Famous people born in Northern Territory

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Charles Nelson Perkins, AO, commonly known as Charlie Perkins, was an Australian Aboriginal activist, soccer player and administrator.....
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Barbara Weir is an Australian Aboriginal artist and politician. One of the Stolen Generations, she was removed from her aboriginal family and raised in a series of foster homes. After becoming reunited with her mother in the 1960s and divorced in 1977, Weir eventually returned to her family territory of Utopia, 300 kilometres northeast of Alice Springs. She became active in the local land rights movement of the 1970s and was elected the first woman president of the Indigenous Urapunta Council....
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David Gulpilil Ridjimiraril Dalaithngu AM , is an Indigenous Australian traditional dancer and actor.....
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Dr Galarrwuy Yunupingu, AM LL.D. is a leader in the Australian Indigenous community, and has been involved in the fight for Land Rights throughout his career.....
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Ginger Riley Munduwalawala was an Australian contemporary artist. He was born in Marra country, in the Limmen Bight area of the Gulf of Carpentaria coast. His first language was Marra, now a critically endangered language. Riley became an artist during the 1950s as a result of his encounter with Albert Namatjira.....
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Born in Darwin, Northern Territory in 1987, Miatke began competitive swimming in 1995. She first represented the Northern Territory in 1998 at the national School Sport Swimming and Diving Championships. She first won gold for the Territory in 1999 at the Australian Age Championships, in the 100 metres backstroke in the under13 division. Her coach in the Northern Territory was Jay Davies, from the Northern Territory Institute of Sport.....
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David Malangi was an Indigenous Australian Yolngu artist from the Northern Territory. He was one of the most well known bark painters from Arnhem Land and a significant figure in contemporary Indigenous Australian art. He was born at Mulanga, on the east bank of the Glyde River.....
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Christopher Spring is a Canadian bobsledder who has competed since 2008. At the 2010 Winter Olympics, he competed for his country of birth, Australia and finished 22nd in the twoman event.....
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Elliot Arthur McAdam AM is a former Australian politician. He was the Australian Labor Party member for Barkly in the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly from 2001 to 2008.....
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Delia Phoebe Lawrie is an Australian politician. She has been a member of the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly since 2001, representing the electorate of Karama. She was a Labor member from 2001 to 2015, and served as their leader and Leader of the Opposition from 2012 to 2015. On 10 October 2015, following her loss of Labor preselection to recontest her seat at the 2016 election, she resigned from the party to sit as an independent.....
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Dennis Iverson is an Australian judoka, who played for the lightweight category. Started out his sporting career at age twelve, Iverson had earned a total of five titles in the same weight division at the Australian Judo Championships.....
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Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri AO was an Australian painter, considered to be one of the most collected and renowned Australian Aboriginal artists. His paintings are held in galleries and collections in Australia and elsewhere, including the Art Gallery of New South Wales, the National Gallery of Australia, the Kelton Foundation and the Royal Collection.....
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Desmond Des Abbott is an Australian field hockey midfieldstriker from the Northern Territory. He is a member of the Australia mens national field hockey team, having made his debut on 28 January 2007. He won gold medals at the Hockey Champions Trophy in 2008, 2009 and 2010, and a gold medal at the 2010 Commonwealth Games. He won a bronze medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics and is trying to secure a spot on the team to represent Australia at the 2012 Summer Olympics.....
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Erika Yamasaki is an Australian weightlifter. She started Weightlifting in 2000, when she was tested in a talent identification program. Erika first started to represent Australia in 2003 at the Oceania Championships. She has now competed at several international events, including Oceania Championships, World Junior Championships, World Cup, Commonwealth Championships, and Commonwealth Games.....
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Ian Daniel VanderWal is an Australian former sprint and middle distance freestyle swimmer who represented Australia at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. He was a member of the 4x100metre and 4x200metre freestyle relay teams. He trained at the Commercial Swimming Club in Brisbane.....
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Ian Daniel VanderWal is an Australian former sprint and middle distance freestyle swimmer who represented Australia at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. He was a member of the 4x100metre and 4x200metre freestyle relay teams. He trained at the Commercial Swimming Club in Brisbane.....
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Kaapa Mbitjana Tjampitjinpa was a contemporary Indigenous Australian artist of Anmatyerre, Warlpiri and Arrernte heritage. One of the earliest and most significant artists at Papunya in Australias Northern Territory in the early 1970s, he was a founding member and inaugural chairman of the Papunya Tula artists company, and pivotal to the establishment of modern Indigenous Australian painting.....
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