List of Famous people born in Australia
Joy Lai
Joy Wai-lok Lai is an Australian badminton player. She competed at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics in Nanjing, China. Lai was the champion at the Waikato International tournament in the women's singles event.
Scott Boland
Scott Michael Boland is an Australian cricketer. He plays for Victoria and the Hobart Hurricanes. In March 2019, he was named the Sheffield Shield Player of the Year by Cricket Australia. Boland is one of a handful of Indigenous Australians to be selected to play for Australia at international level and, as of Dec 2021, is one of only five Aboriginal players to have played for Australia. He plays as a right arm fast-medium bowler.
Jennifer Kent
Jennifer Kent is an Australian actress, writer and director, best known for her directorial debut, the horror film The Babadook (2014). Her second film, The Nightingale (2018), premiered at the 75th Venice International Film Festival and was released in the United States on August 2, 2019.
Scott Sunderland
Scott Sunderland is an Australian professional racing cyclist, who last rode for UCI Continental team Bennelong SwissWellness Cycling Team.
Allan Peiper
Allan Peiper , is a retired Australian professional cyclist and current pro cycling team manager.
Trent Lowe
Trent Lowe is a professional road bicycle racer from Australia. He rode for Garmin–Transitions on the UCI ProTour from 2008 to 2010. Lowe was one of only two Australians on the Slipstream Squad, the other being Chris 'CJ' Sutton who came from Cofidis in 2007. The former full-time professional mountain biker had a breakthrough year on the road in 2005 riding for the US domestic team, Jittery Joe's, where he caught eye of Discovery Channel sports manager Johan Bruyneel. He was signed for Discovery Channel for his superior climbing abilities. In 2002 he won the UCI MTB World Junior XC Championship, then he won the under-23 Australian National Mountain Bike Championship in 2003 and 2004.
Megan Dunn
Megan Dunn is an Australian professional racing cyclist.
Michael Malone
Bruna Papandrea
Bruna Papandrea is an Australian film and television producer and the founder of production company Made Up Stories. Prior to Made Up Stories, Papandrea co-founded the production company Pacific Standard with Reese Witherspoon.
Murray Hocking
Murray Hocking is a badminton player from Australia. As well as representing Australia in 3 commonwealth games he represented his country in badminton at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta, making it to the round of 32.