List of Famous people born in Australia
Ben O'Connor
Ben Alexander O'Connor is an Australian road cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam AG2R Citroën Team.
Matt Jones
Matthew Jones is an Australian professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour where he has won once, in the 2014 Shell Houston Open. Jones has won the Emirates Australian Open twice, in 2015 and 2019.
Bec Rodriguez
Rebecca "Bec" Rawlings is an Australian mixed martial artist and bare-knuckle boxer, who currently competes in the flyweight division of Bellator. She was ranked as a contender strawweight (106-115 lb) fighter according to the Unified Women's Mixed Martial Arts Rankings.
Michael Turnbull
Michael David Turnbull is an Australian former professional footballer who played as goalkeeper. Turnbull was a member of the Australian squad at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, and played in two FIFA World Youth Championships.
Kurt Fearnley
Kurt Harry Fearnley, is an Australian wheelchair racer, who has won gold medals at the Paralympic Games and 'crawled' the Kokoda Track. He has a congenital disorder called sacral agenesis which prevented fetal development of certain parts of his lower spine and all of his sacrum. In Paralympic events he is classified in the T54 classification. He focuses on long and middle-distance wheelchair races, and has also won medals in sprint relays. He participated in the 2000, 2004, 2008 and 2012 Games. Fearnley finished his Paralympic Games career with silver and bronze medals at the 2016 Rio Paralympics. He won a gold and silver medal at the 2018 Commonwealth Games and was the Australian flag bearer at the closing ceremony.
Taliqua Clancy
Taliqua Clancy is an Australian volleyball and beach volleyball player who represented Australia at the 2016 Summer Olympics in beach volleyball, partnered with Louise Bawden. She is the first indigenous Australian volleyball player to represent Australia at the Olympics. She has the aboriginal flag tattooed on her left wrist and painted the flag on her fingernails for the Olympic matches.
Kevin Rudd
Kevin Michael Rudd is an Australian former politician who was the 26th Prime Minister of Australia, serving from 3 December 2007 to 24 June 2010 and again from 26 June to 13 September 2013. He held office as the leader of the Australian Labor Party.
Jock Landale
Jock Landale is an Australian professional basketball player who last played for Melbourne United of the National Basketball League (NBL).
Andrew Forrest
John Andrew Henry Forrest, nicknamed Twiggy, is an Australian businessman. He is best known as the former CEO of Fortescue Metals Group (FMG), and has other interests in the mining industry and in cattle stations.
Madison de Rozario
Madison de Rozario is an Australian Paralympic athlete. At the 2016 Rio Paralympics, she won two silver medals. She has won three gold medals at the World Para Athletics Championships.