List of Famous people born in Australia

Holly Valance

Holly Rachel Vukadinović
First Name Holly
Last Name Valance
Born on May 11, 1983 (age 42)
Born in Australia, Victoria
Height 171 cm | 5'7

Holly Rachel Candy, known professionally as Holly Valance, is an Australian actress, singer and model. Valance began her acting career on the Australian soap opera Neighbours, as Felicity Scully. She released her first album, Footprints, which provided her top 3 singles, "Kiss Kiss", "Down Boy" (September) and "Naughty Girl" (December). By that time she had relocated to Los Angeles. Her second and final album, State of Mind, appeared in November 2003. Her film roles include, DOA: Dead or Alive (2006), Pledge This! (2006), Taken (2008) and Kambakkht Ishq (2009). Valance has lived in her mother's native United Kingdom since 2009 and became a contestant on the BBC One dance competition Strictly Come Dancing in 2011. In 2013, she was a mentor and judge of fashion competition, Shopaholic Showdown. In September 2012, Valance married British property developer, Nick Candy; the couple have two children.

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Olivia DeJonge

First Name Olivia
Last Name DeJonge
Born on April 30, 1998 (age 28)
Born in Australia, Victoria
Height 163 cm | 5'4

Olivia DeJonge is an Australian actress, known for playing Tara Swift / Shaneen Quigg in ABC1's Hiding, Becca in the film The Visit (2015) and Elle in Netflix's The Society.

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Emma Snowsill

Emma Laura Snowsill
First Name Emma
Born on June 15, 1981 (age 44)
Height 161 cm | 5'3

Emma Laura Snowsill OAM is an Australian professional triathlete and multiple gold medalist in the World Championships and the Commonwealth Games. She won the gold medal in triathlon at the 2008 Olympics. Snowsill is married to the 2008 Olympic champion in men's triathlon, Jan Frodeno.

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Jonathan Hyde

First Name Jonathan
Last Name Hyde
Born on May 21, 1948 (age 77)
Height 180 cm | 5'11

Jonathan Stephen Geoffrey King, known professionally as Jonathan Hyde, is an Australian-born actor, known for roles such as Herbert Cadbury in Richie Rich, J. Bruce Ismay in the 1997 film Titanic, Culverton Smith in The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, Warren Westridge in Anaconda, Sam Parrish and Van Pelt in Jumanji, and Eldritch Palmer in the FX TV series The Strain. He has lived in the United Kingdom since 1969.

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Montaigne

Jessica Alyssa Cerro
Born on August 14, 1995 (age 30)

Jessica Alyssa Cerro, who performs as Montaigne, is an Australian art pop singer-songwriter-musician. Her debut album, Glorious Heights, was released on 5 August 2016, which peaked at No. 4 on the ARIA Albums Chart. At the ARIA Music Awards of 2016 she won Breakthrough Artist – Release for the album and was nominated for three other categories. In April 2016 she was a featured vocalist on Hilltop Hoods' track, "1955", which reached No. 2 on the ARIA Singles Chart. She was supposed to represent Australia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2020 with her song "Don't Break Me", until the contest was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. On 2 April 2020, it was announced that she would represent Australia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2021.

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Tim Ferguson

First Name Tim
Last Name Ferguson
Born on November 16, 1963 (age 62)

Timothy Dorcen Langbene Ferguson is an Australian comedian, film director, screenwriter, author and screenwriting teacher.

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James Pattinson

First Name James
Last Name Pattinson
Born on May 3, 1990 (age 35)
Born in Australia, Victoria

James Lee Pattinson is an Australian cricketer who plays for Victoria, and for the Australia national cricket team. After making his Test cricket debut in late 2011, he has been in and out of the Australian test team a number of times due to various issues. In the 2019 Ashes series, he returned to the Test team after a three-and-a-half year absence.

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Yumi Stynes

First Name Yumi
Last Name Stynes
Born on June 2, 1975 (age 50)
Born in Australia, Victoria

Yumi Tasma Stynes is an Australian television and radio presenter, podcaster and author. She is the co-host of KIIS FM's 3PM Pick-Up radio show and presenter of the ABC Radio podcast Ladies, We Need to Talk about female health and sexuality. She presented the morning television show The Circle and was also a television presenter on Channel V Australia and Max. During 2013 she was a presenter on Sydney's Mix 106.5 FM radio breakfast program.

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William Brill

First Name William
Last Name Brill
Born on May 17, 1916
Died on October 12, 1964 (aged 48)

William Lloyd Brill, & Bar was a senior officer and bomber pilot in the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF). Born in the Riverina district of New South Wales, he was a farmer and a member of the Militia before joining the RAAF in 1940. After training in Australia and Canada, he was posted to Britain in 1941 to take part in the air war over Europe. Brill first saw combat with No. 460 Squadron RAAF, flying Vickers Wellington medium bombers. He was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross (DFC) in May 1942 for attacking a target after his plane was badly damaged by anti-aircraft fire. Following assignment as an instructor with the Royal Air Force (RAF), he returned to the bombing campaign in January 1944 as a flight commander with No. 463 Squadron RAAF, flying Avro Lancaster heavy bombers.

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Pete Evans

First Name Pete
Last Name Evans
Born on February 26, 1973 (age 53)
Born in Australia, Victoria

Peter Daryl Evans is an Australian chef, conspiracy theorist, restaurateur, author, and television presenter, who is best known as a former judge of the competitive cooking show My Kitchen Rules. Evans has been heavily criticised for spreading misinformation about vaccinations and promoting pseudoscientific dieting ideas such as the paleolithic diet. He lives in Round Mountain, New South Wales.

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