Recognition and Awards

Awarded the Human Rights Medal

Named Australian of the Year

Advance Australia Award for Medicine and Overseas Aid

Humanist of the Year

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

Awarded an Honorary Doctorate by Queensland University of Technology

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.

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 Indigenous Australians and 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.