List of Famous people born in Victoria, Australia

Chris Hemsworth

First Name Chris
Last Name Hemsworth
Born on August 11, 1983 (age 39)
Born in Australia, Victoria
Height 191 cm | 6'3

Christopher Hemsworth is an Australian actor. He first rose to prominence in Australia playing Kim Hyde in the Australian television series Home and Away (2004–07) before beginning a film career in Hollywood. Hemsworth is best known for playing Thor in eight Marvel Cinematic Universe films, beginning with Thor (2011) and appearing most recently in Avengers: Endgame (2019), which established him as one of the leading and highest-paid actors in the world.

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Kyrie Irving

First Name Kyrie
Born on March 23, 1992 (age 31)
Born in Australia, Victoria
Height 187 cm | 6'2

Kyrie Andrew Irving is an American professional basketball player for the Brooklyn Nets of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He was named the Rookie of the Year after being selected by the Cleveland Cavaliers with the first overall pick in the 2011 NBA draft. A six-time All-Star and two-time member of the All-NBA Team, he won an NBA championship with the Cavaliers in 2016.

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Ruby Rose

First Name Ruby
Last Name Rose
Born on March 20, 1986 (age 37)
Born in Australia, Victoria
Height 169 cm | 5'7

Ruby Rose Langenheim is an Australian model, actor and television presenter. Rose came to attention as a presenter on MTV Australia (2007–2011), followed by several high-profile modelling gigs, notably as the face of Maybelline New York in Australia. In addition, she has co-hosted various television shows, most notably Australia's Next Top Model (2009) and The Project on Network Ten (2009–2011).

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Rupert Murdoch

First Name Rupert
Last Name Murdoch
Born on March 11, 1931 (age 92)
Born in Australia, Victoria

Keith Rupert Murdoch is an Australian-born American media mogul. Through his company News Corp, he is the owner of hundreds of local, national, and international publishing outlets around the world, including in the UK, in Australia, in the US, book publisher HarperCollins, and the television broadcasting channels Sky News Australia and Fox News. He was also the owner of Sky, 21st Century Fox, and the now-defunct News of the World.

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Liam Hemsworth

First Name Liam
Last Name Hemsworth
Born on January 13, 1990 (age 33)
Born in Australia, Victoria
Height 191 cm | 6'3

Liam Hemsworth is an Australian actor. He played the roles of Josh Taylor in the soap opera Neighbours and Marcus in the children's television series The Elephant Princess. In American films, Hemsworth starred as Will Blakelee in The Last Song (2010), as Gale Hawthorne in The Hunger Games film series (2012–2015), and as Jake Morrison in Independence Day: Resurgence (2016).

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Bert Newton

Albert Watson Newton
First Name Bert
Last Name Newton
Born on July 23, 1938
Died on October 30, 2021 (aged 83)
Born in Australia, Victoria

Albert Watson Newton, AM, MBE, is an Australian media personality. He is a Logie Hall of Fame inductee, quadruple Gold Logie award-winning entertainer and radio, theatre and television personality/presenter. Newton has hosted the Logie Awards ceremony on seventeen occasions.

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Bruce Kingsbury

First Name Bruce
Last Name Kingsbury
Born on January 8, 1918
Died on August 29, 1942 (aged 24)
Born in Australia, Victoria

Bruce Steel Kingsbury, VC was an Australian soldier of the Second World War. Serving initially in the Middle East, he later gained renown for his actions during the Battle of Isurava, one of many battles forming the Kokoda Track Campaign in the south-east of the island of New Guinea, then part of the Australian Territory of Papua. His bravery during the battle was recognised with the Victoria Cross, the highest decoration for gallantry "in the face of the enemy" that can be awarded to members of the British and Commonwealth armed forces. The first serviceman to receive the VC for actions on Australian territory, Kingsbury was a member of the 2/14th Infantry Battalion.

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Ben Simmons

First Name Ben
Last Name Simmons
Born on July 20, 1996 (age 26)
Born in Australia, Victoria
Height 204 cm | 6'8

Benjamin David Simmons is an Australian professional basketball player for the Philadelphia 76ers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for one season with the Louisiana State University (LSU) Tigers, after which he was named a consensus first-team All-American and the USBWA National Freshman of the Year. Simmons was selected with the first overall pick in the 2016 NBA draft by the 76ers. After sitting out a year due to an injured right foot, he was named the NBA Rookie of the Year in 2018. Simmons was named NBA All-Star in 2019 and 2020.

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Kylie Minogue

Kylie Ann Minogue
First Name Kylie
Born on May 28, 1968 (age 55)
Born in Australia, Victoria
Height 152 cm | 5'0

Kylie Ann Minogue is an Australian singer, songwriter, actress, record producer and television judge. Having sold over 70 million records worldwide, Minogue is the highest-selling female Australian artist of all time and has been recognised for reinventing herself in music and fashion, for which she is referred to by the European press as the "Princess of Pop" and a style icon. Her accolades include a Grammy Award, three Brit Awards and 17 ARIA Music Awards.

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Cate Blanchett

Catherine Élise Blanchett
First Name Cate
Last Name Blanchett
Born on May 14, 1969 (age 54)
Born in Australia, Victoria
Height 173 cm | 5'8

Catherine Elise Blanchett is an Australian actor, producer, and theatre director. Regarded as one of the greatest actresses of her generation, she is noted for her versatile roles in blockbusters, independent films, and in her stage work in various theatre productions. She has received numerous accolades, including two Academy Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, and three British Academy Film Awards.

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Matthew Newton

First Name Matthew
Last Name Newton
Born on January 22, 1977 (age 46)
Born in Australia, Victoria

Matthew Joseph Newton is an Australian actor, writer, and director, and son of TV personalities Bert and Patti Newton. His acting career was interrupted by treatment in a psychiatric unit for bipolar disorder after several incidents of domestic violence and assault, which were widely reported in the Australian media. Newton has relocated to New York City, where he is now based, and has resumed his directing and acting career.

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Travis Fimmel

First Name Travis
Last Name Fimmel
Born on July 15, 1979 (age 43)
Born in Australia, Victoria
Height 182 cm | 6'0

Travis Fimmel is an Australian actor and former model best known for his role as Ragnar Lothbrok in the History Channel television series Vikings.

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Luke Hemsworth

First Name Luke
Last Name Hemsworth
Born on November 5, 1980 (age 42)
Born in Australia, Victoria
Height 176 cm | 5'9

Luke Hemsworth is an Australian actor who is known for his roles as Nathan Tyson in the TV series Neighbours and as Ashley Stubbs in the HBO sci-fi series Westworld.

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Portia de Rossi

Amanda Lee Rogers
First Name Portia
Born on January 31, 1973 (age 50)
Born in Australia, Victoria

Portia Lee James DeGeneres, known professionally as Portia de Rossi, is an Australian-American businesswoman, philanthropist, and former model and actress. She is best known for starring as Nelle Porter on the American drama series Ally McBeal (1998–2002), for which she won a Screen Actors Guild Award, as Lindsay Bluth Fünke on the American television sitcom Arrested Development, and as Elizabeth North on the American political thriller series Scandal (2014–2017). She is currently founder and CEO of the art company General Public.

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Jesse Spencer

Jesse Gordon Spencer
First Name Jesse
Last Name Spencer
Born on February 12, 1979 (age 44)
Born in Australia, Victoria
Height 178 cm | 5'10

Jesse Gordon Spencer is an Australian actor and musician. He is best known for his roles as Billy Kennedy on the Australian soap opera Neighbours, Dr. Robert Chase on the American medical drama House (2004–2012) and Lieutenant/Captain Matthew Casey on the American drama Chicago Fire (2012–present).

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Kimberley Chen

First Name Kimberley
Last Name Chen
Born on May 23, 1994 (age 29)
Born in Australia, Victoria

Kimberley Chen Fang-yu is an Australian singer, actress, and model based in Taiwan. She attended Tintern Grammar and Victorian College of the Arts in Melbourne, Australia. She was the youngest and only child model on Nine Network's The Price Is Right and later appeared as Young Nala in the Broadway production of Disney's The Lion King at the Regent Theatre in Melbourne and the Shanghai Grand Theater in Shanghai.

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Barry Humphries

First Name Barry
Last Name Humphries
Born on February 17, 1934 (age 89)
Born in Australia, Victoria

John Barry Humphries AO CBE is an Australian comedian, actor, satirist, artist, and author. He is best known for writing and playing his on-stage and television alter egos Dame Edna Everage and Sir Les Patterson. He is also a film producer and script writer, a star of London's West End musical theatre, an award-winning writer, and an accomplished landscape painter. For his delivery of dadaist and absurdist humour to millions, biographer Anne Pender described Humphries in 2010 as not only "the most significant theatrical figure of our time … [but] the most significant comedian to emerge since Charlie Chaplin".

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Greg Hunt

First Name Greg
Last Name Hunt
Born on November 18, 1965 (age 57)
Born in Australia, Victoria

Gregory Andrew Hunt is an Australian politician who has been Minister for Health since January 2017. He is a member of the Liberal Party and has served in the House of Representatives since November 2001, representing the Division of Flinders in Victoria. He has previously served as a parliamentary secretary in the Howard Government (2004–2007), Minister for the Environment (2013–2016), Minister for Industry, Innovation and Science (2016–2017), and Minister for Sport (2017).

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Helen Reddy

First Name Helen
Last Name Reddy
Born on October 25, 1941
Died on September 29, 2020 (aged 78)
Born in Australia, Victoria
Height 160 cm | 5'3

Helen Maxine Reddy was an Australian-American singer, songwriter, author, actress, and activist. Born in Melbourne, Victoria, to a show-business family, Reddy started her career as an entertainer at age four. She sang on radio and television and won a talent contest on the television program Bandstand in 1966; her prize was a ticket to New York City and a record audition, which was unsuccessful. She pursued her international singing career by moving to Chicago, and subsequently, Los Angeles, where she made her debut singles "One Way Ticket" and "I Believe in Music" in 1968 and 1970, respectively. The B-side of the latter single, "I Don't Know How to Love Him", reached number eight on the pop chart of the Canadian magazine RPM. She was signed to Capitol Records a year later.

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Nick Cave

Nicholas Edward Cave
First Name Nick
Last Name Cave
Born on September 22, 1957 (age 65)
Born in Australia, Victoria
Height 188 cm | 6'2

Nicholas Edward Cave is an Australian singer, songwriter, author, screenwriter, composer and occasional actor, best known for fronting the rock band Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. Cave's music is generally characterised by his baritone voice, emotional intensity, a wide variety of influences and lyrical obsessions with death, religion, love and violence.

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