Famous people born in Australia

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Eamon Sullivan

Eamon Sullivan


Eamon Wade Sullivan is an Australian former sprint swimmer, threetime Olympic medallist, and former world recordholder in two events.....
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Daniel Ricciardo

Daniel Ricciardo


Daniel Ricciardo is an Australian racing driver who is currently competing in Formula One for Red Bull Racing. He won the British Formula 3 Championship in 2009. After Mark Webber announced his retirement from Formula One, Ricciardo was confirmed as his replacement at Red Bull Racing for 2014. In his first season with Red Bull, Ricciardo finished third in the championship with his first three Formula One wins, in Canada, Hungary, and Belgium.....
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Dannii Minogue

Dannii Minogue


Danielle Jane Dannii Minogue is an Australian singersongwriter, talent competition judge, actress, television and radio personality, and fashion designer. She rose to prominence in the early 1980s for her roles in the Australian television talent show Young Talent Time with another known fellow Australian Tina Arena and the soap opera Home and Away, before beginning her career as a pop singer in the early 1990s. Minogue achieved early success with hits such as Love and Kisses, This is It, Jump ....
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Danny Green boxer

Danny Green boxer


Daniel Danny Green is an Australian health and fitness trainer and professional boxer. In 2014, Danny launched an online health and fitness program called Team Danny Green to help everyday people embrace a healthier lifestyle. Nicknamed The Green Machine, he is a former WBC super middleweight champion, WBA light heavyweight champion and a twotime IBO cruiserweight champion. Green holds notable victories over former world champions Eric Lucas, Stipe Drews, Roy Jones, Jr., and Manny Siaca.....
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Darren Lehmann

Darren Lehmann


Darren Scott Lehmann is a former Australian cricketer and the current coach of the Australian cricket team. Lehmann made his ODI debut in 1996 and Test debut in 1998. He was on the fringes of national selection for the entirety of the 1990s, and only became a regular in the ODI team in 2001 and Test team in late 2002, before being dropped in early 2005. Primarily an aggressive lefthanded batsman, Lehmann was also a parttime left arm orthodox bowler, and was known for his disregard for physical ....
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David Chalmers

David Chalmers


David John Chalmers is an Australian philosopher and cognitive scientist specializing in the area of philosophy of mind and philosophy of language. He is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Centre for Consciousness at the Australian National University. He is also Professor of Philosophy at New York University in the NYU Department of Philosophy. In 2013, he was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts amp Sciences.....
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Edwina Tops Alexander

Edwina Tops Alexander


Edwina TopsAlexander is an Olympiclevel equestrian rider, who competes for Australia. Her coach and husband is former Dutch champion Jan Tops. She uses the Netherlands as her base for most of the year at Stal Tops Valkenswaard.....
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David Hicks

David Hicks


David Matthew Hicks is an Australian whose controversial conviction for providing material support for terrorism was struck down. He was convicted by the United States Guantanamo military commission under the Military Commissions Act of 2006, on charges of providing material support for terrorism. The conviction was overturned by the U.S. Court of Military Commission Review in February 2015. Hicks was detained by the United States in Guantanamo Bay detention camp from 2001 until 2007 following....
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David Hussey

David Hussey


David John Hussey is an Australian cricketer. Hussey is a righthanded batsman and can also bowl rightarm offbreaks. He is the younger brother of former Australian Test cricketer Michael Hussey. He is the captain of Melbourne Stars in Big Bash League....
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David Morris skier

David Morris skier


David John Morris is an Australian Olympic aerialfreestyle skier who competed in both the 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Sochi and the 2010 Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver. He is Australias most successful male aerial skier, having competed across FIS World Cup, World Championships and Winter Olympic competitions. He was selected to represent Australia at the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games. He is the first Australian male aerial skier to compete at two consecutive Olympic Games, and the first ....
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Christian Porter

Christian Porter


Charles Christian Porter is an Australian politician who has been the Liberal Party member for the federal Division of Pearce since the 2013 federal election. Porter was a Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister in the Abbott Government from December 2014, before being promoted to Minister for Social Services in the Turnbull Government from September 2015.....
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Christie Dawes

Christie Dawes


Christie Dawes ne Skelton is an Australian Paralympic wheelchair racing athlete.....
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George Hucks

George Hucks


George Hucks is an Australian wheelchair rugby player. Born in the South Australian town of Port Augusta, he took up wheelchair rugby in 1994 and began playing for the Australian Steelers in 1995. During a practice in Atlanta before the 1996 Summer Paralympics, Hucks, the teams best player, broke his kneecap. He was part of the national team at the 2000 Sydney, 2004 Athens, and 2008 Beijing Paralympics, and won silver medals at the 2000 and 2008 games with the team. He works as a funds officer.....
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Heath Ledger

Heath Ledger


Heathcliff Andrew Ledger was an Australian actor and director. After performing roles in Australian television and film during the 1990s, Ledger left for the United States in 1998 to develop his film career. His work comprised nineteen films, including 10 Things I Hate About You , The Patriot , A Knights Tale , Monsters Ball , Ned Kelly , The Brothers Grimm , Lords of Dogtown , Brokeback Mountain , Casanova , Candy , Im Not There , The Dark Knight and The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus . He a....
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Elle Macpherson

Elle Macpherson


Elle Macpherson is an Australian model, businesswoman, television host and actress. She is well known for her record five cover appearances for the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue beginning in the 1980s, leading to her nickname The Body. She is the founder, primary model, and creative director for a series of business ventures, including Elle Macpherson Intimates, a lingerie line, and The Body, a line of skin care products. She has been the host and executive producer of Britain amp Irelands ....
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Ellie Cole

Ellie Cole


Ellie Victoria Cole OAM is an Australian Paralympic swimmer and wheelchair basketball player. After having her leg amputated due to cancer, she trained in swimming as part of her rehabilitation program and progressed more rapidly than instructors had predicted. She began competitive swimming in 2003 and first competed internationally at the 2006 IPC Swimming World Championships, where she won a silver medal. Since then, she has won medals in the Pan Pacific Swimming Championships, the Commonwe....
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Ellyse Perry

Ellyse Perry


Ellyse Alexandra Perry is an Australian sportswoman who made her debut for both the Australian cricket and the Australian womens national soccer team at the age of 16. She played her first cricket international in July 2007 before earning her first football cap for Australia a month later. Perry is the youngest person to represent Australia in cricket and the first Australian to have appeared in both cricket and association football World Cups.....
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Chris Hemsworth

Chris Hemsworth


Chris Hemsworth is an Australian actor. He is best known for his roles as Kim Hyde in the Australian TV series Home and Away and as Thor in the Marvel Cinematic Universe films Thor , The Avengers , Thor The Dark World and Avengers Age of Ultron . He has also appeared in the science fiction action film Star Trek , the thriller adventure A Perfect Getaway , the horror comedy The Cabin in the Woods , the dark fantasy action film Snow White and the Huntsman , the war film Red Dawn and the biogra....
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Deborah Mailman

Deborah Mailman


Deborah Mailman is an Australian television and film actress. She was the first Aboriginal actress to win the Australian Film Institute Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role and had gone on to win four more both in television and film. The awards are now known as the AACTA Awards.....
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Delta Goodrem

Delta Goodrem


Delta Lea Goodrem is an Australian singersongwriter and actress. Born and raised in Sydney, New South Wales, she enrolled in dancing, acting, singing and piano classes at a young age. She began her career as a child actress, starring in various television shows and rose to prominence in 2002 in the Australian soap opera Neighbours as Nina Tucker.....
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