John Landy

Courtesy of The Age, Picture Sebastian Costanzo.

John was born in Melbourne on 12th of April1930. John was educated at Malvern Grammar school, Geelong Grammar and the University of Melbourne. There he received a Bachelor of Agricultural Science degree in 1954. Landy has a very strong business back ground, having been a senior manager at ICI Australia, in which his work was instrumental foran annual turnover of over $60 million for the division. John has a wide experience of public speaking gained over 30 years of regularly addressing groups all over the world on many issues.
John Landy took office on New Year's Day 2001 as the state's 26th Governor replacing Sir James Gobbo was the 25th governor.

Courtesy of The Age.

When John was young he like to watch the 1500m running events. John Landy was a runner in the 1956 Olympics. He ran in the men's 1500m final. One of the things John is famous for is he is one of Australia's greatest sporting legends and the second man to run four-minute mile. Landy did the most incredibly, beautiful, foolish, thing! In one of his races, he stopped running, then he started to run back to help Ron Clarke (another famous Australian runner) because he had fallen. Clarke was all right and Landy came second in the race. John Landy was a world record holder and Olympic medallist for the mile during the 1950's. He is one of Australia's greatest sporting legends.

Landy an agricultural scientist has a particular interest in butterflies. He has written two books on natural history. John and his wife are celebrating their 30 years of marriage this year. Lynne and John have two children; Matthew, 28 and Alison 26. John Landy, has spent his life since as a naturalist, agricultural scientist, photographer, author and environmentalist.