List of Famous people born in Australia
Lucy Fry
Lucy Elizabeth Fry is an Australian actress. She is known for portraying Zoey in Lightning Point, Lyla in Mako: Island of Secrets, and Lissa Dragomir in the film Vampire Academy. Fry was also cast in Hulu's eight part miniseries 11.22.63 as Marina Oswald, wife of Lee Harvey Oswald, and played the lead in the 2016 Australian horror television series Wolf Creek and Tikka in the 2017 Netflix film Bright.
Natalie Imbruglia
Natalie Jane Imbruglia is an Australian-British singer-songwriter, model and actress. In the early 1990s, she played Beth Brennan in the Australian soap opera Neighbours. Three years after leaving the programme, she began a singing career with her chart-topping cover of Ednaswap's song "Torn".
Pat Cummins
Patrick James Cummins is an Australian international cricketer who is currently the vice-captain of the Australia national team in all formats. He is a fast bowler and a capable lower-order right-handed batsman, and plays domestic cricket for New South Wales.
Jacki Weaver
Jacqueline Ruth Weaver is an Australian theatre, film, and television actress. She is known internationally for her performances in Animal Kingdom (2010) and Silver Linings Playbook (2012), both of which earned her nominations for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.
The Kid Laroi
Charlton Kenneth Jeffrey Howard, professionally known as the Kid Laroi, is an Australian rapper, singer, songwriter and record producer. Born in Sydney, but raised in rural Australia, he originally gained recognition from his association and friendship with late rapper Juice Wrld, who mentored him while he was on tour in Australia. Laroi gained a local following before signing to Lil Bibby's Grade A Productions. He became known outside Australia with his song "Let Her Go", and gained further popularity with his song "Go" featuring Juice Wrld, which peaked at number 52 on the Billboard Hot 100. His debut mixtape F*ck Love (2020) peaked at number one on the Australian ARIA Charts, making him the youngest Australian solo artist to reach the top. It also reached number three on the US Billboard 200.
Iggy Azalea
Amethyst Amelia Kelly, known by her stage name Iggy Azalea, is an Australian rapper, songwriter and former model. At the age of 16, Azalea moved to the United States from Sydney, Australia, to pursue a career in music. Azalea earned public recognition after releasing the music videos for her songs "Pussy" and "Two Times" on YouTube, both of which gained rapid popularity. Azalea signed a recording contract with American rapper T.I.'s label Grand Hustle shortly afterward and released her debut mixtape, Ignorant Art (2011).
Kimberley Chen
Kimberley Chen Fang-yu is an Australian singer, actress, and model based in Taiwan. She attended Tintern Grammar and Victorian College of the Arts in Melbourne, Australia. She was the youngest and only child model on Nine Network's The Price Is Right and later appeared as Young Nala in the Broadway production of Disney's The Lion King at the Regent Theatre in Melbourne and the Shanghai Grand Theater in Shanghai.
Rod Laver
Rodney George Laver, better known as Rod Laver, is an Australian former tennis player. He was the No. 1 ranked professional from 1964 to 1970, spanning four years before and three years after the start of the Open Era in 1968. He also was the No. 1 ranked amateur in 1961–62. He is the second and last male player to win each grand slam twice after Roy Emerson.
Barry Humphries
John Barry Humphries AO CBE is an Australian comedian, actor, satirist, artist, and author. He is best known for writing and playing his on-stage and television alter egos Dame Edna Everage and Sir Les Patterson. He is also a film producer and script writer, a star of London's West End musical theatre, an award-winning writer, and an accomplished landscape painter. For his delivery of dadaist and absurdist humour to millions, biographer Anne Pender described Humphries in 2010 as not only "the most significant theatrical figure of our time … [but] the most significant comedian to emerge since Charlie Chaplin".
Tim Tszyu
Tim Tszyu is an Australian professional boxer who held the Australian light-middleweight title in 2019.