The Most Famous
COMPANIONS from Australia
This page contains a list of the greatest Australian Companions. The pantheon dataset contains 673 Companions, 1 of which were born in Australia. This makes Australia the birth place of the 54th most number of Companions behind Brazil and Slovakia.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Australian Companions of all time. This list of famous Australian Companions is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Mary, Crown Princess of Denmark (1972 - )
With an HPI of 53.52, Mary, Crown Princess of Denmark is the most famous Australian Companion. Her biography has been translated into 41 different languages on wikipedia.
Mary (born Mary Elizabeth Donaldson; 5 February 1972) is Queen of Denmark as the wife of King Frederik X. In 2000, Mary met Frederik (then Crown Prince of Denmark) while attending the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. They married on 14 May 2004 at Copenhagen Cathedral. They have four children: Christian, Isabella, Vincent and Josephine. Since her marriage, she has carried out engagements on behalf of the Danish monarchy, and she serves as patron of over 30 charitable organisations, including the United Nations Population Fund, the European regional office of the World Health Organization, the Danish Refugee Council and Julemærkefonden. She founded her award-winning social organisation, the Mary Foundation, in 2007. In 2019, Mary was made a rigsforstander, which allows her to act as regent when the monarch is abroad. She became the first Australian-born queen of a European country upon the abdication of her mother-in-law, Queen Margrethe II, on 14 January 2024.
Pantheon has 1 people classified as companions born between 1972 and 1972. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living companions include Mary, Crown Princess of Denmark.
