It goes without saying that Fred Hollows was a remarkable character. Thanks to his hard work and vision, more than one million people around the world can see today.
During his time Fred received much recognition and many awards:
| 1981 |
Received an Advance Australia Award for Aboriginal eye care |
| 1990 |
Awarded the Human Rights Medal
Named Australian of the Year
Advance Australia Award for Medicine and Overseas Aid
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| 1991 |
Humanist of the Year (Aus)
Named a Paul Harris Fellow by Rotary International
Awarded Doctor of Medicine and Doctor of Science, Honoris Causa, UNSW
Appointed Companion, General Division of the Order of Australia (AC)
Received Degree of Doctor of Science, Honoris Causa, Macquarie University
Admitted as Doctor of Medicine Honoris Causa, UNSW
Named Eritrea's first honorary citizen
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| 1992 |
Awarded an Honorary Doctorate by Queensland University of Technology
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| 1993 |
Albert Schweitzer Award of Distinction Chapman University, USA
Received Rotary International's highest honour, the Rotary Award for World Understanding. Other recipients of this award include Pope John-Paul II, Perez de Cuellar, Vaclav Havel and the International Red Cross.
The evening before he died, Fred was presented with The Royal Australian College of Ophthalmologists Medal for his years of distinguished meritorious and selfless service.
Lions Clubs International honoured him posthumously by naming him a Melvin Jones Fellow.
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| 2004 |
New Zealand Prime Minister, Rt. Hon Helen Clark made a speech at a fundraising event organised by The Fred Hollows Foundation NZ, 'An evening with Sir Edmund Hillary'.
Tribute was paid to Fred Hollows for his work to help people living with blindness.
Entered into the 'Hall of Fame' in the inaugural NSW Aboriginal Health Awards. This was in recognition of Fred's 'outstanding contribution and achievement' to Indigenous health in Australia. Gabi Hollows received the award on his behalf.
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| 2005 |
Canberra Eye Hospital, ACT, Australia, honoured Fred by naming an operating theatre after him. Fred performed surgery there soon after he came back from the United Kingdom in the 1960s. |
| 2006 |
Included in Prime TV's "New Zealand's Top 100 History Makers" |
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