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Truganini

last full-blooded Palawa person

1812 - 1876

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Her biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2024). Truganini is the 23rd most popular celebrity (down from 19th in 2024), the 15th most popular biography from Australia (down from 8th in 2019) and the most popular Australian Celebrity.

Truganini is most famous for being a prominent Aboriginal Tasmanian woman who survived the violent colonization of Tasmania in the 1800s and later became widely, though inaccurately, described as the “last” Aboriginal Tasmanian. Her life is remembered as a symbol of the devastation caused by British colonization and the continued survival of Tasmanian Aboriginal people.

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Among Celebrities

Among celebrities, Truganini ranks 23 out of 265. Before her are Don King, Geli Raubal, Joseph Merrick, Tollund Man, Roy Sullivan, and Empress Michiko. After her are Monica Lewinsky, Frano Selak, Anna Anderson, Rosalia Lombardo, Keke Geladze, and Dodi Fayed.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1812, Truganini ranks 8. Before her are Kaspar Hauser, Johann Gottfried Galle, Théodore Rousseau, Ivan Goncharov, Alexander Herzen, and Louise of Orléans. After her are Augustus Pugin, Maria Cristina of Savoy, Mirza Fatali Akhundov, Amélie of Leuchtenberg, Moses Hess, and Sigismond Thalberg. Among people deceased in 1876, Truganini ranks 9. Before her are George Sand, Wild Bill Hickok, Antonio López de Santa Anna, Karl Ernst von Baer, George Armstrong Custer, and Josephine of Leuchtenberg. After her are Catherine Labouré, Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg, Ildefons Cerdà, Marie d'Agoult, George Smith, and Antoine Jérôme Balard.

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In Australia

Among people born in Australia, Truganini ranks 15 out of NaN. Before her are Sia (1975), John Cornforth (1917), Elizabeth Blackburn (1948), Cate Blanchett (1969), Rod Laver (1938), and Rupert Murdoch (1931). After her are George Lazenby (1939), Jack Brabham (1926), Errol Flynn (1909), Scott Morrison (1968), Alexander Prokhorov (1916), and John Eccles (1903).

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Among Celebrities In Australia

Among celebrities born in Australia, Truganini ranks 1. After her are Jennifer Hawkins (1983), and Catriona Gray (1994).

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