List of Famous people born in Australia

Bob Dwyer

First Name Bob
Last Name Dwyer
Born on November 29, 1940 (age 85)

Bob Dwyer AM is an Australian rugby union coach.

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John Dawkins

First Name John
Last Name Dawkins
Born on March 2, 1947 (age 79)

John Sydney "Joe" Dawkins, AO is an Australian former politician who was Treasurer in the Keating Labor government from December 1991 to December 1993. He is notable for his reforms of tertiary education as Minister for Employment, Education and Training, his period as Treasurer when he attempted to increase taxes in order to balance the budget and his abrupt exit from politics.

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Terry Lovejoy

First Name Terry
Last Name Lovejoy
Born on November 20, 1966 (age 59)

Terry Lovejoy is an information technologist from Thornlands, Queensland, Australia, most widely known as an amateur astronomer. He has discovered six comets, including C/2011 W3 (Lovejoy), the first Kreutz Sungrazing comet discovered by ground-based observation in over 40 years. He is also known for popularizing procedures for modifying consumer-grade digital cameras so that they can be used for digital camera astrophotography.

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Shane Jacobson

First Name Shane
Last Name Jacobson
Born on March 18, 1970 (age 56)
Born in Australia, Victoria

Shane Jacobson is an Australian actor, director, writer, and comedian, best known as the "Dunny Man" for his performances as the eponymous character Kenny Smyth, a plumber working for a portable toilet rental company, in the 2006 film Kenny and the spin-off TV series, Kenny's World. In 2006, he won the Australian Film Institute's Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role for that performance. He currently presents Little Big Shots, on the Seven Network, based on the American series of the same title created and produced by Steve Harvey and Ellen DeGeneres. In 2019, Jacobson became a judge on Australia's Got Talent and the spinoff Australia's Got Talent: Challengers & Champions.

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Ken Muggleston

First Name Ken
Last Name Muggleston
Born on April 24, 1930
Died on November 30, 2020 (aged 90)

Ken Muggleston was an Australian set decorator. He won an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film Oliver! Muggleston's death was announced in April 2021.

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Alan Fletcher

First Name Alan
Last Name Fletcher
Born on March 30, 1957 (age 69)

Alan Fletcher is an Australian actor of stage, television and film. He is also a musician. He is best known for his role as Karl Kennedy in long-running soap opera Neighbours, and Harry Stinson, Kim's adoptive father in Lift Off. Along with co-star Jackie Woodburne who plays his wife, they are two of the series most popular and longest serving cast. Fletcher is also the 3rd longest serving actor in an Australian television serial, after Home and Away actors Ray Meagher and Lynne McGranger

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Francis Carroll

First Name Francis
Last Name Carroll
Born on September 9, 1930 (age 95)

Francis Patrick Carroll, a retired Australian archbishop, was the fifth Roman Catholic Archbishop of Canberra – Goulburn, serving between 1983 until his retirement in 2006. Prior to his election as archbishop, Carroll served as Bishop of Wagga Wagga between 1968 and 1983. Carroll served as president of the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference between 2000 and 2006.

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Kat Frankie

First Name Kat
Last Name Frankie
Born on July 8, 1978 (age 47)

Kat Frankie is an Australian-born singer-songwriter and guitarist. She relocated to Berlin in December 2004 and has issued four solo studio albums, Pocketknife, The Dance of a Stranger Heart, Please Don’t Give Me What I Want and Bad Behaviour.

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Kay Patterson

First Name Kay
Last Name Patterson
Born on November 21, 1944 (age 81)

Kay Christine Lesley Patterson is a former Australian politician. She was a Liberal member of the Australian Senate from 1987 to 2008, representing the state of Victoria.

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Carmen Lawrence

First Name Carmen
Last Name Lawrence
Born on March 2, 1948 (age 78)

Carmen Mary Lawrence is an Australian academic and former politician who was the Premier of Western Australia from 1990 to 1993, the first woman to become the premier of an Australian state. A member of the Labor Party, she later entered federal politics as a member of the House of Representatives from 1994 to 2007, and served as a minister in the Keating Government.

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