List of Famous people born in Australia
Nina Young
Nina Young is a British-Australian actress.
Mitchell Watt
Mitchell Watt is an Australian track & field athlete. His main event is the long jump and holds the current Oceania record for the long jump – 8.54m. He was the first ever Australian long jump medalist at a World Championship and was the silver medalist at the 2012 Summer Olympics.
Natalie Bennett
Natalie Louise Bennett, Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle is a British politician and journalist who served as Leader of the Green Party of England and Wales from 2012 to 2016. Bennett was given a peerage in Theresa May's 2019 resignation honours.
Joy Smithers
Joy Smithers is an Australian actress, best known for her acting performances on television, and her role as a television news presenter, such as with MTV Australia in the late 1980s.
James Foley
James Foley is an Australian Roman Catholic priest. Since 21 August 1992, he is Bishop of Cairns.
Maddison Brown
Maddison Brown is an Australian actress and model. She is known for her role as Kirby Anders in the CW prime time soap opera Dynasty.
Jim Sharman
James David Sharman is an Australian director and writer for film and stage with more than 70 productions to his credit. He is renowned in Australia for his work as a theatre director from the 1960s to the present, and is best known internationally as the director of the 1973 theatrical hit The Rocky Horror Show, its film adaptation The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) and the film's follow-up, Shock Treatment (1981).
Greg Austin
Greg Austin is an Australian former rugby league and rugby union footballer who played in the 1980s and 1990s. A prolific try scorer, Austin spent the majority of his playing career in England.
Steven McRae
Steven McRae is an Australian ballet dancer and tap dancer. He is a principal dancer with the Royal Ballet, London.