List of Famous people born in Australia
Michael Taussig
Michael T. Taussig is an Australian anthropologist and professor at Columbia University. Although he has published on medical anthropology, he is best known for his engagement with Marx's idea of commodity fetishism, especially in terms of the work of Walter Benjamin.
Daniel Sams
Daniel Richard Sams is an Australian international cricketer. He made his international debut for the Australia cricket team in December 2020.
Bronson Reed
Jermaine Haley is a Samoan Australian professional wrestler. He is currently signed to WWE, where he performs on the NXT brand under the ring name Bronson Reed. He is also known for his work under the ring name Jonah Rock as part of The Mighty Don't Kneel stable.
Jeff Fatt
Jeffrey Wayne Fatt AM is an Australian musician and actor. He was a member of the children's group the Wiggles from its founding in 1991 to 2012, and was also in the 1980s and 1990s pop band the Cockroaches. He was the oldest member of the original Wiggles line up.
Elisabeth Murdoch
Elisabeth Murdoch is an Australian-born British and American media executive based in the United Kingdom. Murdoch is the second daughter of Australian-born American multi-billionaire media proprietor Rupert Murdoch. She was a non-executive chairperson of Shine Group, the UK-based TV programme production company she founded in 2001, until the company's parent – her father's 21st Century Fox – on 1 January 2015 merged its Shine division with ApolloGlobal Management's Endemol and Core Media production houses, specializing in reality TV.
Jason Behrendorff
Jason Paul Behrendorff is an Australian cricketer, currently listed with Western Australia and the Perth Scorchers in Australian domestic cricket.
Ryan Papenhuyzen
Ryan Papenhuyzen is an Australian professional rugby league footballer who plays for the Melbourne Storm in the National Rugby League (NRL), as a fullback.
Kenneth Dougall
Kenneth William Dougall is an Australian professional football player who plays as a defensive midfielder for Blackpool.
Maggie Kirkpatrick
Margaret Anne Kirkpatrick is an Australian actress who is best known for her portrayal of the character Joan Ferguson, a sinister and cold lesbian prison officer, nicknamed "The Freak", in the popular Australian television soap opera Prisoner. More recently, she performed as Madame Morrible in an Australian production of the musical Wicked.
Kate Mulvany
Kate Mulvany is an Australian actress, playwright and screenwriter. She works in theatre, television and film, with roles in Hunters (2020), The Great Gatsby (2013), Griff the Invisible (2010) and The Final Winter (2007). She has played lead roles with Australian theatre companies as well as appearing on television and in film. In 2004 she won the Philip Parsons Young Playwrights Award for The Seed. In 2017, she won the Helpmann Award for Best Female Actor in a Play for her role in Richard 3.