List of Famous people born in Victoria, Australia

Fred Schepisi

Frederic Alan Schepisi
First Name Fred
Born on December 26, 1939 (age 86)
Born in Australia, Victoria

Frederic Alan Schepisi is an Australian film director, producer and screenwriter. His credits include The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith, Plenty, Roxanne, A Cry in the Dark, Mr. Baseball, Six Degrees of Separation, and Last Orders.

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Andrew Taylor

First Name Andrew
Last Name Taylor
Born on March 21, 1967 (age 59)
Born in Australia, Victoria

Andrew Taylor is an Australian painter and printmaker.

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Peter Reith

First Name Peter
Last Name Reith
Born on July 15, 1950 (age 75)
Born in Australia, Victoria

Peter Keaston Reith is a former Australian politician who served in the House of Representatives from 1982 to 1983 and from 1984 to 2001, representing the Liberal Party. He was the party's deputy leader from 1990 to 1993, and served as a minister in the Howard Government.

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Hilton Clarke

First Name Hilton
Last Name Clarke
Born on November 7, 1979 (age 46)
Born in Australia, Victoria

Hilton Clarke is an Australian former professional cyclist. Born in Ormond, Clarke became a professional in 2001. He was introduced to the sport by his father Hilton Clarke, an Olympic cyclist, at the age of 9.

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Kaarin Fairfax

First Name Kaarin
Born on September 30, 1959 (age 66)
Born in Australia, Victoria

Kaarin Louise Fairfax is an Australian actress, director and singer who played the role of 'Dolour Darcy' in two TV miniseries The Harp in the South (1986) and its sequel Poor Man's Orange (1987) based on books of the same names by Ruth Park. She has also acted in other Australian television series throughout the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s, and recorded music under the name of Mary-Jo Starr. Fairfax had the role of 'Deb Mathieson' on Australian Broadcasting Corporation TV series, Bed of Roses.

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Leo borromeo

First Name Leo
Last Name Borromeo
Born on December 20, 1995 (age 30)
Born in Australia, Victoria

Feliks Aleksanders Zemdegs is an Australian Rubik's Cube speedsolver. He is the only speedcuber to ever win the World Cube Association World Championship twice, winning in 2013 and 2015.

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James Gobbo

First Name James
Last Name Gobbo
Born on March 22, 1931 (age 95)
Born in Australia, Victoria

Sir James Augustine Gobbo, is an Australian retired jurist who served as the 25th Governor of Victoria, from 1997 to 2000.

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Jessica Gower

First Name Jessica
Last Name Gower
Born on January 1, 1977 (age 49)
Born in Australia, Victoria

Jessica Gower is an Australian actress. Gower's first claim to fame was as a starstruck but confused fan in a 2001 television commercial for Telstra featuring John Farnham and Glenn Wheatley. However, she is best known to Australian and international audiences as the character Sam in the first season of the Network Ten drama The Secret Life of Us. She also appeared in the Foxtel series Crash Palace, the Seven Network's All Saints and the 2002 film Blurred. She starred in episode 5 of series 2 of Wilfred as the Swedish dog.

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Roger Donaldson

First Name Roger
Last Name Donaldson
Born on November 15, 1945 (age 80)
Born in Australia, Victoria

Roger Lindsey Donaldson is an Australian-born New Zealand film director, producer and writer whose films include the 1981 relationship drama Smash Palace, and a run of titles shot in the United States, including the Kevin Costner films No Way Out (1987) and Thirteen Days (2000), and the 1997 disaster film Dante's Peak. He has worked twice with actors Kevin Costner, Pierce Brosnan, Anthony Hopkins and Michael Madsen.

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Shane Jacobson

First Name Shane
Last Name Jacobson
Born on March 18, 1970 (age 56)
Born in Australia, Victoria

Shane Jacobson is an Australian actor, director, writer, and comedian, best known as the "Dunny Man" for his performances as the eponymous character Kenny Smyth, a plumber working for a portable toilet rental company, in the 2006 film Kenny and the spin-off TV series, Kenny's World. In 2006, he won the Australian Film Institute's Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role for that performance. He currently presents Little Big Shots, on the Seven Network, based on the American series of the same title created and produced by Steve Harvey and Ellen DeGeneres. In 2019, Jacobson became a judge on Australia's Got Talent and the spinoff Australia's Got Talent: Challengers & Champions.

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