This is a list of finalists for the 2007 Archibald Prize for portraiture.

• Martin Ball – Mark McClean
• Del Kathryn Barton – Vasili Kaliman and contained familiar together within the Dreaming
• John Beard – Janet Laurence (Winner of the 2007 Archibald Prize)
• Danelle Bergstrom – Take two – Jack Thompson (Winner of the 2007 Packing Room Prize)
• Adam Chang – Brian, the dog and the doorway (Portrait of Brian Sherman)
• Zhong Chen – Self portrait
• Peteris Ciemitis – Making sense of place #4 (Portrait of Prof George Seddon)
• Kevin Connor – Portrait of a quiet man, Robert Eadie, painter
• Sam Cranstoun – Peter (Portrait of artist’s father)
• Darren Crothers – Black sheep of the family (Self-portrait)
• Lucy Culliton – Self with subject (domestic science) (Self-portrait)
• Carmen Di Napoli – Go for it (Portrait of Morris Iemma)
• McLean Edwards – Martin Browne
• Esther Erlich – Tim (Portrait of Tim Rogers
• Vivian Falk – A moment with Malcolm (Portrait of Malcolm Turnbull)
• David Griggs – The bleeding hearts club #1 (self portrait)
• Robert Hannaford – Tubes (Self-portrait)
• Daniel Henderson – Lily-Rose (Portrait of artist’s daughter)
• Cherry Hood – Ben Quilty
• Peter Hudson – Words and music – portrait of Paul Kelly
• Jasper Knight – The Honourable Bob Carr
• Zai Kuang – Sarah and the doll
• Sam Leach – A bird flies past Jeff Kennett
• Bill Leak – Portrait of Paul (Portrait of Paul LePetit)
• Mathew Lynn – Neville Wran
• Abbey McCulloch – Toni Collette
• Alexander McKenzie – McLean Edwards
• Lewis Miller – Allan, Matisse and me (Portrait of Allan Mitelman)
• Michael Mucci – The power and the passion (Portrait of Peter Garrett)
• Angus Nivison – Myself (Self-portrait)
• Chris (aka Reg Mombassa) O'Doherty – Self portrait with high pants
• Paulson David – Michael Nelson Jagamara and totem (with Michael Nelson Jagamara)
• Evert Ploeg – George Ellis (Winner of the 2007 People's Choice Award)
• Rodney Pople – Stone cold sober (self portrait)
• Paul Ryan – Fink on the phone (Portrait of Margaret Fink)
• Jenny Sages – Irina Baronova (handing on the baton)
• Peter Smeeth – The young diva – A portrait of Amelia Farrugia
• Sue Taylor – eX and reg
• Ian Waldron – Imants Tillers
• Xu Wang – John Yu and George Soutter
• Greg Warburton – Faith Bandler