List of Famous people born in Canberra, Australia
Nick Kyrgios
Nicholas Hilmy Kyrgios is an Australian professional tennis player. As of November 2020, he is ranked No. 45 in the world in men's singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) and is the third highest-ranked Australian in the ATP rankings. Kyrgios has won six ATP titles and has reached eight ATP finals, including the 2017 Cincinnati Masters.
Mia Wasikowska
Mia Wasikowska is an Australian actress. She made her screen debut on the Australian television drama All Saints in 2004, followed by her feature film debut in Suburban Mayhem (2006). She first became known to a wider audience following her critically acclaimed work on the HBO television series In Treatment. She was nominated for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Female for That Evening Sun (2009).
Liv Hewson
Olivia Hewson is an Australian actor and playwright. Their written work includes "lots of re-imaginings of fairytales and mythology with a queer and dark slant." They starred as Abby Hammond in the Netflix series Santa Clarita Diet from 2017 to 2019.
Patty Mills
Patrick Sammie Mills is an Australian professional basketball player for the San Antonio Spurs of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Mills was selected by the Portland Trail Blazers with the 55th overall pick in the 2009 NBA draft after playing two years of college basketball for Saint Mary's. Mills was born and raised in Canberra, Australia, and is of Torres Strait Islander and Aboriginal Australian descent. In 2007, he became only the third Indigenous basketball player to play for Australia behind Olympians Michael Ah Matt (1964) and Danny Morseu (1980–84).
Alex O'Loughlin
Alex O'Loughlin is an Australian actor, writer, director, and producer, who played Lieutenant Commander Steve McGarrett on CBS' remake of the TV series Hawaii Five-0 (2010–2020). He had starring roles in the films Oyster Farmer (2004) and The Back-up Plan (2010), as well as on such television series as Moonlight (2007-2008) and Three Rivers (2009-2010).
Sigrid Thornton
Sigrid Madeline Thornton is an Australian film and television actress. Her television work includes Prisoner (1979–80), All the Rivers Run (1983), SeaChange (1998–2019) and Wentworth (2016–2018). She also starred in the American Western series Paradise (1988–91). Her film appearances include Snapshot (1979), The Man from Snowy River (1982), Street Hero (1984) and Face to Face (2011). She won the AACTA Award for Best Guest or Supporting Actress in a Television Drama for the 2015 miniseries Peter Allen: Not the Boy Next Door.
Patrick Cripps
Patrick Cripps is a professional Australian rules footballer playing for the Carlton Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). Cripps is a dual All-Australian and a three-time John Nicholls Medallist, becoming the second-youngest player to win the award when he first won it in 2015, and won the Leigh Matthews Trophy in 2019. He received a nomination for the 2015 AFL Rising Star award in round 4 of the 2015 season. Cripps has served as Carlton co-captain since the 2019 season.
Brianna Keilar
Brianna Marie Keilar is an Australian-born American political commentator who is the senior political correspondent and anchor for CNN in the Washington, D.C., bureau. She previously worked as a White House correspondent, Congressional correspondent and general assignment correspondent for CNN in Washington. Prior to that, Keilar worked at CNN Newsource as a national correspondent, also in Washington. She was the host of CNN Right Now with Brianna Keilar which began on November 12, 2018.
Robert McLachlan
Robert McLachlan is a professional road bicycle racer from Australia. The 1992 Olympian now rides for the Drapac Porsche Development Program and a two-time series champion of the UCI Oceania Tour. He was an Australian Institute of Sport scholarship holder.
Michael Matthews
Michael James Matthews is an Australian professional road and track cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Team BikeExchange.