Dunhill | 1933  | n/a  | [116]
Albert Dunstan | 1948  | Former Premier of Victoria and Minister of Health  | [117]
John Dwyer | 1949  | Chief Justice of Western Australia  | [118]; also Knight Bachelor
Hughie Edwards | 1974  | Governor of Western Australia  | [119]
Thomas Ewing | 1908  | In recognition of service as Minister of Defence  | [120]
Arthur Fadden | 1951  | Deputy Prime Minister and Treasurer  | [121]; also GCMG
George Fuller | 1919  | Colonial Secretary of New South Wales  | [122]
Robert Garran | 1920  | Solicitor-General of the Commonwealth  | [123]; also Knight Bachelor, GCMG
Guy Gaunt | 1918  | n/a  | [124]; lived in the UK
Alexander Charles Gregory | 1903  | Surveyor-General of Queensland  | [125]
Littleton Groom | 1924  | Attorney-General of the Commonwealth  | [126]
Henry Gullett | 1933  | Minister of Trade & Customs  | [127]
John Winthrop Hackett, senior  | 1913  | Member of the WA House of Assembly  | [128]; also Knight Bachelor. His son John Winthrop Hackett, junior was also knighted, but by the British government – see "Non-Australian knights and dames with significant Australian associations" below
Rupert Hamer | 1982  | Public & political services in Victoria  | [129]
Colin Hannah | 1972  | Governor of Queensland  | [130]; also KBE, KCVO
Eric Harrison | 1962  | Australian High Commissioner in London  | [131]; also KCVO
James Harrison | 1968  | Governor of South Australia  | [132]
Edmund Herring | 1949  | In recognition for service as Lieutenant-Governor of Victoria  | [133] (appears as Edward Herring); also KBE
John Higgins | 1918  | Services to the Commonwealth  | [134]; also GCMG
John Hoad | 1911  | Chief of the General Staff – AMF  | [135]
Talbot Hobbs | 1919  | For military services in France & Flanders  | [136]; also KCB
Frederick Holder | 1902  | Speaker of the House of Representatives  | [137]
Neville Howse | 1919  | Australian Imperial Force  | [138]; also KCB
William Irvine | 1914  | Attorney-General of the Commonwealth  | [139]; also GCMG
Isaac Isaacs | 1928  | Senior Puisne Judge of the High Court  | [140]; also GCMG, GCB
Lawrence Jackson | 1970  | Chief Justice of Western Australia  | [141]; also Knight Bachelor
Walter James | 1931  | Chancellor of the University of Western Australia  | [142]; also Knight Bachelor
Elliot Johnson | 1920  | Speaker of the House of Representatives  | [143]
Frederick Jordan | 1936  | Chief Justice of New South Wales  | [144]
John Kerr | 1974  | Chief Justice of New South Wales  | [145]; also AK, GCMG, GCVO
James Killen | 1982  | Services to the Parliament of Australia  | [146]
John Kirwan | 1947  | President of the WA Legislative Council  | [147]; also Knight Bachelor
Adrian Knox | 1921  | Chief Justice of the High Court  | [148]
Condor Laucke | 1979  | Services to the Parliament of Australia  | [149]
John Lavarack | 1955  | Governor of Queensland  | [150]; also KBE, KCVO
Harry Lawson | 1933  | Former Premier of Victoria  | [151]
Walter Lee | 1922  | Premier & Chief Secretary of Tasmania  | [152]; also Knight Bachelor
James George Lee Steere | 1900  |  |
Henry Lefroy | 1919  | Premier of Western Australia  | [153]
Elliott Lewis | 1902  | Premier of Tasmania  | [154]
James John Lowe | 1956  | Senior Judge of the Victorian Supreme Court  | [155]
Phillip Lynch | 1981  | Services to the Parliament of Australia  | [156]
Mungo MacCallum | 1926  | Vice-Chancellor of the University of Sydney  | [157]
Alexander MacCormick | 1926  | A leading surgeon  | [158]; also Knight Bachelor
Charles Mackellar | 1916  | President – NSW State Children's Relief Board  | [159]; also Knight Bachelor
George Macleay | 1875  | Explorer and politician  | [160]
John Madden[4] | 1899  |  | also Knight Bachelor, GCMG
Frederick Mann | 1937  | Chief Justice of Victoria  | [161]; also Knight Bachelor
Alan Mansfield | 1958  | Chief Justice of Queensland  | [162]; also KCVO
David Martin | 1993  | Governor of New South Wales (Late gazettal)  | [163]
John Mason | 1980  |  | Mason was a British diplomat who was made a KCMG prior to his final posting as High Commissioner to Australia. On retirement, he and his wife chose to remain in Australia, and became Australian citizens.
Walter Massy-Greene | 1933  | Assistant Commonwealth Treasurer  | [164] (appears as Green, Walter Massy)
Henry Carr Maudsley | 1919  | Australian Imperial Force  | [165]
Philip McBride | 1953  | Minister of Defence  | [166]
John McCall | 1919  | Agent-General for Tasmania in London  | [167]; also Knight Bachelor
James McCay | 1918  | Australian Imperial Force  | [168]; also KBE
John McLeay | 1962  | Speaker of the House of Representatives  | [169]
Ian McLennan | 1979  | Services to youth, the community and industry  | [170]; also KBE
Robert McMillan | 1925  | Chief Justice of the WA Supreme Court  | [171]; also Knight Bachelor
William McMillan | 1901  | Colonial Treasurer of New South Wales  | [172]
Alister McMullin | 1957  | President of the Commonwealth Senate  | [173]
John McPhee | 1934  | Premier & Treasurer of Tasmania  | [174]
Denison Miller | 1920  | Governor of the Commonwealth Bank  | [175]
Edward Fancourt Mitchell | 1918  | Services to the Commonwealth  | [176]
James Mitchell | 1921  | Premier & Treasurer of Western Australia  | [177]; also GCMG
William Mitchell | 1927  | Vice-Chancellor of the University of Adelaide  | [178]
Newton Moore | 1910  | Premier & Treasurer of Western Australia  | [179]
John Morris | 1952  | Chief Justice of Tasmania  | [180]; also Knight Bachelor
Baron Ferdinand von Mueller | 1879  | Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne  |
Walter Murdoch | 1964  | Services to education & literature  | [181]
Brian Murray | 1982  | Governor of South Australia [sic]  | [182] (Note: Murray was in fact Governor of Victoria)
George Murray | 1917  | Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of SA  | [183]
Hubert Murray | 1925  | Lieutenant-Governor of the Territory of Papua  | [184]
Mellis Napier | 1945  | Chief Justice of South Australia  | [185]; also Knight Bachelor
John Newlands | 1927  | President of the Commonwealth Senate  | [186]
Herbert Nicholls | 1927  | Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Tasmania  | [187]; also Knight Bachelor
Francis Nicklin | 1968  | Premier of Queensland  | [188]
John Northcott | 1954  | Governor of New South Wales – formerly CGS  | [189]; also KCVO
John Northmore | 1932  | Chief Justice of Western Australia  | [190]
Stephen Parker | 1914  | Chief Justice of Western Australia  | [191]; also Knight Bachelor
Archdale Parkhill | 1936  | Minister of Defence  | [192]
Alexander Peacock | 1902  | Lately Prime Minister [sic] of Victoria  | [193]
John Beverley Peden | 1930  | President of the NSW Legislative Council  | [194]
Samuel Pethebridge | 1917  | Australian Imperial Force  | [195]
Robert Philp | 1915  | Premier of Queensland  | [196]
Charles Powers | 1929  | Judge of the High Court of Australia  | [197]
James Ramsay | 1978  | Governor of Queensland  | [198]; also Knight Bachelor, KCVO
Claude Hill Reading | 1934  | Chairman – Board of the Commonwealth Bank  | [199]
George Reid | 1909  | Member of the House of Representatives  | [200] (appears as Reif [sic], George Houstoun); also GCMG, GCB
George Rich | 1932  | Senior Puisne Judge of the High Court  | [201]
George Ritchie | 1935  | Minister of Mines of South Australia  | [202]
David Rivett | 1935  | Deputy Chairman & Chief Executive of the CSIRO  | [203]
Arthur Robinson | 1923  | Chief secretary & Minister of Marine of SA  | [204]
Thomas Robinson | 1913  | Agent-General for Queensland in London  | [205]; also Knight Bachelor, KBE, GBE
Granville Ryrie | 1919  | For military services in Egypt  | [206]
Frederick Sargood[4] | 1890  |  | [4]
John See | 1902  | Lately Prime Minister [sic] of New South Wales  | [207]
Frederick Shedden | 1943  | Secretary of the Department of Defence  | [208]
Edwin Thomas Smith | 1888  | Vice-President of the Organising Committee for the Jubilee International Exhibition of 1887-88  |
Billy Snedden | 1978  | For public & parliamentary service  | [209]
Walter Baldwin Spencer | 1916  | Professor of Biology at Melbourne University  | [210]
Bill Spooner | 1963  | Leader of the Government in the Senate  | [211]
Hayden Starke | 1939  | Puisne Judge of the High Court  | [212]
Bertram Stevens | 1941  | Premier of New South Wales  | [213]
Lancelot Stirling | 1909  | President of the SA Legislative Council  | [214]; also Knight Bachelor
Edward Albert Stone | 1912  | Lieutenant Governor of Western Australia  | [215]; also Knight Bachelor
Kenneth Street | 1956  | Chief Justice of New South Wales  | [216]
Laurence Street | 1976  | n/a  | [217]
Philip Street | 1928  | Chief Justice of New South Wales  | [218]
Josiah Symon | 1901  | Former Attorney-General of South Australia  | [219]
Charles Wade | 1920  | Attorney-General of New South Wales  | [220]; also Knight Bachelor
Edward Emerton Warren | 1969  | Services to international relations & coal mining  | [221]; also KBE
Brudenell White | 1919  | For military services in France & Flanders  | [222]; also KCB, KCVO
Edward Williams | 1983  | For services to the XII Commonwealth Games  | [223]; also KBE
William Williams | 1916  | Operations in the field with the AMF  | [224]
Henry Winneke | 1966  | Chief Justice of the Victorian Supreme Court  | [225]; also Knight Bachelor, KCVO
Edward Wittenoom | 1900  | Agent-General for Western Australia in London  | [226]
Albert Wolff | 1959  | Chief Justice of Western Australia  | [227]
Harry Wollaston | 1912  | Comptroller-General of the Customs Department  | [228]
Eric Woodward | 1958  | For services to the Commonwealth  | [229]; also KCVO
Harold Young | 1983  | For services to the Parliament of Australia  | [230]
John Young | 1975  | Lieutenant-Governor of Victoria  | [231]
William Zeal[4] | 1895  |  | [4]

## Royal Victorian Order

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Knights of the Royal Victorian Order:

### Knights Grand Cross (GCVO)

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Name | Living | Date | Citation | Reference and comments

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David Beattie |  | 1980  | Governor-General of New Zealand 1980–1985  | ; also GCMG
Zelman Cowen |  | 1980  | Governor-General 1977–1982  | [232]; also Knight Bachelor, GCMG, AK
Paul Hasluck |  | 1970  | Governor-General 1969–1974  | [233]' also KG, GCMG
William Heseltine | living  | 1990  | Private Secretary to HM The Queen 1986–1990  | [234]; also GCB (last Australian alive member of any Knight Grand Cross grade).
John Kerr |  | 1977  | Governor-General 1974–1977  | [235]; also AK, KCMG, GCMG
Ninian Stephen |  | 1982  | Governor-General 1982–1989  | [236]; also AK, KG, GCMG, KBE

### Knights Commander (KCVO)

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Frank Berryman |  | 1954  | Director-General of the 1954 Royal Tour  | [237]
Leighton Bracegirdle |  | 1947  | Official Secretary – Duke Of Gloucester, Military and Official Secretary, Government House Canberra 1931–45  | [238]
Denis Browne |  | 1961  | Surgeon  | [239]
Stanley Burbury |  | 1977  | Governor of Tasmania during the 1977 Royal Visit  | [240]; also KCMG, KBE
Roden Cutler |  | 1970  | Governor of New South Wales 1966–81  | [241]; also AK, KCMG
Roy Dowling |  | 1963  | Australian Secretary to the Queen – 1963 Royal Visit  | [242]; also KBE
Colin Hannah |  | 1977  | Governor of Queensland 1972–77  | [243]; also KBE, KCMG
Eric Harrison |  | 1954  | Minister in Attendance during the 1954 Royal Visit  | [244]; also KCMG
William Heseltine | living | 1982  |  | [245]; also GCVO, KCB, GCB
Robert Jackson |  | 1962  |  | also Knight Bachelor
Wallace Kyle |  | 1977  | Governor of Western Australia | also GCB, KCB
Walter Lamb |  | 1943  | Secretary of the Royal Academy  | [246]
John Lavarack |  | 1954  | Governor of Queensland 1946–57  | [247]; also KBE, KCMG
Bertram Mackennal |  | 1921  |  |
Alan Mansfield |  | 1970  | Governor of Queensland 1966–72  | [248]; also KCMG
Douglas Nicholls |  | 1977  | Governor of South Australia 1976–77  | [249]; also Knight Bachelor
John Northcott |  | 1954  | Governor of New South Wales 1946–57  | [250]; also KCMG
George Pearce |  | 1927  | Acting Prime Minister 1916  | [251] Archived 2011-05-26 at the Wayback Machine
Reginald Pollard |  | 1970  | Australian Secretary to Queen −1970 Royal Visit  | [252]; also KBE
James Ramsay |  | 1982  | Governor of Queensland 1974–77  | [253]; also Knight Bachelor, KCMG
James Scholtens |  | 1977  | Commonwealth Director in charge of 1977 Royal Visit  | [254]
Keith Seaman |  | 1981  | Governor of South Australia 1977–82  | [255]
David Smith |  | 1990  | Official Secretary to the Governor-General 1973–1990  | [256]
Percy Spender |  | 1957  | Commonwealth Minister  | [257]; also KBE
Murray Tyrrell |  | 1968  | Official Secretary to the Governor-General 1947–74  | [258]
Brudenell White |  | 1920  | Chief of General Staff during the 1920 Prince of Wales Tour – Died in Fairbairn Air Disaster 1940  | [259]; also KCB, KCMG
Henry Winneke |  | 1977  | Governor of Victoria 1974–82  | [260]; also Knight Bachelor, KCMG
Eric Woodward |  | 1963  | Governor of New South Wales 1957–65  | [261]; also KCMG
John Yocklunn |  | 1977  | Director of the 1977 Royal Visit to PNG  | [262]; also Knight Bachelor

## Order of the British Empire

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Knights and Dames of the Order of the British Empire:

### Knights Grand Cross (GBE)

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Name | Date | Citation | Reference and comments

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Thomas Blamey | 1943  | C-in-C AMF & Cdr Allied Land Forces in SW Pacific  | [263]; also Knight Bachelor, KCB
Owen Cox | 1920  | Service in connection with the war  | [264]; also KBE
Douglas Evill | 1946  | Air Chief Marshal, Royal Air Force | [265] Also KCB
Robert Gibson | 1932  | Chairman of the Commonwealth Bank  | [266]; also KBE
Thomas Robinson | 1920  | Agent-General for Queensland & services to AIF  | [267]; also Knight Bachelor, KCMG, KBE

### Dames Grand Cross (GBE)

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Name | Date | Citation | Reference and comments

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Mary Hughes | 1922  | Services to Australia during the war  | [268]
Enid Lyons | 1957  | Public services to Australia  | [269]; also AD
Nellie Melba | 1927  | Services to Australia  | [270]; also DBE
Pattie Menzies | 1954  | Public services to Australia  | [271]
Flora Reid[4] | 1917  | Services to Australia during the war  | [272]

### Knights Commander (KBE)

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Name | Living | Date | Citation | Reference and comments

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Charles Adermann |  | 1971  | Political & public service  | [273]
Keith Aickin |  | 1976  | In recognition of service to the law  | [274]
John Allison |  | 1959  | Chairman of the Export Development Council  | [275]
William John Allison |  | 1954  | n/a  | [276]; also Knight Bachelor
Ken Anderson |  | 1972  | In recognition of service to the public service and politics  | [277]; also Knight Bachelor
Reg Ansett |  | 1969  | In recognition of service to the transport industry  | [278]
Stanley Argyle |  | 1930  | Minister of Health in Victoria  | [279]
Albert Edwin Axon |  | 1959  | Chancellor of the University of Queensland  | [280]
Clive Baillieu |  | 1938  | In recognition of service to the Public service  | [281]; later 1st Baron Baillieu
James William Barrett |  | 1918  | Service in Egypt with the Red Cross  | [282]
Walter Bassett |  | 1959  | Public service & engineering  | [283]
Philip Baxter |  | 1965  | Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission  | [284]
Howard Beale |  | 1961  | Australian Ambassador to the USA  | [285]
George Beeby |  | 1939  | Chief Justice of the Arbitration Court  | [286]
Brian Ernest Bell |  | 1994  | Services to business and the community  | Awarded on the recommendation of the Papua New Guinea government[5]
Phillip Bennett |  | 1983  | Chief of the General Staff  | [287]
Nigel Bowen |  | 1976  | In recognition of service to political services  | [288]
Richard Boyer |  | 1956  | Chairman of the ABC  | [289]
Henry Braddon |  | 1920  | Commonwealth Commissioner in the USA  | [290]
Gerard Brennan |  | 1981  | Judge of the High Court of Australia  | [291], [292]
William Bridgeford |  | 1956  | Chief executive of the Olympic Games  | [293]
Charles Hart Bright |  | 1980  | In recognition of service to public service  | [294]
George Brookman |  | 1920  | Services during the war  | [295]
Michael Bruxner |  | 1962  | In recognition of service to public and political services  | [296]
John Bunting |  | 1977  | Australian High Commissioner in London  | [297]; also Knight Bachelor
Stanley Burbury |  | 1958  | Chief Justice of Tasmania  | [298]; also KCMG, KCVO
Joseph Terence Anthony Burke |  | 1980  | In recognition of service to the arts  | [299]
Macfarlane Burnet |  | 1969  | President of the Australian Academy of Science  | [300]; also Knight Bachelor, AK
Henry Mackay Burrell |  | 1960  | Honours List  | [301]
Samuel (Roy) Burston |  | 1952  | Honours List  | [302]
Gordon Chalk |  | 1971  | Queensland Government Minister  | [303]
Gilbert Chandler |  | 1972  | Leader of the Legislative Council of Victoria  | [304]
Frederick Chaney (senior)  |  | 1982  | In recognition of service to the community  | [305]
John Clancy |  | 1967  | Chancellor of the University of Sydney | [306]
Harold Clapp |  | 1941  | In recognition of service to public service  | [307]
Lindesay Clark |  | 1968  | In recognition of services to the mining industry  | [308]
Reginald Marcus Clark |  | 1939  | In recognition of service to public services  | [309]
Francis Grenville Clarke |  | 1926  | President of the Legislative Council of Victoria  | [310]
William Clarkson |  | 1918  | Reorganisation of coastal shipping during the war  | Appears twice: [311],[312]. Also CMG, Bio
Charles Percy Barlee Clubbe |  | 1927  | Service to the Commonwealth  | [313]
Arthur Cocks |  | 1923  | Colonial Treasurer of New South Wales  | [314]
John Collins |  | 1951  | n/a  | [315]
Charles Wellington Connibere |  | 1936  | In recognition of service to charities  | [316]
Virgil Copas |  | 1982  | Archbishop Emeritus of Papua New Guinea  | [317]
Douglas Copland |  | 1950  | Prices Commissioner & Vice-Chancellor of the ANU  | [318]
Magnus Cormack |  | 1970  | In recognition of service to political and public service  | [319]
Owen Cox |  | 1918  | Chairman of the Overseas Shipping Committee  | [320]; also GBE
John Gregory Crace |  | 1947  |  | [321]
William Rooke Creswell |  | 1919  | 1st Naval Member of the Naval Board  | [322] (shown as Cresswell); also KCMG
Walter Crocker |  | 1978  | In recognition of service to the public  | [323]
Charles Cutler |  | 1973  | Deputy Premier of New South Wales  | [324]
Edgeworth David |  | 1920  | Services during the war  | [325]
Alfred Charles Davidson |  | 1938  | General manager of the Bank of New South Wales | [326]
Charles Davidson |  | 1964  | Public services  | [327]
Daryl Dawson | living  | 1982  | Judge of the High Court of Australia  | [328]
William Deane | living  | 1982  | Judge of the High Court of Australia  | [329]
Hugh Denison |  | 1923  | Service to the Commonwealth  | [330]
David Derham |  | 1977  | Vice-Chancellor of the University of Melbourne  | [331]
Roy Dowling |  | 1957  | Honours List  | [332]; also KCVO
Alexander (Alick) Downer |  | 1965  | High Commissioner to the United Kingdom  | [333], [334] (appears as 2 separate entries in It's an Honour)
Russell Dumas |  | 1964  | In recognition of service to the Public Service in Western Australia  | [335]; also Knight Bachelor
John Wallace Dunlop |  | 1971  | In recognition of service to industry  | [336]
Donald Dunstan |  | 1980  | Chief of the General Staff  | [337]
Clifden Henry Andrews Eager |  | 1952  | President of the Legislative Council of Victoria  | [338]; also Knight Bachelor
James Alexander Mackenzie Elder |  | 1925  | Commonwealth Commissioner in the USA  | [339]
Kevin Ellis |  | 1969  | In recognition of service as Speaker of the NSW Legislative Assembly  | [340]
David Fairbairn |  | 1978  | In recognition of service to Parliament  | [341]
Allen Fairhall |  | 1970  | Minister of Defence  | [342]
Andrew Walker Fairley |  | 1951  | In recognition of service to the Public Service in Victoria  | [343]
Neil Fairley |  | 1950  | In recognition of service to tropical medicine  | [344]
James Oswald Fairfax |  | 1926  | In recognition of service as Chairman of the Empire Press Union  | [345]
James Freeman |  | 1977  | Roman Catholic Archbishop of Sydney  | [346]
Gordon Freeth |  | 1978  | High Commissioner in London  | [347]
John Russell French |  | 1918  | General manager of the Bank of New South Wales  | [348]
Wilfred Fullagar |  | 1955  | Judge of the High Court  | [349]
Hudson Fysh |  | 1953  | Chairman of QANTAS  | [350]
Victor Garland |  | 1982  | In recognition of service to parliament  | [351]
Ragnar Garrett |  | 1959  | Chief of the General Staff  | [352]
Harry Gibbs |  | 1970  | In recognition of service to the law  | [353]; also GCMG
Robert Gibson |  | 1920  | Services to the Repatriation Office  | [354]; also GBE
Norman Gilroy |  | 1969  | In recognition for service as Roman Catholic Archbishop of Sydney  | [355]
Philip Goldfinch |  | 1934  | Chairman of the British Settlers Committee  | [356]
Launcelot Goody |  | 1977  | In recognition of service to the Roman Catholic Church, particularly as the Archbishop of Perth  | [357]
Eugene Gorman |  | 1966  | Services to the dried fruits industry  | [358]
Guy Green | living  | 1982  | Chief Justice of Tasmania  | [359]
Richard Kenneth Green |  | 1957  | Senior Puisne Judge – Supreme Court of Tasmania  | [360]
John Grindrod |  | 1983  | Services to religion  | [361]
William Archer Gunn |  | 1961  | Chairman of the Australian Wool Bureau  | [362]
William Henry Hall |  | 1979  | Service to veterans  | [363]; also Knight Bachelor
Reginald Halse |  | 1962  | Archbishop of Brisbane  | [364]
Keith Hancock |  | 1965  | Professor of History at the ANU  | [365]
Val Hancock |  | 1962  | Honours List  | [366]
Mostyn Hanger |  | 1973  | Chief Justice of Queensland  | [367]
Colin Hannah |  | 1971  | Chief of the Air Staff  | [368]; also KCMG, KCVO
Wilfred Hastings Harrington |  | 1963  | Honours List  | [369]
John Richards Harris |  | 1937  | Minister of Health in Victoria  | [370]
John Harrison |  | 1923  | Chairman of the Disabled Soldiers Village  | [371]
Frank Hassett |  | 1976  | Chief of the Defence Force Staff  | [372]
Thomas Henley |  | 1920  | Member of the NSW Legislative Council  | [373]
Denham Henty |  | 1968  | In recognition of service to political services in Tasmania  | [374]
Edmund Herring |  | 1943  | For outstanding qualities of leadership in the S.W. Pacific area  | [375]; also KCMG
Leslie Herron |  | 1966  | For service as Chief Justice of New South Wales  | [376]
Thomas Hiley |  | 1966  | Lately Deputy Premier of Queensland  | [377]
William Frederick Holland |  | 1961  | President of the RSSAIL  | [378]
Ivan Holyman |  | 1956  | Service to the transport industry  | [379]
Samuel Hordern |  | 1938  | President of the NSW Royal Agricultural Society  | [380]; also Knight Bachelor
Henry Rudolph Howard |  | 1963  | Chairman of the Commonwealth Games Committee  | [381]; also Knight Bachelor
Herbert Sydney Hudd |  | 1937  | Minister of Railways & Marine in South Australia  | [382]
William Hudson |  | 1955  | Chairman of the Snowy Mountains Authority  | [383]
Alan Hulme |  | 1971  | Postmaster-General  | [384] Archived 2016-03-03 at the Wayback Machine
Thomas Ernest Victor Hurley |  | 1950  | Public services  | [385]
Leonard Huxley |  | 1964  | Vice-Chancellor of the ANU  | [386]
Kenneth Jacobs |  | 1976  | Service to law  | [387]
George Jenkins |  | 1946  | Minister of Agriculture in South Australia  | [388]
Asher Joel |  | 1974  | Services to the Community  | [389]; also Knight Bachelor
George Jones |  | 1953  | Honours List  | [390]
William Raymond Kelly |  | 1952  | Chief Justice of the Arbitration Court  | [391]
Alfred Newcombe Kemsley |  | 1980  | Shrine of Remembrance in Melbourne  | [392]
Wilfrid Kent Hughes |  | 1957  | Chairman of the Olympic Games Committee  | [393]
William John Kilpatrick |  | 1965  | Public service  | [394]
Frank Kitto |  | 1955  | Judge of the High Court  | [395]
Harold Knight |  | 1980  | Services to banking  | [396]
John Lavarack |  | 1942  | Operations in the Middle East  | [397]; also KCMG, KCVO
Arthur James Lee |  | 1966  | President of the RSSAIL  | [398]
Ernest Henry Lee-Steere |  | 1988  | Lord Mayor of Perth  | [399]
Frank Little |  | 1977  | Roman Catholic Archbishop of Melbourne  | [400]
Marcus Loane |  | 1976  | Archbishop of Sydney  | [401]
Arthur MacDonald |  | 1978  | Chief of the Defence Force Staff  | [402]
William George Albert Mack |  | 1967  | Chief Justice of Queensland  | [403]
Iven Mackay |  | 1941  | Operations in the Middle East  | [404]
Thomas Chester Manifold |  | 1965  | Services to horse racing and Victoria community  | [405]; also Knight Bachelor
Henry Edward Manning |  | 1939  | Attorney-General of New South Wales  | [406]
Anthony Mason | living  | 1972  | Services to law  | [407]
David Masson |  | 1923  | Professor of Chemistry at Melbourne University  | [408]
Louis Matheson |  | 1976  | Services to education and to Victoria  | [409]
William George McBeath |  | 1920  | Service during the War  | [410]
John McCauley |  | 1955  | Honours List  | [411]
James McCay |  | 1919  | Service during the war  | [412]; also KCMG
Emmet McDermott |  | 1972  | Lord Mayor of Sydney  | [413]
Charles George McDonald |  | 1970  | Chancellor of the University of Sydney  | [414]; also Knight Bachelor
William D'Arcy McDonald |  | 1964  | Chairman of the Commonwealth Bank  | [415]
Lyell McEwin |  | 1954  | Minister of Health & Mines in South Australia  | [416]
James Robert McGregor |  | 1956  | Services to the wool industry  | [417]
Malcolm McIntosh |  | 1956  | Minister of Works in South Australia  | [418]
Alick Benson McKay |  | 1977  | Services to Victoria & to newspapers  | [419]
Ross McLarty |  | 1953  | Premier of Western Australia  | [420]
Ian McLennan |  | 1963  | Services to industry  | [421]; also KCMG
Neville McNamara |  | 1981  | Honours List  | [422]
Alan McNicoll |  | 1966  | Honours List  | [423]
Walter McNicoll |  | 1937  | Administrator of New Guinea  | [424]
William McPherson |  | 1923  | Treasurer of Victoria  | [425]
Edward McTiernan |  | 1951  | Judge of the High Court  | [426]
Alfred William Meeks |  | 1920  | Member of the NSW Legislative Council  | [427]
Leslie Melville |  | 1957  | Vice-Chancellor of the ANU  | [428]
Douglas Menzies |  | 1958  | Judge of the High Court  | [429]
Harrison Moore |  | 1925  | Professor of Law at Melbourne University  | [430]
Kenneth Morris |  | 1968  | Services to parliament & the community  | [431]
Leslie Morshead |  | 1942  | Distinguished service in the Middle East  | [432]; also KCB
Alan Whiteside Munro |  | 1965  | Minister of Industrial Development in Queensland  | [433]
Alister Murdoch |  | 1966  | Honours List  | [434]
James Anderson Murdoch |  | 1928  | Public & charitable services  | [435]
Rupert Myers |  | 1981  | Services to education & science  | [436]
Maurice Arnold Nathan |  | 1963  | Lord Mayor of Melbourne  | [437]
Frank Kingsley Norris |  | 1957  | Services to medicine  | [438]
James O'Collins |  | 1980  | Services to religion & the community  | [439]
Mark Oliphant |  | 1959  | Director of the School of Science at the ANU  | [440]
Neil O'Sullivan |  | 1959  | Attorney-General of the Commonwealth  | [441]
Frank Packer |  | 1971  | Services to Australian & International Yachting  | [442]; also Knight Bachelor
Shane Paltridge |  | 1966  | Leader of the Government in the Senate  | [443]; appointed KBE 1 January 1966, and died 21 January
Herbert Angas Parsons |  | 1945  | Senior Puisne Judge in Queensland  | [444] (shown as Herbert Angis Parsons); also Knight Bachelor
Baden Pattinson |  | 1962  | Minister of Education in South Australia  | [445]
Richard Peek |  | 1972  | Chief of the Naval Staff  | [446]
Frederick Beaumont Phillips |  | 1956  | Chief Justice of Papua New Guinea | [447]
John Phillips |  | 1972  | Services to banking  | [448]
Roslyn Philp |  | 1958  | Senior Puisne Judge in Queensland  | [449]
Reginald Pollard |  | 1961  | Honours List  | [450]; also KCVO
Charles Read |  | 1976  | Chief of the Air Staff  | [451]
Arthur Rickard |  | 1920  | Services during the War  | [452]
Horace Robertson |  | 1950  | Honours List  | [453]
Macpherson Robertson |  | 1935  | Philanthropic services in Victoria  | [454]; also Knight Bachelor
Thomas Robinson |  | 1917  | Agent-General for Queensland in London  | [455]; also Knight Bachelor, KCMG, GBE
Percival Halse Rogers |  | 1939  | Judge of the Supreme Court of New South Wales | [456]
Robert Bell Roscoe |  | 1981  | Public services  | [457]
John Rossiter |  | 1978  | Agent-General for Victoria in London  | [458]
Sydney Rowell |  | 1953  | Chief of the General Staff  | [459]
James Rowland |  | 1977  | Chief of the Air Staff  | [460]
Charles Ryan |  | 1919  | Service during the war  | [461]
Arthur Rylah |  | 1968  | Deputy Premier of Victoria | [462]
John Sanderson |  | 1937  | Services to the Commonwealth  | [463]
Bruce Saunders | living  | 2012  | For service to business and public and community development  | [464] Awarded on the recommendation of the Solomon Islands government
Stanley Savige |  | 1950  | Honours List  | [465]
Frederick Scherger |  | 1958  | Honours List  | [466]
Francis Palmer Selleck |  | 1957  | Lord Mayor of Melbourne | [467]; also Knight Bachelor
Joseph Aloysius Sheehy |  | 1970  | Senior Puisne Judge in Queensland  | [468]
Mark Sheldon |  | 1924  | Services to the Commonwealth  | [469]; also Knight Bachelor
Colin Sinclair |  | 1953  | Service to the public & the pastoral industry  | [470]
Joynton Smith |  | 1920  | Services during the war  | [471]
Keith Smith |  | 1919  | England-Australia flight | [472]
Ross Smith |  | 1919  | England-Australia flight  | [473]
Victor Smith |  | 1969  | Chief of the Naval Staff  | [474]
Sydney Snow |  | 1936  | Public services  | [475]
Percy Spender |  | 1952  | Australian Ambassador to the USA | [476]; also KCVO
Richard Hawdon Stawell |  | 1929  | President of the Melbourne Hospital | [477]
Clive Selwyn Steele |  | 1953  | Services to engineering  | [478]
Ninian Stephen[4] |  | 1972  | Justice of the High Court of Australia | also AK, KG, GCMG, GCVO
Jack Stevens |  | 1955  | Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission  | [479]
Hugh David Stevenson |  | 1977  | Chief of the Naval Staff  | [480]
George Steward |  | 1918  | Service to the Commonwealth Government  | [481]
Hector Hamilton Stewart |  | 1976  | Service to medicine & the community  | [482]
Phillip Nigel Warrington Strong |  | 1970  | Primate of Australia  | [483]
Vernon Sturdee |  | 1951  | Honours List  | [484]
Reginald Swartz |  | 1972  | Minister for National Development  | [485]
Geoffrey Syme |  | 1941  | Service to journalism  | [486]
George Syme |  | 1924  | Service to Victoria  | [487]
Anthony Synnot |  | 1979  | Chief of the Naval Staff  | [488]
Alan Taylor |  | 1955  | Judge of the High Court  | [489]
Vernon Haddon Treatt |  | 1970  | Chief Commissioner for Sydney  | [490]
Donald Trescowthick |  | 1979  | Services to the community  | [491]
John Evenden Virtue |  | 1975  | Senior Puisne Judge in Western Australia  | [492]
Charles Graham Waddell |  | 1927  | Service to the Commonwealth  | [493]
Geoffrey Archer Walch |  | 1954  | Public service in Tasmania  | [494]
Cyril Walsh |  | 1969  | Judge of the High Court  | [495]
Arthur George Warner |  | 1962  | Minister of Transport in Victoria  | [496]; also Knight Bachelor
Edward Emerton Warren |  | 1959  | Services to the coal industry  | [497]; also KCMG
William Webb |  | 1954  | Judge of the High Court  | [498]
Henry Wells |  | 1956  | Chief of the General Staff  | [499]
Frederick William George White |  | 1962  | Chairman of the CSIRO  | [500]
Thomas White |  | 1952  | ppAustralian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom]]  | [501]
Bruce Williams |  | 1980  | Services to education and to government  | [502]
Dudley Williams |  | 1954  | Judge of the High Court  | [503]
Edward Williams |  | 1981  | Services to law & the community  | [504]; also KCMG
Richard Williams |  | 1954  | Director-General of Civil Aviation since 1946  | [505]
Eric Willis |  | 1975  | Deputy Premier of New South Wales | [506]
James Willis |  | 1981  | Chief of the Naval Staff  | [507]
Kenneth Agnew Wills |  | 1960  | Member of the Universities Commission  | [508]
Ronald Wilson |  | 1979  | Judge of the High Court  | [509]
Victor Wilson |  | 1926  | Services to the Empire Exhibition  | [510]
John Wilton |  | 1964  | Chief of the General Staff  | [511]
Victor Windeyer |  | 1958  | Judge of the High Court  | [512]
Frank Woods |  | 1972  | Primate of Australia  | [513]
George Wootten |  | 1958  | Chairman of the Repatriation Commission  | [514]
Guilford Young |  | 1978  | Services to the church  | [515]
Walter Young |  | 1932  | Chairman of the SA Committee on Finance  | [516]

### Dames Commander (DBE)

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Edith Teschemaker Anderson |  | 1937  | Public service in New South Wales | [517]
Judith Anderson |  | 1960  | In recognition of service to the performing arts  | [518]
Jacobena Angliss |  | 1975  | Community and welfare services  | [519]
Mary V. Austin |  | 1979  | In recognition of service to community and welfare services  | [520]
Zara Bate |  | 1968  | Devotion to the public interest  | [521]; she was initially known as Dame Zara Holt (being the widow of Harold Holt), but later married Jeff Bate
Beryl Beaurepaire |  | 1981  | In recognition of service to women's affairs  | [522]
Alice Berry |  | 1960  | In recognition of service to country women  | [523]
Margaret Blackwood |  | 1981  | In recognition of service to the [sic] education  | [524]
Helen Blaxland |  | 1975  | In recognition of service to the community  | [525]
Jill Bolte |  | 1973  | Public service to Victoria | [526]
Sister Philippa Brazill |  | 1979  | In recognition of service to the community  | [527]
Marie Breen |  | 1979  | In recognition of service to the community  | [528]
Mabel Brookes |  | 1955  | In recognition of service to charitable and social welfare services  | [529]
Edith Burnside |  | 1976  | In recognition of service to hospitals and the community  | [530]
Nancy Buttfield |  | 1972  | In recognition of service to political and public services  | [531]
Rita Mary Buxton |  | 1969  | In recognition of service to charities  | [532]
Carmen Callil |  | 2017  | Publishing  | [533]
Kate Isabel Campbell |  | 1971  | In recognition of service to the welfare of Australian children  | [534]
Florence Cardell-Oliver |  | 1951  | WA Minister of Health (Mrs Cardell-Oliver)  | [535] (as Annie Florence Gillies)
Alice Chisholm |  | 1920  | Organisation of canteens for the troops  | [536]
Rachel Cleland |  | 1980  | n/a  | [537]
Mabel Irene Coles |  | 1971  | In recognition of service to charities  | [538]
Mary Cook[4] |  | 1925  |  | [539]
Gertrude Cosgrove |  | 1947  | In recognition of service to the Public service in Tasmania | [540]
Elizabeth Couchman |  | 1961  | In recognition of service to public and patriotic services  | [541]
Mary Cramer |  | 1971  | In recognition of service to the public  | [542]
Mary Daly |  | 1951  | In recognition of service to social welfare  | [543]
Constance Elizabeth D'Arcy |  | 1935  | In recognition of service to the welfare of children  | [544]
Florence Bligh, Countess of Darnley |  | 1919  | n/a  | [545][546]
Joyce Daws |  | 1975  | In recognition of service to medicine  | [547]
Mary Durack |  | 1978  | In recognition of service to literature  | [548]
Doris Fitton |  | 1982  | In recognition of service to the theatre  | [549]
Phyllis Frost |  | 1974  | In recognition of service to the community  | [550]
Monica Gallagher |  | 1976  | In recognition of service to the community  | [551]
Mary Gilmore |  | 1937  | In recognition for leading women in 'New Australian Movement' and as a writer of verse, stories and essays  | [552]
Margaret Guilfoyle |  | 1980  | Public & Parliamentary service  | [553]
Joan Hammond |  | 1974  | Distinguished services to music  | [554]
Mary Herring |  | 1960  | In recognition of service to nursing in Victoria  | [555]
Patricia Hewitt | living | 2025  | For services to Healthcare Transformation  | Awarded as part of the 2025 New Year Honours[6]
Carol Kidu[4] | living | 2005  |  | [7] Papua New Guinean 2005 New Year's Honours
Leonie Kramer |  | 1983  | Services to literature and the public  | [556]
Ruby Litchfield |  | 1981  | Service to the performing arts & the community  | [557]
Annie McEwen |  | 1966  | Public services  | [558]
Patricia Mackinnon |  | 1977  | Distinguished service to Royal Children's Hospital  | [559]
Ella Macknight |  | 1969  | Services to medicine  | [560]
Jean Macnamara |  | 1935  | In recognition of service to the welfare of children  | [561]
Ida Mann |  | 1980  | Services to the welfare of Aboriginals  | [562]
Nellie Melba |  | 1918  | Patriotic work during the war  | [563]; also GBE
Roma Mitchell |  | 1982  | Community services  | [564]
Elisabeth Murdoch |  | 1963  | Social welfare services  | [565]
Merlyn Myer |  | 1960  | Charitable services  | [566]
Olivia Newton-John |  | 2020  |  |
Ada Norris |  | 1976  | Distinguished community service  | [567]
Marjorie Parker |  | 1977  | Distinguished community service  | [568]
Annabelle Rankin |  | 1957  | Political and public services  | [569]
Audrey Reader |  | 1978  | Service to women's affairs and politics  | [570]
Joan Howard Roberts |  | 1978  | Services to the handicapped  | [571]
Raigh Roe |  | 1980  | Services to women  | [572]
Margaret Scott |  | 1981  | Services to ballet (Mrs Denton)  | [573]
Hilda Stevenson |  | 1968  | Social welfare services  | [574]
Joan Sutherland |  | 1979  | In recognition of service to the performing arts  | [575]
Dorothy Tangney |  | 1968  | Service to the Western Australia [sic] Parliament  | [576]; the reference to the "Western Australia [sic] Parliament" is an error, as Tangney was never a member of that parliament
Peggy van Praagh |  | 1970  | Services to ballet  | [577]
Eadith Walker |  | 1928  | Philanthropic & charitable services  | [578]
Ivy Wedgwood |  | 1967  | Services to Parliament  | [579]

## Knights Bachelor

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This list of Australian knights bachelor is incomplete. You can assist by adding to it.

Note: There are no postnominal letters associated with the award of Knight Bachelor.

Name | Living | Date | Citation | Reference and comments

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Daniel Aarons |  | 1970  | In recognition for services as Treasurer of the Liberal Party of NSW  | [580]
Tei Abal |  | 1976  |  | [581]
Albert Francis Abbott |  | 1981  | Services to local government  | [582]
Charles Abbott |  | 1960  | Judge of the Supreme Court of South Australia  | [583]
Thomas à Beckett |  | 1909  | Puisne Judge of the Supreme Court of Victoria  | [584]
Peter Abeles |  | 1972  | Services to transport & Melbourne University  | [585]
Alastair Duncan Grant Adam |  | 1970  | Judge of the Supreme Court of Victoria  | [586]
Kenneth Thomas Adamson |  | 1968  | Services to the dental profession  | [587]
Garrick Agnew |  | 1982  | Service to industry & commerce  |
Alexis Albert |  | 1972  | In recognition of service to industry & the community  | [588]
Henry Graham Alderman |  | 1962  | In recognition of services to the legal profession  | [589]
George Mason Allard |  | 1926  | In recognition of services to banking  | [590]
Gordon Laidlaw Allard |  | 1981  | In recognition of services to the Royal Victoria Eye & Ear Hospital  | [591]
Carleton Allen |  | 1952  |  |
Harry Brookes Allen |  | 1914  | Dean of Medicine at the University of Melbourne  | [592]
William Guildford Allen (senior) |  | 1973  | Services to the pastoral industry in Queensland  | [593]
William Guildford Allen (junior) |  | 1981  | In recognition of service to broadcasting & the pastoral industry  | [594]
William John Allison |  | 1954  | In recognition of service to Australian commerce  | [595]; also KBE
Arthur Barton Pilgrim Amies |  | 1957  | In recognition of service to the dentistry as Dean at the University of Melbourne  | [596]
Donald Anderson |  | 1967  | Director-General of the Civil Aviation Department  | [597]
Francis Anderson |  | 1936  | Services to the University of Sydney  | [598]
John Muir Anderson |  | 1969  | In recognition of service to the community  | [599]
Ken Anderson |  | 1970  | Minister for Supply  | [600]; also KBE
William Hewson Anderson |  | 1965  | In recognition of service to the Public service  | [601]
Dormer Andrews |  | 1987  | In recognition of service as Chief Justice of Queensland  | [602]
Keith Angas |  | 1952  | Service to the pastoral industry  |
William Angliss |  | 1939  | In recognition of service to the public service in Victoria  | [603]
Tristan Antico |  | 1973  | In recognition of service to industry  | [604]
Archibald Archer |  | 1981  | In recognition of service to the primary industry, government and to the community  | [605]
Alfred Norman Armstrong |  | 1966  | In recognition of service to banking & export  | [606]
Alfred Henry Ashbolt |  | 1925  | Agent-General for Tasmania in London  | [607]
Will Ashton |  | 1960  | Service as Chairman of the Commonwealth Art Advisory Board  |
Harold George Aston |  | 1983  | Services to industry  | [608]
John Atwill |  | 1979  | In recognition of service to commerce  | [609]
John Worroker Austin |  | 1971  | In recognition of service to industry  | [610]
James Frederick John Auswild |  | 1974  | In recognition of service to commerce  | [611]
Kenneth Bailey |  | 1958  | Commonwealth Solicitor-General  | [612]
James Balderstone |  | 1983  | In recognition of service to primary industry and commerce  | [613]
John Vincent Barry |  | 1961  |  |
Redmond Barry[4] |  | 1877  |  | [614] also KCMG [615]
Peter Barter[4] |  |  |  |
Garfield Barwick |  | 1953  | In recognition of service to the Public service  | [616]; also AK, GCMG
Noel Bayliss |  | 1979  | In recognition of service to education at Murdoch University  | [617]; also CBE
Frank Beaurepaire |  | 1942  | Lord Mayor of Melbourne  | [618]
George Bedbrook |  | 1978  | In recognition of paraplegic rehabilitation  | [619]; also OBE
Marcus Beeck |  | 1979  | Service to agriculture  | [620]
Harold Garfield Behan |  | 1977  | For distinguished service to local government and primary industry  | [621]
Arnold Lucas Bennett |  | 1975  | In recognition of service to legal advocacy  | [622]
Angus Bethune |  | 1979  | In recognition of service to the Federal Parliament [sic]  | [623]; the reference to the “Federal Parliament” appears to be an error, as Bethune was never a member of that parliament
Max Bingham |  | 1988  | In recognition of service to the law, crime prevention, parliament and the community  | [624]
Cyril Pangbourne Bird |  | 1968  |  |
Hermann Black |  | 1974  | Chancellor of the University of Sydney  | [625]
Charles Blackburn |  | 1936  | Member of the NSW Council of the BMA  | [626]; also KCMG
Richard Blackburn |  | 1983  | In recognition of service to law  | [627]
Robert Blackwood |  | 1961  | In recognition of service to Monash University | [628]
James Blair |  | 1930  | Chief Justice of Queensland  | [629]; also KCMG
Thomas Blamey |  | 1935  | Commissioner of Police in Victoria  | [630]; also KCB, GBE
Henry Bland |  | 1965  | Secretary of the Department of Labour  | [631]
Lavington Bonython |  | 1935  | In recognition of service to philanthropy  | [632]
Stewart Bovell |  | 1976  | For long and outstanding service to Western Australia  | [633]
Geoffrey Fraser Bowen |  | 1977  | In recognition of distinguished service to commerce in the field of banking.  | [634]
John Bowser |  | 1927  | Speaker of the Victorian Legislative Assembly  | [635]
Jack Brabham |  | 1979  | In recognition of service to motor sport  | [636]
Donald Bradman |  | 1949  | In recognition of service to the sport of cricket  | [637]
William Lawrence Bragg[4] |  | 1941  |  | [638]
Laurence Brodie-Hall |  | 1982  | In recognition of service to the mining industry in WA  | [639]
Norman Brookes |  | 1939  | In recognition of service to public service  | [640]
Wilfred Deakin Brookes |  | 1979  |  |
Allen Brown |  | 1956  | Secretary of the Prime Minister's Department  | [641]
Thomas Buckland |  | 1935  | Chairman of the Bank of New South Wales  | [642]
Harry Budd |  | 1970  |  |
John Bunting |  | 1964  | Secretary to the Prime Minister's Department  | [643]; also KBE
Macfarlane Burnet |  | 1951  | Services to biological research  | [644]; also KBE, AK
Walter Burnett |  | 1988  | Services to the community  | [645]
Sam Burston |  | 1977  | In recognition of service to primary industry  | [646]
Richard Butler I |  | 1913  | Former Premier of South Australia  | [647]
John Butters |  | 1927  | Commissioner of the Federal Capital Commission  | [648]
Maurice Byers |  | 1982  | In recognition of service to public service  | [649]
Bede Callaghan |  | 1976  | In recognition of service to banking  | [650]
Frank Callaway |  | 1981  | In recognition of service to music education  | [651]
Bernard Callinan |  | 1977  | Victoria [sic]  | [652]
Ewen Paul Cameron |  | 1961  | Minister of Health in Victoria  | [653]
Roy Cameron |  | 1957  | Pathologist  | [654]
Walter Campbell |  | 1979  | In recognition of service to government, law and education  | [655]
Edward Carlile |  | 1913  | Parliamentary Draftsman Victoria  | [656]
Alan Carmody |  | 1978  | In recognition of service to the Public service  | [657]
Roderick Carnegie |  | 1978  | In recognition of service to industry  | [658] Archived 2017-12-30 at the Wayback Machine
Stanley Carver |  | 1962  | Commonwealth Statistician  | [659]
Walter Cawthorn |  | 1958  | High Commissioner to Pakistan  | [660]
Michael Chamberlin |  | 1964  |  | [661]
Frederick Oliver Chilton |  | 1969  |  |
Giles Chippindall |  | 1955  |  |
Raphael Cilento |  | 1935  | Director-General of the Queensland Health Dept  | [662]
Christopher Clark | living  | 2015  | For services to British German relations  | [663]
Hector Clayton |  | 1968  | In recognition of service to commerce  |
Donald Cleland |  | 1961  | Administrator of Papua New Guinea  | [664]
Ian Clunies Ross |  | 1954  | Chairman of the CSIRO  | [665]
Timothy Coghlan |  | 1914  | Agent-General for New South Wales in London  | [666]; also KCMG
Edward Cohen |  | 1970  | Businessman and philanthropist  | [667]
William Cole |  | 1981  | In recognition of service to the public service  | [668]
Hal Colebatch |  | 1927  | Agent-General for Western Australian in London  | [669]
Arthur Coles |  | 1960  | In recognition of service to public service  | [670]
Edgar Coles |  | 1959  | In recognition of service to philanthropy  | [671]
George Coles |  | 1957  | Director of the National Bank of Australia  | [672]
Kenneth Coles |  | 1957  | In recognition of service to charities  | [673]
Norman Coles |  | 1977  | In recognition of service to commerce  | [674]
Francis Raymond Connelly |  | 1948  | Lord Mayor of Melbourne | [675]
James Connolly |  | 1920  | Agent-General for the State of Western Australia  | [676]
Alan Cooley |  | 1976  | In recognition of service to the Public service  | [677]
Pope Cooper |  | 1904  | Chief Justice of Queensland  | [678]; also KCMG
Walter Cooper |  | 1959  | Minister for Repatriation  | [679]
John Cornforth[4] |  | 1977  |  |
Charles Court |  | 1972  | In recognition of service to the government of WA  | [680]; also AK, KCMG
Darcy Cowan |  | 1955  | In recognition of service to medicine  | [681]
John Cowan |  | 1944  | Member of the South Australia Legislative Council  | [682]
Zelman Cowen |  | 1976  | Vice-Chancellor of the University of Queensland | [683]; also AK, GCMG, GCVO
Norman Cowper |  | 1967  | n/a  | [684]
John Cramer |  | 1964  | Minister for the Army  | [685]
John Crawford |  | 1959  | Secretary of the Department of Trade  | [686]
Robert Crichton-Brown |  | 1972  |  | also KCMG 1980
Lynton Crosby | living  | 2015  | For political service  | This award was made on the recommendation of the UK Government; Also AO
James Cruthers |  | 1980  | In recognition of service to the arts and television in WA  | [687]
Arthur Cudmore |  | 1945  | President of the South Australia Medical Board  | [688]; also CMG
Collier Cudmore |  | 1958  | Member - South Australia Legislative Council  | [689] Archived 2022-11-14 at the Wayback Machine
William Portus Cullen |  | 1912  | Lt Governor & Chief Justice of NSW  | [690]; also KCMG
Adrian Curlewis |  | 1967  | In recognition of service to the community  | [691]
Neil Currie |  | 1982  | In recognition of service to the public  | [692]
Leo Cussen |  | 1922  | Judge of the Supreme Court of Victoria  | [693]
William Dargie |  | 1970  | Chairman – Commonwealth Art Advisory Board  | [694] Archived 2014-10-31 at the Wayback Machine
Frederick Darley[4] |  | 1887  |  | also KCMG, GCMG
James Darling |  | 1968  | Chairman of the ABC  | [695]
Peter Delamothe |  | 1973  | Agent-General for Queensland in London  | [696]
Harold "Jack" Dickinson |  | 1975  | Chairman of the NSW Public Service Board  | [697]
Leslie Diver |  | 1975  | Services to local government in WA  | [698]
William Dobell |  | 1966  | In recognition of service to the arts  | [699]
John Dodds[4] |  |  |  | also KCMG
Lorimer Dods |  | 1962  | In recognition of service to medicine, particularly in the field of paedeatrics [sic]  | [700]
Lloyd Dumas |  | 1946  | In recognition of service to the Public service in South Australia  | [701]
Russell Dumas |  | 1959  | In recognition of service to the Public service  | [702]; also KBE
Frederick Dutton |  | 1921  |  | [703]
John Dwyer |  | 1946  | Chief Justice of Western Australia  | [704]; also KCMG
Walter Dwyer |  | 1949  | President of the Arbitration Court of WA  | [705]
Gilbert Dyett |  | 1934  | National President of the RSL 1919–1946  | [706]
Clifden Henry Andrews Eager |  | 1945  | Member – Victoria War Advisory Committee  | [707]; also KBE
Donald Eckersley |  | 1981  | In recognition of service to primary industry  | [708]
Rod Eddington[4] | living  |  |  | This award was made on the recommendation of the UK Government
Llew Edwards |  |  | Services to the Parliament of Queensland  | [709]
Vincent Fairfax |  | 1971  | In recognition of service to youth, finance and the press  | [710]
Warwick Oswald Fairfax |  | 1967  | In recognition of service to the community  | [711]
Marc Feldmann | living  | 2010  | For services to Medicine  | ;[8] also AC
Raymond Ferrall |  | 1981  | In recognition of service to industry, commerce and to the community  | [712]; also CBE
James Hurtle Fisher |  | 1860  | President of the Legislative Council, South Australia  | [9] First resident of South Australia to be knighted[10]
Norman Seymour Fletcher |  | 1977  | services to the agricultural and pastoral industries.
Howard Florey[4] |  | 1944  |  | [713]; also a life peer
Geoffrey Foot |  | 1984  | In recognition of service to the community  | [714]
James Foots |  | 1975  | In recognition of service to the mining industry in Queensland  | [715]
Frank Fox |  | 1926  | Fellowship of British Empire Exhibition | [716]
Nathaniel Bernard Freeman |  | 1967  | In recognition of service to public welfare  | [717]; also CBE (Civil)
Leslie Froggatt |  | 1981  | In recognition of service to commerce and industry  | [718]
John Fuller |  | 1974  | Minister for Development in New South Wales  | [719]
Robert Garran |  | 1917  | Commonwealth Solicitor-General  | [720]; also KCMG, GCMG
Arthur George |  | 1972  | In recognition of service to the Australian/Greek community  | [721] Archived 2020-07-25 at the Wayback Machine
Archibald Glenn |  | 1966  | For distinguished service, particularly as Chairman of the Interim Council of Latrobe University  | [722]
James Gobbo |  | 1982  | Services to migrants  | [723]
John Goodsell |  | 1968  | Chairman of the NSW Public Service Board  | [724]
James Hay Gosse |  | 1947  | In recognition of public service in South Australia  | [725]
Albert Gould |  | 1908  | In recognition of service as President of the Senate  | [726]
Andrew Grimwade |  | 1980  | Services to industry & commerce  | [727]
Roy Grounds |  | 1969  | Architecture  | [728]
John Winthrop Hackett |  | 1911  | Member of the Legislative Council of WA  | [729]; also KCMG
William Henry Hall |  | 1968  | Services to ex-servicemen  | [730]; also KBE
Clarence Harders |  | 1977  | Public service  | [731]
James Hardy |  | 1981  | Services to yachting  | [732]
David Hay |  | 1979  | Public service  | [733]
Bernard Heinze |  | 1949  | Professor of Music at Melbourne University  | [734]
Lenox Hewitt |  | 1971  | For service as Secretary of the Prime Minister's Department  | [735]
Peter Heydon |  | 1970  | Secretary of the Department of Immigration  | [736]
Tasman Heyes |  | 1960  | Secretary of the Department of Immigration  | [737]
Leo Hielscher | living  | 1987  | Public service  | [738]
David Higgins | living  | 2011  | For services to regeneration as the Chief Executive of the Olympics Delivery Authority  | This award was made on the recommendation of the UK Government
Michael Hintze | living  | 2013  | Philanthropist. For services to the Arts  | [739]; also AM
James Holden |  | 1963  | Director of General Motors-Holden  | [740]
John Holland |  | 1973  | Services to engineering  | [741] (as Holland, Clifton Vaughan)
Samuel Hordern |  | 1919  | President of the NSW Royal Agricultural Society  | [742]; also KBE
Henry Rudolph Howard |  | 1961  | Lord Mayor of Perth  | [743]; also KBE
Edward Stuart Reginald Hughes  |  | 1977  | For distinguished service to medicine
Herbert Hyland |  | 1952  | Leader of the Victorian Country Party  | [744]
Brian Inglis |  | 1977  | Services to industry  | [745]
Lawrence Jackson |  | 1964  | Senior Puisne Judge in Western Australia  | [746]; also KCMG
Robert Jackson |  | 1956  |  | also KCVO
Walter James |  | 1907  | Agent-General for Western Australia in London  | [747] also KCMG
Asher Joel |  | 1971  | Services to the community  | [748]; also KBE
Henry Jones |  | 1919  | Tasmanian businessman, head of H. Jones & Co. IXL  |
Keith Jones |  | 1980  |  |
Arthur Llewellyn Jones | living  | 2024  | Services to Business and to the Community.  | ;[11] also OBE. This award was made on the recommendation of the PNG Government
Bernard Katz |  | 1969  |  |
William Kearney | living  | 1982  | Services to the law in Papua New Guinea  | [749]
Charles Kingsford Smith |  | 1932  | For services to Aviation in the Commonwealth of Australia  | [750]
Richard Kingsland |  | 1978  | Public Service  | [751]
John Kirwan |  | 1930  | President of the WA Legislative Council  | [752]; also KCMG
George Knibbs |  | 1923  | Director of the Bureau of Science & Industry  | [753]
Errol Knox |  | 1949  | Public Service  | [754] (Note; His middle name is seen in this citation as "Gabrial" [sic] but it was in fact "Galbraith")
William Knox |  | 1979  | Deputy Premier and Treasurer of Queensland, 1976 to 1978  | [755]; also KSJI
Alfred Langler |  | 1927  | Director of West Australian Newspapers  | [756]
Peter Lawler |  | 1981  | Public service  | [757]; also OBE
Luke Leake[4] |  | 1897  |  | [758]
Walter Lee |  | 1920  | Premier of Tasmania  | [759]; also KCMG
Ernest Augustus Lee Steere |  | 1948  | Public service  | [760]
John Lienhop |  | 1952  | Agent-General for Victoria in London  | [761]
Albert Lind |  | 1951  | Member of the Legislative Assembly of Victoria  | [762]
Nicholas Lockyer |  | 1926  | Chairman of the Forces Canteen Trust Fund  | [763]
Raymond Douglas Logan |  | 1983  | Services to cattle industry in Queensland  | [764]
David Walter Longland |  | 1977  | Services to the Crown & cerebral palsied in Qld  | [765]
Frank Lowy | living  | 2017  | Businessman, philanthropist  | This award was made on the recommendation of the UK Government; Also AC
Kenneth Luke |  | 1962  | Businessman  |
Peter MacCallum |  | 1953  | Dean of Medicine at the University of Melbourne  | [766]
Alexander MacCormick |  | 1913  | Services to medicine in New South Wales  | [767]; also KCMG
Charles Mackellar |  | 1912  | President of the NSW State Children's Relief Board  | [768]; also KCMG
Charles Mackerras |  | 1979  |  | [769]
John Madden[4] |  | 1893  |  | also KCMG, GCMG
Thomas Maltby |  | 1949  | Speaker of the Victorian Legislative Assembly  | [770]
Thomas Chester Manifold |  | 1953  | Services to politics & the public  | [771]; also KBE
Frederick Mann |  | 1933  | Judge of the Supreme Court of Victoria  | [772] (as Fred Mann); also KCMG
Norman Martin |  | 1949  | Agent-General for Victoria in London  | [773]
Robert Mathers |  | 1981  | Queensland businessman; Chairman of Mathers Shoes  | [774]
Robert May |  | 1995  | [775] | also a life peer
John McCall |  | 1911  | Agent-General for Tasmania in London  | [776]; also KCMG
Graham McCamley | living  | 1986  |  |
Eric McClintock |  | 1981  |  | [777]
Leslie McConnan |  | 1951  | Chief manager of the National Bank of Australia  | [778] [779]
James McCusker |  | 1983  | Services to building societies in WA  | [780]
Osborn McCutcheon |  | 1966  | Services to architecture  | [781]
Charles George McDonald |  | 1962  | Services to the medical profession  | [782]; also KBE
Robert Ross McDonald |  | 1950  | Minister of Housing & Forests in WA  | [783]
Ian McFarlane |  | 1984  | Mining businessman  | [784]
Malcolm Kenneth McIntosh |  | 1995  | Chief of Defence Procurement, (UK) Ministry of Defence  | [785]
William McKie |  | 1953  | Organist and Master of the Choristers, Westminster Abbey  | [786]
John McLaren |  | 1935  | Secretary, London High Commission  | [787]
Robert McMillan |  | 1916  | Chief Justice of Western Australia  | [788]; also KCMG
Archie Michaelis |  | 1952  | Speaker of the Victoria Legislative Assembly  | [789]
Jonathan Mills | living  | 2013  | Composer and arts festival director  | Awarded by UK government; Also AO
William Henry Fancourt Mitchell |  | 1875  | Police officer, politician  |
William Mitchell (philosopher) |  | 1927  | Vice-Chancellor, Chancellor, University of Adelaide  | [790]
Frank Moore |  |  |  |
John Morris |  | 1943  | Chief Justice of Tasmania  | [791]; also KCMG
Peter Morris |  |  |  |
Laurence Muir |  |  |  |
Angus Murray (doctor) |  | 1966  | President of the Australian Medical Association  | [792]
Norman Myer |  | 1956  | For public and philanthropic services in the State of Victoria | [793]
Crawford Nalder |  | 1974  | Deputy Premier of Western Australia | [794]
Mellis Napier |  | 1943  | Lt Governor & Chief Justice of South Australia  | [795]; also KCMG
Charles Nathan |  | 1928  | Development & Migration Commission  | [796]
Eric Neal | living  |  |  |
Douglas Nicholls |  | 1972  | Advancement of the Aboriginal people  | [797]; also KCVO
Herbert Nicholls |  | 1916  | Chief Justice of Tasmania  | [798]; also KCMG
Arthur William Nicholson |  | 1968  |  |
Robert Norman |  | 1989  | Services to the people of North Queensland  | [799]
Thomas North |  | 1982  | Services to the retail industry  | [800]
Gustav Nossal | living  |  |  |
Desmond O'Neil |  | 1979  | Deputy Premier of Western Australia  | [801]
Hubert Opperman |  | 1968  | High Commissioner to Malta  | [802]
Frank Packer |  | 1959  | Services to journalism & newspaper industry  | [803]; also KBE
Herbert Kingsley Paine |  | 1953  | Judge  | [804]
Arvi Parbo |  | 1977  | Services to industry  | [805]
Stephen Parker |  | 1908  | Chief Justice of Western Australia  | [806]; also KCMG
Nick Parkinson |  | 1979  | Ambassador to the USA  | [807]
Herbert Angas Parsons |  | 1936  | Puisne Judge in South Australia  | [808](shown as Herbert Angus Parsons); also KBE
Dennis Paterson |  |  |  |
George Whitecross Paton |  | 1957  | Vice Chancellor Melbourne University  | [809]
Arthur Petfield |  | 1968  |  |
William Pettingell |  | 1972  | Services to finance and government  | [810]
John Pidgeon |  |  |  |
Noel Power |  | 1999  | Lately Acting-Chief Justice, Hong Kong  |
William Prentice |  | 1977  | Services to the law (Papua New Guinea)  | [811]
Louis Pyke |  | 1978  | Services to the Multiple Sclerosis Society  | [812][813]
James Ramsay |  | 1976  | Lieutenant-Governor of Western Australia  | [814]; also KCMG, KCVO
John Ramsay |  | 1939  | Services to surgery  | [815]
Thomas Meek Ramsay |  | 1972  | For public service and services to commerce  | [816]
Richard Randall |  |  |  |
Benjamin Rank |  | 1972  | Services to medicine  | [817]
William Refshauge |  | 1966  | Director-General of Health  | [818]
Clem Renouf |  | 1988  | Outstanding service to the community  | [819]
Horace Richardson (retailer) |  | 1953  | Public service  | [820] [821]
Robert Risson |  | 1970  |  | [822]
Malcolm Ritchie (Thomas Malcolm Ritchie)  |  | 1951  | Services to politics  | [823]
Macpherson Robertson |  | 1932  | Services to Antarctic expeditions  | [824]; also KBE
Roy Robinson |  | 1931  | Services to forestry  | He was an expatriate in the United Kingdom; in 1947 he was raised to the hereditary peerage, but his barony became extinct upon his death in 1952
Thomas Robinson |  | 1910  | Agent-General for Queensland in London  | [825]; also KCMG, KBE, GBE
Dudley Bruce Ross |  | 1962  | Judge of the Supreme Court of South Australia | [826]
Sydney Schubert |  | 1985  | Permanent Head, Qld Premier's Department  | [827]
Harold Seddon |  | 1951  | President of the Legislative Council, State of Western Australia  | [828]
Francis Selleck |  | 1956  | Lord Mayor of Melbourne  | [829]; also KBE
Allan Sewell (John Allan Sewell)  |  | 1977  | Auditor-General of Queensland  | [830] [831]
Christopher Sheehy |  | 1959  | Chairman Australian Dairy Produce Board  | [832]; also OBE
Nicholas Shehadie |  | 1976  | Lord Mayor of Sydney  | [833]; also AC, OBE
Mark Sheldon |  | 1922  | Services to the Commonwealth  | [834]; also KBE
Hercules Sinnamon |  | 1985  | Services to the community  | [835]; also OBE
Pascal Soriot | living  | 2022  | Services to the community, principally the AstraZeneca vaccine  | [836]
John Soundy |  | 1954  | For service to the community of Hobart as Lord Mayor and Member of the Legislative Council  |
John Spicer |  | 1963  | Chief Judge – Commonwealth Industrial Court  | [837]
Charles Spry |  | 1964  | Public service  | [838]; also CBE
George Stening |  | 1968  | CEO of the Order of St John of Jerusalem  | [839]
Lancelot Stirling |  | 1902  | President of the SA Legislative Council  | [840]; also KCMG
Edward Stone |  | 1902  | Chief Justice of Western Australia  | [841]; also KCMG
Colin Syme |  | 1963  | President of the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Research  | [842]; also AK
George Tallis |  | 1922  | Services to the Commonwealth; services to the theatre and for wartime fund-raising  | [843] [844]
Gordon Taylor |  | 1954  | Aviator  | [845]
Leslie Thiess |  | 1971  | Mining and construction  | [846]
Robert Thomas |  | 1909  | Newspaper proprietor  |
Evan Rees Whitaker Thomson |  | 1977  | Services to the medical profession and related fields of endeavour  | [847]
Joseph Totterdell |  | 1953  | Lord Mayor of Perth  | [848]
(Sydney) Lance Townsend |  | 1971  | Professor of Obstetrics at Melbourne University  | [849]
Thomas Travers |  | 1972  | Services to medicine  | [850]
Leon Trout |  | 1959  | Public service in Queensland  | [851]
Ian Turbott |  | 1967  |  | [852] (knighthood awarded before emigrating to Australia)
William Tyree |  | 1975  | Services to the community  | [853]; also OBE
William Vines |  | 1976  | Services to primary industry  | [854]; also AC, CMG
Eric von Schramek |  | 1981  | Services to architecture  | [855]
Charles Wade |  | 1918  | Agent-General for New South Wales in London  | [856]; also KCMG
Samuel Walder |  | 1933  | Lord Mayor of Sydney  | [857]
Gordon Wallace |  | 1968  |  |
Arthur Warner |  | 1956  | Minister of Transport in Victoria  | [858]; also KBE
Bruce Watson |  | 1985  | Services to Queensland industry  | [859]
Alan Westerman |  | 1963  | Secretary of the Department of Trade  | [860]; also CBE
Guy Weston |  | 2020  | Philanthropist.  | This award was made on the recommendation of the UK Government
Frederick Wheeler |  | 1967  | Chairman of the Public Service Board  | [861]; also CBE
Roland Wilson |  | 1955  | Secretary to the Treasury  | [862]; also CBE
Henry Winneke |  | 1957  | Solicitor-General of Victoria  | [863]; also KCMG, KCVO
Edward Woodward |  | 1982  | Public Service  | [864]
Reg Wright |  | 1978  | Services to the Parliament of Tasmania  | [865]
Geoffrey Yeend |  | 1979  | Public service  | [866] Archived 2018-11-04 at the Wayback Machine; also AC, CBE
Harold Wyndham |  | 1969  | Services to education  | [867]
John Yocklunn |  | 1975  | In recognition of politics and government in Papua New Guinea  | [868]; also KCVO

## New Zealand Order of Merit

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Some Australians have dual citizenship with New Zealand. New Zealand awards knighthoods and damehoods through the New Zealand Order of Merit. All citizens of Commonwealth realms are eligible to be appointed to the order in any grade.

### Dames Companion

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Adrienne Stewart | living | 2014  | Arts patron  |

## Non-Australian knights and dames with significant Australian associations

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George 'Gubby' Allen | Australian-born British  |  | Knight Bachelor | Allen was born in Australia but lived most of his life in the UK, captaining the England cricket team.

James Atkin, Baron Atkin

| British  |  | Knight Bachelor | Atkin was born in Queensland to British migrant parents, moving with his mother to Wales at age 4. His father subsequently died in Queensland. He was a prominent British appellate judge of the second quarter of the twentieth century.

Edric Bastyan

| British  |  | KCMG, KCVO, KBE | After his term as Governor of Tasmania ended in 1973, Bastyan remained in Australia, where he died in 1980.
Dallas Brooks | British  |  | GCMG, KCB, KCVO | After his term as Governor of Victoria ended in 1963, Brooks remained in Australia, where he died in 1966.
George Cartland | British  |  | Knight Bachelor | Cartland spent a significant period in Australia, becoming Vice-Chancellor of the University of Tasmania 1968–78, and Chairman of the Tasmanian Council of the Trade Union Training Authority 1979–91, among other things.[12]
Charles III | Resides in the UK  | living |  AK  | Although King of Australia, King Charles III is not personally an Australian citizen. To overcome this barrier to his being appointed a substantive Knight of the Order of Australia, the Constitution of the Order of Australia was amended by Letters Patent to specifically include him, when he was Prince of Wales. He became the Sovereign of the Order on 8 September 2022 upon the death of Queen Elizabeth II.[13]
Cicely Courtneidge | British  |  | DBE | Courtneidge was born in Australia but her career was conducted mainly in the UK and she was generally considered a British actress.[14]
Charles Gairdner | British  |  |  GBE, KCMG, KCVO  | After his term as Governor of Tasmania ended (he had also previously been Governor of Western Australia), he retired to Perth, where he died in 1983
Martin Gilliat | British  |  |  KCVO, GCVO | Gilliat was Military Secretary to the Governor-General (presumably Sir William Slim) for some time. There is no evidence he had any other Australian association.
John Winthrop Hackett | Australian-born British  |  |  GCB | Hackett was born in Australia; his father Sir John Winthrop Hackett, senior was a newspaper proprietor, WA politician, and founding Chancellor of the University of Western Australia. Hackett junior was based in the UK from his early 20s, becoming a general in the British Army and a writer. He died in 1997.
Archbishop David Hand | Australian-born Papua New Guinean  |  |  KBE | Geoffrey David Hand was an Australian Anglican priest who was the first person to adopt Papua New Guinea citizenship upon independence in 1975. He had already been appointed a CBE by Australia, and was knighted on a recommendation of the PNG government
Barry Holloway | Australian-born Papua New Guinean |  |  KBE | Holloway was born in Tasmania and is buried there. He was a co-founder of Papua New Guinea's Pangu Party, became a PNG citizen upon independence, and was the inaugural Speaker of the Parliament of Papua New Guinea; he was knighted on a recommendation of the PNG government
Rex Nan Kivell | New Zealand-born British  |  | Knight Bachelor | His extraordinary collection of Australiana was sold to the National Library of Australia at a fraction of its true value. He was knighted by the Australian Government in 1976, even though he never visited Australia.[15]
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh | Resided in the UK  |  |  AK  | Prince Philip, while spouse of the Queen of Australia, was not personally an Australian citizen. To overcome this barrier to his being appointed a substantive Knight of the Order of Australia, the Constitution of the Order of Australia was amended by Letters Patent to specifically include him.[13]
Garfield Sobers | Barbadian (later Barbadian-Australian)  | living | Knight Bachelor | Sobers was knighted in 1975 for services to cricket. The award was made in the British Diplomatic and Overseas section of the 1975 New Year Honours List, rather than on the nomination of the Government of Barbados, which had then temporarily stopped putting forward recommendations for British honours. Sobers played cricket for South Australia 1961–64, he was married to an Australian 1969–90, and he acquired Australian citizenship through marriage in 1980, becoming a dual Barbadian-Australian citizen.[16][17] He resides in Barbados.

## See also

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* Living Australian knights and dames
* List of knights and dames of the Order of Australia
* Australian peers and baronets

## References

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### Citations

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1. ^ Murphy, Katharine (25 March 2014). "Tony Abbott brings back knights and dames to honours system – politics live". The Guardian – AU online edition. Retrieved 25 March 2014.
2. ^ "Malcolm Turnbull scraps Tony Abbott's Knights and Dames".
3. ^ "Written questions and answers - Written questions, answers and statements - UK Parliament".
4. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak al am an ao ap aq ar as This award does not appear in It's an Honour.
5. ^ "No. 53531". The London Gazette (5th supplement). 1993-12-30. p. 45.
6. ^ "London Gazette". www.thegazette.co.uk.
7. ^ London Gazette, 31 December 2004, p. N33
8. ^ "No. 59446". The London Gazette (Supplement). 12 June 2010. p. 1.
9. ^ "No. 22389". The London Gazette. 25 May 1860. p. 1996.
10. ^ "Fisher, Sir James Hurtle (1790–1875)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Vol. 1\. Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. 1966. ISBN 978-0-522-84459-7. ISSN 1833-7538. OCLC 70677943. Retrieved 22 February 2014.
11. ^ "2024 Kings Birthday Honours". Express.co.uk. Retrieved 16 June 2024.
12. ^ "Times online". Archived from the original on May 24, 2010.
13. ^ a b "ComLaw: Gazette C2015G00155 (Amendments to the Constitution of the Order of Australia)".. Retrieved 13 March 2015
14. ^ "Britmovie".
15. ^ "It's an Honour".
16. ^ "Telegraph".
17. ^ "Rediff".

### Sources

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* "It's an Honour", the Australian Government database of honours and awards.
* "Australian Dictionary of Biography"