ANTHROPOLOGISTS from Australia

Top 3

The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Australian Anthropologists of all time. This list of famous Australian Anthropologists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.

1. Raymond Dart (1893 - 1988)

With an HPI of 55.72, Raymond Dart is the most famous Australian Anthropologist.  His biography has been translated into 31 different languages on wikipedia.

Raymond Arthur Dart (4 February 1893 – 22 November 1988) was an Australian anatomist and anthropologist, best known for his involvement in the 1924 discovery of the first fossil found of Australopithecus africanus, an extinct hominin closely related to humans, at Taung in the North of South Africa in the Northwest province.

2. Bill Mollison (1928 - 2016)

With an HPI of 51.52, Bill Mollison is the 2nd most famous Australian Anthropologist.  His biography has been translated into 24 different languages.

Bruce Charles "Bill" Mollison (4 May 1928 – 24 September 2016) was an Australian researcher, author, scientist, teacher and biologist. In 1981, he was awarded the Right Livelihood Award "for developing and promoting the theory and practice of permaculture". Permaculture (from "permanent agriculture") is an integrated system of ecological and environmental design which Mollison co-developed with David Holmgren and which they envisioned together as a perennial and sustainable form of agriculture. In 1974, Mollison began his collaboration with Holmgren and in 1978 they published their book Permaculture One, which introduced this design system to the general public. Mollison is also the developer of the herb spiral, a herb-growing structure that allows herbs with different growing requirements to coexist in a small space. Mollison founded The Permaculture Institute in Tasmania and created the education system to train others under the umbrella of permaculture. This education system of "train the trainer", utilized through a formal Permaculture Design Course and Certification (PDC), has taught hundreds of thousands of people throughout the world how to grow food and be sustainable using permaculture design principles.

3. Fiona Graham (1961 - 2023)

With an HPI of 49.63, Fiona Graham is the 3rd most famous Australian Anthropologist.  Her biography has been translated into 27 different languages.

Fiona Caroline Graham (16 September 1961–26 January 2023) was an Australian anthropologist working as a geisha in Japan. She made her debut as a geisha (trainee) in 2007 in the Asakusa district of Tokyo under the name Sayuki (紗幸) as a part of her anthropological study, and as of 2021 was working in the Fukagawa district of Tokyo.