List of Famous people born in Victoria, Australia
Bob Morley
Robert Alfred Morley is an Australian actor and television director. After appearing in various theatre productions and short films, Morley was cast as Drew Curtis in Home and Away in 2006. For the role, he received a nomination for the Most Popular New Male Talent Logie Award. Morley appeared on It Takes Two in 2007 and following his departure from Home and Away, he joined the cast of The Strip. Morley was cast as Aidan Foster in Neighbours, in 2011 and he starred in the feature film Blinder in 2013. From 2014 to 2020, Morley starred as Bellamy Blake on The 100.
Will Pucovski
William Jan Pucovski is an Australian cricketer. He made his List A debut for Cricket Australia XI against Pakistan during their tour of Australia on 10 January 2017. He made his first-class debut for Victoria in the 2016–17 Sheffield Shield season on 1 February 2017. Pucovski made his international debut for the Australia cricket team on 7 January 2021, in the third Test match of the series against India.
Erin Phillips
Erin Victoria Phillips is an Australian former professional basketball player and an Australian rules footballer for Adelaide. She played nine seasons in the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) for five different teams and is a two-time WNBA champion. She also represented Australia on the women's national basketball team, winning a gold medal at the 2006 FIBA World Championship for Women and serving as a co-vice captain at the 2016 Summer Olympics. Additionally, Phillips has played four seasons in the AFL Women's (AFLW) competition, in which she is a two-time premiership player and two-time league best and fairest.
Daniel Kelly
Daniel Thomas Kelly is an Australian judoka and mixed martial artist. Known for his unconventional style, the four-time judo Olympian formerly competed in the UFC middleweight division.
Pat Cash
Patrick Hart Cash is a retired Australian professional tennis player. He reached a career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 4 in May 1988 and a career-high ATP doubles ranking of world No. 6 in August 1988. After winning the men's singles championship at Wimbledon in 1987, he climbed into the stands to celebrate, starting a tradition which has been followed by many winners ever since.
Waleed Aly
Waleed Aly is an Australian writer, academic, lawyer, media presenter and musician. Aly is a co-host of Network Ten's news and current affairs television program The Project, he writes for Fairfax Media, and is a lecturer in politics at Monash University working in their Global Terrorism Research Centre. In 2016, he won the Gold Logie Award for Best Personality on Australian Television.
Brad Allan
Bradley James "Brad" Allan is an Australian martial artist, action choreographer, actor and stunt performer. He worked in the Hong Kong film industry as a member of the Jackie Chan Stunt Team and now choreographs action scenes in Hollywood films.
Tenille Dashwood
Tenille Averil Dashwood is an Australian professional wrestler. Dashwood is best known for her time in WWE under the ring name Emma from 2012 to 2017, as well as her time with Impact Wrestling, where she is a former Impact Knockouts World Tag Team Champion. She was the first female Australian wrestler to be signed to WWE and was active in the NXT division, as well as on Raw and SmackDown television. She competes on the independent circuit. She also competed for Ring of Honor.
Brody Dalle
Brody Dalle is an Australian singer, songwriter, and musician. She began playing music in her adolescence and moved to Los Angeles at the age of 18, where she founded the punk rock band the Distillers. The group released three albums before disbanding in 2006. She began another project, Spinnerette, which released an eponymous album in 2009. In 2014, she released Diploid Love, her first album under her solo name.
Mahesh Jadu
Mahesh Jadu is an Australian actor of Mauritian ancestry. He is best known for the role of Dr. Doug Harris in the soap opera Neighbours and the role of Ahmad in Netflix original series Marco Polo. He also portrayed the supporting role of Shanmugum in the miniseries Better Man and Vilgefortz in The Witcher.