Carmen Anderson

Carmelita Carmen Anderson, born Bishop, is a lawn bowls international who represents Norfolk Island and also holds Australian citizenship. She won the gold medal in the singles at the 1996 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Leamington Spa and returned to the world championships in 2023 as part of the Norfolk Island team, playing the women's pairs and fours. Her first major medal came at the 1994 Commonwealth Games in Victoria, Canada, where she won Norfolk Island's first medal at the Games, a bronze, and she competed again at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in the pairs and fours. At the Asia Pacific Bowls Championships she is one of the most successful female bowlers of all time, with eleven medals including five golds, four of them in the singles. She received the Medal of the Order of Australia in 1999.