The Most Famous
JUDGES from Australia
This page contains a list of the greatest Australian Judges. The pantheon dataset contains 53 Judges, 1 of which were born in Australia. This makes Australia the birth place of the 11th most number of Judges behind Slovakia, and South Africa.
Top 2
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Australian Judges of all time. This list of famous Australian Judges is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. John Davies (1929 - 2020)
With an HPI of 41.01, John Davies is the most famous Australian Judge. His biography has been translated into 18 different languages on wikipedia.
John Griffith Davies (17 May 1929 – 24 March 2020) was an Australian-American swimmer and United States federal judge. As a breaststroke swimmer of the 1940s and 1950s, he won a gold medal in the 200-metre breaststroke at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, set a world record in the 200 yard breaststroke (short course) and tied the world record in the 200 m breaststroke (long course). After retiring from competition swimming, he became a lawyer in California and, after becoming a naturalized American, was appointed a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Central District of California by President Ronald Reagan in 1986, and presided over the trial of the Los Angeles Police Department officers charged with assaulting Rodney King.
2. Patrick Keane (b. 1952)
With an HPI of 0.00, Patrick Keane is the 2nd most famous Australian Judge. His biography has been translated into different languages.
Patrick Anthony Keane (born 26 October 1952) is an Australian judge currently serving as a non-permanent judge of the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal since 6 April 2023, after his retirement as a Justice of the High Court of Australia. He is currently the Chair of the Expert Advisory Group set up by the Australian Government to guide reforms to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal. He is a former Chief Justice of the Federal Court of Australia.
People
Pantheon has 2 people classified as Australian judges born between 1929 and 1952. Of these 2, 1 (50.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Australian judges include Patrick Keane. The most famous deceased Australian judges include John Davies. As of April 2024, 1 new Australian judges have been added to Pantheon including Patrick Keane.
