List of Famous people born in Australia
Christiaan Van Vuuren
Christiaan Van Vuuren is an actor, writer, director and video blogger from Sydney, Australia. Van Vuuren was placed in quarantine in a Sydney hospital twice for tuberculosis. While in quarantine for six months, he gained fame via videos posted under the name The Fully Sick Rapper. He has since been featured on television programs such as Stan's The Other Guy, BBC2's STAG and Foxtel's Top of the Lake: China Girl. His latest movie is the Australian Christmas Movie A Sunburnt Christmas , published on Stan end of 2020.
Katie Noonan
Katie Anne Noonan is an Australian singer-songwriter. In addition to a successful solo career encompassing opera, jazz, pop, rock and dance, she was the singer in the band George and remains the singer in the band Elixir; performs with her mother Maggie Noonan; and plays with her band The Captains. Noonan was the musical director of and performed at the 2018 Commonwealth Games' opening and closing ceremonies.
Tiffany Cromwell
Tiffany Jane Cromwell is an Australian road cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's WorldTeam Canyon–SRAM. In November 2015 she was announced as part of the Canyon–SRAM team's inaugural squad for the 2016 season.
Danielle Spencer
Danielle Spencer is an Australian actress, singer and songwriter.
Shaun Burgoyne
Shaun Playford Burgoyne is an Australian rules footballer who plays for the Hawthorn Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). He began his AFL career with the Port Adelaide Football Club, where he played from 2002 to 2009 before being traded to Hawthorn.
Daniel Rioli
Daniel Rioli is a professional Australian rules footballer playing for the Richmond Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). He is a three-time premiership player with the club and in 2017 he received the award for the AFL's Goal of the Year.
Ben Dunk
Ben Robert Dunk is an Australian professional cricketer who last played for the Lahore Qalandars and Melbourne Stars. Previously, he has played for Queensland and Tasmania in Australian domestic cricket as a left-handed batsman. He can also play as a wicket-keeper, and is a capable bowler, bowling right arm off spin.
Casey Donovan
Casey Donovan is an Australian singer, songwriter, actress, theatre actress and author, best known for winning the second season of the singing competition show Australian Idol in 2004. She won the competition at age 16, becoming the series' youngest winner. In 2017, Casey won the third series of I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here. Casey also hosted the NITV music show Fusion With Casey Donovan.
Mark Holden
Mark Ronald Holden is an Australian singer, actor, TV personality, record producer, songwriter, and barrister. He was a pop star in the 1970s and had four top 20 hit singles, "Never Gonna Fall in Love Again", "I Wanna Make You My Lady" (September), "Last Romance" (November) and "Reach Out for the One Who Loves You". Holden regularly appeared on national pop music show, Countdown. Holden is remembered for his clean-cut image, his white dinner suit and his penchant for handing out carnations to girls on the set of the popular television show Countdown – he was nicknamed "The Carnation Kid". In the 1980s he worked as a songwriter in Los Angeles providing material recorded by Meat Loaf, Joe Cocker, Gladys Knight, Bob Welch and Steve Jones. He was one of three original judges on the TV series Australian Idol (2003–07) and the first season (2005) of The X Factor.
Ross O'Donovan
Ross Kenry O'Donovan, also known as RubberNinja, is an Australian animator, voice actor, and Internet personality. He is known for his solo work as a Twitch streamer, as well as his YouTube and Newgrounds cartoons and animations. He co-hosted the internet show Steam Train, a spin-off of YouTube Let's Play webseries Game Grumps.