List of notable Melburnians
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This is a list of people from Melbourne with some call to fame.

A Melburnian is an inhabitant of Melbourne
Melbourne
Melbourne is the capital and most populous city in the state of Victoria, and the second most populous city in Australia. The Melbourne City Centre is the hub of the greater metropolitan area and the Census statistical division—of which "Melbourne" is the common name. As of June 2009, the greater...

, the capital city of Victoria, Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

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Demonym
A demonym , also referred to as a gentilic, is a name for a resident of a locality. A demonym is usually – though not always – derived from the name of the locality; thus, the demonym for the people of England is English, and the demonym for the people of Italy is Italian, yet, in english, the one...

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  • Daevid Allen
    Daevid Allen
    Daevid Allen , sometimes credited as Divided Alien, an Australian poet, guitarist, singer, composer and performance artist is co-founder of psychedelic rock groups Soft Machine and Gong .-Biography:In 1960, inspired by the Beat Generation writers he had discovered...

     – musician
  • Vanessa Amorosi
    Vanessa Amorosi
    Vanessa Amorosi is an Australian singer-songwriter and recording artist. Her combined album and single sales have reached over 2 million worldwide.-Early life:...

     – singer
  • Bobi Andonov
    Bobi Andonov
    Bobby Andonov is an Australian pop/rock/soul singer, songwriter, actor and model.-Early life and career beginnings:Bobby has performed since the age of 6, when he started dancing and singing in his hometown, Melbourne, Australia then at the age of 9, he starred as Danny in a Junior Production of...

     – singer
  • Tina Arena
    Tina Arena
    Filippina Lydia "Tina" Arena is an Australian singer, songwriter and musical theatre actress. She has won several awards, most notably 6 ARIA Awards and in both 1996 and 2000 she received the World Music Award for the world's best selling Australian artist...

     – singer
  • Tilly Aston
    Tilly Aston
    Matilda Ann Aston , better known as Tilly Aston, was a blind Australian writer and teacher, who founded the Victorian Association of Braille Writers, and later went on to establish the Association for the Advancement of the Blind, with herself as secretary...


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  • Max Barry
    Max Barry
    Max Barry is a contemporary Australian author. He also maintains a blog on various topics, including writing, marketing and politics...

  • Damien Broderick
    Damien Broderick
    Damien Francis Broderick is an Australian science fiction and popular science writer. His science fiction novel The Judas Mandala is sometimes credited with the first appearance of the term "virtual reality," and his 1997 popular science book The Spike was the first to investigate the...

  • Adam Bandt
    Adam Bandt
    Adam Paul Bandt is an Australian politician and former industrial lawyer. Bandt was elected to the Australian House of Representatives in the 2010 Australian federal election for the Division of Melbourne...

     – politician
  • Stanley Bruce
    Stanley Bruce
    Stanley Melbourne Bruce, 1st Viscount Bruce of Melbourne, CH, MC, FRS, PC , was an Australian politician and diplomat, and the eighth Prime Minister of Australia. He was the second Australian granted an hereditary peerage of the United Kingdom, but the first whose peerage was formally created...

     – Prime Minister of Australia
  • Merril Bainbridge
    Merril Bainbridge
    Merril Bainbridge is an Australian pop music singer and songwriter. Her debut was in 1994 with the single, "Mouth", which peaked at number-one for six consecutive weeks in Australia and became a top five hit in the United States.- Early career :Bainbridge started performing when she was at the...

     – local singer
  • Ron Barassi
    Ron Barassi
    Ronald Dale Barassi, Jr AM is a former Australian rules football player and coach. During a long and decorated career, Barassi has been one of the most important figures in the history of Australian football. His father, Ron Barassi, Sr., was the first Australian footballer killed at Tobruk during...

     – Australian rules football legend
  • Kevin Bartlett – professional Australian rules footballer
  • John Bertrand – yachtsman
  • Travis Blackley
    Travis Blackley
    Travis Jarrod Blackley is a former starting pitcher for the Kia Tigers of the Korean Baseball Organization. He bats and throws left-handed.-Seattle Mariners:...

     – Major League baseballer
  • Andrew Bogut
    Andrew Bogut
    Andrew Michael Bogut is an Australian professional basketball player. He plays for the Milwaukee Bucks of the United States' National Basketball Association....

     – professional basketballer
  • Mark Bresciano
    Mark Bresciano
    Mark "Marco" Bresciano is an Australian football player who is currently playing for UAE Pro-League side Al Nasr SC as a midfielder. He represented Australia at all youth levels, including appearances at the 1999 FIFA World Youth Championship and 2000 Olympic Games...

     – professional Association football player
  • David Boyd
    David Boyd (artist)
    David Fielding Gough Boyd, OAM was an Australian artist, and a member of the Boyd artistic dynasty.-Boyd family artistic dynasty:...

     – artist
  • Debra Byrne
    Debra Byrne
    -Career:Byrne made her television debut on Brian and the Juniors, an early predecessor of Young Talent Time, which was hosted by a young Brian Naylor. She stayed with the show for 12 months. In 1971 she was cast as one of the original six Young Talent Time cast members...

     -Singer

  • John Brack
    John Brack
    John Brack was an Australian painter, and a member of the Antipodeans group.-Life:...

     – artist
  • Michael Balzary
    Flea (musician)
    Michael Peter Balzary , better known by his stage name Flea, is an Australian-American musician and occasional actor. He is best known as the bassist, co-founding member, and one of the composers of the rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers...

     – musician (better known as "Flea")
  • Eric Bana
    Eric Bana
    Eric Bana is an Australian film and television actor. He began his career as a comedian in the sketch comedy series Full Frontal before gaining critical recognition in the biopic Chopper...

     – comedian and actor
  • Cris Bonacci
    Cris Bonacci
    Cristina "Cris" Bonacci is an Australian-born producer, songwriter and musician. She is best known for her stint as lead guitarist in the British heavy metal band Girlschool and for her session guitar work.-Career:...

     – musician
  • Hamish Blake
    Hamish Blake
    Hamish Donald Blake is an Australian comedian, actor, author and bodybuilder from Melbourne, Australia. Since 2003, he has worked with Andy Lee as part of the comedy duo Hamish and Andy. The pair have performed live and on television and radio, most notably with their drive-time radio program...

     – comedian
  • Cate Blanchett
    Cate Blanchett
    Catherine Élise "Cate" Blanchett is an Australian actress. She came to international attention for her role as Elizabeth I of England in the 1998 biopic film Elizabeth, for which she won British Academy of Film and Television Arts and Golden Globe Awards, and earned her first Academy Award...

     – actress
  • May Brahe
    May Brahe
    May Brahe was an Australian composer, best known for her songs and ballads. Her most famous song by far is "Bless This House", recorded by John McCormack, Beniamino Gigli, Lesley Garrett and Bryn Terfel. She was the only Australian woman composer to win local and international recognition before...

     – composer
  • David Bridie
    David Bridie
    David Bridie is a musician from Melbourne, Australia. Bridie first rose to prominence as a member of Not Drowning, Waving, which he started in the early 1980s with guitarist John Phillips. They released four albums on Australian independent labels to some level of critical acclaim and very limited...

     – musician
  • Emily Browning
    Emily Browning
    Emily Jane Browning is an Australian film actress and fashion model, known for her roles as Violet Baudelaire in Brad Silberling's 2004 film Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, as Anna Ivers in the 2009 film The Uninvited, as Babydoll in Zack Snyder's 2011 action thriller Sucker...

     – actress and model
  • Sir Macfarlane Burnet
    Frank Macfarlane Burnet
    Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet, , usually known as Macfarlane or Mac Burnet, was an Australian virologist best known for his contributions to immunology....

     – medical scientist


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  • John Cain (senior)
    John Cain (senior)
    John Cain was an Australian politician, who became the 34th premier of Victoria, and was the first Australian Labor Party leader to win a majority in the Victorian Legislative Assembly. He was the only premier of Victoria whose son also served as premier.-Early life:Cain was born, one of 18...

     – Premier of Victoria
  • Anthony Callea
    Anthony Callea
    Anthony Cosmo Callea is an Australian singer-songwriter who rose to prominence in the 2004 season of Australian Idol when he became runner up. He was signed to Sony Music Australia until 2009 and is now an independent artist...

     – singer
  • Arthur Calwell
    Arthur Calwell
    Arthur Augustus Calwell Australian politician, was a member of the Australian House of Representatives for 32 years from 1940 to 1972, Immigration Minister in the government of Ben Chifley from 1945 to 1949 and Leader of the Australian Labor Party from 1960 to 1967.-Early life:Calwell was born in...

     – politician, leader of the Australian Labor Party
  • Pat Cash
    Pat Cash
    Patrick Hart "Pat" Cash is a retired Australian professional tennis player who won the men's singles title at Wimbledon in 1987.-Early career:...

     – professional tennis player
  • Nick Cave
    Nick Cave
    Nicholas Edward "Nick" Cave is an Australian musician, songwriter, author, screenwriter, and occasional film actor.He is best known for his work as a frontman of the critically acclaimed rock band Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, established in 1984, a group known for its eclectic influences and...

     – singer
  • Chris Cheney
    Chris Cheney
    Christopher John Cheney is the guitarist, main songwriter and lead vocalist in the Australian rock band, The Living End. His trademark guitar is a Gretsch White Falcon and he uses mainly distortion and modulation effects...

     – musician
  • Brian Chambers
    Brian Chambers (cricketer)
    Brian Andrew Chambers is a former Australian born English cricketer. Chambers was a right-handed batsman who bowled left-arm fast-medium. He was born in Melbourne, Victoria....

     – cricketer
  • Bianca Chatfield
    Bianca Chatfield
    Bianca Lee Chatfield is an Australian netball player. In 2001, she was selected for the Australian team to tour three-nations test series against England and New Zealand in the UK. Bianca plays in the positions of GK and GD...

     – netball player

  • Gabriella Cilmi
    Gabriella Cilmi
    Gabriella Lucia Cilmi is an Australian singer-songwriter. In 2008, Cilmi was awarded six ARIA awards including Single of the Year and Best Female Artist....

     – singer
  • Vince Colosimo
    Vince Colosimo
    Vincenzo Colosimo is an Australian AFI Award winning stage, television and screen actor. He has worked in both Australia and the United States.-Personal life:...

     – actor
  • Kate Constable
    Kate Constable
    Kate Constable is an Australian author. Her first novel was The Singer of All Songs, the first in the Chanters of Tremaris trilogy. It was later followed by The Waterless Sea and The Tenth Power.-Biography:...

  • Barry Crocker
    Barry Crocker
    Barry Hugh Crocker OAM is a popular Australian singer, with a crooning vocal style.-Biography:...

     – entertainer
  • Julie Corletto – netball player
  • Peter Costello
    Peter Costello
    Peter Howard Costello AC is an Australian politician and lawyer who served as the Treasurer in the Australian government from 1996 to 2007. He is the longest-serving Treasurer in Australian history. Costello was a Member of the Australian House of Representatives from 1990 to 2009, representing...

     – politician, longest serving Treasurer of Australia
  • Frank Costigan
    Frank Costigan
    Francis Xavier "Frank" Costigan, QC was an Australian lawyer who is most famous for chairing the Costigan Commission into organised crime.-Background and early life:...

  • Noel Counihan
    Noel Counihan
    Noel Counihan was an Australian social realist painter.Counihan was born in Albert Park, then a working-class suburb of Melbourne. He attended Caulfield Grammar School in 1928...

     – artist
  • Susan Crennan
    Susan Crennan
    Susan Maree Crennan AC , is an Australian judge, a Justice of the High Court of Australia, the highest court in the Australian court hierarchy.-Biography:...



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  • Garry David
    Garry David
    Garry David, also known as Garry Webb, was an Australian criminal. Born on 20 November 1954, to Rupert and Betty David. Rupert David is said to have served more time in prison than any other person in the history of the State of Victoria. His mother was an alcoholic and David and his siblings...

     – criminal
  • Jason Donovan
    Jason Donovan
    Jason Donovan is an Australian actor and singer. He initially achieved fame in the Australian soap opera Neighbours, before beginning a career in music in 1988. In the UK he has sold over 3 million records, and his début album Ten Good Reasons was one of the highest-selling albums of 1989...

     – actor and UK singer
  • Sir Edward "Weary" Dunlop
    Edward Dunlop
    Lieutenant Colonel Sir Ernest Edward "Weary" Dunlop, AC, CMG, OBE was an Australian surgeon who was renowned for his leadership while being held prisoner by the Japanese during World War II.-Early life and family:...

  • Alfred Deakin
    Alfred Deakin
    Alfred Deakin , Australian politician, was a leader of the movement for Australian federation and later the second Prime Minister of Australia. In the last quarter of the 19th century, Deakin was a major contributor to the establishment of liberal reforms in the colony of Victoria, including the...

     – Prime Minister of Australia
  • Brody Dalle
    Brody Dalle
    Brody Dalle is an Australian-born American singer, songwriter and guitarist. She rose to fame as lead singer/guitarist for the punk rock band The Distillers and currently fronts Spinnerette....

     – singer
  • Paul Dempsey
    Paul Dempsey
    Paul Dempsey is the lead singer, guitarist and principal songwriter of Australian rock group Something for Kate. Paul was a founding member of the band, and in August 2009 released his first solo album, Everything Is True whilst continuing his work with Something for Kate...

     – musician
  • Owen Dixon
    Owen Dixon
    Sir Owen Dixon, OM, GCMG, KC Australian judge and diplomat, was the sixth Chief Justice of Australia. A justice of the High Court for thirty-five years, Dixon was one of the leading jurists in the English-speaking world and is widely regarded as Australia's greatest ever jurist.-Education:Dixon...


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  • Emilie de Ravin
    Emilie de Ravin
    Emilie de Ravin born 27 December 1981)is an Australian actress. She is commonly associated with her roles as Tess Harding on Roswell and Claire Littleton on the ABC drama Lost....

     – actress
  • Matthew Elliott
  • Jason Ellis
    Jason Ellis
    Jason Ellis is an Australian professional skateboarder, mixed martial artist, radio host, and actor. Ellis hosts The Jason Ellis Show weekdays on Sirius XM Radio channel Faction...


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  • John Farnham
    John Farnham
    John Peter Farnham, AO, formerly billed as Johnny Farnham , is an English-born Australian pop singer. He was a teen pop idol from 1964 to 1979, and has since forged a career as an adult contemporary singer. His career has mostly been as a solo artist although he briefly replaced Glenn Shorrock as...

     – singer and entertainer
  • Malcolm Fraser
    Malcolm Fraser
    John Malcolm Fraser AC, CH, GCL, PC is a former Australian Liberal Party politician who was the 22nd Prime Minister of Australia. He came to power in the 1975 election following the dismissal of the Whitlam Labor government, in which he played a key role...

     – Prime Minister of Australia
  • John Fitzgerald
    John Fitzgerald (tennis player)
    John Basil Fitzgerald OAM is a former professional tennis player from Australia who played right-handed with a single-handed backhand.-Playing career:...

  • Debbie Flintoff-King
    Debbie Flintoff-King
    Debra Lee Flintoff-King , born 20 April 1960 in Melbourne, Victoria, is a retired Australian athlete, and winner of the women's 400 m hurdles event at the 1988 Summer Olympics.-Athletics career:...

  • Damien Fleming
    Damien Fleming
    Damien William Fleming is a former Australian cricketer who played in 20 Tests and 88 ODIs from 1994 to 2001....


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  • Alphonse Gangitano
    Alphonse Gangitano
    Alphonse John Gangitano was an Italian Australian criminal from Templestowe, a suburb of Melbourne. Nicknamed the "Black Prince of Lygon Street", Gangitano was the face of an organisation known as the Carlton Crew, and a close associate of convicted criminals Graham Kinniburgh, Mick Gatto and...

     – organised crime figure
  • Zarah Garde-Wilson
    Zarah Garde-Wilson
    Zarah Garde-Wilson is an Australian solicitor in Victoria who has acted for many persons under investigation by Victoria Police in relation to the Melbourne gangland killings of 1998-2006....

  • Helen Garner
    Helen Garner
    Helen Garner is an award-winning Australian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist.-Life:Garner was born in Geelong, Victoria, the eldest of six children. She attended Manifold Heights State School, Ocean Grove State School and then The Hermitage in Geelong...

  • Andrew Gaze
    Andrew Gaze
    Andrew Barry Casson Gaze is Australia's best known basketball player, and one of its most successful. He is considered as the greatest player in the history of the NBL....

     – professional basketballer
  • Lisa Gerrard
    Lisa Gerrard
    Lisa Gerrard is an Australian musician, singer, and composer who rose to prominence as part of the music group Dead Can Dance with former music partner Brendan Perry....

  • Percy Grainger
    Percy Grainger
    George Percy Aldridge Grainger , known as Percy Grainger, was an Australian-born composer, arranger and pianist. In the course of a long and innovative career he played a prominent role in the revival of interest in British folk music in the early years of the 20th century. He also made many...

     – composer and pianist
  • Rachel Griffiths
    Rachel Griffiths
    Rachel Anne Griffiths is an Australian film and television actress who came to prominence in the 1994 film Muriel's Wedding and her Academy Award nominated performance in the 1997 film Hilary and Jackie....

     – actress
  • Germaine Greer
    Germaine Greer
    Germaine Greer is an Australian writer, academic, journalist and scholar of early modern English literature, widely regarded as one of the most significant feminist voices of the later 20th century....


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  • Colin Hay
    Colin Hay
    Colin James Hay is a Scottish-Australian musician, who made his mark during the 1980s as lead vocalist of the Australian band Men at Work, and later as a solo artist.- Early life and Men at Work :...

  • Liam Hemsworth
    Liam Hemsworth
    Liam Hemsworth is an Australian actor. He took the role of Josh Taylor in the soap opera Neighbours and as "Marcus" on the children's television series The Elephant Princess and appeared in the American film The Last Song, released on 31 March 2010...

  • Paul Hester
    Paul Hester
    Paul Newell Hester was an Australian musician and television personality; he was the drummer for the related bands Split Enz and Crowded House.-The early years:...

     – musician
  • Missy Higgins
    Missy Higgins
    Melissa "Missy" Morrison Higgins is an Australian pop singer-songwriter, musician and actor. Her No. 1 albums in Australia are The Sound of White and On a Clear Night , and her Top Ten singles are "Scar", "The Special Two", "Steer" and "Where I Stood". From a musical family in...

     – singer
  • Danielle Horvat
    Danielle Horvat
    Danielle Horvat is an Australian actress, best known for her role in Neighbours as Taylah Jordan, and as Jessica Bird on Sea Patrol.-Television:...

     – actress (Sea Patrol
    Sea Patrol
    Sea Patrol may refer to:*Sea Patrol, an Australian television series from 2007-2011**Sea Patrol **Sea Patrol , known as Sea Patrol II: The Coup**Sea Patrol , known as Sea Patrol: Red Gold...

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  • Barry Humphries
    Barry Humphries
    John Barry Humphries, AO, CBE is an Australian comedian, satirist, dadaist, artist, author and character actor, best known for his on-stage and television alter egos Dame Edna Everage, a Melbourne housewife and "gigastar", and Sir Les Patterson, Australia's foul-mouthed cultural attaché to the...

     – comedian
  • Rex Hunt
    Rex Hunt
    Rex James Hunt is an Australian television and radio personality, and a former Australian rules football player. He is an Australian rules football commentator, currently on the 1116 SEN radio station with son in law Lee Raynor conducting a program called Off The Hook. He is better known around...

     – Australian rules footballer and media personality

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  • Graham Kinniburgh
    Graham Kinniburgh
    Graham 'The Munster' Allen Kinniburgh was an Australian organised crime figure from Kew, a suburb of Melbourne, Australia...

     – criminal
  • Marny Kennedy
    Marny Kennedy
    Marny Kennedy is an Australian teen actress, noted for her roles as Taylor Fry in the series Mortified, and Veronica diAngelo in the third season of The Saddle Club. She also stars as Ally Henson in the TV series A gURLs wURLd...

  • Paul Kelly
    Paul Kelly (musician)
    Paul Maurice Kelly is an Australian rock music singer-songwriter, guitarist, and harmonica player. He has performed solo, and has led numerous groups, including the Dots, the Coloured Girls, and the Messengers. He has worked with other artists and groups, including associated projects Professor...

     – musician
  • Graham Kennedy
    Graham Kennedy
    Graham Cyril Kennedy, AO was an Australian radio, television and film performer, often called Gra Gra and The King of Australian television.-Childhood:...

     – comedian and television personality known as "The King"
  • Michael Klinger
    Michael Klinger
    Michael Klinger is a first-class cricketer with the South Australia Redbacks. His nickname is "Maxy", after the M*A*S*H character Maxwell Klinger....

     – cricketer
  • Lynne Kosky
    Lynne Kosky
    Lynne Janice Kosky is a former Australian politician and senior minister in the Parliament of Victoria. She represented the electoral district of Altona in the Victorian Legislative Assembly for the Australian Labor Party from 1996 to 2010...

     – politician
  • Anthony Koutoufides
    Anthony Koutoufides
    Anthony Koutoufides is a former Australian rules footballer with the Carlton Football Club. One of the most powerful and athletic players of all-time, he played in almost every position and was often called the prototype of the modern footballer.Of Greek and Italian descent, Koutoufides has been...

     – professional Australian rules footballer

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  • Norman Lacy
    Norman Lacy
    Norman Henry Lacy, Australian politician, is a former Victorian Government Minister from May 1979 to April 1982 who grew up in Richmond, Victoria and three times represented his state at national under age basketball championships...

  • Andy Lee
    Andy Lee (comedian)
    Andrew Thomas "Andy" Lee is an Australian comedian. He usually works alongside Hamish Blake as part of the comedy duo Hamish & Andy.-Personal background:...

     – comedian
  • Richard Lowenstein
    Richard Lowenstein
    Richard Lowenstein is an Australian film director. He has written, produced and directed the feature films He Died With A Felafel In His Hand, Dogs In Space, Say a Little Prayer, Strikebound and Ghost Story, as well as numerous ground-breaking and award-winning music videos for bands such as INXS...

     – film director
  • Lex Lasry
    Lex Lasry
    Lex Lasry QC is a prominent Australian lawyer and a judge in the Supreme Court of Victoria.Lasry graduated from Haileybury College, Melbourne then Monash University in Melbourne. He was admitted to practise law in Victoria in 1973 and was appointed Queens Counsel in 1990. Lasry is the former chair...

  • Colin Lovitt
    Colin Lovitt
    Colin Lovitt is a Queen's Counsel in Australia. He is known for defending Greg Domaszewicz and for getting in trouble for calling magistrate Bruce Zahner a 'cretin'...


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  • Mark Moran
    Mark Moran (criminal)
    Mark Anthony Moran was a criminal of the infamous Moran family from Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, notable for its involvement in the illegal drug trade and the Melbourne gangland killings...

     – criminal
  • Jason Moran
    Jason Moran
    Jason Matthew Patrick Moran was an Australian criminal from Melbourne, Victoria, and one of the leaders of the Moran crime family, notable for its involvement in the Melbourne gangland killings. He sported a 12 cm scar on the side of his face.-Early life:Moran was the son of Lewis Moran and...

     – criminal
  • Lewis Moran
    Lewis Moran
    Lewis Moran was an Australian organized crime figure and patriarch of the infamous Moran family of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Notable for his involvement in the Melbourne gangland killings, Moran was shot dead in a Melbourne hotel The Brunswick Club in 2004...

     – criminal
  • Frederick McCubbin
    Frederick McCubbin
    Frederick McCubbin was an Australian painter who was prominent in the Heidelberg School, one of the more important periods in Australia's visual arts history....

  • Sharelle McMahon
    Sharelle McMahon
    Sharelle Jane McMahon is an Australian netball player and former captain of the Australian national netball team...

     – netballer
  • Clement Meadmore
    Clement Meadmore
    Clement Meadmore was an Australian-American sculptor known for massive outdoor steel sculptures.-Biography:...

  • Vali Myers
  • Eddie McGuire
    Eddie McGuire
    Edward Joseph "Eddie" McGuire AM is an Australian television presenter and businessman known for his long association with Australian rules football and the Channel 9 television network....

     – entertainer
  • Sir William McKie – musician
  • Dame Nellie Melba
    Nellie Melba
    Dame Nellie Melba GBE , born Helen "Nellie" Porter Mitchell, was an Australian operatic soprano. She became one of the most famous singers of the late Victorian Era and the early 20th century...

     – opera singer
  • Dannii Minogue
    Dannii Minogue
    Danielle Jane "Dannii" Minogue is an Australian singer-songwriter, actress, television personality, radio personality, fashion designer and model...

     – popstar
  • Kylie Minogue
    Kylie Minogue
    Kylie Ann Minogue, OBE - often known simply as Kylie - is an Australian singer, recording artist, songwriter, and actress. After beginning her career as a child actress on Australian television, she achieved recognition through her role in the television soap opera Neighbours, before commencing...

     – popstar
  • Radha Mitchell
    Radha Mitchell
    Radha Rani Amber Indigo Anunda Mitchell is an Australian actress. Her film roles include Finding Neverland, Phone Booth, Man on Fire, Silent Hill, and the The Crazies-Early life:...

     – actress

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  • Bert Newton
    Bert Newton
    Albert Watson "Bert" Newton, AM, MBE is an Australian television personality, known for hosting television series such as In Melbourne Tonight, Good Morning Australia and 20 to 1. Newton has also hosted the Logie Awards on numerous occasions through his career.-Early life:Newton was born in...

     – entertainer
  • Olivia Newton-John
    Olivia Newton-John
    Olivia Newton-John AO, OBE is a singer and actress. She is a four-time Grammy award winner who has amassed five No. 1 and ten other Top Ten Billboard Hot 100 singles and two No. 1 Billboard 200 solo albums. Eleven of her singles and 14 of her albums have been certified gold by the RIAA...

     – singer, entertainer and actress
  • Livinia Nixon
    Livinia Nixon
    Livinia Nixon is an Australian television presenter and actress best known for her roles on the Nine Network as weather presenter on Nine News Melbourne and as co-host on the long running variety series Hey Hey It's Saturday....

     – television hostess

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  • John James Parton – Big Brother UK contestant
  • Sid Patterson
    Sid Patterson
    Sid Patterson was a world champion amateur and professional track cyclist from Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. While a teenager, Patterson won every Victorian and Australian title between 1,000 metres and ten miles...

  • Guy Pearce
    Guy Pearce
    Guy Edward Pearce is an English-born Australian actor and musician, known for his roles as Leonard Shelby in Christopher Nolan's Memento, Lieutenant Ed Exley in L.A...

     – actor
  • Kirk Pengilly
    Kirk Pengilly
    Kirk Pengilly is an Australian musician, best known as a member of the rock group :INXS.-Early career:...

     – musician
  • Mark Philippoussis
    Mark Philippoussis
    Mark Anthony Philippoussis is an Australian tennis player. He turned professional in 1994. His father is Greek, while his mother is of Italian ancestry....

     – professional tennis player
  • Jenny Phillips – botanical artist
  • Harry "Snub" Pollard
    Snub Pollard
    Harry "Snub" Pollard was a silent film comedian, popular in the 1920s.-Career:Often mistaken as the brother of Australian actress Daphne Pollard, in fact the two were not related despite their shared surname. Harry Pollard was born as Harold Fraser and took the name Pollard as his stage name...

     – movie comedian
  • Bill Ponsford
    Bill Ponsford
    William Harold "Bill" Ponsford MBE was an Australian cricketer. Usually playing as an opening batsman, he formed a successful and long-lived partnership opening the batting for Victoria and Australia with Bill Woodfull, his friend and state and national captain...

     – cricketer
  • Richard Pratt
    Richard Pratt (Australian businessman)
    Richard J. Pratt was a prominent Australian businessman, chairman of the privately-owned company Visy Industries, and a leading figure of Melbourne society. In the year before his death Pratt was Australia's fourth-richest person, with a personal fortune valued at billion...

  • Clifton Pugh
    Clifton Pugh
    Clifton Ernest Pugh AO, was an Australian artist and three-time winner of Australia's Archibald Prize. He was strongly influenced by German Expressionism, and was known for his landscapes and portraiture...

     – artist

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  • Chopper Read
    Chopper Read
    Mark Brandon "Chopper" Read is an Australian ex-criminal, who wrote a series of semi-autobiographical and fictional crime novels. The 2000 film Chopper was based on his life.-Early life:...

     – criminal
  • William Ricketts – potter and sculptor
  • Raja Ram
  • Helen Reddy
    Helen Reddy
    Helen Reddy , often referred to as "The Queen of 70s Pop", is an Australian-American singer and actress. In the 1970s, she enjoyed international success, especially in the United States, where she placed fifteen singles in the Top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100. Six of those 15 songs made the Top 10...

  • Anastasia Rodionova – professional tennis player
  • Normie Rowe
    Normie Rowe
    Norman John "Normie" Rowe AM was a major male solo performer of Australian pop music in the 1960s. Known for his bright and edgy tenor voice and dynamic stage presence, many of Rowe's most successful recordings were produced by Pat Aulton, house producer for the Sunshine Records, Spin Records and...

     – singer
  • Phil Rudd
    Phil Rudd
    Phillip Hugh Norman Rudd is an Australian drummer. He is best known for his membership of rock band AC/DC from 1975 until 1983, and again from 1994 to present. After the 1977 departure of bass guitarist Mark Evans, he became the only Australian-born member of the band...

  • Gina Riley
    Gina Riley
    Gina Riley is an Australian actress, writer, singer and comedian.Riley became a popular television performer in the sketch shows Fast Forward, its successor Full Frontal, Big Girl's Blouse and Something Stupid. In the latter she was also a producer and writer...

     – comedian, actress
  • Neil Robertson
    Neil Robertson (snooker player)
    Neil Robertson is an Australian professional snooker player and the 2010 World Champion and World #4...

     World Champion professional snooker player

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  • James Sorensen
    James Sorensen
    James Sorensen is a professional model and actor. He is of Danish, British and Portuguese descent. He has a twin sister and a brother who is 6 years younger.-Biography:...

  • Fred Schepisi
  • Sam Sejavka
    Sam Sejavka
    Samuel Marcus Sejavka Samuel Marcus Sejavka Samuel Marcus Sejavka (born 2 April 1960 in Melbourne, Australia, is a writer, actor and musician.Sejavka grew up in Mt Waverley and attended Holy Family Primary School, a Catholic school in Mt Waverley....

  • Mark Seymour
    Mark Seymour
    Mark Seymour is an Australian musician and vocalist best known for his work as the frontman and songwriter of rock band Hunters & Collectors...

  • Patricia Shaw
    Patricia Shaw (novelist)
    Patricia Shaw is an Australian novelist and non-fiction writer. She currently lives on the Gold Coast, Queensland, in northeast Australia.-Biography:...

  • Daryl Somers
    Daryl Somers
    Daryl Paul Somers OAM , is an Australian television personality. The son of a dairy farmer and a cabaret singer, Somers rose to national fame as the host of the long-running comedy-variety program Hey Hey It's Saturday.-Early life:Somers, who has an Irish Catholic heritage, was educated at...

     – entertainer
  • Jesse Spencer
    Jesse Spencer
    Jesse Gordon Spencer is an Australian actor and musician. He is best known for his current portrayal of Dr. Robert Chase on the medical drama House and for playing Billy Kennedy in the Australian soap-opera Neighbours....

  • Caitlin Stasey
    Caitlin Stasey
    Caitlin Jean Stasey is an Australian actress from Melbourne, who is best known for her previous role as Rachel Kinski in Neighbours. Previously she played Francesca Thomas in The Sleepover Club...

  • Christine Stephen-Daly
    Christine Stephen-Daly
    Christine Stephen-Daly is an Australian television actress.Christine grew up in Melbourne with her father Paul, an entrepreneur who was the originator of the world's first travelling tram restaurant in Melbourne in 1993; mother Rhonnda, a housewife; and three sisters Louise, Laura, and...


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  • Squizzy Taylor
    Squizzy Taylor
    Joseph Leslie Theodore "Squizzy" Taylor was an Australian Melbourne-based gangster. He rose to notoriety by leading a violent gang war against a rival criminal faction in 1919, absconding from bail and successfully hiding from the police for over a year in 1921-22, and the Glenferrie robbery in...

     – criminal
  • George Tolhurst
    George Tolhurst
    George Tolhurst was an English composer, resident from 1852 to 1866 in Australia.Born in Maidstone, Kent, George emigrated to Melbourne with his father, where he practised as a teacher of music. He returned to England in 1866, and died in Barnstaple in 1877...

  • Zoja Trofimiuk
    Zoja Trofimiuk
    Zoja Trofimiuk is an Australian sculptor and printmaker, born in Prague, Czechoslovakia. She specializes in cast glass; her studio is in Melbourne. Zbych Trofimiuk, an Australian actor, is her son.-Education:...

  • Albert Tucker
    Albert Tucker (artist)
    Albert Lee Tucker , a pivotal Australian artist, was a member of the Heide Circle, a group of leading modernist artists and writers that centred on the art patrons John and Sunday Reed, whose home, "Heide", located in Bulleen, near Heidelberg , was a haven for the group...

  • Eliza Taylor-Cotter
    Eliza Taylor-Cotter
    Elizabeth Jane "Eliza" Taylor-Cotter is an Australian actress, best known for her role as Janae Timmins in long-running soap opera Neighbours.-Biography and Career:...

  • J. G. Thirlwell
    J. G. Thirlwell
    James George Thirlwell , aka Clint Ruin, aka Frank Want, aka Foetus, is an Australian vocalist, composer and record producer...

  • Geoffrey Tozer
    Geoffrey Tozer
    Geoffrey Tozer was an Australian classical pianist and composer. As a child prodigy, he composed an opera at the age of eight, and became the youngest recipient of a Churchill Fellowship award at 13...

  • Zbych Trofimiuk
    Zbych Trofimiuk
    Zbych Trofimiuk, birth name Zbigniew Krzysztof Trofimiuk, , an Australian actor. He is best known for his performance as Paul Reynolds, the lead character in the children's science fiction series Spellbinder.-Personal:Trofimiuk is the son of the Prague-born Melbourne sculptor Zoja Trofimiuk.He...

  • John Thwaites
    John Thwaites
    John Thwaites may refer to:*John Thwaites *John Thwaites *John Anthony Thwaites , British art critic and author*Jack Thwaites, British-Australian conservationist...

     – politician
  • Anna Torv
    Anna Torv
    Anna Torv is an Australian actress known for her role as FBI agent Olivia Dunham on the Fox television series Fringe.-Early life:...

     – actress

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  • Holly Valance
    Holly Valance
    Holly Valance is an Australian actress, singer, and model, who has dual United Kingdom citizenship. Valance began her career as Felicity "Flick" Scully on the Australian soap opera Neighbours...

     – singer
  • Steve Vizard
    Steve Vizard
    Stephen William Vizard, born 6 March 1956 in Richmond, Victoria, is an Australian media personality, comedian, businessman and writer.-Early life:...

     – entertainer and businessman
  • Mark Viduka
    Mark Viduka
    Mark Anthony Viduka is a former Australian soccer player who played as a centre forward. He captained the Australian national team at the 2006 FIFA World Cup in Germany to the last 16.-Melbourne Croatia:...

     – professional Association football player

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  • David Warren
    David Warren
    David Warren may refer to:* David Warren * Dave Warren * David Warren * David Warren * Dave Warren * David Warren , inventor of the flight data recorder* David H. D...

  • Ted Whitten
    Ted Whitten
    Edward James "EJ" Whitten was an Australian rules football player and media personality. He played a then-record 321 Victorian Football League games for the Footscray Football Club between 1951 and 1970...

     – Australian rules football legend
  • John Wren
    John Wren
    John Wren was an Australian businessman. He has become a legendary figure thanks mainly to a fictionalised account of his life in Frank Hardy's novel Power Without Glory, which was also made into a television series...

  • Carl Williams
  • Leigh Whannell
    Leigh Whannell
    Leigh Whannell is an Australian screenwriter, producer, and actor, best known for his work on the Saw franchise.-Life and career:...

     – Saw actor, entertainer
  • Stan Walker
    Stan Walker
    Stan Walker , is an Australian recording artist and actor. In 2009, Walker was the winner on the seventh season of Australian Idol. He subsequently signed a recording contract with Sony Music Australia....

     – Current Australian Idol winner
  • Shane Warne
    Shane Warne
    Shane Keith Warne is a former Australian international cricketer widely regarded as one of the greatest bowlers in the history of the game. In 2000, he was selected by a panel of cricket experts as one of the five Wisden Cricketers of the Century, the only specialist bowler selected in the quintet...

     – cricketer
  • Kathy Watt
    Kathy Watt
    Kathryn Ann Watt is an Australian racing cyclist who won two medals at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain ....

  • Matt Welsh
    Matt Welsh
    Matthew "Matt" Welsh is an Australian swimmer who is the former world champion in the backstroke and butterfly. Welsh trained under coach Ian Pope at the Melbourne Vicentre Club. He took two golds in 50 metres butterfly and 50 metres backstroke, during one hour, at the World Championships in...

  • Ross Wilson
    Ross Wilson
    Ross Andrew Wilson is an Australian singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer who fronted the groups Daddy Cool and Mondo Rock, and produced albums by Australian band Skyhooks. He has also performed solo, and as a judge on celebrity singing TV series It Takes Two from 2005...

     – singer songwriter

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  • Robert Richter
    Robert Richter (lawyer)
    Robert Richter QC is a prominent Australian barrister, based in Melbourne.Born in Kyrgyzstan c 1945, Richter's family arrived in Australia in 1959. Richter was admitted to the degrees of Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Laws in the late 1960s. He was "called to the bar" on 5 August 1971...


  • Catherine Deveny
    Catherine Deveny
    Catherine Deveny is a comedy writer and stand-up comedian, and was a regular columnist in The Age newspaper between 2001 and 2010...

  • Frank Hardy
    Frank Hardy
    Francis Joseph Hardy, or Frank, was an Australian left-wing novelist and writer best known for his controversial novel Power Without Glory. He also was a political activist bringing the plight of Aboriginal Australians to international attention with the publication of his book, The Unlucky...

  • Michael Leunig
    Michael Leunig
    Michael Leunig , typically referred to as Leunig, is an Australian poet, cartoonist and cultural commentator. His best known works include The Adventures of Vasco Pyjama and the Curly Flats series...

  • John Marsden
    John Marsden (writer)
    John Marsden is an Australian writer, teacher and school principal. Marsden has had his books translated into nine languages including Swedish, Norwegian, French, German, Dutch, Danish, Italian and Spanish....

  • Ida Rentoul Outhwaite
    Ida Rentoul Outhwaite
    Ida Rentoul Outhwaite was an Australian illustrator of children's books. Her work mostly depicted fairies....

  • Elliot Perlman
    Elliot Perlman
    Elliot Perlman is an Australian author and barrister. He has written two novels and one short story collection.-Life:Perlman is the son of second-generation Jewish Australians of East European descent...

  • Peter Singer
    Peter Singer
    Peter Albert David Singer is an Australian philosopher who is the Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University and Laureate Professor at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics at the University of Melbourne...

  • Nevil Shute
    Nevil Shute
    Nevil Shute Norway was a popular British-Australian novelist and a successful aeronautical engineer. He used his full name in his engineering career, and 'Nevil Shute' as his pen name, in order to protect his engineering career from any potential negative publicity in connection with his novels.-...

  • Christos Tsiolkas
    Christos Tsiolkas
    -Biography:He was born and grew up in Melbourne and was educated at Blackburn High School and the University of Melbourne where he completed an Arts Degree in 1987. www.austlit.edu.au. Retrieved 2007-07-22. He edited the student newspaper Farrago in 1988....

  • David Williamson
    David Williamson
    David Keith Williamson AO is one of Australia's best-known playwrights. He has also written screenplays and teleplays.-Biography:...

  • Sir John Gorton
    John Gorton
    Sir John Grey Gorton, GCMG, AC, CH , Australian politician, was the 19th Prime Minister of Australia.-Early life:...

  • Jeff Kennett
    Jeff Kennett
    Jeffrey Gibb Kennett AC , a former Australian politician, was the Premier of Victoria between 1992 and 1999. He is currently the President of Hawthorn Football Club. He is the founding Chairman of beyondblue, a national depression initiative.- Early life :Kennett was born in Melbourne on 2 March...

  • Norman Lacy
    Norman Lacy
    Norman Henry Lacy, Australian politician, is a former Victorian Government Minister from May 1979 to April 1982 who grew up in Richmond, Victoria and three times represented his state at national under age basketball championships...

  • Kirstie Marshall
    Kirstie Marshall
    Kirstie Marshall is a notable Australian aerial skier and Victorian state politician.Marshall was an ex-gymnast who became an aerial skier at Mount Buller, Victoria. During her skiing career Marshall won over 40 World Cup medals, including 17 World Cup gold medals...

  • James Scullin
    James Scullin
    James Henry Scullin , Australian Labor politician and the ninth Prime Minister of Australia. Two days after he was sworn in as Prime Minister, the Wall Street Crash of 1929 occurred, marking the beginning of the Great Depression and subsequent Great Depression in Australia.-Early life:Scullin was...

  • Graeme Clark
  • Sir John Eccles
    John Carew Eccles
    John Carew Eccles, AC FRS FRACP FRSNZ FAAS was an Australian neurophysiologist who won the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on the synapse. He shared the prize with Andrew Huxley and Alan Lloyd Hodgkin....

  • Keith Nugent
  • Brendan Fevola
    Brendan Fevola
    Brendan Fevola is a professional Australian rules footballer. He played with the Carlton and Brisbane Lions football clubs in the Australian Football League....

  • Alan J. Gow
    Alan J. Gow
    Alan James Gow is currently the Series Director and Administrator of the British Touring Car Championship , Chairman of MSA and President of the FIA Touring Car Commission...

  • Vince Grella
    Vince Grella
    Vincenzo "Vince" Grella is an Australian football player, who plays as a midfielder for Blackburn Rovers in the English Premier League...

  • Joe Hachem
    Joe Hachem
    Joseph Hachem is a Lebanese-Australian professional poker player known for winning the main event of the 2005 World Series of Poker. He was the first Australian to win the main event, which earned him $7.5 million, then a record for all-time biggest tournament prize.The next year, Hachem won his...

  • Merv Hughes
    Merv Hughes
    Mervyn Gregory Hughes is a former Australian cricketer. A right-arm fast bowler, he represented Australia between 1985 and 1994 in 53 Test matches, taking 212 wickets. He played 33 One Day Internationals, taking 38 wickets. He took a hat trick in a Test against the West Indies at the WACA in...

  • Dean Jones
    Dean Jones (cricketer)
    Dean Mervyn Jones AM is a retired Australian cricketer, and is presently a coach. He also worked as a media commentator.-Career:...

  • Michael Klim
    Michael Klim
    Michael Klim OAM is a Polish-born Australian swimmer. He was born in Gdynia. He was educated at the University High School, Melbourne and Wesley College, Melbourne where he is currently employed as the College's elite Head Coach of swimming...

  • John Landy
    John Landy
    John Michael Landy, AC, CVO, MBE is an Australian former Olympic track athlete. He was the second man to break the four-minute mile barrier in the mile run, and he held the world records for the 1500 metre run and the mile race...

  • Andrew Lauterstein
    Andrew Lauterstein
    Andrew George Lauterstein is an Australian swimmer and a three-time Olympic medalist.- Personal :...

  • Bill Lawry
    Bill Lawry
    William Morris "Bill" Lawry, AM is a former cricketer who played for Victoria and Australia. He captained Australia in 25 Tests, winning nine, losing eight and drawing eight, and led Australia in the inaugural One Day International match, played in 1971...

  • Walter Lindrum
    Walter Lindrum
    Walter Albert Lindrum, OBE , often known as Wally Lindrum, was an Australian professional player of English billiards who held the World Professional Billiards Championship from 1933 until his retirement in 1950. He was named Walter Albert to have the initials of the state where he was born - W.A....

  • Luc Longley
    Luc Longley
    Lucien James "Luc" Longley is a retired Australian professional basketball player, who was the first Australian to play in the NBA, where he played for eleven seasons...

  • Katie Mactier
    Katie Mactier
    Katie Mactier is an Australian professional racing cyclist. She began racing in 1999 at 24. She was educated at Wesley College, Melbourne.She is a member of the Caulfield Carnegie cycling club...

  • Mat McBriar
    Mat McBriar
    Mat McBriar is an Australian American football punter in the National Football League for the Dallas Cowboys.-Early years:McBriar began as an Australian rules football player, playing Australian rules for Brighton Grammar School...

  • Scott McDonald
    Scott McDonald
    Scott Douglas McDonald is an Australian football player who currently plays as a striker for English Championship side Middlesbrough and the Australian national team. Scott McDonald is of Scottish heritage.-Early career:...

  • John Reid McGowan
    John Reid McGowan
    John Reid "Gentleman Jack" McGowan was an Australian boxing champion. During his long career in the ring he fought over 110 battles, and was the first fighter to win three Australian titles at different weights, holding the titles of bantam, feather, and light-weight champion of...

  • Peter McNamara
    Peter McNamara
    Peter McNamara is a retired Australian tennis player.He won five singles and nineteen doubles titles during his professional career. A right-hander, McNamara reached his highest singles ATP-ranking on 14 March 1983 when he became World number 7...

  • Paul McNamee
    Paul McNamee
    Paul McNamee is a retired Australian tennis player and prominent sports administrator.-Tennis career:...

  • Keith Miller
    Keith Miller
    Keith Ross Miller MBE was an Australian Test cricketer and a Royal Australian Air Force pilot during World War II. Miller is widely regarded as Australia's greatest ever all-rounder. Because of his ability, irreverent manner and good looks he was a crowd favourite...

  • Lionel Rose
    Lionel Rose
    Lionel Edmund Rose MBE was an Australian bantamweight boxer, the first Indigenous Australian to win a world title.-Early life:...

  • Archbishop Daniel Mannix
    Daniel Mannix
    Daniel Mannix was an Irish-born Australian Catholic bishop. Mannix was the Archbishop of Melbourne for 46 years and one of the most influential public figures in 20th century Australia....

  • Noel McNamara
    Noel McNamara
    Noel John McNamara is an Australian campaigner for victims of crime and outspoken critic of the Australian justice system. In 1993 Noel established the Crime Victims Support Association with his wife Bev McNamara...

  • Sir John Monash
    John Monash
    General Sir John Monash GCMG, KCB, VD was a civil engineer who became the Australian military commander in the First World War. He commanded the 13th Infantry Brigade before the War and then became commander of the 4th Brigade in Egypt shortly after the outbreak of the War with whom he took part...

  • Leslie Morshead
    Leslie Morshead
    Lieutenant General Sir Leslie James Morshead KCB, KBE, CMG, DSO, ED was an Australian soldier, teacher, businessman, and farmer, with a distinguished military career that spanned both world wars...

  • Peter Tatchell
    Peter Tatchell
    Peter Gary Tatchell is an Australian-born British political campaigner best known for his work with LGBT social movements...

  • Sydney Lucas
    Sydney Lucas
    Syd Maurice Lucas was, at age 108, one of three remaining British Tommies of World War I , although the war ended before he was sent to fight. He was born in Leicester, England, and conscripted into the British Army's Sherwood Foresters while a teenager in August 1918...

  • Alice Burdeu
    Alice Burdeu
    Alice Burdeu is an Australian fashion model and winner of the third cycle of the reality television show Australia's Next Top Model.-Early life:Alice Burdeu was born in Melbourne, Victoria...

  • Joe Hachem
    Joe Hachem
    Joseph Hachem is a Lebanese-Australian professional poker player known for winning the main event of the 2005 World Series of Poker. He was the first Australian to win the main event, which earned him $7.5 million, then a record for all-time biggest tournament prize.The next year, Hachem won his...

  • Lindsay Fox
    Lindsay Fox
    Lindsay Edward Fox AC is an Australian businessman. As of 2009, he was the 10th richest person in Australia, with a net worth of around 1.5 billion . He is best known as the founder and chairman of his family-owned trucking and logistics company, Linfox.- Early life :Lindsay Fox was brought up in...

  • Margaret Jackson
    Margaret Jackson
    Margaret Jackson, AC is an Australian corporate executive.Jackson was born in Warragul, Victoria, and studied at Warragul High School. She graduated with a Bachelor of Economics degree from Monash University and a Master of Business Administration from the University of Melbourne...

  • Solomon Lew
    Solomon Lew
    Solomon Lew is an Australian businessman, and one of Australia's richest men. His principal commercial activities involve importing apparel, toys and other goods into Australia from China and share market investments, principally in retail companies.He was formerly a director then Chairman of the...

  • Rupert Murdoch
    Rupert Murdoch
    Keith Rupert Murdoch, AC, KSG is an Australian-American business magnate. He is the founder and Chairman and CEO of , the world's second-largest media conglomerate....

  • Ron Walker
    Ron Walker
    Ronald Joseph Walker AC CBE is a former Lord Mayor of Melbourne and Australian businessman, renowned for his work in managing sporting events.-Biography:...


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