Recognition and Awards
- 1981: Advance Australia Award for Aboriginal eye care.
- 1985: was a consultant to the World Health Organisation (WHO).
- 1985: offered appointment as an honorary Officer (AO) of the Order of Australia but he refused to accept the award because he was appalled at what he regarded as blatant lack of interest by the government in eye care for Aboriginal people. However, he went on to become an Australian citizen on 26 April 1989.
- 1990: received Human Rights Medal
- 1990: named Australian of the Year
- 1990: received a second Advance Australia Award, for Medicine and Overseas Aid
- 1991: named Humanist of the Year
- 1991: named a Paul Harris Fellow by Rotary International
- 1991: received Honorary Doctor of Medicine and Doctor of Science, University of New South Wales
- 1991: appointed Companion of the Order of Australia (AC)
- 1991: awarded Honorary Doctorate of Science, Macquarie University
- 1991: named the first honorary citizen of Eritrea
- 1992: received Honorary Doctorate, Queensland University of Technology
- 1993: received Albert Schweitzer Award of Distinction, Chapman University, USA
- 1993: received Rotary International's highest honour, the Rotary Award for World Understanding.
- 1993: received the Royal Australian College of Ophthalmologists Medal for his years of distinguished meritorious and selfless service – presented to him the night before he died.
- 1993: posthumously named a Melvin Jones Fellow of Lions Clubs International.
- 1993: Fred Hollows Reserve in Hollow's hometown of Randwick, NSW Australia established to preserve a natural rainforest gully and save it from future development.
- 2004: entered into the 'Hall of Fame' at the inaugural NSW Aboriginal Health Awards, in recognition of his "outstanding contribution and achievement to Indigenous health in Australia".
- 2005: an operating theatre was named after him at Canberra Eye Hospital, ACT, Australia.
- 2005: named one of "New Zealand's Top 100 History Makers" by Prime Television New Zealand.
- 2006: named one of the "100 most influential Australians" by The Bulletin magazine.
- 2010: featured on $1 Coin from the Royal Australian Mint as part of the Inspirational Australians Series.
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