WWiradjuri is a Pama–Nyungan language of the Wiradhuric subgroup. It is the traditional language of the Wiradjuri people of Australia. A progressive revival is underway, with the language being taught in schools. Wiraiari and Jeithi may have been dialects.
WJosh Addo-Carr is an Australian professional rugby league footballer who plays as a winger for the Melbourne Storm in the NRL and Australia at international level.
WBrook Andrew is an Australian contemporary artist.
WKirsten Alexandra Banks is an Australian astrophysicist and science communicator of Wiradjuri ancestry, known for her work in promoting mainstream and Aboriginal astronomy. She earned a Bachelor of Science in Physics from the University of New South Wales in 2018, and worked at the Sydney Observatory.
WBianca Beetson is an Australian contemporary artist.
WLinda Jean Burney is an Australian politician, member of the House of Representatives in the Australian Federal Parliament, and the Shadow Minister for Families and Social Services and for Preventing Family Violence. She was the first Aboriginal person to serve in the New South Wales Parliament in 2003, and also the first Aboriginal woman to be elected to the Australian House of Representatives in 2016.
WJimmy Clements was an Aboriginal elder from the Wiradjuri tribe in Australia, and was present at the opening of the Provisional Parliament House in Canberra on 9 May 1927. He explained that he was there to demonstrate his "sovereign rights to the Federal Territory", making this the first recorded instance of Aboriginal protest at the Parliament.
WPaul Coe, a Wiradjuri man born at Erambie Mission in Cowra, is an Australian Aboriginal activist. His grandfather was Paul Joseph Coe.
WBlake Ferguson is an Australian professional rugby league footballer who plays as a winger for the Parramatta Eels in the NRL and Australia at international level.
WEvonne Fay Goolagong Cawley is an Australian former world No. 1 tennis player. Goolagong was one of the world's leading players in the 1970s and early 1980s.
WStan Grant is as of 2021 Vice-Chancellor's Chair of Australian/Indigenous Belonging at Charles Sturt University in Wagga Wagga. He worked as an Australian television news and political journalist and television presenter since the 1990s, and is also a writer, particularly on Indigenous issues. He has written and spoken extensively of his Aboriginal identity as a Wiradjuri man.
WStanley Vernard Grant Sr. AM is an elder of the Wiradjuri tribe of Indigenous Australians from what is now the south-west inland region of the state of New South Wales, Australia. Stan Grant Sr is of Aboriginal ancestry. The grandson of an elder who was jailed for speaking his own language, he now teaches the Wiradjuri language to students.
WAnita Marianne Heiss is an Aboriginal Australian author, poet, cultural activist and social commentator. She is an advocate for Indigenous Australian literature and literacy, through her writing for adults and children and her membership of boards and committees.
WMelanie Horsnell is a singer-songwriter from New South Wales, Australia. The song "Sometimes" was featured in the Canadian TV program Flashpoint, being used in the Season 3 premiere episode titled "Unconditional Love". She has the distinction of being the only Australian to be featured in Flashpoint during its entire series run, the majority of artists featured on the program being from Canada or the USA.
WLisa Rae Jackson Pulver is an Aboriginal Australian epidemiologist and researcher in the area of Aboriginal health who has been Deputy Vice Chancellor at the University of Sydney since October 2018.
WRay Jackson was an Australian Aboriginal activist and Wiradjuri elder. He was President of the Indigenous Social Justice Association (ISJA), and a prominent campaigner for the rights of Indigenous Australians.
WLatrell Mitchell is an Indigenous Australian professional rugby league footballer who plays as a fullback for the South Sydney Rabbitohs in the NRL, and Australia at international level.
WJenny Munro is an Australian Wiradjuri elder and a prominent activist for the rights of Indigenous Australians. She has been at the forefront of the fight for Aboriginal housing at The Block in Sydney, and started the Redfern Aboriginal Tent Embassy. She is sister of the late Aboriginal activist, Isabel Coe.
WBrent Naden is an Indigenous Australian professional rugby league footballer who plays as a centre and winger for the Penrith Panthers in the NRL.
WKotoni Staggs is a Tonga international rugby league footballer who plays as a centre and second-row forward for the Brisbane Broncos in the NRL.
WVilliami Sione "Willie" Tonga, also known by the nickname of "Little Willie", is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who last played for the Leigh Centurions in the Super League. An Australia international and Queensland State of Origin representative centre, he previously played for the Parramatta Eels, the Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs, with whom he won the 2004 NRL Premiership, and the North Queensland Cowboys. He joined French club the Catalans Dragons in 2015 and signed a contract with the Centurions for 2016.
WJack Wighton is an Australian professional rugby league footballer who plays as a five-eighth for the Canberra Raiders in the NRL and Australia at international level.
WTara June Winch is an Australian writer. She is the 2020 winner of the Miles Franklin Award for her book, The Yield.
WWindradyne was an Aboriginal warrior and resistance leader of the Wiradjuri nation, in what is now central-western New South Wales, Australia; he was also known to the British settlers as Saturday. Windradyne led his people in the Bathurst War, a frontier war between his clan and British settlers.