List of Famous people born in Western Australia, Australia
William Farquhar
Major-General William Farquhar was a Scottish employee of the East India Company, and the first British Resident and Commandant of colonial Singapore.
Jessica De Gouw
Jessica Elise De Gouw is an Australian actress. She is known for her role as Helena Bertinelli/The Huntress in the television series Arrow, as Mina Murray in the NBC TV series Dracula, and as Elizabeth Hawkes in the WGN series Underground.
Gigi Edgley
Gigi Edgley is an Australian actress, singer and songwriter. She is best known for her roles as Chiana on the series Farscape and Lara Knight in Rescue: Special Ops.
Gillian Alexy
Gillian Alexy is an Australian actress. She is best known for her roles as Tayler Geddes on McLeod's Daughters, Gitta Novak on Damages, and G'Winveer Farrell on Outsiders.
Claire van der Boom
Claire van der Boom is an Australian actress of Dutch ancestry. She first became known to Australian audiences for her roles in the TV series Love My Way and East West 101. In 2008, she starred in the Australian neo-noir thriller The Square. Internationally, she is best known for her appearance as Stella Karamanlis in the HBO miniseries The Pacific, and her recurring role playing the ex-wife of Det. Danny Williams in the 2010 remake of Hawaii Five-O.
Elizabeth Smylie
Elizabeth Smylie, sometimes known as Liz Smylie, is a retired Australian professional tennis player. During her career, she won four Grand Slam titles, one of them in women's doubles and three in mixed doubles. She also won three singles titles and 36 doubles titles.
Damon Heta
Damon Heta is an Australian professional darts player who plays in Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) events. He won the Brisbane Darts Masters in 2019. His nickname is "The Heat", a play on words with his surname.
Kate Beahan
Kate Beahan is an Australian film actress. Beahan was born in Perth. She appeared mostly in movies and TV series in Australia. Her best-known American film role was playing Sister Willow Woodward in the 2006 horror remake The Wicker Man opposite Nicolas Cage.
John Forrest
Sir John Forrest was an Australian explorer, the first Premier of Western Australia and a cabinet minister in Australia's first federal parliament.
John Hackett
General Sir John Winthrop Hackett, was an Australian-born British soldier, painter, university administrator, author and in later life, a commentator.