List of Famous people born in Victoria, Australia
Rod Hardy
Rod Hardy is an Australian television and film director.
John Scott
Jared Tallent
Jared Tallent OAM is an Australian race walker and Olympic gold medallist in the 50 km walk from London in 2012. He is a four-time Olympic medallist, three-time World Championship medallist and holds the current Olympic record in the 50 km walk.
Kellie Lucas
Kellie Louise Lucas is an Australian badminton player. She competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics in the women's singles, doubles, and mixed doubles event. She participated at the three consecutive Commonwealth Games in 1998, 2002, and 2006, and winning a women's team bronze medal in 1998. Lucas was crowned Ballarat's Sportswoman of the Year for the fourth time in her sporting career.
Brent Owens
Brent Owens is an Australian cook. He is the winner of the sixth series of MasterChef Australia. He gave $50,000 of his $250,000 prize money to fellow contestant Emelia Jackson. He wrote a cook book, Dig In!, for people who come home tired at the end of the day to make a stellar dish with minimal effort. He lives in Melton, Melbourne.
David Connell
David Ashley Connell is an Australian cinematographer with a career of over 25 years of cinematographic work in films and television to date.
Roger Davies
Roger Davies is an Australian artist manager, business manager, and music producer, with a long established career in the music industry. He began by working as a roadie in Australia in the early 1970s to managing pop, rock performers including Sherbet, Olivia Newton-John, Tina Turner, James Reyne, Tony Joe White, Dalbello (1984), Cher, Janet Jackson, Joe Cocker, Sade, M People, and Pink.
Robert James Thomson
Robert Thomson is an Australian journalist. Since January 2013 he has been chief executive of News Corp.
Mitchell Watt
Mitchell Watt is an Australian track & field athlete. His main event is the long jump and holds the current Oceania record for the long jump – 8.54m. He was the first ever Australian long jump medalist at a World Championship and was the silver medalist at the 2012 Summer Olympics.
Zak Dempster
Zakkari Dempster is an Australian former professional racing cyclist, who competed professionally between 2006 and 2019 for the SouthAustralia.com – AIS, Drapac–Porsche Cycling, Rapha Condor–Sharp, Endura Racing, Bora–Argon 18 and Israel Cycling Academy teams. Dempster now works as a directeur sportif for Israel Cycling Academy, the development team for UCI WorldTeam Israel Start-Up Nation.