List of Famous people born in New South Wales, Australia

John Robert Hewson AM is a former Australian politician who served as leader of the Liberal Party from 1990 to 1994. He led the Liberal-National Coalition to defeat at the 1993 Australian federal election.

Heiko Maile is a German musician and composer. He is best known as a member of the band Camouflage and as the composer for the score of the films The Wave and We Are the Night and won the Deutscher Fernsehpreis for best music in 2017.

Henry Nixon is an Australian actor.

John Polson is an Australian actor, director and founder of Tropfest.

Will Firth is an Australian literary translator who focuses on contemporary writing from the Serbo-Croatian speaking countries and Macedonia.

Sarah Àlainn is a vocalist, violinist, composer, lyricist, translator, and copywriter from Australia, mostly active in Japan. Known to have a musical range that exceeds three octaves, displays perfect pitch and has synesthesia.

James David Sharman is an Australian director and writer for film and stage with more than 70 productions to his credit. He is renowned in Australia for his work as a theatre director from the 1960s to the present, and is best known internationally as the director of the 1973 theatrical hit The Rocky Horror Show, its film adaptation The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) and the film's follow-up, Shock Treatment (1981).

Greg Austin is an Australian former rugby league and rugby union footballer who played in the 1980s and 1990s. A prolific try scorer, Austin spent the majority of his playing career in England.

Steven McRae is an Australian ballet dancer and tap dancer. He is a principal dancer with the Royal Ballet, London.

Joy Smithers is an Australian actress, best known for her acting performances on television, and her role as a television news presenter, such as with MTV Australia in the late 1980s.