21st-century Australian businesswomen

The list 21st-century Australian businesswomen includes Jessica Kahawaty. The list consists of 34 members.

1.

Elle Macpherson

Australian model and actress

Overview: Eleanor Nancy Macpherson (née Gow; born 29 March 1964) is an Australian model, businesswoman, television host, and actress.

Date of birth: 29 March 1964

Age: 60

Nationality: Australian

Occupation: Model

Gender: Female

Height: 6' (183 cm)

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Australian women television presenters 210T

Australian women company founders 49T

Australian women philanthropists 62T
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Jessica Kahawaty

Lebanese Australian model (born 1988)

Overview: Jessica Michelle Kahawaty (Arabic: جيسيكا ميشيل قهواتي‎; born 12 September 1988 in Sydney, New South Wales) is a Lebanese Australian model, philanthropist, former TV Host and beauty pageant titl ...

Date of birth: 12 September 1988

Age: 36

Nationality: Australian

Occupation: Model

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 10" (178 cm)

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Models from Sydney 58T

Miss World 2012 delegates 46T

Miss International 2008 delegates 19T
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Mimi Macpherson

Actor

Overview: Mimi Macpherson (born Miriam Frances Gow, 18 May 1967) is an Australian environmentalist, entrepreneur and celebrity.

Date of birth: 18 May 1967

Age: 57

Nationality: Australian

Occupation: Model

Gender: Female

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Australian women environmentalists 36T

21st-century businesswomen 368T

20th-century businesswomen 379T
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Alannah Hill

Australian fashion designer

Overview: Alannah Louise Hill (born 26 March 1962) is an Australian fashion designer who has had notable local and international success. Hill began her fashion career at Indigo Boutique in Chapel Street, South ...

Date of birth: 1963

Age: 61

Nationality: Australian

Occupation: Designer

Gender: Female

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Australian women company founders 41T

Women fashion designers 496T

People from Penguin, Tasmania 8T
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Margie Abbott

Wife of Tony Abbott

Overview: Margaret Veronica Abbott (née Aitken; born 1 February 1958) is an Australian woman best known as the wife of Tony Abbott, the 28th Prime Minister of Australia (2013–2015). She runs a childcare centre in ...

Date of birth: 1 February 1958

Age: 67

Gender: Female

Partner: Tony Abbott (Married)

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People educated at Wainuiomata High School 5T

New Zealand women in business 77T

Māori language revivalists 27T
6.

Maggie Beer

Australian cook

Overview: Maggie Beer (born Margaret Anne Ackerman, 19 January 1945) is an Australian chef, food author, restaurateur, and food manufacturer. Beer was one of the judges on The Great Australian Bake Off alongside ...

Date of birth: 1 January 1945

Age: 80

Nationality: Australian

Occupation: Chef

Gender: Female

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Women food writers 174T

Women cookbook writers 359T

Women chefs 281T
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Melanie Perkins

Australian entrepreneur

Overview: Melanie Perkins (born 13 May 1987) is an Australian billionaire technology entrepreneur, who is the CEO and co-founder of Canva (with Cliff Obrecht) and owns 18% of the company.

Date of birth: 1987

Age: 37

Nationality: Australian

Occupation: Business

Gender: Female

Partner: Cliff Obrecht (Married)

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Businesspeople from Perth, Western Australia 32T

Australian women company founders 56T

Australian women chief executives 24T
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Gretel Packer

Australian investor and philanthropist

Overview: Gretel Lees Packer AM (born August 1965) is an Australian billionaire investor and philanthropist.

Date of birth: August 1965

Age: 59

Nationality: Australian

Occupation: Philanthropist

Gender: Female

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Australian women philanthropists 61T

Packer family 9T

Australian women in business 71T
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Susan Alberti

Australian businesswoman (born 1947)

Overview: Susan Marie "Sue" Alberti AC (born 18 May 1947) is an Australian businesswoman, philanthropist and former Vice President of the Western Bulldogs Football Club.

Date of birth: 18 May 1947

Age: 77

Nationality: Australian

Occupation: Business

Gender: Female

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20th-century Australian philanthropists 92T

21st-century Australian philanthropists 15T

20th-century Australian businesswomen 20T
10.

Janet Holmes à Court

Australian businessperson

Overview: Janet Holmes à Court, AC, HonFAHA, HonFAIB (born Janet Lee Ranford on 29 November 1943 in Perth, Western Australia) is an Australian businesswoman, philanthropist, and one of Australia's wealthiest women ...

Date of birth: 29 November 1943

Age: 81

Nationality: Australian

Occupation: Business

Gender: Female

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Holmes à Court family 7T

Australian women in business 61T

Australian Living Treasures 101T
11.

Donna Burke

Australian voice actress

Overview: Donna Burke (born 12 December 1964 in Perth, Australia) is an Australian singer, voice actress and businesswoman. She is also known for her vocal work on songs produced for video game series such as Metal ...

Date of birth: 12 December 1964

Age: 60

Nationality: Australian

Occupation: Singer

Gender: Female

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20th-century Australian women singers 62T

21st-century Australian women singers 268T

21st-century women singers 8,493T
12.

Wendy Blacklock

Australian actor

Overview: Wendy Blacklock AM (born 1932) is a retired Australia-based theatre, radio and television actress, comedienne, producer, writer, singer and choreographer and theatre entrepreneur, who has for appeared ...

Date of birth: 1932

Age: 92

Nationality: Australian

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Female

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21st-century Australian women 109T

20th-century Australian actresses 346T

Actresses from Sydney 151T
13.

Melissa Caddick

Australian financial advisor; disappeared 2020

Overview: Melissa Louise Caddick (née Grimley; born 21 April 1971) was an Australian financial advisor who disappeared on 12 November 2020 amid an investigation by the Australian Securities & Investments Commission ...

Date of birth: 21 April 1971

Date of death: 12 November 2020

Age: 49 (age at death)

Nationality: Australian

Occupation: Criminal

Gender: Female

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2020s missing person cases 23T

2020 in Australia 2T

21st-century Australian businesspeople 49T
14.

Carolyn Creswell

Australian businesswoman and television host

Overview: Carolyn Claire Creswell (née Tennent, born 30 December 1973) is an Australian businesswoman and television host. She is best known as the founder of Australian brand Carman's Fine Foods.

Date of birth: 30 December 1973

Age: 51

Occupation: Business

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20th-century Australian businesswomen 24T

People educated at St Catherine's School, Toorak 26T

Australian women television presenters 251T
15.

Fiona Balfour

Australian, Business

Overview: Fiona Balfour is an Australian business executive in the field of information technology. She has been named Chief Information Officer of the Year in Australia four times: 2003, 2004, 2005, and 2006. In ...

Nationality: Australian

Occupation: Business

Gender: Female

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21st-century Australian women 1,214T

Australian women business executives 12T

20th-century Australian women 1,667T
16.

Allegra Spender

Australian businesswoman and politician

Overview: Allegra Spender (born 10 March 1978) is an Australian politician and businesswoman who is the member of parliament for Wentworth since 2022. She is the third generation of her family to sit in federal ...

Date of birth: 10 March 1978

Age: 47

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21st-century Australian businesspeople 101T

Independent members of the Parliament of Australia 129T

People educated at Ascham School 37T
17.

Jane Lu

Australian businesswoman

Overview: Jane Lu (born 12 June 1986) is an Australian businesswoman.

Date of birth: 12 June 1986

Age: 38

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Catriona Wallace

Australian businesswoman, TV personality and former police officer

Overview: Catriona Wallace (born 1965/1966) is an Australian businesswoman and former police officer.

Date of birth: 1965

Age: 59

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Australian women company founders 54T

Shark Tank 60T

21st-century Australian businesspeople 85T
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Valerie Pratt

Australian company director and academic

Overview: Valerie Pratt AO (born 1929) is an Australian company director and advocate for women's pay and employment equity and seniors' rights. In 1986, she was the founding director of the Affirmative Action Agency ...

Date of birth: 1929

Age: 95

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Wendy Craik

Australian scientist and public policy adviser

Overview: Wendy Craik (born 1949) AM FTSE is an Australian scientist, public policy adviser and company director.

Date of birth: 1949

Age: 75

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21st-century Australian women public servants 23T

20th-century Australian women public servants 14T

20th-century Australian businesswomen 24T