Mike Cannon-Brooks

I wouldn't have found him without those clues, he comes from a part of the world where I was born and now lives in Queensland. Professor Ian Hector Frazer AC 

Great Sandy. Yes correct. It is Ian Frazer, an Australian of the Year.  I guess you will have another person to put up.

For me, it is a shame more people don't recognise some people who do good things rather than some pretty faces posing in front of a scenic resort they haven't paid to stay in. Anyway, my rant over.

Ian Hector Frazer AC (born 6 January 1953) is a Scottish-born Australian immunologist, the founding CEO and Director of Research of the Translational Research Institute (Australia).^[1] Frazer and Jian Zhou developed and patented the basic technology behind the HPV vaccine against cervical cancer at the University of Queensland. Researchers at the National Cancer Institute, Georgetown University, and University of Rochester also contributed to the further development of the cervical cancer vaccine in parallel.

In 1999 Frazer received the Australian Biotechnology Award, and has since received more than twenty awards for science: ^[30]

• 1999: Business/Higher Education Round Table award for Collaborative Research
• 2003: Centenary Medal for services to cancer research^[31]
• 2005: John Curtin Medal
• 2005: CSIRO Eureka Prize for Leadership in Science^[32]
• 2006: Distinguished Fellowship Award, Royal College of Pathologists
• 2006: Queenslander of the Year / Australian of the Year
• 2006: William B. Coley Award (with Harald zur Hausen)^[7]
• 2007: Novartis Prize for Clinical Immunology, Rio de Janeiro
• 2007: Golden Plate Award, American Academy of Achievement^[33]
• 2007: International Life Award for Scientific Research
• 2007: Clunies Ross Award, Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering
• 2007: Howard Florey Medal for Medical Research
• 2008: Prime Minister's Prize for Science^[34]
• 2008: Balzan Prize for Preventive Medicine^[35]
• 2008: Ramaciotti Medal
• 2008: American Academy of Dermatology Lila Gruber Award for Dermatology
• 2009: Australian Medical Association Gold Medal^[36]
• 2011: elected Fellow of the Royal Society^[37]
• 2018: Elected a Corresponding Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh^[38]

In 2012 Frazer was named as a National Living Treasure by the National Trust of Australia (NSW).^[39]

On 11 June 2012, Frazer was named a Companion of the Order of Australia (AC) for "eminent service to medical research, particularly through leadership roles in the discovery of the Human Papilloma Virus vaccine and its role in preventing cervical cancer, to higher education and as a supporter of charitable organisations."^[40

Thanks watsea and I agree with your rant. Now who is this fella, you might need some clues but we'll see how you go.

Sir Howard Walter Florey was an Australian pharmacologist.

You have him BG over to you for a pic.

Howard Walter Florey, Baron Florey OM FRS FRCP (24 September 1898  21 February 1968) was an Australian pharmacologist and pathologist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1945 with Sir Ernst Chain and Sir Alexander Fleming for his role in the development of penicillin.

Although Fleming received most of the credit for the discovery of penicillin, it was Florey who carried out the first clinical trials of penicillin in 1941 at the Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford on the first patient, a police constable from Oxford. The patient started to recover, but subsequently died because Florey was unable, at that time, to make enough penicillin. It was Florey and Chain who actually made a useful and effective drug out of penicillin, after the task had been abandoned as too difficult.

Florey's discoveries, along with the discoveries of Fleming and Ernst Chain, are estimated to have saved over 200 million lives,^[4] and he is consequently regarded by the Australian scientific and medical community as one of its greatest figures. Sir Robert Menzies, Australia's longest-serving Prime Minister, said, "In terms of world well-being, Florey was the most important man ever born in Australia."^[5]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Florey

Thank you Sandy. Who is this well known Gentleman ?

The last couple have had me stumped, perhaps the next one will be a little easier.

All I can say is I have seen his face but can't place it

Hi BG.  He looks like a Polly to me ?

Sir Wilmot Hudson Fysh.

You got it Sheba.

Aviator, Businessman (1895-1974)

• Born: January 7, 1895, Launceston, Australia
• Died: April 6, 1974, Paddington, Australia
• Spouse: Elizabeth Elinor Dove
• Children: Wendy Elizabeth Fysh, John Hudson Fysh
• Education: Geelong Grammar School

Thanks BG.  Took a bit of searching.   Who is this one ?

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Thanks BG.  Took a bit of searching.   Who is this one ?

 

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 Nothing showing Sheba, all I am seeing is a line of text reading "see the source image"

Hi Santa the picture is a jfif format which is a new one to me I have converted it to a jpeg so hopefully you can see it because I don't know who she is.

Thanks Sandy, can see the image now.

Could be wrong, looks to me like a youthful Diana Dors.

Absolutely right Santa.  Your turn.

Diana Dors was an English actress and singer. Dors came to public notice as a blonde bombshell, much in the style of Americans Marilyn Monroe, Jayne Mansfield and Mamie Van Doren. Dors was promoted by her first husband, Dennis Hamilton, mostly in sex film-comedies and risqué modelling. After it was revealed that Hamilton had been defrauding her, she continued to play up to her established image, and she made tabloid headlines with the parties reportedly held at her house. Later, she showed talent as a performer on TV, in recordings, and in cabaret, and gained new public popularity as a regular chat-show guest. She also gave well-regarded film performances at different points in her career.

Thanks Sheba.

This one shouldn't present much of a problem.

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Thought someone would have nailed this one quick smart.

He is/was an Australian, not a politician.

I think we're going to need a clue Santa.

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I think we're going to need a clue Santa.

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 Morning Sheba, he was involved in literature.

Clarence Michael  Dennis - Freelance Journalist

That's him BG, yep, a journalist by profession, probably better known as an Australian poet.

Born in Auburn South Australia 1876.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._J._Dennis

Thanks Santa. Here's an easy one for you:

Not so easy for me BG, no idea who he is.

Telstra would be  a big fan of his.

With that clue Guglielmo Marconi