List of Famous people born in Australia
Angela Punch McGregor
Angela Punch McGregor is an Australian stage and film actress.
Goran D. Kleut
Bruce Maslin
Bruce Roger Maslin is an Australian botanist, known for his work on Acacia taxonomy.
Dolly Pratt
Dorothy Ruth "Dolly" Pratt is an Australian politician. Born in Coffs Harbour, New South Wales, she was a Justice of the Peace and coffee shop proprietor in Queensland before entering politics. She also worked at cattle sale yards. At the 1998 state election, she won the seat of Barambah in the Legislative Assembly of Queensland, representing Pauline Hanson's One Nation. She left One Nation in 1999 to sit as an independent. In 2001, her seat of Barambah was abolished and largely replaced with Nanango, which she won as an independent. Pratt was re-elected in 2004, 2006, and 2009. Pratt stood down at the 2012 election. She is married with three children.
Bruce Smeaton
Bruce Smeaton is an Australian composer who is well known for a variety of Australian film and television scores in all genres, including features, shorts, television, documentaries and advertisements. His scores include Picnic at Hanging Rock, Seven Little Australians, Roxanne, Iceman, and Circle of Iron. He has won the Australian Film Institute (AFI) Best Original Music Score award for The Cars That Ate Paris (1974), The Great Macarthy (1975), The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith (1978) and Street Hero.
Ryan Moloney
Ryan Moloney is an Australian actor, known for his portrayal of the fictional character Jarrod "Toadfish" Rebecchi in the Australian soap opera Neighbours.
Calvin Watson
Calvin Watson is an Australian former professional cyclist, who rode professionally between 2012 and 2018 for the Team Jayco–AIS, Trek Factory Racing, An Post–Chain Reaction and Aqua Blue Sport teams.
Carla Ryan
Carla Ryan is a former Australian professional racing cyclist. She was previously a distance runner before taking up cycling in 2005 as a result of a Queensland Academy of Sport talent ID programme. She has won multiple Australian National Road Race Championships.
Damian Walshe-Howling
Damian Walshe-Howling is an Australian actor, well known for his role as Andrew "Benji" Veniamin in the Australian underworld drama, Underbelly, for which he won the Best Supporting or Guest Actor in a Drama Series at the 2008 AFI Awards.
Tara Morice
Tara Morice is an Australian actress.