List of Famous people born in Queensland, Australia

Julian Assange

Julian Paul Hawkins
First Name Julian
Last Name Assange
Born on July 3, 1971 (age 51)
Height 188 cm | 6'2

Julian Paul Assange is an Australian editor, publisher, and activist who founded WikiLeaks in 2006. WikiLeaks came to international attention in 2010 when it published a series of leaks provided by U.S. Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning. These leaks included the Baghdad airstrike Collateral Murder video, the Afghanistan war logs, the Iraq war logs, and Cablegate. After the 2010 leaks, the United States government launched a criminal investigation into WikiLeaks.

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Craig Steven Wright

First Name Craig
Last Name Wright
Born on October 23, 1970 (age 52)

Craig Steven Wright is an Australian computer scientist and businessman. He has publicly claimed to be the main part of the team that created bitcoin, and the identity behind the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto. These claims are regarded as false by much of the media and the cryptocurrency community.

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Jacob Elordi

First Name Jacob
Last Name Elordi
Born on June 26, 1997 (age 25)
Height 194 cm | 6'4

Jacob Elordi is an Australian actor. He is known for his roles in the Netflix teen films The Kissing Booth (2018), The Kissing Booth 2 (2020), and the upcoming The Kissing Booth 3, as well as the HBO series Euphoria (2019–present).

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Ashleigh Barty

First Name Ashleigh
Born on April 24, 1996 (age 27)
Height 167 cm | 5'6

Ashleigh Barty is an Australian professional tennis player and former cricketer. She is ranked No. 1 in the world in singles by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) and is the second Australian WTA singles No. 1 after fellow Indigenous Australian Evonne Goolagong Cawley. She is also a top 20 player in doubles, having achieved a career-high ranking of No. 5 in the world. Barty has won eight singles titles and ten doubles titles on the WTA Tour, including one Grand Slam singles title at the 2019 French Open and one Grand Slam doubles title at the 2018 US Open with partner CoCo Vandeweghe. She is also the reigning champion in singles at the WTA Finals.

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Lucy Fry

First Name Lucy
Last Name Fry
Born on March 13, 1992 (age 31)
Height 173 cm | 5'8

Lucy Elizabeth Fry is an Australian actress. She is known for portraying Zoey in Lightning Point, Lyla in Mako: Island of Secrets, and Lissa Dragomir in the film Vampire Academy. Fry was also cast in Hulu's eight part miniseries 11.22.63 as Marina Oswald, wife of Lee Harvey Oswald, and played the lead in the 2016 Australian horror television series Wolf Creek and Tikka in the 2017 Netflix film Bright.

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Rod Laver

Rodney George Laver
First Name Rod
Born on August 9, 1938 (age 84)
Height 175 cm | 5'9

Rodney George Laver, better known as Rod Laver, is an Australian former tennis player. He was the No. 1 ranked professional from 1964 to 1970, spanning four years before and three years after the start of the Open Era in 1968. He also was the No. 1 ranked amateur in 1961–62. He is the second and last male player to win each grand slam twice after Roy Emerson.

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Lyndon Dykes

Lyndon John Dykes
First Name Lyndon
Last Name Dykes
Born on October 7, 1995 (age 27)
Height 188 cm | 6'2

Lyndon John Dykes is an association footballer who plays as a striker for Championship club Queens Park Rangers. Dykes previously played for Merrimac, Redlands United and Surfers Paradise Apollo in Australia, and for Queen of the South and Livingston in Scotland.

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Wade Robson

First Name Wade
Last Name Robson
Born on September 17, 1982 (age 40)

Wade Jeremy William Robson is an Australian dancer and choreographer. He began performing as a dancer at age five, and has directed music videos and world tours for pop artists such as NSYNC and Britney Spears. Robson was the host and executive producer for The Wade Robson Project, which aired on MTV in 2003. In 2007, he joined the Fox television dance series So You Think You Can Dance as a guest judge and choreographer.

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Matthew Hayden

First Name Matthew
Last Name Hayden
Born on October 29, 1971 (age 51)

Matthew Lawrence Hayden is an Australian cricket commentator and former cricketer. His career spanned fifteen years. Hayden was a powerful and aggressive left-handed opening batsman, known for his ability to score quickly at both Test and one day levels.

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Catriona Gray

First Name Catriona
Born on January 6, 1994 (age 29)

Catriona Elisa Magnayon Gray is a Filipino-Australian model, singer, and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss Universe 2018. She is the fourth Filipina to win the Miss Universe competition. Previously, Gray was crowned Miss Universe Philippines 2018 and Miss World Philippines 2016.

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Jason Day

First Name Jason
Last Name Day
Born on November 12, 1987 (age 35)
Height 182 cm | 6'0

Jason Day is an Australian professional golfer and PGA Tour member. He is a former World Number 1 in the World Golf Ranking, having first achieved the ranking in September 2015. Day first broke into the world's top ten in June 2011, rising to world number nine after his runner-up finish at the U.S. Open. In February 2014, Day won his first WGC title, the WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship and would win it for a second time in 2016. With his 2016 win, he joined Tiger Woods and Geoff Ogilvy as the only multiple winners of the WGC Match Play. He went on to win his first major tournament at the 2015 PGA Championship, scoring a record 20 strokes under par and rising to number three in the world rankings.

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Cody Simpson

First Name Cody
Last Name Simpson
Born on January 11, 1997 (age 26)
Height 182 cm | 6'0

Cody Robert Simpson is an Australian singer, songwriter, dancer, actor, model and swimmer.

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Bowen Yang

First Name Bowen
Last Name Yang
Born on November 30, 1989 (age 33)

Bowen Yang is an Australian-born American actor, comedian, podcaster, and writer from Aurora, Colorado. He co-hosts a comedy pop-culture podcast, Las Culturistas, with Matt Rogers. He also posts pop-culture lip-syncing videos on Twitter. Since September 2018, he has been on the writing staff of Saturday Night Live (SNL). Yang was promoted to on-air cast for SNL's 45th season, in September 2019, becoming its first Chinese-American, third openly gay male, and fourth Asian American cast member.

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Wayne Bennett

First Name Wayne
Last Name Bennett
Born on January 1, 1950 (age 73)

Wayne James Bennett AM, also known by the nickname of "Benny", is an Australian professional rugby league coach who is the head coach of the South Sydney Rabbitohs in the NRL, and a former rugby league footballer.

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Storm Keating

First Name Storm
Last Name Keating
Born on October 27, 1981 (age 41)

Sharyn Storm Keating is an Australian fashion designer, brand ambassador, producer-director and blogger, now based in London. Keating has worked on a number of Australian and British television programmes such as The Apprentice Australia, Masterchef Australia, The X Factor, The Voice Australia, and The Voice UK. She is the wife of Ronan Keating.

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P. L. Travers

Helen Lyndon Goff
First Name P.
Last Name Travers
Born on August 9, 1899
Died on April 23, 1996 (aged 96)

Pamela Lyndon Travers was an Australian-British writer who spent most of her career in England. She is best known for the Mary Poppins series of children's books, which feature the magical nanny Mary Poppins.

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Jason Clarke

First Name Jason
Last Name Clarke
Born on July 17, 1969 (age 53)
Height 185 cm | 6'1

Jason Clarke is an Australian actor. Clarke has appeared in many TV series, and is known for playing Tommy Caffee on the television series Brotherhood. He has also appeared in many films, often as an antagonist. His film roles include Zero Dark Thirty (2012), White House Down (2013), Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014), Terminator Genisys (2015), Everest (2015), Mudbound (2017), Chappaquiddick (2017), in which he portrayed Ted Kennedy, First Man (2018), in which he portrayed astronaut Ed White, and Pet Sematary (2019).

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Renee Gracie

First Name Renee
Last Name Gracie
Born on January 5, 1995 (age 28)

Renee Gracie is an Australian adult film actress and former racing driver.

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Diane Cilento

First Name Diane
Last Name Cilento
Born on October 5, 1933
Died on October 6, 2011 (aged 78)

Diane Cilento was an Australian actress and author. She is best known for her film roles in Tom Jones (1963), which earned her an Academy Award nomination, Hombre (1967) and The Wicker Man (1973). She also received a Tony Award nomination for her performance as Helen of Troy in the play Tiger at the Gates.

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Brenton Thwaites

First Name Brenton
Last Name Thwaites
Born on August 10, 1989 (age 33)
Height 182 cm | 6'0

Brenton Thwaites is an Australian actor. Beginning his career in his home country in 2011, he had a starring role on the series Slide and later appeared on the soap opera Home and Away. Since moving to the United States, Thwaites has had major roles in the films Blue Lagoon: The Awakening (2012), Oculus (2013), The Giver (2014), Gods of Egypt (2016), and Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales (2017). In 2018, he began starring as Dick Grayson / Nightwing in the DC Universe series Titans.

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