Historical figures in Canberra
The atlas holds 15 people and 28 moments here, from 1927 to 2017. The most recorded lives are Gough Whitlam, Bob Hawke and Ngô Đình Diệm. Among them Political Leaders, Scientists and Writers, across the Space Age and the Cold War.
Notable people
Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
in 2005
1 moment here
Malaysian civil servant and politician who served as Malaysia’s fifth prime minister from 2003 to 2009.…
Bob Hawke
from 1956 to 2008
5 moments here
Australian trade-union leader and Labor politician who served as Australia’s 23rd prime minister from 1983 to 1991.…
Eleanor Roosevelt
in 1943
1 moment here
American political figure, diplomat, activist, and First Lady of the United States from 1933 to 1945.…
Fidel V. Ramos
in 1995
1 moment here
Filipino military officer and politician who served as president of the Philippines from 1992 to 1998.…
Gough Whitlam
from 1927 to 2008
7 moments here
Edward Gough Whitlam was an Australian lawyer, Royal Australian Air Force navigator, Labor politician and the 21st prime minister of Australia.…
Helen Keller
in 1948
1 moment here
Helen Adams Keller was an American deafblind author, lecturer, disability-rights advocate, and political activist.…
Howard Florey
from 1953 to 1958
2 moments here
Australian pharmacologist and pathologist who led the Oxford team that developed penicillin into a practical therapeutic drug.…
Indira Gandhi
in 1968
1 moment here
Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi was an Indian stateswoman who served as prime minister from 1966 to 1977 and from 1980 until her assassination in 1984.…
John Eccles
from 1952 to 1963
2 moments here
Australian neurophysiologist and philosopher John Carew Eccles (1903–1997) was a Nobel laureate noted for research on synaptic transmission.…
Lee Kuan Yew
in 1965
1 moment here
Singaporean barrister and statesman who co-founded the People’s Action Party and served as Singapore’s first prime minister from 1959 to 1990.…
Li Keqiang
in 2017
1 moment here
Chinese politician and economist who rose from rural labour in Anhui through the Communist Youth League, led Henan and Liaoning, served as vice…
Macfarlane Burnet
in 1941
1 moment here
Australian virologist and immunologist Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet, known as Macfarlane Burnet, shared the 1960 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine…
Mikhail Gorbachev
in 1999
1 moment here
Soviet and Russian politician who led the Soviet Union from 1985 until its dissolution in 1991.…
Ngô Đình Diệm
in 1957
2 moments here
Ngô Đình Diệm was a Vietnamese civil servant, nationalist politician, prime minister of the State of Vietnam, and first president of the Republic of…
Shinzo Abe
in 2014
1 moment here
Japanese politician who served as Prime Minister of Japan from 2006 to 2007 and from 2012 to 2020.…
Moments
- 1927 Moved with family to Canberra Gough Whitlam
- 1932 Canberra Grammar School Gough Whitlam
- 1941 Charles Mackay Lecture Macfarlane Burnet
- 1943 Wartime address in Canberra Eleanor Roosevelt
- 1948 AFOB tour of Australia Helen Keller
- 1952 Move to Canberra John Eccles
- 1953 Visit to Canberra for ANU planning Howard Florey
- 1956 Doctoral studies at ANU Bob Hawke
- 1957 Address to Australian Parliament Ngô Đình Diệm
- 1957 Arrival in Canberra Ngô Đình Diệm
- 1958 Opening of John Curtin School Howard Florey
- 1963 Faceless Men conference episode Gough Whitlam
- 1963 Matthew Flinders Lecture John Eccles
- 1965 Speech at the National Press Club Lee Kuan Yew
- 1968 Australian War Memorial visit Indira Gandhi
- 1972 Speech at the Aboriginal Tent Embassy Gough Whitlam
- 1973 Reception at The Lodge Gough Whitlam
- 1975 Dismissal announcement at Parliament House Gough Whitlam
- 1983 National Economic Summit address Bob Hawke
- 1983 National Press Club address Bob Hawke
- 1988 Opening of Questacon Bob Hawke
- 1995 Visit to Parliament House Fidel V. Ramos
- 1999 Address to Australian Parliament Mikhail Gorbachev
- 2005 Official visit to Canberra Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
- 2008 Stolen Generations apology Bob Hawke
- 2008 National apology in Parliament Gough Whitlam
- 2014 Address to Australian Parliament Shinzo Abe
- 2017 Official visit to Australia Li Keqiang