List of Famous people born in Victoria, Australia

Brett Ratten

First Name Brett
Last Name Ratten
Born on July 11, 1971 (age 54)
Born in Australia, Victoria

Brett Ratten is an Australian rules football coach and former player. From 2019 he has been the senior coach of the St Kilda Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). He was previously the senior coach of the Carlton Football Club, the club he also played for.

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Mark Thompson

First Name Mark
Last Name Thompson
Born on November 19, 1963 (age 62)
Born in Australia, Victoria

Mark "Bomber" Thompson is a retired Australian rules footballer and former senior coach. He played 202 games for the Essendon Football Club from 1983 to 1996, captaining the side from 1992 until 1995. After retiring, he was an assistant coach at Essendon and then at North Melbourne before becoming the senior coach of the Geelong Football Club from 2000 to 2010 and coaching them to two premierships. In November 2010, Thompson returned to Essendon as a senior assistant coach and was then appointed the senior coach for the 2014 season. He left the club at the end of 2014. On 2 May 2018, he was charged with seven counts of drug trafficking and possession. He was released on $20,000 bail to appear in court at a later date. He was later cleared of trafficking but convicted of possession.

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David Lyons

First Name David
Last Name Lyons
Born on April 16, 1976 (age 50)
Born in Australia, Victoria

David Lyons is an Australian actor. He is known for his roles as Josh Holiday in the Nine Network navy drama Sea Patrol, Dr. Simon Brenner in the NBC medical drama ER and as General Sebastian Monroe in the NBC post-apocalyptic drama Revolution.

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Jackson Irvine

Jackson Alexander Irvine
First Name Jackson
Last Name Irvine
Born on March 7, 1993 (age 33)
Born in Australia, Victoria
Height 179 cm | 5'10

Jackson Alexander Irvine is an Australian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Scottish Premiership club Hibernian.

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Judith Durham

Judith Mavis Cock
First Name Judith
Born on July 3, 1943
Died on August 5, 2022 (aged 79)
Born in Australia, Victoria

Judith Durham is an Australian singer, songwriter and musician who became the lead singer of the Australian popular folk music group The Seekers in 1963.

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Michael Tuck

First Name Michael
Last Name Tuck
Born on June 24, 1953 (age 72)

Michael Tuck is a seven-time premiership-winning player, Australian rules footballer with the Hawthorn Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL) / Australian Football League (AFL), where he was the games record holder until 30 July 2016 when Brent Harvey played his 427th game for North Melbourne Football Club.

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June Browne

First Name June
Last Name Browne
Born on June 3, 1923
Died on April 9, 2021 (aged 97)
Born in Australia, Victoria

June Newton is an Australian model, actress, and photographer. As an actress she was known professionally as June Brunell and won the Erik Kuttner Award for Best Actress in 1956. Since 1970 she has worked as a photographer under the pseudonym Alice Springs. Her photographs have appeared in publications such as Vanity Fair, Interview, Elle and Vogue.

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Luke Hodge

First Name Luke
Last Name Hodge
Born on June 15, 1984 (age 41)
Born in Australia, Victoria

Luke Hodge is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for the Hawthorn Football Club and the Brisbane Lions in the Australian Football League (AFL). He played for the Hawthorn Football Club from 2002 to 2017, captaining the club from 2011 to 2016. In 2018, Hodge moved to the Brisbane Lions, before retiring in 2019. Hodge started his career playing on the half-back flank but as his career progressed he has been known to push up into the midfield. He is a four-time premiership player, three-time premiership captain and a two-time Norm Smith Medallist. Hodge is widely regarded as one of the most respected players, in particular as a captain, to have ever participated in the sport.

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John Farrar

First Name John
Last Name Farrar
Born on November 8, 1946 (age 79)
Born in Australia, Victoria

John Clifford Farrar is an Australian music producer, songwriter, arranger, singer, and guitarist. As a musician, Farrar is a former member of several rock and roll groups including The Mustangs (1963–64), The Strangers (1964–70), Marvin, Welch & Farrar (1970–73), and The Shadows (1973–76); in 1980 he released a solo eponymous album. As a songwriter and producer, he worked with Olivia Newton-John from 1971 through 1989. He wrote her number-one hit singles: "Have You Never Been Mellow" (1975), "You're the One That I Want", "Hopelessly Devoted to You" (1978), and "Magic" (1980). He also produced the majority of her recorded material during that time including her number-one albums, If You Love Me, Let Me Know (1974), Have You Never Been Mellow (1975), and Olivia's Greatest Hits Vol. 2 (1982). He was a co-producer of Grease (1978) – the soundtrack for the film Grease.

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Rachel Griffiths

Rachel Anne Griffiths
First Name Rachel
Last Name Griffiths
Born on December 18, 1968 (age 57)
Born in Australia, Victoria
Height 173 cm | 5'8

Rachel Anne Griffiths is an Australian actress and director. Raised primarily in Melbourne, she began her acting career appearing on the Australian series Secrets before being cast in a supporting role in the comedy Muriel's Wedding (1994), which earned her an AACTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role. In 1997, she was the lead in Nadia Tass's drama Amy. She had a role opposite Julia Roberts in the American romantic comedy My Best Friend's Wedding (1997), followed by her role as Hilary du Pré in Hilary and Jackie (1998), for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.

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