List of Famous people born in New South Wales, Australia

Bradley John McGee OAM is an Australian former professional racing cyclist. He is currently the head coach of the New South Wales Institute of Sport (NSWIS). He started cycling in 1986 at the age of ten. He lives in Sydney and in Nice, France.

John Richard Pilger is an Australian journalist, writer, scholar, and documentary filmmaker. He has been mainly based in Britain since 1962. He is also currently Visiting Professor at Cornell University in New York.

General Sir Peter John Cosgrove, is a retired senior Australian Army officer who served as the 26th Governor-General of Australia, in office from 2014 to 2019.

Kirk Baxter is an Australian film editor. He has worked with director David Fincher and editor Angus Wall several times, winning Academy Awards for The Social Network and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.

Zoe Naylor is an Australian actress as well as journalist, MC, keynote speaker, writer, voice-artist and producer.

Graeme Milbourne Clark AC is an Australian Professor of Otolaryngology at the University of Melbourne. He invented the multiple-channel cochlear implant.

Diana Frost Shelstad is a mathematician known for her work in automorphic forms. She is a professor at Rutgers University–Newark. She earned her doctorate at Yale University in 1974 studying real reductive algebraic groups.

Donald McAlpine ACS, ASC is an Australian cinematographer.

Belinda Lynette Green is an Australian beauty queen who won the Miss World 1972 contest at the age of 20.

Kieran Darcy-Smith is an Australian actor, film director, and screenwriter. He is best known for starring in the films The Cave, The Square, Animal Kingdom, and The Reef. He made his feature film directing debut with 2012 film Wish You Were Here, and his second directorial project The Duel was released in June 2016.