Gwoya Tjungurrayi
First named Aboriginal person on an Australian stamp / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Gwoya Tjungurrayi (c.ā1895 ā 28 March 1965), also spelt Gwoja Tjungarrayi, Gwoya Jungarai, and Gwoya Djungarai, and also known by his nickname One Pound Jimmy, is known for being the first Aboriginal person to be featured on an Australian postage stamp, in 1950, although his name was not used to describe the image on the stamp. A survivor of the 1928 Coniston massacre in the Northern Territory, he later became an elder and lawman of his people. The name Gwoya, is a non-Indigenous rendering of the Anmatyerr word 'Kwatye', meaning 'water' or 'rain'.
The electoral division of Gwoja was named after him.