List of Famous people born in Australia
Carmen Marton
Carmen Marton is a taekwondo athlete from Australia. She is Australia's first ever world taekwondo champion.
Anne-Louise Lambert
Anne-Louise Lambert is an Australian actress whose acting career began with her role in Number 96 in 1973.
Ben Frost
Ben Frost is an Australian-Icelandic musician, composer, record producer, sound designer, and director.
John Faulkner
John Philip Faulkner is an Australian former Labor Party politician who was a Senator for New South Wales from 1989 to 2015. He was a Cabinet Minister in the Keating, Rudd and Gillard Governments.
Charles Chauvel
Charles Edward Chauvel OBE was an Australian filmmaker, producer and screenwriter and nephew of Australian army General Sir Harry Chauvel. He is noted for making the films Forty Thousand Horsemen in 1940 and Jedda in 1955.
Amanda Hardy
Amanda Jane Hardy is a retired female badminton player from Australia. Hardy was a ladies doubles and mixed doubles specialist.
Amanda Spratt
Amanda Spratt is an Australian road cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's WorldTeam Team BikeExchange.
Amanda Vanstone
Amanda Eloise Vanstone is an Australian former politician and a former Ambassador to Italy. She was a Liberal Senator for South Australia from 1984 to 2007, and held several ministerial portfolios in the Howard Government. After her resignation from the Senate in 2007, she served as the Australian Ambassador to Italy until July 2010. Her time as Minister for Immigration was marked by controversies within the Department of Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs.
Oenone Wood
Oenone Wood is a retired professional cyclist, who commenced her cycling career in 2001 at the age of 21. She was an Australian Institute of Sport scholarship holder.
Paul Starling
Paul Noel Starling is an Australian martial artist renowned as a Gōjū-ryū Karate master. He was the most senior Caucasian student of Gōjū-ryū Gogen Yamaguchi, and is a world Vice President of the International Karate do Goju Kai Association (IKGA)