List of Famous people born in New South Wales, Australia
Richard Francis-Bruce
Richard Leslie Francis-Bruce is an Australian film editor who has received several nominations for the Academy Award for Best Film Editing.
Margo Lanagan
Margo Lanagan is an Australian writer of short stories and young adult fiction.
Vince Melouney
Vincent Melouney (Maloney) is an Australian guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter. He joined the bands Billy Thorpe & the Aztecs, Vince & Tony's Two, Bee Gees, Fanny Adams and he formed his own band: the Vince Maloney Sect in 1966, after a short stint with Tony Worsley and The Blue Jays.
Kevin Nichols
Kevin John Nichols, OAM is a former track cyclist and Olympic gold medallist.
Chris Noonan
Chris Noonan is an Australian filmmaker and actor. He is best known for the family film Babe (1995), for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director and Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.
Mike Archer
Professor Michael Archer AM, FAA, FRSN is an Australian paleontologist specialising in Australian vertebrates. He is a Professor at the School of Biological, Earth & Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales. His previous appointments include Director of the Australian Museum 1999–2004 and Dean of Science at the University of New South Wales 2004-2009.
Mark H. Richmond
Sir Marcus Henry Richmond,, known as Mark Richmond, is a British biochemist, microbiologist and academic.
Kat Frankie
Kat Frankie is an Australian-born singer-songwriter and guitarist. She relocated to Berlin in December 2004 and has issued four solo studio albums, Pocketknife, The Dance of a Stranger Heart, Please Don’t Give Me What I Want and Bad Behaviour.
Cameron Neylon
David Cameron Neylon is an advocate for open access and Professor of Research Communications at the Centre for Culture and Technology at Curtin University. From 2012 - 2015 they were the Advocacy Director at the Public Library of Science.
Adam Arkapaw
Adam Arkapaw is an Australian cinematographer. He is best known for his work on the television series Top of the Lake and True Detective, for which he has won two Creative Arts Emmy Awards. He is also known for photographing films such as Animal Kingdom (2010), Snowtown (2011), McFarland, USA (2015) and Assassin's Creed (2016). He is known for his collaborations with director Justin Kurzel, whom he worked with on Snowtown and Macbeth, and also Assassin's Creed, which was released in December 2016.