List of Famous people born in Australia

Tim Wakefield

First Name Tim
Last Name Wakefield
Born on August 2, 1966 (age 59)
Born in Australia, Victoria

Timothy Stephen Wakefield is an American former professional baseball pitcher. Wakefield began his pitching career with the Pittsburgh Pirates, but is most remembered for his 17-year tenure with the Boston Red Sox, from 1995 till his retirement in 2012 as the longest-serving player on the team. When he retired, Wakefield was the oldest active player in the majors.

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Joel Houston

First Name Joel
Last Name Houston
Born on September 19, 1979 (age 46)

Joel Timothy Houston is an Australian musician, songwriter, pastor, and leader in the Sydney-based band Hillsong United, a worship band of Hillsong Church.

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Joshua Kennedy

Joshua Blake Kennedy
First Name Joshua
Last Name Kennedy
Born on August 20, 1982 (age 43)
Height 194 cm | 6'4

Joshua Blake Kennedy is an Australian former professional footballer who played as a striker for the Australia national soccer team.

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Brendan Kerry

First Name Brendan
Born on November 18, 1994 (age 31)

Brendan Kerry is an Australian figure skater. He is the 2017 CS Ondrej Nepela Trophy bronze medalist, the 2017 CS Lombardia Trophy bronze medalist, the 2019 Toruń Cup champion, the 2016 Egna Spring Trophy champion, and an eight-time Australian national champion.

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Joel Parkinson

First Name Joel
Last Name Parkinson
Born on April 10, 1981 (age 45)

Joel Parkinson is an Australian surfer who used to compete on the WSL. After twelve years competing at the elite level on the ASP World Championship Tour, a stretch that saw him win eleven elite ASP World Title Events, plus nine additional ASP tour events, and achieve runner-up second place to the ASP World Title four times, Parkinson won the ASP World Championship Tour Surfing Title on 14 December 2012 in Hawaii at the Banzai Pipeline during the ASP World Tours' final event for 2012–the Billabong Pipeline Masters. Parkinson hung on in a back and forth battle with eleven-time ASP World Title holder, Kelly Slater, to get his first World Title, as well as go on to win the Pipeline Masters, only after Slater lost his semi-final heat to Josh Kerr, of Queensland, Australia. Parkinson beat Kerr in the finals of the event, which was his seventh top-five placing for the year, and his first event title win for 2012.

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Ryan Rowland-Smith

Ryan Benjamin Rowland-Smith is an Australian former professional baseball pitcher. He previously played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Seattle Mariners and Arizona Diamondbacks. Rowland-Smith also represented Australia in the World Baseball Classic three times and in the 2004 Summer Olympics.

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Lisa De Vanna

First Name Lisa
Last Name Vanna
Born on November 14, 1984 (age 41)

Lisa Marie De Vanna is an Australian professional soccer player who plays as a forward for W-League team Melbourne Victory, and has played for the Australian national team. She is noted for her pace and dribbling skills. She is regularly considered one of the greatest female footballers in the world; football analyst and former Socceroo Craig Foster stated that she "ran on jet-fuel; burning up twice as fast, but with incredible impact."

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Michelle Heyman

First Name Michelle
Last Name Heyman
Born on July 4, 1988 (age 37)

Michelle Pearl Heyman is an Australian soccer player and commentator who currently plays for Canberra United in the W-League in Australia. She has previously played for W-League teams Central Coast Mariners, Sydney FC, and Adelaide United as well as the Western New York Flash in the American National Women's Soccer League. Heyman has represented Australia since 2010, playing at the 2014 AFC Women's Asian Cup, the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup and the 2016 Summer Olympics. In May 2019 she retired from international football.

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Matthew Jurman

Matthew John Jurman
First Name Matthew
Last Name Jurman
Born on December 8, 1989 (age 36)
Height 192 cm | 6'4

Matthew John Jurman is an Australian football (soccer) player of Croatian heritage who plays as a centre-back or occasionally as a left-back for Greek Super League 2 club Xanthi.

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Mark Webber

Mark Alan Webber
First Name Mark
Last Name Webber
Born on August 27, 1976 (age 49)
Height 180 cm | 5'11

Mark Alan Webber is an Australian former professional racing driver, who last competed in the FIA World Endurance Championship as a Porsche works driver in LMP1, in which he won the championship in 2015. Webber won nine Formula One Grands Prix and finished third in the championship in 2010, 2011 and 2013, all of which achieved while driving for Red Bull Racing.

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