- Glenn McGrath
Glenn Donald McGrath (born 9 February 1970 in Dubbo, New South Wales), nicknamed "Pigeon" is a former Australian cricket player. He is one of the most highly regarded fast-medium pace bowlers in cricketing history, and a leading contributor to Australia's domination of world cricket since the mid-1990s to [ ]. He holds the world record for the highest number of Test wickets by a fast bowler. McGrath announced his retirement from Test cricket on the 23rd of December, 2006. - David Palmer
David Palmer (born 28 June, 1976 in Lithgow, New South Wales) is a professional squash player from Australia. He is one of the most successful players of his generation, having won the World Open in 2002 and 2006; the British Open in 2001, 2003 and 2004; and the Super Series Finals in 2002. He reached the World No. 1 ranking for the first time in September 2001. Four years after his previous spell as World No. - Brett Lee
Brett Lee (born 8 November, 1976 in Wollongong, New South Wales) is an Australian cricketer. - Henry Lawson
Henry Lawson (17 June, 1867 - 2 September, 1922) was an Australian writer and poet. Along with his contemporary Banjo Paterson, Lawson is among the best-known Australian poets and fiction writers of the colonial period. - Peter Garrett
Peter Garrett AM MP (born 16 April 1953), is an Australian musician and politician. He has been an Australian Labor Party member of the House of Representatives for the seat of Kingsford Smith, New South Wales, since October 2004. He was appointed as Shadow Minister for Climate Change, Environment & Heritage, Arts in December 2006. He was lead singer of the Australian rock band Midnight Oil from the 1970s to their disbanding in 2002. - Paul Kelly
Paul Kelly (born July 28 1969) is a champion Australian rules footballer, winning the Brownlow Medal and serving as captain of the Sydney Swans for ten seasons. Born in Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Kelly initially played rugby league for Wagga Brothers but turned to Australian rules football at age 15. Recruited to the AFL by the Swans, Kelly made his debut in 1990, was appointed captain in 1993, won the Brownlow Medal (the AFL's highest individual honour) in 1995, … - Mark Webber
Mark Alan Webber, called Webbo by some fans, (born August 27, 1976) is an Australian Formula One driver. He was born in Queanbeyan, New South Wales, son of Alan, the local motorcycle dealer. He is the first Australian to race in Formula One since David Brabham in 1994. After some racing success in Australia, Webber moved to the UK in 1995 to further his motorsports career. - John Marshall
John Birnie Marshall (born March 29, 1930 - died January 31, 1957) was an Australian freestyle swimmer of the 1940s and 1950s who won a silver and bronze medal in the 1500 m and 400 m freestyle respectively at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London. Despite his Olympic results suggesting that he only had a moderate international, he broke 28 world records. Born in Bondi, New South Wales, Marshall made his first headlines as a 16 year old, … - Elizabeth MacArthur
Elizabeth Macarthur (born 14 August 1766, died 9 February 1850) Australia. She was born in Devon, England, the daughter of provincial farmers, Richard and Grace Veale. Her father died when she was 7 while her mother remarried when she was 11, leaving Elizabeth in the care of relatives and friends. She married the Plymouth soldier John Macarthur in 1788 and, with her new born son Edward, accompanied him, along with his regiment, the New South Wales Corps, … - Edward Hargraves
Edward Hammond Hargraves (October 7 1816-1891) was a gold prospector who claimed to have found gold in Australia in 1851, starting the Australian gold rush. Hargraves was born at Gosport, Hampshire, England, son of Lieutenant John Edward Hargraves and his wife Elizabeth. He was educated at Brighton and Lewes. He travelled to California during the California Gold Rush but his prospecting in California was not successful. - Paul Hogan
Paul Hogan AM (born October 8, 1939 in Lightning Ridge, New South Wales) is an Australian actor and comedian. Paul Hogan was a rigger working on the Sydney Harbour Bridge before he rose to fame in the early 1970s after a comical interview on "A Current Affair". Hogan followed this with his own comedy sketch programme, "The Paul Hogan Show", which he produced, co-wrote, and in which he played a panoply of characters with John Cornell. - Jennie George
Jennie George (born 28 August 1947), Australian politician, has been an Australian Labor Party member of the Australian House of Representatives since November 2001, representing the Division of Throsby, New South Wales. She was born Eugenie Sinicky in Trani, Italy, where her parents were displaced persons from Russia. She was educated at Sydney University and the Sydney Teachers College. George was a Secondary school teacher and teacher trade unionist, … - Milton Orkopoulos
Milton Orkopoulos (born 22 July 1957) is a disgraced Australian politician. In November 2006, New South Wales Premier Morris Iemma sacked him as Minister for Aboriginal Affairs and Minister Assisting the Premier on Citizenship after he was charged with child sex and other offences. The following week, he resigned as MP for the state electorate of Swansea. Orkopoulos studied economics at the University of Newcastle and worked as an electorate officer for MPs Peter Morris, … - Gretel Killeen
Gretel Killeen (born 3 February 1963), is an Australian journalist, newspaper columnist, author and TV personality, who hosts the Australian version of "Big Brother", since 2001. In between "Big Brother" commitments, Killeen works as a freelance writer and author, and can also be heard on Sydney and Melbourne radio stations. She is also a national ambassador for UNICEF in Australia, receiving her appointment as such in 2001. - John Laws
John Laws, CBE (born 8 August, 1935) is a prominent and controversial radio presenter in Australia, whose mellifluous voice earned him the nickname 'the Golden Tonsils'. Since the 1970s Laws has hosted a hugely successful morning radio program, which mixes music with interviews, opinion, live advertising readings and listener talkback. - Miles Franklin
Miles Franklin was an Australian writer. She was born at Talbingo, New South Wales and grew up in the Brindabella Valley. Franklin is best known for "My Brilliant Career", the story of an irrepressible teenage feminist growing to womanhood in rural New South Wales. This heroine, Sybylla Melvyn, is one of the most endearing characters in Australian literature and obviously has much in common with Franklin herself, who wrote the novel while she was still a teenager. - Jamie Lyon
Jamie Lyon (born 24 January 1982) is an Australian rugby league player currently playing for the Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles in the National Rugby League competition. He previously played for the Parramatta Eels and also played two seasons in the English Super League with St. Helens. He has represented for New South Wales and Australia. Lyon has previously played for St. - Ken Moroney
Ken Moroney AO APM is and has been the Commissioner of the New South Wales Police Force in New South Wales, Australia since 2002. The New South Wales Police Force is the largest Police Force in Australia and operates the world's oldest continuous mounted police unit in the world. - Les Murray
His parents were poor and their weatherboard house almost bare of comforts; Murray remarked that it was not until he went to the university that he first met the middle class. His identification was with the underprivileged, especially the rural poor, and it was this that gave him his strong sense of unity with Aborigines and with 'common folk'. - Jill Ker Conway
Jill Ker Conway (born 9 October 1934) is an Australian-American author, best known for her autobiographies, in particular her first memoirs, "The Road from Coorain". She was also Smith College's first woman president, from 1975-1985, and now serves as a Visiting Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. - H. V. Evatt
Dr Herbert Vere Evatt (April 30, 1894 - November 2, 1965), was an Australian jurist, politician and writer. He was President of the United Nations General Assembly in 1948-49 and helped draft the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948). Evatt was generally known as Dr H.V. Evatt and was informally known as "Doc". - Norman Lindsay
Norman Alfred William Lindsay was an Australian artist. Lindsay was born in Creswick, Victoria. He was a prolific artist, sculptor, writer, editorial cartoonist and scale modeler, as well as being a highly talented boxer. Norman was the son of Irish surgeon Robert Charles William Alexander Lindsay and Jane Elizabeth Lindsay from Creswick. Fifth of ten children, he was the brother of Percy Lindsay (1870-1952), Lionel Lindsay (1874-1961), Ruby Lindsay (1885-1919), … - Richard Johnson
Richard Johnson is an Australian football (soccer) player. He currently plays as a central midfielder for A-League club Wellington Phoenix FC. When still a teenager Johnson moved to England to seek a professional football contract. He joined the youth ranks of Watford, and made his league début in the closing stages of the 1991/92 season. - Bill O'Reilly
William Joseph "Bill" O'Reilly, often known as Tiger O'Reilly, (born 20 December 1905 in White Cliffs, New South Wales; died 6 October 1992 in Sydney), was an Australian cricketer, rated as one of the greatest bowlers of all time. Following his retirement from playing, he became a well-respected cricket writer and broadcaster. O'Reilly was one of the best spin bowlers ever to play cricket. - Christine Nixon
Christine Nixon , Margaret Douglas and Naomi Simpson Christine Nixon Chief Commissioner, - Casey Stoner
Casey Stoner (born october 16 1985) is a motorcycle racer originally from Gold Coast in Queensland, Australia. He currently competes in the MotoGP class for the Ducati Marlboro team - Wayne Carey
Wayne Carey (born May 27, 1971), is regarded as one of the greatest Australian rules football players of all time. His nicknames include "The King", or "Duck" due to his walking style, caused by one leg being longer than the other. Carey grew up in Wagga Wagga, a city in southern New South Wales regarded as the frontier dividing "Aussie rules" territory with that of rugby league. Carey played for North Adelaide in the SANFL, … - Slim Dusty
David Gordon "Slim Dusty" Kirkpatrick, AO, OBE (June 13, 1927—September 19, 2003) was an iconic Australian country music singer-songwriter. He has sold more than five million albums and singles in Australia. - Don Weatherburn
Dr Don Weatherburn has been Director of the NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research in Sydney since 1988 and is an Adjunct Professor with the School of Social Science and Policy at the University of New South Wales. Don Weatherburn was educated at Newington College and the University of Sydney where in 1974 he received his BA with first class honours. He completed a Ph.D in 1979 and lectured in the School of Justice Administration at Charles Sturt University. - Shannon Noll
Shannon Noll (born 16 September 1975) is an Australian singer-songwriter. Noll first came to prominence as runner-up of the first series of "Australian Idol" (2003) which led to him being signed to Sony BMG, since Idol he has had more success than any other Idol contestant to date. He has gone on to release two number one, multi-platinum albums, "That's What I'm Talking About" and "Lift" and numerous top five singles. - Ray Martin
Ray Martin (born 20 December 1944, in Richmond, New South Wales) is the senior correspondent on Australia's Nine Network. - John Davies
John G. Davies (born May 17 1929 in Willoughby, New South Wales) was an Australian breaststroke swimmer of the 1940s and 1950s who won a gold medal in the 200m breaststroke at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki. After retiring from swimming, he became a prominent lawyer in California, and after becoming a naturalized American, he was appointed a judge of the United States District Court by Ronald Reagan in 1986, … - Dally Messenger
Herbert Henry "Dally" Messenger was an Australian rugby league footballer, recognised as one of that game's greatest ever players. Messenger, or ‘The Master’ as he was dubbed, represented his country in both rugby football codes, playing 2 rugby union tests and 7 rugby league tests. He was also offered contracts by English soccer clubs, Manchester United and Tottenham Hotspur, but refused them on the principle that soccer was decadent. - Tom Richards
Thomas James ("Tom") Richards (born 29 April, 1882 - 25 September, 1935) was an Australian rugby union player, who was born in Vegetable Creek (Emmaville) in New South Wales. Richards was the only player to ever play for both Australia and the British Lions, thus, the Tom Richards Trophy is named in his honor. Richard's father emigrated to Australia during the Gold Rush from Cornwall, England. - Baz Luhrmann
Baz Luhrmann (born Mark Anthony Luhrmann on September 17 1962) is an Oscar and Golden Globe-nominated Australian film director, screenwriter, and producer. His films are distinguished by their flamboyant theatricality and oversaturated colours. - Torah Bright
Torah (Jane) Bright (born December 27 1986, Cooma, Australia) is an Australian snowboarder. She turned pro at age 14 and finished fifth in snowboarding for Australia at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy. She is a committed Mormon and trains in Salt Lake City, Utah She finished 30th overall at the 2005 World Championships in Whistler, Canada and was runner up for the World Cup title during the 2003/04 season. - John Bell
John Anthony Bell OBE AM (born 1 November 1940) is an acclaimed Australian actor and theatre personality. In a career of acting in, directing, and managing theatres, John Bell has been instrumental in shaping the Australian theatre industry. - Chris Mansell
Chris Mansell (born 1953) is an Australian poet and publisher. Chris Mansell was born in Sydney and grew up on the Central Coast of NSW and in Lae, Papua New Guinea, later studying economics at the University of Sydney. She was active in Sydney in the 1970s and 1980s as an editor and poet and since the 1980s has lived in regional Australia where she continues to write, perform, publish and edit. - William McKell
Sir William John McKell GCMG (26 September 1891 - 11 January 1985), Australian politician, was Premier of New South Wales from 1939 to 1947, and was the twelfth Governor-General of Australia. McKell was born in Pambula, New South Wales, the son of a butcher. He was educated in Sydney at Bourke Street public school and became a boilermaker, and was state secretary of the Boilermakers' Union from 1915. - George Clarke
George Clarke was an Australian-born New Zealand pioneer and educationist. George Clarke was born at Parramatta, New South Wales. His father, also George Clarke, an early missionary to New Zealand, came from Norfolk and arrived at Hobart, Van Diemen's Land in September 1822. He then went to Sydney, and while waiting for a ship to New Zealand, took charge of an establishment of aborigines near Parramatta.
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