• Source: 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
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.
Dan Christian
Ashleigh Gardner, first Indigenous Australian woman to play in a cricket World Cup.
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.
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

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• List of Indigenous Australian sportspeople
• Lists of Indigenous Australians
• List of LGBT sportspeople
• Notable Indigenous people
• List of sportsperson-politicians
• Lists of sportspeople
• Lists of black people
• Indigenous health in Australia
• Racism in sport in Australia
• History of Australia