1. Neil Elvis "Nicky" Winmar was born on 25 September 1965 and is a former Australian rules footballer best known for his career for St Kilda and the Western Bulldogs in the Australian Football League, as well as South Fremantle in the West Australian Football League.
Nicky Winmar was involved in several incidents of racial vilification during his career, and a photograph of Winmar responding to one such incident during the 1993 season has been described as one of the most memorable images in Australian sporting history.
Nicky Winmar left St Kilda at the end of the 1998 season and was drafted by the Western Bulldogs, playing one further season in the AFL before retiring at the end of the 1999 season.
Neil Elvis Nicky Winmar was born on 25 September 1965 in Kellerberrin, Western Australia, to Neal and Meryle Nicky Winmar.
Nicky Winmar's father, Neal Winmar, was born in a tent under a tree.
Nicky Winmar made his senior debut for South Fremantle in round nine of the 1983 season, aged 17, and played a total of 13 games in his debut season.
In total, Nicky Winmar played 58 games for South Fremantle from 1983 to 1986 and kicked 98 goals.
Nicky Winmar transferred to the St Kilda Football Club in the Victorian Football League for the 1987 season, making his debut for the club in Round 1 against Geelong at Moorabbin Oval.
Nicky Winmar finished equal third in the 1989 Brownlow Medal, polling 16 votes from his 22 games.
Nicky Winmar returned to football in round seven of the 1991 season, recording 33 disposals and one goal against Adelaide at Moorabbin.
Nicky Winmar played a further 23 games in the 1992 season, including the club's semi-final loss to Footscray.
In 1995, Nicky Winmar played in each of St Kilda's 22 games, winning the club's best and fairest award for a second time and being named in the All-Australian team.
Nicky Winmar played his 200th game for the club in round 17 of the 1997 season, against the Brisbane Lions at Waverley Park, becoming the first Indigenous player to reach the milestone in the AFL.
Nicky Winmar played in St Kilda's loss to Adelaide in the 1997 Grand Final, having kicked three goals against North Melbourne in the preliminary final the previous week.
In 1998, in what was to be his last season for St Kilda, Nicky Winmar played 23 games and kicked 16 goals.
Nicky Winmar was dismissed from St Kilda at the end of the 1998 season after Tim Watson replaced Stan Alves as coach of the club.
Nicky Winmar was then selected by the Western Bulldogs with the 30th pick overall in the 1998 National Draft, having been considered a chance to be drafted by Collingwood, North Melbourne or Carlton.
Nicky Winmar played a total of 21 games for the club, kicking 34 goals, before retiring from the Western Bulldogs at the end of the 1999 season, halfway through a two-year contract, citing issues with a commitment to training and injuries.
The most notable one, which created a now iconic photograph of Nicky Winmar, occurred in 1993.
On 16 April 2023, at the Round 5 St Kilda-Collingwood game 30 years later, Nicky Winmar was celebrated as he tossed the coin at the beginning.
Nicky Winmar donated the jumper he was wearing in the photograph to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission in 1998.
Clark was forced to return the jumper to Nicky Winmar, which was later donated to the National Museum of Australia, where it featured in Off the Walls, an exhibit of Indigenous Australian art.
Nicky Winmar was convicted and fined in 2000 for assaulting his ex-wife on Christmas Day of the previous year.