List of Famous people born in Victoria, Australia
Curtis Stone
Curtis Travis Stone is an Australian celebrity chef, author and television personality, nicknamed "Trav” by fans following his performance on The Celebrity Apprentice 3.
Virginia Trioli
Virginia Frances Trioli is an Australian journalist, author, radio and television presenter.
Tash Sultana
Tash Sultana is an Australian singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, described as a "one-person band". Sultana is best known for their 2016 single "Jungle", which was voted into third place in Triple J's Hottest 100 of 2016.
Ersan Gülüm
Ersan Adem Gülüm is a Turkish professional footballer who plays as a centre back for Antalyaspor. Born in Australia, Gülüm played for Australia at under-23 level before electing to represent Turkey in senior competition.
Tatjana Alexander
Tatjana Katharina Alexander is an Australian-born German-Austrian actress. She was born in 1969 in Melbourne, Australia. Her family relocated to Austria, where Alexander graduated from the Academy of Business and Economics in 1989.
Robina Courtin
Robina Courtin is a Buddhist nun in the Tibetan Buddhist Gelugpa tradition and lineage of Lama Thubten Yeshe and Lama Zopa Rinpoche. In 1996 she founded the Liberation Prison Project, which she ran until 2009.
Bill Newton
William Ellis (Bill) Newton, VC was an Australian recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest decoration for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to a member of the British and Commonwealth armed forces. He was honoured for his actions as a bomber pilot in Papua New Guinea during March 1943 when, despite intense anti-aircraft fire, he pressed home a series of attacks on the Salamaua Isthmus, the last of which saw him forced to ditch his aircraft in the sea. Newton was still officially posted as missing when the award was made in October 1943. It later emerged that he had been taken captive by the Japanese, and executed by beheading on 29 March.
Angus McLaren
Angus McLaren (born 3 November 1988) is an Australian actor who is best known for his roles in the television series Packed to the Rafters as Nathan Rafter and H2O: Just Add Water as Lewis McCartney.
Marco Leonardi
Marco Leonardi is an Italian actor.
Drew Ginn
Drew Cameron Ginn OAM, is an Australian five-time world champion rower, a four time Olympian and triple Olympic gold medallist. From 1995 to 1998 he was a member of Australia's prominent world class crew – the coxless four known as the Oarsome Foursome.