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Photo GallerySome well known and not so readily identifiable American Australians are found in this section - can you add to them?Pictured here is Arthur Calwell with young girl about to sail to Australia under Australia's first immigration move to have Americans come ot our shores in hundreds of thousands, an event that never occurred.
Arthur Calwell, first minister of Immigration and architect of Australia's immigration policy; himself the grandson of Davis Calwell, educator, and son of a Pennsylvanian congressman..
John Greely Jenkins was South Australia's first Premier, and he was born in Pennsylvania
JENKINS, JOHN GREELEY (1851-1923), premier, was born on 8 September 1851 at Clifford, Susquehanna, Pennsylvania, United States of America. He arrived in South Australia in 1878 to represent his company and, at the end of his contract, established his own successful book-importing business. He sold this and became South Australian manager of the Picturesque Atlas of Australasia (1886). Later becoming minister and premier he had been responsible for important legislation, including free education (1891), the provision of Happy Valley water to supply Adelaide, and South Australia's participation in the transcontinental railway. He also played a major role in an agreement between the States about the River Murray, and in continuing attempts to develop the Northern Territory. As chief secretary in Holder's government, he was also minister for defence and had responsibility for the four South Australian contingents to the South African War. Jenkins was a Congregationalist and a zealous teetotaller; he neither smoked nor swore. A Freemason, he was deputy grand master of Leopold Lodge in 1897-1901. Mike Healy driving a Crawford & Co coach, a large firm rivalling that of Cobb & Co, another American coach company. Crawford & Co was founded by Hiram Crawford of Massachusetts.
Tommy Hanlon JnrAlways remembered for his crowd-pleasiing and genuineness. Hanlon became a major TV celebrity in Australia in the 1950s and 1960s. Hanlon quit television in 1978 and toured Australia as ringmaster of Silvers Circus until 2001.
Hon. Bob Charles(MHR)
Mr Charles served as a Member of the House of Representatives of the Parliament of Australia representing La Trobe from 1990-2004. During this time he served on a number of Parliamentary Committees including as Chair, Joint Statutory Committee on Public Accounts & Audit (1997-2004), Chair, Joint Select Committee on the Republic Referendum (1999), Member, Government Committee on Employment, Education, Training and Youth Affairs, Sub-Committee on Rural Education (1996-98), Member Sub Committee on Steel Industry (1996-97), Deputy-Chair, House of Representatives Standing Committee on Employment, Education and Training (1990-96), Member, House of Representatives Standing Committee on Industry, Science & Technology (1993-96). 
Big Chief Little Wolf
Big Chief Little Wolf, a Navajo Native American, was such a popular wrestler who had style and a great sense of humour.
He settled in Australia in the early 1950s. His wrestling antics and extensive work for charity combined to make him an Australian folk hero, so much so that his return to America in 1980, twenty-two years after his last wrestling match, made front page news. He was born a Navajo and part Mexican. Before coming to Australia to wrestle for the first time in 1937, he had fought professionally in the US for eight years, going up against, for example, the legendary Ed 'Strangler' Lewis. In 1935, he unsuccessfully took on world champion, Dan O’Mahony, before a crowd of 90,000 at New York’s Yankee Stadium.
John RossFor three decades, S. John Ross
Rita TannoRita Tanno came to Australia from New Jersey for the 1960 Australia tour, playing the part of the tempestuous Anita. She acted, produced and directed for Division 4, Matlock Police, Homicide and other TV programs.
Rita Tanno acted and produced in Homicide and other tv series and is now heavily involved with the Variety Club of Australia..
Bob and Dolly Dyer. Bob came to Australia as Vaudeville act, met Dolly and married her after only a week of meeting. Bob and Dolly had a TV quiz show called, 'Pick-A-Box'
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was 'the Silhouette Man' of Luna Park , an American-born showman who became one of the best-known human faces at Sydney 's favourite fun fair. He was 12 when he saw his first silhouette artist, at the Michigan State Fair in Detroit . "Right then I knew what I wanted to be." Through the Depression, he helped his mother raise seven children after charming his way into an apprenticeship with Bud-Jack, a master of the art.
