List of Famous people born in Tasmania, Australia
Luke Jackson
Luke Jackson is a professional Australian boxer with a current record of 19–1. Jackson turned professional in 2013 and is the current title holder of the WBA Oceania, WBO Oriental and Australian Featherweight titles.
Jack Riewoldt
Jack Riewoldt is a professional Australian rules footballer currently playing for the Richmond Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). He is a three-time premiership player, a three-time Coleman Medallist, a three-time All-Australian, a 10-time Richmond club leading goalkicker, a two-time Jack Dyer Medallist and a Tasmanian Football Hall of Famer. He also serves as Richmond's vice captain and has done so since 2017.
Matthew Richardson
Matthew Richardson is a former professional Australian rules footballer and current media personality who represented Richmond in the Australian Football League (AFL).
Simon Hanselmann
Simon Hanselmann is a Tasmanian-born cartoonist best known for his Megg, Mogg and Owl series. Hanselmann has been nominated four times for an Ignatz Award, twice for an Eisner Award and won Best Series at Angouleme 2018.
Corey Cadby
Corey Patrick Cadby is an Australian former professional darts player who played in Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) events. He was the 2016 World Youth champion.
David Macpherson
David Macpherson is a former professional male tennis player on the ATP Tour. He is the current coach of John Isner and the former coach of Bob and Mike Bryan.
Stephen Hawkins
Stephen Mark Hawkins OAM is an Australian former national champion, World Champion and Olympic gold medal winning lightweight rower.
Cameron Wurf
Cameron Wurf is an Australian professional triathlete and road cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Ineos Grenadiers. He was a national champion and Australian representative rower – a 2004 Olympian who won a World Rowing U23 Championships title in 2003.
Scott Brennan
Scott Michael Brennan is an Australian Olympic gold medal-winning and national champion rower from Hobart, Tasmania. He has represented for Australia in rowing at three consecutive Olympic games.
Richard Flanagan
Richard Miller Flanagan is an Australian writer, "considered by many to be the finest Australian novelist of his generation", according to The Economist. Each of his novels has attracted major praise and received numerous awards and honours. He also has written and directed feature films. He won the 2014 Man Booker Prize for The Narrow Road to the Deep North.