Albert Watson "Bert" Newton, AM, MBE, (born 23 July 1938), is an Australian television, radio, film, stage performer and author.

Sir Thomas Bent (7 December 1838-17 September 1909), Australian politician, was the 22nd Premier of Victoria. He was one of the most colourful, as well as one of the most corrupt, politicians in Victorian history. Bent was born in Penrith, New South Wales, and came to Melbourne with his parents in 1849. He went to school in Fitzroy, later becoming a market-gardener. In 1861 he became a rate collector for the town council of Brighton, then a fast-growing suburb.

Joseph Leslie Theodore Taylor ("Squizzy Taylor") (b. 29 June 1888 in Brighton, Victoria d. 27 October 1927) was a Melbourne based gangster. He earned the nickname 'Squizzy' due to an ulcerated, droopy left eyelid. He began his working life as jockey on John Wren's pony circuit and at the age of 18 received his first conviction for assault. He went from petty crimes, such as pickpocketing to stand over activities such as murder and armed robbery.

Sir Macpherson Robertson (6 September 1859 in Ballarat, Victoria - 20 August 1945 in Kew) was an Australian philanthropist, entrepreneur and founder of confectionery company "MacRobertson's". He was a son of a Scottish carpenter, David Robertson and his Irish wife, Margaret (nee Browne). The family came to Ballarat in search of gold, but fell on hard times with the father abandoning them and moving to Fiji.

Abram Louis Buvelot was a Swiss-born painter who emigrated to Australia. His father, François Simeon Buvelot, was a postal official who had married Jeanne Louise Heizer, a school teacher. Louis Buvelot—he disliked his first name and never used it—worked under Arland at Lausanne, and continued his studies at Paris with Camille Flers, a well-known landscape painter of the day.

C.W. Stoneking is an Australian Hokum, delta blues and country blues singer and guitarist. He lives in Gippsland and performs regularly in the inner Melbourne suburbs of Brunswick and Fitzroy, sometimes with his "Primitive Horn Orchestra". Disc jockey Tim Ritchie picked Stoneking's 2006 album "King Hokum" as his album of the year on Radio National's Breakfast program. Radio National also presented his February 2007 Australia wide tour.

Robert Neil Harvey <small>MBE</small> (born October 8 1928 in Fitzroy, Melbourne, Victoria) is a former Australian cricketer who represented the Australian cricket team between 1948 and 1963. He was the vice-captain of the team from 1957 until his retirement. An attacking left-handed batsman, sharp fielder and occasional off-spin bowler, Harvey was the senior batsman in the Australian team for much of the 1950s and was regarded by Wisden as the finest fielder of his era.

Pi O or П O is an Australian, working class, anarchist, poet of Greek origin. Came to Australia with his family to Bonegilla migrant camp around 1954 from where they escaped to Fitzroy. He started writing poetry in 1970 when he heard Johnny Cash reciting (religious) poetry while tunning up his guitar and thought he could do better. His work ranges from standup-type rants to 'conceptual' page poetry, …

John (Jack) Ryder, August 8 1889-April 3 1977 was an Australian cricketer. Ryder was born in Collingwood, Melbourne, Victoria and was known as the "King of Collingwood". He never lived far away and died in the neighbouring suburb of Fitzroy. Ryder 's career as an Australian team selector was unusual. While still a player, he was a member of the selection panel for the 1926 Ashes tour of England, but was dropped for the last test.

Peter Daicos (born September 20, 1961 in Fitzroy, Victoria) is a former Australian rules footballer in the VFL/AFL. Commonly known as "The Macedonian Marvel" due to his heritage, the mulleted Daicos is known as one of the most exciting forward pockets of his time - with an incredible knack to score goals from acute angles. Players such as Alan Didak have shown glimpses of such goalscoring ability and have sometimes been compared by Collingwood fans to Daicos, …

Laurence John (Laurie) Nash (2 May 1910 - 24 July 1986) was a Test cricketer and leading Australian rules footballer. Born in Fitzroy, Victoria, Nash was the son of former Collingwood Football Club captain Robert Nash, who moved his family to Tasmania to run the hotel at Parattah. Although short and stocky (he was only 175cm tall), …

Leslie O'Brien 'Chuck' Fleetwood-Smith (born March 30, 1908, Stawell, Victoria, died March 16, 1971, Fitzroy, Victoria) was an Australian cricketer who played in 10 Tests from 1935 to 1938. Fleetwood-Smith holds the unenviable record of having the most expensive innings bowling figures in Test cricket history: playing against England at The Oval in 1938, he finished with the somewhat startling analysis of 87-11-298-1.

Brody Dalle (born Bree Leslie Pucilowski on January 1, 1979 in Geelong, Australia), is a singer, songwriter and guitarist. She rose to fame as lead singer/guitarist for the punk rock band The Distillers. She is currently a member of Spinnerette. When she was young, Dalle was expelled from four schools, and was sent to a Catholic girls' institution. The strict rules did not deter her antisocial and self-destructive behavior.

Samuel Mauger (12 November 1857 – 26 June 1936) was an Australian social reformer, hat manufacturing unionist and a Protectionist politician. Son of immigrants from Guernsey, Channel Islands (Samuel Mauger Senior and Caroline Liz-Mauger who migrated to Australia in the 1850s), Mauger was born in Geelong, Victoria and was educated in the Geelong National School, but left school early to become a hat maker, because of his father's rheumatic fever.

Thomas (Tom) Patrick Horan (born March 8 1854 in Midleton, County Cork, Ireland - died April 16 1916 in Malvern, Melbourne, Victoria) was an Australian cricketer, and later cricket journalist. Horan emigrated to Australia with his parents and siblings at a young age. In Melbourne, he attended Bell Street School in Fitzroy and formed a friendship with Jack Blackham; Blackham encouraged in Horan a love of cricket.