* 1850 – Reginald Heber Roe, Australian academic and educator ( d. 1926 )

The Australian academic and practicing Pagan Caroline Jane Tully argued that many Pagans can react negatively to new scholarship regarding historical pre-Christian societies, believing that it is a threat to the structure of their beliefs and " sense of identity.

* 1919 – Sir Zelman Cowen, Australian academic and Governor-General

Subtopia, a novel published in 2005 by Australian author and academic A. L.

The term " rector " is uncommon in Australian academic institutions.

JCU is one of only seventeen Australian universities that were listed in the ARWU top 400 academic world universities in 2008.

The principal academic body is the Academic Board which receives advice on academic matters from the Faculties, College ( Australian Defence Force Academy ), and the Boards of Studies.

* Geoffrey Bolton, Western Australian academic historian

Another cousin was the academic and novelist Coral Lansbury, whose son is former Australian federal Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull.

Geoffrey Ian Gallop, AC ( born 27 September 1951 ) is an Australian academic and former politician.

* Judith Beveridge ( b. 1956 ), Australian poet, editor and academic

* Mark Peel ( born 1959 ), Australian historian and academic

James Stephens ( 1821 – 1889 ), a stonemason who was a supporter of the Chartists and later an influential Australian trade unionist, was born in the town, as was Sir Herbert Isambard Owen ( 1857 – 1927 ), a nephew of Isambard Kingdom Brunel who became an academic and a leading figure in the formation of the University of Wales.

Australian academic and writer, Kerryn Goldsworthy, writes that " From the beginning of her writing career Garner was regarded as, and frequently called, a stylist, a realist, and a feminist ".

In 1986, Australian academic and critic, Don Anderson, wrote of The Children's Bach: " There are four perfect short novels in the English language.

Kim Christian Beazley AC ( born 14 December 1948 ) is a former Australian politician and academic and a current diplomat.

However, most of the novel focuses on future south-east Asian politics ( Egan criticized Indonesian imperialism and Australian treatment of refugees ), repressed childhood guilt, evolutionary biology and academic life.

* AARNet ( Australian academic and research network )

IELTS is accepted by most Australian, British, Canadian, Irish, New Zealand and South African academic institutions, over 3, 000 academic institutions in the United States, and various professional organisations.

ACHI is an academic institutional member of the International Medical Informatics Association ( IMIA ) and a full member of the Australian Council of Professions.

Humphries ' other satirical characters include the " priapic and inebriated cultural attaché " Sir Les Patterson, who has " continued to bring worldwide discredit upon Australian arts and culture, while contributing as much to the Australian vernacular as he has borrowed from it ", gentle, grandfatherly " returned gentleman " Sandy Stone, iconoclastic 1960s underground film-maker Martin Agrippa, Paddington socialist academic Neil Singleton, sleazy trade union official Lance Boyle, high-pressure art salesman Morrie O ' Connor and failed tycoon Owen Steele.

* 1826 – Thomas Alexander Browne, Australian writer ( d. 1915 )

* 1975 – Petria Thomas, Australian swimmer

* 1958 – Grant Thomas, Australian rules footballer

* 1950 – Sir Thomas Blamey becomes the only Australian-born Field Marshal in Australian history.

* 1792 – Thomas Mitchell, Australian explorer ( d. 1855 )

* 1971 – Irwin Thomas, Australian singer ( Southern Sons, Electric Mary and She Said Yes )

* 1987 – Josh Thomas, Australian comedian, actor, and writer

* 1935 – Thomas Keneally, Australian author

The Supreme Commander of operations was the United States General Douglas Macarthur, with Australian General Thomas Blamey taking a direct role in planning and operations being essentially directed by staff at New Guinea Force headquarters in Port Moresby.

* Thomas Gerald Room ( 1902-1986 ), Australian mathematician

* 1857 – Thomas Groube, Australian cricketer ( d. 1927 )

* May 27 – Sir Thomas Albert Blamey, Australian soldier ( b. 1884 )

* April 28 – Josiah Thomas, Australian politician ( d. 1933 )

** Thomas Henley, Australian politician ( d. 1935 )

* February 5 – Josiah Thomas, Australian politician ( b. 1863 )

Australian geographer Thomas Griffith Taylor proposed a classification of towns based on their age and pattern of land use.

The ranges were named in 1836 by Surveyor General of New South Wales Sir Thomas Mitchell after the Grampian Mountains in his native Scotland, but are also known by the name Gariwerd, from one of the local Australian Aboriginal languages, either the Jardwadjali or Djab Wurrung language.

Thomas Burke won both the 100 metres and 400 metres, a feat not since repeated, while London-based Australian Edwin Flack won the 800 and 1500 metres races.

* Thomas Bath ( 1875 – 1956 ), Australian politician and trade unionist

* Thomas William Glasgow ( 1876-1955 ), Australian Army Major General

Other prominent persons born and educated in Oamaru include Des Wilson, founder of the UK homelessness charity, Shelter ; Australian Prime Minister Chris Watson ; New Zealand politicians Arnold Nordmeyer and William Steward ; Cardinal Thomas Stafford Williams ; Malcolm Grant, President and Provost of University College London ; and All Blacks rugby union captain Richie McCaw.

Australian writers who have obtained international renown include the Nobel winning author Patrick White, as well as authors Peter Carey, Thomas Keneally, Colleen McCullough, Nevil Shute and Morris West.

The extraordinary circumstances of the convict foundations of Australian theatre are recounted in Thomas Keneally's novel The Playmaker.

As U. S. Army engineers were few in numbers, Casey worked closely with his Australian Army counterpart at General Sir Thomas Blamey's Allied Land Forces headquarters, Major General Clive Steele.