- Steve Irwin
Stephen Robert "Steve" Irwin, nicknamed "The Crocodile Hunter", was an Australian wildlife expert and television personality. He achieved world-wide fame from the television program "The Crocodile Hunter", an internationally broadcast wildlife documentary series co-hosted with his wife Terri Irwin. Together with her, he also co-owned and operated Australia Zoo, founded by his parents in Beerwah, Queensland.
- Shane Warne
Shane Keith Warne (born 13 September 1969 in Upper Ferntree Gully, Victoria), is an Australian cricketer and the current captain of Hampshire. He is generally regarded as one of the greatest bowlers in cricket history. Warne retired from international cricket in January 2007, following Australia's 5-0 Ashes series victory over England. Two other players integral to the Australian team of recent years, Glenn McGrath and Justin Langer, …
- Olivia Newton-John
Olivia Newton-John AO OBE (born 26 September 1948) is a Grammy Award-winning and Golden Globe-nominated English-born Australian pop singer, songwriter and actress of Welsh and German descent. Her highly acclaimed vocal musical and acting talents made her a globally recognized name. Olivia Newton-John is also a small business entrepreneur and an avid activist in ecological or environmental issues.
- John Brumby
John Mansfield Brumby (born 21 April 1953), Australian politician, is a senior minister in the government of the state of Victoria. John Brumby was born in Melbourne and educated at Melbourne Grammar School and Melbourne University, where he graduated in Commerce in 1974, and at the State College of Victoria at Rusden (now part of Deakin University), where he completed a Diploma of Education in 1975. He was a teacher at Eaglehawk High School, …
- Cate Blanchett
Born in Melbourne, Australia, in 1969, Cate Blanchett began her career in theatre, after graduating from the National Institute of Dramatic Art in 1992. ... Cate's first high-profile, international role was lead in the 1998 movie Elizabeth, for which she won Best Actress awards at both the BAFTAs and Golden Globes, plus an Academy Award nomination.
- Jeff Kennett
Jeffrey Gibb Kennett AC (born 25 July, 1948), Australian politician, was the Premier of Victoria (6th October, 1992 to 20th October, 1999). He is also the current Chair of beyondblue (the National Depression Initiative) and President of the Hawthorn Football Club.
- Andrew Bogut
Andrew Michael Bogut (born November 28, 1984) is an Australian professional basketball player. He currently plays for the Milwaukee Bucks of the National Basketball Association. Bogut was selected first overall by the Milwaukee Bucks in the 2005 NBA Draft. The 7'0", 245 lb (2.13 m, 111 kg) forward/center was a star at the University of Utah for two years before declaring for the draft. Bogut is the first Australian to be drafted first overall.
- John Williams
John Christopher Williams (born 24 April 1941) is an Australian classical guitarist.
- John Wilson
John Wilson is a former Australian rules football player who played in the VFL in 1959 for the Richmond Football Club. He is currently a member of Richmond's Captain's Club.
- Gough Whitlam
Edward Gough Whitlam, AC, QC (born 11 July 1916), known as Gough Whitlam (pronounced "Goff"), is an Australian former politician and 21st Prime Minister of Australia. After initially falling short of gaining enough seats to win government at the 1969 election, Whitlam led the Labor Party in to government at the 1972 election after 23 years of conservative government in Australia.
- Eddie McGuire
EDDIE McGuire has resigned as chief executive of the Nine Network. Nine said today McGuire would move to an increased presence on air and the provision of creative and programming services, with the change taking effect from June 30. McGuire said he left the CEO role "with a heavy heart", but hoped he would leave a legacy, with new programs to be shown in the next 12 months.
- John So
John Chun Sai So is the Lord Mayor of City of Melbourne, the capital of Victoria, Australia. He was the first Lord Mayor in the city's history to be directly elected by the people; previously, Lord Mayors were elected by the Councillors. In office since 2001, So is currently the longest-serving Lord Mayor of Melbourne. Many regard So as the most important figurehead of Victoria's Chinese community.
- Emilie de Ravin
Emilie de Ravin (pronounced) (born 27 December 1981) is an Australian actress. She is known for starring in the hit ABC drama "Lost" as the character Claire Littleton.
- Norm Smith
Norman Walter "Norm" Smith (born 21 November 1915 at Clifton Hill, Victoria; died 29 July 1973 at Pascoe Vale, Victoria) was an Australian rules footballer and coach in the Victorian Football League during a remarkably successful and influential career that spanned four decades. After a brilliant playing stint with Melbourne, Smith began a coaching career that eclipsed anything that he achieved on the playing field.
- Germaine Greer
Germaine Greer (born January 29, 1939) is an Australian-born writer, broadcaster and retired academic, widely regarded as one of the most significant feminist voices of the 20th century. Greer's ideas have created controversy ever since her ground-breaking "The Female Eunuch" became an international best-seller in 1970, turning her overnight into a household name and bringing her both adulation and criticism.
- Kevin Sheedy
Kevin John Sheedy AM (born December 24, 1947) is the current coach of AFL club Essendon, and a former player for Richmond. Sheedy was the quintessential self-made player. Not blessed with great skills, he was able to carve out a brilliant career with dedication, perseverance and thoughtfulness. At his peak, he was a supreme big-game performer who epitomised the "kill or be killed" attitude of the Richmond club.
- Ash Wednesday
Ash Wednesday is an Australian musician. Wednesday played synthesizer in JAB (1976 - 1979) and The Models (1979 - 1980). In 1980 he released a solo single, "Love By Numbers". He formed experimental outfit The Metronomes with Al Webb and Andrew Picouleau. Throughout the early 1980s, he was a member of Modern Jazz, an improvisation group who performed to randomly generated techno beats. In 1988 he joined electronic / industrial band Crashland.
- William Ricketts
William Ricketts (1898-1993) was an Australian potter and sculptor of the arts and crafts movement. Born in Richmond, Victoria in 1898, William settled permanently in Mount Dandenong, Victoria in 1934.
- John Madden
Sir John Madden (16 May 1844 - 10 March 1918), Irish-Australian jurist and politician, was the fourth Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria. Madden was born in the village of Cloyne, near Cork, Ireland, in 1844, the second of seven sons of a Cork solicitor also named John Madden. The family moved to London, England in 1852, where his father had taken a job managing an insurance company, and there Madden attended a private school.
- Sam Newman
John Noel William "Sam" Newman (born December 22, 1945 in Geelong, Victoria) is a retired Australian rules football player for the Geelong Cats and is now a local celebrity, television personality and part-time specialist ruck coach.
- Jason Donovan
Jason Sean Donovan (born June 1, 1968) is an Australian actor and singer. In the UK, he has sold in excess of 3 million records, where his debut album "Ten Good Reasons" was the highest selling album of 1989 with sales of over 1.5 million copies. He has also had four UK no.1 singles, one of which was "Especially For You", his 1988 duet with Kylie Minogue. In more recent years, he has mainly worked as a leading man in stage musicals in the UK. Jason Donovan, …
- Mark Bresciano
Mark (Marco) Bresciano is an Australian football (soccer) midfielder, who currently plays for Palermo in Italy's Serie A.
- Barry Humphries
John Barry Humphries, AO, CBE (born 17 February 1934 in Camberwell, Melbourne, Victoria) is an Australian comedian, satirist and character actor best known for his on-stage and television "alter egos" Dame Edna Everage, a Melbourne housewife, and Sir Les Patterson, Australia's foul-mouthed cultural attaché to Britain. Humphries is also a film producer and script writer, a star of London's West End musical theatre, …
- Mark Viduka
Mark Anthony Viduka (born October 9, 1975 in Melbourne) is an Australian striker of Croatian and Ukrainian descent, who has signed for Newcastle United in the English Premier League and also plays for the Australian national team. He is known for his strong physical presence and hold-up play. Viduka and his wife, Ivana, have two sons; Joseph, nicknamed 'Joey' (born 2002), and Lucas (born September 2006)
- Joe Hachem
Joseph "Joe" Hachem (born 3 November 1966 in Lebanon) is a Lebanese-Australian poker player.
- Anthony Callea
Anthony Cosmo Callea (born December 13, 1982 in Melbourne to Italian parents) is an ARIA Award winning Australian singer and was the runner-up in the 2004 season of Australian Idol. Callea currently holds the record for the highest-selling single and fastest-selling single in Australia for his debut single "The Prayer".
- Dannii Minogue
Danielle Jane Minogue (born October 20, 1971) is an Australian singer-songwriter, television personality and occasional actress, model and fashion designer. Minogue rose to prominence in the early 1980s for her roles in the Australian television talent show "Young Talent Time" and in the long-running Australian soap "Home and Away", before commencing her career as a pop singer in the early 1990s.
- Eric Bana
Eric Bana (born Eric Banadinovich on August 9, 1968) is an Australian film and television actor. He began his career as a comedian in the sketch comedy series "Full Frontal" before gaining critical recognition in the biopic "Chopper" (2000). After a decade of critically acclaimed roles in Australian television shows and films, …
- Air Supply
Air Supply is a duo of soft rock musicians who had a succession of hits worldwide through the late 1970s and early 1980s. It consists of English guitarist and vocalist Graham Russell (born Graham Cyril Russell, 11 June 1950, Sherwood, Nottingham, England) and Australian lead vocalist Russell Hitchcock (born 15 June 1949, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia).
- Ron Walker
Ronald Joseph Walker AC CBE (born September, 1939) is an Australian businessman renowned in Melbourne for his work in managing sporting events.
- Bert Newton
Albert Watson "Bert" Newton, AM, MBE, (born 23 July 1938), is an Australian television, radio, film, stage performer and author.
- Chopper Read
Mark Brandon "Chopper" Read (born November 17, 1954), is an Australian former-criminal, author and celebrity. Convicted of many crimes including armed robbery, firearm offenses, assault and kidnapping, Read spent a mere 13 months outside prison between the ages of 20 and 38, then went on to become a successful author of crime novels, selling in excess of 500,000 copies of his works. More recently, he has also found success as a recording artist.
- Tony Smith
The Honourable Anthony (Tony) David Hawthorn Smith (born 13 March 1967) is an Australian politician who has been a Liberal member of the Australian House of Representatives since November 2001, representing the Division of Casey, Victoria. He was born in Melbourne, Victoria, and was educated at the University of Melbourne. Tony was president of the Melbourne University Liberal Club and is an honorary life member of this club.
- Bob Jane
Robert "Bob" Jane (born 1928) is an Australian former race car driver and prominent businessman. A four-time winner of the Armstrong 500, the race that preceded the prestigious Bathurst 1000, Jane is perhaps known best nowadays for his chain of tyre retailers, "Bob Jane T-Marts". Jane grew up in Brunswick, an inner-city suburb of Melbourne. In the 1950s, he started Bob Jane Autoland, a company which distributed parts for Jaguar and Alfa Romeo.
- Duel
Duel (born 1969) is a Melbourne-born, Australian graffiti artist and break dancer,(John Williams). Starting out painting trains and walls in the 1980s, Duel was one of Australia's earliest accomplished graffiti artists. He featured in the 1994 television Australian documentary, Sprayed Conflict by producer/director Robert Moller which appeared at a number of Australian film festivals and was released on video and later on DVD.
- Carl Williams
Carl Anthony Williams (b. October 13, 1970) is an Australian convicted murderer, drug dealer and manufacturer from Melbourne, Victoria. He married Roberta Kane on January 14, 2001; their divorce was finalised in March 2007. He is currently in the maximum security Acacia unit of HM Prison Barwon.
- Mark Philippoussis
Mark Anthony Philippoussis (born November 7, 1976) is an Australian tennis player. He turned professional in 1994 and as of 2007 resides in Nevada, USA. He regards himself as both Australian and Greek, and as a child spoke Greek as his first language though his mother is Italian. He has also had a minor career in modeling and is the current star of the American reality television dating show "Age of Love".
- Nic Cester
Nic Cester (born Nicholas John Cester July 6, 1979 in Melbourne, Australia) is an Australian musician, best known for his lead vocals in the rock band Jet. He is the band's main songwriter, singer and guitarist. He is the oldest of 4 brothers, born to a Scotish mother and Italian father. The band was initially formed in 1996 by Nic and Cam whilst at High School. Currently JET is comprised of Nic (vocals), his brother Chris Cester (drums), Cameron Muncey (guitar), …
- Ron Barassi
Ronald Dale Barassi, Jr (born 27 February 1936) was an Australian rules football player and coach. During a long and brilliant career, Barassi has been one of the most important figures in the history of Australian football. His father, Ron Barassi Senior, was the first Australian footballer killed at Tobruk in World War II. The young Barassi spent his latter teenage years living with Norm Smith, coach of the Melbourne Football Club and a former teammate of his father.
- Alfred Deakin
Alfred William Deakin, Australian politician, was a leader of the movement for Australian federation and later second Prime Minister of Australia.