List of Famous people born in Sydney, Australia

John Batman

First Name John
Last Name Batman
Born on January 21, 1801
Died on May 6, 1839 (aged 38)

John Batman was an Australian grazier, entrepreneur and explorer, best known for his role in the founding of Melbourne.

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Bill Collins

First Name Bill
Last Name Collins
Born on December 4, 1934
Died on June 20, 2019 (aged 84)

William Roderick Collins was an Australian film critic and film historian, radio and television presenter, journalist, author and lecturer best known for presenting Hollywood films on television in Australia. He specialised in the Classical Hollywood cinema, and his favourite film was Gone with the Wind. He was well known for his association with Network 10, presenting Bill Collins' Golden Years of Hollywood for fifteen years, and later with Foxtel, presenting movies on the cable channel FOX Classics from 1995 to 2018.

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Andrew Ettingshausen

First Name Andrew
Last Name Ettingshausen
Born on October 29, 1965 (age 59)

Andrew "ET" Ettingshausen is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1980s, 1990s, and early 2000s. He played his first grade Australian club football for the Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks, retiring at the end of the 2000 NRL season having played 328 first grade games for the club, the NSWRL/ARL/SL/NRL record for most games at a single club. This record stood for ten years, before ultimately being broken by Darren Lockyer for the Broncos in 2010.

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Pearl Gibbs

Pearl Mary Brown
First Name Pearl
Last Name Gibbs
Died on April 28, 1983 (aged 13)

Pearl Mary Gibbs (Gambanyi) was an Indigenous Australian activist, and the most prominent female activist within the Aboriginal movement in the early 20th century. She was a member of the Aborigines Progressive Association (APA), and was involved with various protest events such as the 1938 Day of Mourning. She has strong associations with activists Jessie Street and Faith Bandler.

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Simon Taufel

First Name Simon
Last Name Taufel
Born on January 21, 1971 (age 53)

Simon James Arthur Taufel, is a former Australian cricket umpire who was earlier a member of the ICC Elite umpire panel. He won five consecutive ICC Umpire of the Year awards between 2004 and 2008, and was generally considered to have been the best umpire in the world during his time. He announced his retirement from international cricket on 26 September 2012, after the 2012 ICC World Twenty20 final. He subsequently worked as the ICC's Umpire Performance and Training Manager until October 2015. In 2020 he joined the Channel Seven commentary team as an expert commentator for the 2020/21 test series.

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Alan Ramsey

First Name Alan
Last Name Ramsey
Born on January 3, 1938
Died on November 24, 2020 (aged 82)

Alan Graham Ramsey was an Australian journalist and columnist for The Sydney Morning Herald from 1986 to 2008. In a career spanning 56 years, he worked for The Daily Telegraph, The Australian, The Sydney Morning Herald, and the Australian Associated Press; covering the Vietnam War, Australian politics, and writing columns and opinion pieces. He was inducted into the Australian Media Hall of Fame in 2017.

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Phil Jamieson

First Name Phil
Born on April 17, 1977 (age 47)

Philip Jamieson is an Australian musician from Hornsby, New South Wales. He is a founding member and singer-guitarist for the rock band Grinspoon.

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William McMahon

First Name William
Last Name McMahon
Born on February 23, 1908
Died on March 31, 1988 (aged 80)

Sir William McMahon was an Australian politician who served as the 20th Prime Minister of Australia, in office from 1971 to 1972 as leader of the Liberal Party. He was a government minister for over 21 years, the longest continuous ministerial service in Australian history.

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Lionel Van Praag

First Name Lionel
Last Name Praag
Born on December 17, 1908
Died on May 15, 1987 (aged 78)
Height 175 cm | 5'9

Lionel Maurice Van Praag, GM was an Australian motorcycle speedway champion, who won the inaugural Speedway World Championship in London on 10 September 1936. Van Praag's victory saw him established as Australia's first ever motorsport World Champion.

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Dick Eve

First Name Dick
Last Name Eve
Born on March 19, 1901
Died on March 13, 1970 (aged 68)

Richmond Cavill "Dick" Eve was an Australian diver who competed in the 1924 Summer Olympics. He won the gold medal in the plain high diving and finished fifth in the 3 metre springboard event. He was the first Australian Olympic diver to win a gold medal. His brother was Australian sports administrator Jim Eve.

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