- Mel Gibson
Mel Columcille Gerard Gibson (born January 3 1956) is an American-born actor, director, and producer raised primarily in Australia. After establishing himself as a household name with the "Mad Max" and "Lethal Weapon" series, Gibson went on to direct and star in the Academy Award-winning "Braveheart". Gibson's direction of "Braveheart" made him the sixth actor-turned-filmmaker to receive an Oscar for Best Director. - Ned Kelly
Edward "Ned" Kelly (c. January 1855 - 11 November 1880) is Australia's most famous bushranger, and, to many, a folk hero for his defiance of the colonial authorities. Born near Melbourne to an Irish convict father, as a young man he clashed with the police. After an incident at his home, police parties went in search of him. After killing three policemen, he and his gang were proclaimed outlaws. A final violent confrontation with police at Glenrowan, … - Heath Ledger
Heathcliff Andrew Ledger (April 4, 1979 – January 22, 2008) was an Academy Award-nominated Australian actor. After appearing in television roles during the 1990s, Ledger developed a Hollywood career. He starred in both critical and financial successes, including The Patriot, Monster's Ball and Brokeback Mountain, and completed the role of The Joker in the forthcoming The Dark Knight. Ledger was found dead in a New York City apartment on January 22, 2008. - Joe Byrne
Joseph Byrne also known as Joe Byrne (November 1857 - June 28 1880) was an Australian bushranger known as the lieutenant of the Kelly Gang. He died in the siege of Glenrowan which is one of the most famous events in Australian history. Joe Byrne was a crack shot, a good horseman and a skilled bushman that enabled him to evade capture for several years. - Paul Keating
Paul John Keating (born 18 January 1944), is a former Australian politician and the 24th Prime Minister of Australia, serving as Prime Minister from 1991 to 1996. He came to prominence as the reforming Treasurer in the Hawke government. As Prime Minister he is noted for his many legislative achievements, and his victory in the 1993 Federal election, which many had considered "unwinnable" for Labor. - Jimeoin
Jimeoin McKeown (b. January 24 1966) is an English-born actor and stand-up comedian who grew up in Portstewart, Northern Ireland. He was born in Warwickshire, England and moved to Australia at the age of 22, gaining work as a carpenter. He lives in Melbourne with wife Catherine. He has starred in and co-written two Australian feature film comedies, "The Craic" (1999) and "The Extra" (2005), both co-starring his frequent sidekick Bob Franklin. - Sidney Nolan
Sir Sidney Robert Nolan (April 22, 1917 - 28 November, 1992) was one of Australia's best-known painters and printmakers. Nolan was born in Melbourne and attended the National Gallery Art School. He was a close friend of the arts patrons John and Sunday Reed, and is regarded as one of the leading figures of the so-called "Heide Circle" that also included Albert Tucker, Joy Hester, Arthur Boyd and John Perceval. In 1938,he met and married his first wife Elizabeth, … - Damien Leith
Damien Leo Leith (b. 18 January 1976, Dublin, Republic of Ireland) is an Irish Australian singer/songwriter. He was the winner of the Network Ten music contest "Australian Idol 2006". He was born in Ireland and now lives in Australia with his Australian wife, Eileen Stapleton and their two sons, Jarvis Dion and Jagger Ramone. Leith became an Australian citizen on 25 January 2007 taking the pledge from the Prime Minister of Australia, John Howard, … - Kylie Minogue
Kylie Ann Minogue (born 28 May 1968) is an Australian dance-pop singer-songwriter and occasional actress. Minogue rose to prominence in the mid '80s through her role in the Australian television soap opera "Neighbours", before she commenced her career as a pop artist in the late '80s. According to Warner Music Australia, Minogue has sold over 65 million records worldwide. Signed to a contract by British songwriters and producers Stock, Aitken & Waterman, … - Peter Lalor
Peter Fintan Lalor (Pronunced "LAW-la") (5 February 1827 - 9 February 1889) was the leader of the Eureka Stockade rebellion, one of Australia's few armed uprisings and often characterised controversially as the "birth of democracy" in Australia. He was described in a reward notice issued in 1854 as being: :"hair dark brown, whiskers dark brown and shaved under the chin, no moustache, long face, rather good looking, … - John Curtin
John Curtin (8 January, 1885 - 5 July, 1945), Australian politician and 14th Prime Minister of Australia, led Australia when the Australian mainland came under direct military threat during the Japanese advance in World War II. He is widely regarded as one of the country's greatest Prime Ministers. General Douglas MacArthur said that Curtin was "one of the greatest of the wartime statesmen". - 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. - 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. - Michael Dwyer
Michael Dwyer was a United Irish leader in the 1798 rising and later fought a guerilla campaign against the British army in the Wicklow Mountains from 1798-1803. He was born in the Glen of Imaal in 1772 and was a cousin of Anne Devlin who was to later achieve fame for her loyalty to the rebel cause following the suppression of Robert Emmet's rebellion. - Dan Kelly
Dan Kelly (1861 - 28th June 1880) was the youngest brother of Australian Bushranger Ned Kelly. He was a member of the Kelly Gang and was killed at the siege at Glenrowan. Born in 1861, Dan grew up with his brothers and sisters and their widowed mother near Greta in the state of Victoria. He first came into trouble with the law when aged ten. He and his brother Jim, aged twelve, were arrested by Constable Flood for riding a horse that did not belong to them. - Tadhg Kennelly
Tadhg Kennelly (born 1 July 1981) is a former Gaelic football player from Listowel, County Kerry, Ireland, who is now a backline Australian rules football player for the Sydney Swans, in the AFL. He is the son of Tim Kennelly, a former All-Ireland winner with Kerry. After his debut in 2001 (following elevation from the rookie list), he now is a permanent in the Sydney line-up as a dashing rebound defender. - Michael Kelly
Michael Kelly was an Australian Roman Catholic clergyman. He was fourth Archbishop of Sydney. Born at Waterford, Ireland, to James Kelly and Mary Grant, he was educated at Christian Brothers’, Enniscorthy and the Classical Academy, New Ross. He received his seminary formation at St Peter’s College, Wexford and the Irish College, Rome, before being ordained at Enniscorthy on the 1st of November 1872 by Bishop Thomas Furlong. - John Donoghue
John Donoghue (1822-1892) was a pioneering Irish Catholic settler in the British colony of New South Wales. Donoghue arrived in Sydney in 1853. He had been born in County Wicklow, Ireland. John Donoghue was a nephew of the Wicklow Chief, Michael Dwyer. Both his grandfather John Dwyer and his mother Catherine Donoghue(nee Dwyer) had been imprisoned by the British in Kilmainham Gaol in 1802. - William McMahon
Sir William McMahon, GCMG, CH (23 February 1908 - 31 March 1988), Australian politician and 20th Prime Minister of Australia, was born in Sydney, New South Wales, where his father was a lawyer. He was educated at Sydney Grammar School and at the University of Sydney, where he graduated in law. He practised in Sydney with "Allen, Allen and Hemsley", the oldest law firm in Australia. In 1940 he joined the Army, but because of a hearing loss he was confined to staff work. - Frank Brennan
Francis (Frank) Brennan was an Australian lawyer and politician. Brennan was born at Upper Emu Creek near Bendigo, Victoria and studied law at the University of Melbourne and acieved an LL.B. in 1901. He established a legal business specialising in union cases and became a Catholic layman. He joined the Australian Labor Party in 1907 and unsuccessfully contested Bendigo in 1910, … - Robert O'Hara Burke
Robert O'Hara Burke (1821-June 1861) was an Irish soldier and police officer, who achieved fame as an Australian explorer. He was the leader of the ill-fated Burke and Wills expedition, which was the first expedition to cross Australia from south to north, finding a route across the continent from the settled areas of Victoria to the Gulf of Carpentaria. - Julian McMahon
Julian Dana William McMahon (born 27 July 1968) is a Golden Globe- nominated Australian actor and former fashion model. - John Fahey
John Joseph Fahey AC (born 10 January, 1945) was an Australian politician, Premier of New South Wales and Federal Minister of Finance. He was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1984 to 1996 and the federal House of Representatives from 1996 to 2001. - Ben Chifley
Joseph Benedict Chifley (22 September, 1885 - 13 June, 1951), Australian politician and 16th Prime Minister of Australia, was one of Australia's most influential Prime Ministers. Among his government's accomplishments were the post-war immigration scheme under Arthur Calwell, the establishment of Australian citizenship in 1949, the Snowy Mountains Scheme, the national airline TAA, a social security scheme for the unemployed, … - James Scullin
James Henry Scullin, Australian politician and ninth Prime Minister of Australia, was born in the small town of Trawalla in western Victoria, the son of John Scullin a railway worker, and Ann (née Logan) both of Irish Catholic descent from Derry. He was educated at state primary schools and then worked as a grocer in Ballarat while studying at night school and privately in public libraries and honing his public speaking skills in local debating clubs. - James McAuley
Dr James Phillip McAuley was an Australian academic, poet, journalist, literary critic, and prominent convert to Catholicism. McAuley was born in Lakemba, a suburb of Sydney. He attended Sydney University. He began his life as an Anglican, and was sometime organist and choirmaster at Holy Trinity Church, Dulwich Hill in Sydney. McAuley lost his Christian faith as a younger man. In 1943 McAuley was commissioned as a lieutenant in the militia for the Australian Army, … - Joseph Holt
Joseph Holt was a United Irish "general" and leader of a large guerrilla force which fought against British troops in county Wicklow from June-October 1798. - Louis Brennan
Louis Brennan (28 January 1852 - 17 January 1932) was an Irish-Australian inventor. He was born in Castlebar, Ireland, moving to Melbourne, Australia in 1861 and starting his career as a watchmaker and a few years later was articled to Alexander Kennedy Smith, a renowned civil and mechanical engineer of the period. He conceived the idea of a dirigible (in this case meaning steerable) torpedo in 1874, from observing that if a thread is pulled on a reel, … - Roderick Flanagan
Roderick Flanagan (1 April 1828 - 13 March 1862) was an Australian historian, anthropologist, poet, newspaper proprietor and journalist. He was born in Elphin, County Roscommon, Ireland and died a mere 34 years later in East London, after spending 22 years in Australia. However, in that short span he made a major contribution to the understanding of Indigenous Australians, established a newspaper in Melbourne, Australia, wrote many poems and prose about his adopted land, … - Joseph Lyons
Joseph Aloysius Lyons CH (September 15, 1879 - April 7, 1939), Australian politician, was the tenth Prime Minister of Australia. Lyons was born in Circular Head, near Stanley, Tasmania, the son of Irish immigrants. His father, Michael Lyons, was a successful farmer who afterwards engaged in a butchery and bakery business, but lost this on account of bad health, and subsequently was forced to work as a labourer. His mother, a woman of courage and endurance, … - 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. - Rove McManus
John "Rove" McManus (born January 21, 1974) is a Gold Logie Award winning Australian variety show host, and owner of the production company Roving Enterprises. - 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. - Lisa Gerrard
Lisa Gerrard (born April 12, 1961) is an Australian musician, singer and composer who gained international renown as part of the music group Dead Can Dance with Irish former partner Brendan Perry. Her career spans from 1981 to the present, and she has been involved in a wide range of projects. Gerrard received a Golden Globe award and her score for the 2000 film "Gladiator" received an Academy Award nomination. - Colleen McCullough
Colleen McCullough AO (born 1 June, 1937) is an internationally acclaimed Australian author. She was born in Wellington in central west New South Wales. A neuroscientist by training, she worked in various Sydney and United Kingdom hospitals before settling to ten years of research and teaching in the Department of Neurology at the Yale Medical School in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. In the late 1970s she settled on Norfolk Island, where she lives with her husband, … - 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. - Belinda Emmett
Belinda 'Belle' Jane Emmett was an Australian actress and singer. She was married to television personality Rove McManus and was known for her roles in the TV drama series "Home and Away" and "All Saints". - Lewis Moran
Lewis Moran (7 July, 1941 - March 31, 2004) was an Australian criminal and patriarch of the infamous Moran family of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Notable for his involvement in the Melbourne underground war, Moran was shot dead in broad daylight in a Melbourne hotel in 2004. His murder occurred one day after the funeral of fellow Melbourne underworld criminal and suspected hitman, Andrew Veniamin. - Errol Flynn
Errol Leslie Thomson Flynn was an Australian-born film actor, most famous for his romantic swashbuckler roles in Hollywood films and his flamboyant lifestyle. - Dermott Brereton
Dermott Hugh Brereton (born August 19, 1964) is a former champion Australian rules football player in the Australian Football League. In a 211 game career, Brereton kicked 464 goals. Dermott is of Irish descent.
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