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                    Melbourne Awards – previous winners

                    Two award winners with the Lord Mayor and Deputy Lord Mayor
                    City of Melbourne congratulates the past winners of the Melbourne Awards.

                    Discover the stories behind each of the latest and previous years' winners of each category and Melburnian of the Year winners.

                    Winners from 2010 to 2022

                    • 2022 Melburnian of the Year

                      Antoinette Braybrook is a Kuku Yalanji woman born in Victoria on Wurundjeri country.

                    • 2021 Melburnian of the Year

                      Peggy O’Neal is the President of the Richmond Football Club, and serves as a board member for Women's Housing Limited, Australia Dementia Network Limited and Fulbright Australia.

                    • 2020 Melburnian of the Year

                      Douglas Hilton is the sixth director of Melbourne medical research institute WEHI, the Lorenzo and Pamela Galli Chair in Medical Biology and head of the Department of Medical Biology in the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences at the University of Melbourne.

                    • 2019 Melburnian of the Year

                      Bronwyn King is a radiation oncologist, tobacco free lobbyist and an acknowledged world leader in the fight against big tobacco investment.

                    • 2014 Melburnian of the Year

                      The 2014 Melburnian of the Year was awarded to Professor Sharon Lewin, an infectious diseases physician and researcher into HIV/AIDS and other diseases. She is internationally renowned as one of the leading scientists aiming to find a cure for HIV.

                    • 2012 Melburnian of the Year

                      Melbourne music icon and entrepreneur Michael Gudinski was named Melburnian of the Year at the 2012 Melbourne Awards gala ceremony.

                    • 2011 Melburnian of the Year

                      Prominent businessman and philanthropist Harold C Mitchell AC was named Melburnian of the Year at the 2011 Melbourne Awards Gala Ceremony.

                    • 2010 Melburnian of the Year

                      23 April 1966 (Dublin, Ireland) – 20 March 2012 (St Kilda) Co-founder of the Reach Foundation and AFL great, Jim Stynes was named the Melburnian of the Year at the 2010 Melbourne Awards Gala Ceremony.

                    • 2006 Melburnian of the Year

                      Champion football player, coach and long-time Melbourne ambassador, Ron Barassi is a highly valued member of our community.
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                    ​Award winners before 2010 

                    For all Melburnian of the Year winners, go to Melburnian of the Year.

                    Contact us

                    Contact name
                    Melbourne Awards Coordinator
                    Address
                    Events Melbourne, City of Melbourne
                    PO Box 1603
                    Melbourne VIC 3001
                    Telephone number
                    03 9658 945103 9658 9451
                    Fax number
                    03 9658 9352
                    Email
                    melbourneawards@melbourne.vic.gov.au
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