Famous people born in Northern Territory
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Jessica Mauboy
Jessica Hilda Mauboy is an Australian RampB and pop singer, songwriter, and actress. In 2006, Mauboy was the runnerup on the fourth season of Australian Idol she had auditioned for the talent show in Alice Springs, Northern Territory to pursue a recording career. Mauboy subsequently signed a contract with Sony Music Australia.....
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Leisel Jones
Leisel Marie Jones, OAM is an Australian former competition swimmer and Olympic gold medallist. A participant in the 2000 Summer Olympics at just 15 years old and 2004 Summer Olympics, she was part of goldmedalwinning Australian team in the womens 4100metre medley relay at the Athens Games in 2004 and a gold medalist for 100meter breaststroke in the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.....
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Geoff Huegill
Geoffrey Andrew Huegill is an Australian butterfly swimmer who won silver in the 4 100 metre medley relay and bronze in the 100 metre butterfly at the 2000 Summer Olympics. He held the long course world record in the 50 metre butterfly from 2000 to 2003.....
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Aaron Pedersen
Aaron Pedersen is an Australian television and film actor of ArrenteArabana Australian Aboriginal descent. He is known for his various film and television roles including Detective Jay Swan in Mystery Road, Detective Senior Constable Duncan Freeman in City Homicide, Detective Senior Constable Michael Reilly in Water Rats and Solicitor Drew Ellis in The Circuit.....
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Marion Grasby
Marion Grasby is a ThaiAustralian cook, and the owner and creator of Marions Kitchen food range. She is also a television presenter, cookbook author and food journalist. She is considered a passionate home cook.....
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Ian Moss
Ian Richard Moss is an Australian rock musician from Alice Springs. He is the founding mainstay guitarist and occasional singer of Cold Chisel. In that groups initial eleven year phase from 1973 to 1984, Moss was recorded on all five studio albums, three of which reached number160one on the national Kent Music Report Albums Chart. In August 1989 he released his debut solo album, Matchbook, which peaked at number160one on the ARIA Albums Chart. It was preceded by his debut single, Tuckers Daught....
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Mandawuy Yunupingu
Mandawuy Djarrtjuntjun Yunupingu , AC , was an Aboriginal Australian musician and educator. From 1986 he was the front man of the Aboriginal rock group Yothu Yindi as a singersongwriter and guitarist. In 1989 he became assistant principal of the Yirrkala Community School his former school and was principal for the following two years. He helped establish the Yolngu Action Group and introduced the Both Ways system, which recognised traditional Aboriginal teaching alongside Western methods. Yot....
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David Warren inventor
David Ronald de Mey Warren AO was an Australian scientist, best known for inventing and developing the flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder .....
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Mark Davies athlete
Mark Hedley Davies was an Australian Paralympic athlete. He was born in Darwin, and was the first man to represent the Northern Territory in sport for the blind. He had a degenerative eye condition that caused tunnel vision he found it more difficult to compete in ablebodied sports as he got older, and by 2000, he had lost all of his sight.....
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Jason Hellwig
Jason Scott Hellwig is a leading Australian sport administrator. He was the Chief Executive Officer of the Australian Paralympic Committee from 2010 to 2015.....
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Isaac Yamma
Isaac Yamma was a country singer from Central Australia. He was a Pitjantjatjara man who was born by a waterhole near Docker River . He started his musical career as a member of Areyonga Desert Tigers. He later performed with his band the Pitjantjatjara Country Band, a band made up of his sons Hector, Frank, Peter and Paul and his cousin Russell Yamma. His song were mostly sung in Pitjantjatjara. He was also a radio host on CAAMA Radio 8KIN FM.....
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C W Stoneking
Christopher William C.W. Stoneking is an Australian blues singersongwriter, guitarist and banjo player. He has released three studio albums, King Hokum , Jungle Blues and Gon Boogaloo , on his own King Hokum Records label. At the ARIA Music Awards of 2009 Jungle Blues won Best Blues and Roots Album he was also nominated for Best Male Artist, Breakthrough Artist Album, Best Independent Release and Best Cover Art. Gon Boogaloo peaked at No.16017 on the ARIA Albums Chart.....
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Eileen Napaltjarri
Eileen Napaltjarri is a Pintupispeaking indigenous artist from Australias Western Desert region. Eileen Napaltjarri, also known as Anyima Napaltjarri or Nanyuma Napaltjarri, began painting for Papunya Tula artists cooperative in 1996. She was named as one of Australian Art Collector magazines 50 Most Collectible artists in 2008 her works are held by the National Gallery of Australia and the Art Gallery of New South Wales.....
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Norah Nelson Napaljarri
Norah Nelson Napaljarri is a Warlpirispeaking Indigenous artist from Australias Western Desert region. Norah Nelson began painting in 1986, and has exhibited her works both in Australia and other countries. Her paintings and pottery are held in the collection of the National Gallery of Victoria.....
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