List of Famous people born in Australia

Solomon Lew

First Name Solomon
Last Name Lew
Born on March 22, 1945 (age 81)
Net Worth $2.0B

Solomon Lew is an Australian businessman. His principal commercial activities involve importing apparel, toys and other goods into Australia from China and investments, mainly in retail companies.

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Thomas Keneally

First Name Thomas
Last Name Keneally
Born on October 7, 1935 (age 90)

Thomas Michael Keneally, AO is a prolific Australian novelist, playwright, and essayist. He is best known for his non-fiction novel Schindler's Ark, the story of Oskar Schindler's rescue of Jews during the Holocaust, which won the Booker Prize in 1982. The book would later be adapted into director Steven Spielberg's 1993 film Schindler's List, which won the Academy Award for Best Picture.

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John Stillwell

First Name John
Last Name Stillwell
Born on August 12, 1942 (age 83)
Born in Australia, Victoria

John Colin Stillwell is an Australian mathematician on the faculties of the University of San Francisco and Monash University.

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Richard Francis-Bruce

First Name Richard
Last Name Francis-Bruce
Born on December 10, 1948 (age 77)

Richard Leslie Francis-Bruce is an Australian film editor who has received several nominations for the Academy Award for Best Film Editing.

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Stuart O'Grady

First Name Stuart
Last Name O'Grady
Born on August 6, 1973 (age 52)
Height 176 cm | 5'9

Stuart O'Grady is a retired Australian professional road bicycle racer, who rode as a professional between 1995 and 2013. A former track cyclist, O'Grady and Graeme Brown won a gold medal in the Men's Madison at the 2004 Summer Olympics. O'Grady also won Paris–Roubaix in 2007. O'Grady competed in the Tour de France from 1997 and contended for the points classification in the Tour de France known as the green jersey, finishing second in the 1998, 1999, 2001 and 2005 races. He wore the yellow jersey of general classification leader in 1998 and 2001.

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Cheryl Praeger

First Name Cheryl
Last Name Praeger
Born on September 7, 1948 (age 77)

Cheryl Elisabeth Praeger is an Australian mathematician. Praeger received BSc (1969) and MSc degrees from the University of Queensland (1974), and a doctorate from the University of Oxford in 1973 under direction of Peter M. Neumann. She has published widely and has advised 27 PhD students. She is currently Emeritus Professor of Mathematics at the University of Western Australia. She is best known for her works in group theory, algebraic graph theory and combinatorial designs.

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Kate Warner

First Name Kate
Last Name Warner
Born on July 14, 1948 (age 77)
Born in Australia, Tasmania

Catherine Ann Warner, is an Australian lawyer and legal academic serving as the 28th and current Governor of Tasmania since 2014.

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Jordan Jansen

Jordan Ricqui Jansen
First Name Jordan
Last Name Jansen
Born on March 12, 1998 (age 28)

Jordan Jansen is an Australian pop singer from Gold Coast, Queensland.

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Chris Noonan

First Name Chris
Last Name Noonan
Born on November 14, 1952 (age 73)

Chris Noonan is an Australian filmmaker and actor. He is best known for the family film Babe (1995), for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director and Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.

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Jessica Gower

First Name Jessica
Last Name Gower
Born on January 1, 1977 (age 49)
Born in Australia, Victoria

Jessica Gower is an Australian actress. Gower's first claim to fame was as a starstruck but confused fan in a 2001 television commercial for Telstra featuring John Farnham and Glenn Wheatley. However, she is best known to Australian and international audiences as the character Sam in the first season of the Network Ten drama The Secret Life of Us. She also appeared in the Foxtel series Crash Palace, the Seven Network's All Saints and the 2002 film Blurred. She starred in episode 5 of series 2 of Wilfred as the Swedish dog.

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