This is a list of finalists for the 1966 Archibald Prize for portraiture, listed by Artist and Title.[1] As the images are copyright, an external link to an image has been listed where available.
| Artist | Title | Subject | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Harold Abbott | Gino Preziosa | |||
| Ian Armstrong | John Kennedy, FRAM | |||
| William Aylward | Sue | |||
| Peter Alan Bill | Professor Bissietta | |||
| William Geoffrey Boissevain | Sir Stanley Prescott | |||
| Shirley Bourne | Mrs. Lorna Moore | |||
| Mary Brady | Sir Bernard Heinze | |||
| Florence Broadhurst | Self-portrait | |||
| Ernest Buckmaster | Self-portrait | |||
| Charles Bush | Self-portrait at 47 | |||
| Donald Cameron | Self-portrait | |||
| Reg Campbell | Self-portrait | |||
| Jack Carington Smith | Sir Douglas Parker, OBE | |||
| Judy Cassab | Peter O'Shaughnessy as Dylan | |||
| Paul Delprat | Lady Paquita Mawson | |||
| Desmond Digby | Margaret Carnegie with orange dress and specs | image | ||
| Shirley Eustis | Mr William Frater | |||
| Maximilian Feuerring | Self-portrait | |||
| Robert Finlayson | Viidika | |||
| Margaret Fromel | Ted | |||
| Sam Fullbrook | Norman Behan | image | ||
| Don Gallagher | Joanne Dowell | |||
| Edna Garran-Brown | Portrait of an artist | |||
| Hector Gilliland | Self-portrait | |||
| Thomas Gleghorn | Louis James | |||
| Pat Graham | Irvine Douglas | |||
| Robert Greer | Miss Togo | |||
| Guy Grey-Smith | Self-portrait | |||
| Henry Aloysius Hanke | Self-portrait | |||
| David Harrison | Dr. J. D. Bollen, B.A., Ph.D. | |||
| Newton Hedstrom | Lindsay Bryant | |||
| Sali Herman | Self-portrait | |||
| Graeme Inson | Valli | |||
| Graeme Inson | Roderick Shaw | |||
| Jean Isherwood | John Coburn | |||
| Gareth Jones-Roberts | Alan Marshall | |||
| Louis Kahan | Dr TS Gregory | |||
| Garrett Kingsley | Self-portrait | |||
| Michael Kmit | Eddy Batache | |||
| Lynette Lee | Roderick | image | ||
| Vaike Liibus | Edwin Hodgeman | |||
| Olive Long | Miss Nancy Salas | |||
| Herbert McClintock | Captain Major | |||
| Jocelyn Maughan | Lyndon Dadswell | |||
| Vladas Meskenas | Michael Kmit | |||
| Lesley Moline | John Thornett, MBE, BSc, BE | |||
| Jon Molvig | Charles Blackman | image Winner: Archibald Prize 1966[2] | ||
| Jon Molvig | Sir Charles Moses | |||
| Arthur J Murch | Alan Ingham | |||
| Meg Padgham | John Casson, O.B.E. | |||
| Colin Parker | Lindsay Imbandarinja | |||
| William Pidgeon | Professor Sir Philip Baxter, KBE, PhD | |||
| William Pidgeon | Mrs W Bunning | |||
| Gwen Pratt | JF Fleming | |||
| Clifton Pugh | Sir Macfarlane Burnet | |||
| David Rae | Valerie Maikus | |||
| David Rae | Esther Edmundsen | image | ||
| John Thomas Rigby | George Wallace | |||
| Andrew Sibley | June Bronhill | |||
| Eric John Smith | Rodney Milgate | image | ||
| Eric John Smith | Self-portrait | |||
| Joshua Smith | Capt. Neville Bruchauser | |||
| Joshua Smith | Sir George Currie, BScAgr, DSc, HonLLD, HonLittD | |||
| Arnold St Claire | Dr Maurice Pozniak, M.B., B.S. | |||
| C G Taylor | Robert D Fitzgerald | |||
| Dora Toovey | The Rev. J. Gray Robertson, O.B.E., B.A., B.D. | |||
| Thora Ungar | Sydney Ungar | |||
| Douglas Watson | Roland Wakelin | |||
| Dick Weight | Ward Austin | |||
| Bryan Westwood | Mervyn Horton | |||
| Reinis Zusters | Myself |