List of Famous people born in Australia
Vera Blue
Celia Pavey, known professionally as Vera Blue, is an Australian singer-songwriter signed with Mercury Records Australia, which is part of Universal Music Australia. Her folk-inspired album This Music peaked at number 14 on the Australian ARIA Charts in July 2013. Pavey sings, and plays the guitar and the violin. She placed third in season 2 of The Voice Australia.
Mark Thompson
Mark "Bomber" Thompson is a retired Australian rules footballer and former senior coach. He played 202 games for the Essendon Football Club from 1983 to 1996, captaining the side from 1992 until 1995. After retiring, he was an assistant coach at Essendon and then at North Melbourne before becoming the senior coach of the Geelong Football Club from 2000 to 2010 and coaching them to two premierships. In November 2010, Thompson returned to Essendon as a senior assistant coach and was then appointed the senior coach for the 2014 season. He left the club at the end of 2014. On 2 May 2018, he was charged with seven counts of drug trafficking and possession. He was released on $20,000 bail to appear in court at a later date. He was later cleared of trafficking but convicted of possession.
David Lyons
David Lyons is an Australian actor. He is known for his roles as Josh Holiday in the Nine Network navy drama Sea Patrol, Dr. Simon Brenner in the NBC medical drama ER and as General Sebastian Monroe in the NBC post-apocalyptic drama Revolution.
Judith Durham
Judith Durham is an Australian singer, songwriter and musician who became the lead singer of the Australian popular folk music group The Seekers in 1963.
Jackson Irvine
Jackson Alexander Irvine is an Australian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Scottish Premiership club Hibernian.
Amber Sherlock
Amber Simone Sherlock is an Australian journalist, television news presenter and reporter. She currently presents the weather on Nine News Sydney and has previously hosted the daily national one hour news bulletin Nine News Now.
Michael Tuck
Michael Tuck is a seven-time premiership-winning player, Australian rules footballer with the Hawthorn Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL) / Australian Football League (AFL), where he was the games record holder until 30 July 2016 when Brent Harvey played his 427th game for North Melbourne Football Club.
Kate Ritchie
Katherine Leigh Ritchie is an Australian actress, radio presenter and children's author, she remains best known for her long-running role as original character Sally Fletcher on the television soap opera Home and Away, for which she won two Gold Logie awards. She played the character for 20 years, appearing from the pilot episode in 1988 until 2008. Ritchie is currently part of Nova FM's national drive show, Kate, Tim & Joel with Tim Blackwell and Joel Creasey.
Chris Beath
Christopher James Beath is an Australian football referee in the A-League.
Dean Lewis
Dean Lewis is an Australian singer-songwriter and is best known for his 2016 single "Waves", which was certified 7× Platinum in Australia in 2020, and his 2018 single "Be Alright", which reached number one in Australia and was certified platinum within four weeks of release, eventually reaching 10x Platinum in Australia. Lewis released his debut studio album A Place We Knew on 22 March 2019.