List of Famous people born in Australia
Jana Wendt
Jana Wendt is an Australian Gold Logie award-winning television journalist, reporter and writer.
Dan Tehan
Daniel Thomas Tehan is an Australian politician who has been the Minister for Trade, Tourism and Investment in the Morrison Government since 2020. He is a member of the Liberal Party and previously served as Minister for Defence Materiel (2016), Defence Personnel (2016–2017), Veterans' Affairs (2016–2017), Social Services (2017–2018), and Education (2018–2020). He has been a member of the House of Representatives since the 2010 election, representing the Victorian seat of Wannon.
Leigh Whannell
Leigh Whannell is an Australian screenwriter, actor, film producer, and film director. He is best known for writing films directed by his friend James Wan, including Saw (2004), Dead Silence (2007), Insidious (2010), and Insidious: Chapter 2 (2013). Whannell made his directorial debut with Insidious: Chapter 3 (2015), and has since directed two more films, Upgrade (2018) and The Invisible Man (2020).
Daphne Akhurst
Daphne Jessie Akhurst known also by her married name Daphne Cozens, was an Australian tennis player.
Craig Wing
Craig Wing, also known by the nickname of "Wingy", is an Australian former professional rugby league and rugby union footballer. He played in Japan and represented the Japanese international side. He is a former New South Wales State of Origin and Australian international utility player, Wing played for the South Sydney Rabbitohs and the Sydney Roosters.
Chloe Esposito
Chloe Esposito is an Australian shooter and modern pentathlon competitor. She competed at the 2008 Commonwealth Youth Games in the 10 m air pistol. She represented Australia at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the modern pentathlon and won the gold medal in the same event at the 2016 Summer Olympics.
John Williams
John Christopher Williams, is an Australian virtuosic classical guitarist renowned for his ensemble playing as well as his interpretation and promotion of the modern classical guitar repertoire. In 1973, he shared a Grammy Award in the Best Chamber Music Performance category with fellow guitarist Julian Bream for Together. Guitar historian Graham Wade has said: "John is perhaps the most technically accomplished guitarist the world has seen."
Kasey Chambers
Kasey Chambers is an Australian country singer-songwriter and musician born in Mount Gambier. She is the daughter of fellow musicians, Diane and Bill Chambers, and the younger sister of musician and producer, Nash Chambers. All four were members of a family country music group, Dead Ringer Band, from 1992 to 1998, with Chambers starting her solo career thereafter. Five of her twelve studio albums have reached No. 1 on the ARIA Albums Chart, Barricades & Brickwalls, Wayward Angel, Carnival Rattlin' Bones and Dragonfly. In November 2018 she was inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame and has won an additional fourteen ARIA Music Awards with nine for Best Country Album. Her autobiography, A Little Bird Told Me..., which was co-authored with music journalist, Jeff Apter, was released in 2011.
Michael Hooper
Michael Kent Hooper is an Australian professional rugby union player who is the captain of the Waratahs in Super Rugby and the Australia national team, the Wallabies. His playing position is openside flanker.
Lisa Curry
Lisa Gaye Curry AO MBE, also known by her married name Lisa Curry-Kenny, is an Australian former competition swimmer.