The Most Famous
HOCKEY PLAYERS from Australia
This page contains a list of the greatest Australian Hockey Players. The pantheon dataset contains 676 Hockey Players, 1 of which were born in Australia. This makes Australia the birth place of the 25th most number of Hockey Players behind Poland, and Indonesia.
Top 2
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Australian Hockey Players of all time. This list of famous Australian Hockey Players is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography's online popularity.
1. Rechelle Hawkes (b. 1967)
With an HPI of 46.60, Rechelle Hawkes is the most famous Australian Hockey Player. Her biography has been translated into 17 different languages on wikipedia.
Rechelle Margaret Hawkes (born 30 May 1967 in Albany, Western Australia) is an Australian former field hockey player. Hawkes spent eight years as the captain of the Australian Women's Hockey Team, the Hockeyroos, and became the second Australian woman after swimmer Dawn Fraser to win three Olympic gold medals at three separate Olympic Games: Seoul 1988, Atlanta 1996 and Sydney 2000. Hawkes also competed at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, where Australia finished fifth. She made her debut in 1985, and reached a milestone in 1999, when the midfield player celebrated 250 games for the national team. She read the Athlete's Olympic Oath at the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games. She received a Medal of the Order of Australia in 1989, an Australian Sports Medal in 2000, and a Centenary Medal in 2001. In 2001, she was inducted into the Australian Institute of Sport 'Best of the Best'. She was inducted into the Sport Australia Hall of Fame in 2002. In the 2018 Australia Day Honours, Hawkes was made a Member of the Order of Australia "For significant service to hockey, particularly as national captain of multiple tournament-winning teams, and as a role model and commentator."
2. Michael Brennan (b. 1975)
With an HPI of 38.55, Michael Brennan is the 2nd most famous Australian Hockey Player. His biography has been translated into 15 different languages.
Michael Gene Brennan OAM (born 15 October 1975 in Toowoomba, Queensland) is a field hockey midfielder from Australia, who was a member of the team that won gold at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. Four years earlier, when Sydney hosted the Summer Games, he finished in third spot with The Kookaburras , as the men's national team is called. Michael Brennan has since gone on to become a multiple Group 1 winning horse trainer. In December 2023 Michael Brennan joined an elite group of athletes joining the Australian Hockey Hall Of Fame.
People
Pantheon has 2 people classified as Australian hockey players born between 1967 and 1975. Of these 2, 2 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Australian hockey players include Rechelle Hawkes, and Michael Brennan. As of April 2024, 1 new Australian hockey players have been added to Pantheon including Michael Brennan.
