Australian swimming stars of the Menzies Era included:

• Lorraine Crapp (born 1938)
  Lorraine Crapp broke 16 individual world records (100m, 300m 400m, 800m, 220uards, 440yards & 880yards) and 7 team world records.
  She won three Commonwealth gold medals, one silver and one bronze medal in 1954 and 1960.
  She won two Olympic gold medals (400m & 4x100m relay in 1956) & two silver medals (400m in 1956 and 4x100m relay in 1960)
  
   
• Dawn Fraser (born 1937 in Sydney)
  Dawn Fraser was the first woman to swim 100m in under a minute
  setting a record which was unbroken for another 15 years.
  In her career she set 40 world records (27 individual) and won more Olympic medals than any other Australian.
  She was the only swimmer to win gold medals in the same event in three successive Olympic games (100m freestyle in 1956, 60 & 64)
  She also won a gold medal at the 1956 Olympics as a member of the 4x100m relay team and silver medals in the 400m (1956) and the 4x100m relay (1960 & 64).
  In 1964, she was banned from competitive swimming for 10 years for mischievously removing a flag from the Japanese Emperor's palace. In the same year, she was named Australian of the Year.
  Dawn Fraser retired in 1965, becoming a swimming coach and, later, a member of the New South Wales Parliament.
    
• Ilsa Konrads (born 1944 in Riga, Latvia)
  Ilsa Konrads broke 12 individual world records, including 800m, 1500m, 880yds & 1650yds freestyle, and six team world records
  Like her brother, John, she suffered badly from nerves in international competition, winning a Commonwealth gold and a silver medal (1958) and an Olympic silver medal for the 4x100m relay in 1960
    
• John Konrads (born 1942 in Riga, Latvia)
  Between 1958 and 1961, Jon Konrads broke 26 individual world records, including every world freestyle record from 200m to 1500m & 220yds to 1650yds, and six team world records.
  Like his sister, Ilsa, severe nerves prevented him performing at his best in international competition.
  He won three Commonwealth gold medals.
  He won the 1500m Olympic gold and 400m & 4x200m bronze medals in 1960.
    
• Murray Rose (born in England)
  Murray Rose broke 9 world records and won four Olympic gold medals: 400m, 1500m & 4x200m in 1956 and 400m in 1960. He also won a silver (1500m) and a bronze (4x200m relay) medal in the 1960 Olympics.
  He won 4 Commonwealth gold & 2 silver medals in 1962.
  Although not included in the 1964 Olympic team, he broke the world 880yards record during that year.
  After retiring, he worked as a sports commentator in Australia and the United States.
    
• Shane Gould (born 1956 in Brisbane)
  In 1972, Shane Gould won every Australian freestyle championship, broke every Australian freestyle record and broke the world freestyle record in every distance. 
  In the 1972 Olympics, she won three gold, one silver and one bronze medal and broke three world  records.
  In 1974, at the age of seventeen and regarded as the greatest female swimmer the world have ever see, she retired from swimming to devote her life to motherhood and social welfare work.
  In 2004, aged 47, Shane returned to competitive swimming and qualified to compete in the 50m butterfly at the Olympic trials.