- Paul Kelly
Paul Maurice Kelly (born 13 January 1955 in Adelaide, South Australia) is an Australian singer-songwriter and is recognised as an icon of Australian rock music as a member of the ARIA Hall of Fame. He is now based in Melbourne, Australia. His output has ranged from bluegrass to studio-oriented dub reggae, but his core output comfortably straddles folk, rock, and even some country. - Anthony Pappa
Anthony Pappa is a DJ from Melbourne, Australia. After meeting Sasha and John Digweed during an Australian tour, he decided to move to Great Britain. He has released mix compilations on labels including Platipus Records, System Recordings, EQ (Grey), and most notably on Boxed's Global Underground Nubreed series. In 1998, Pappa teamed up with Alan Bremner under the name "Freefall" to produce the one off trance classic "Skydive", featuring Jan Johnson on vocals. - Bill Henson
Bill Henson (b. 1955 in Melbourne) is an Australian photographic contemporary artist. Much of his art deals with the subject of adolescence. Henson's artworks reflects his interest in the interval of teenagers and adults. The use of chiaroscuro is common throughout his works. His photos are highly painterly and are often presented in the style of diptychs, triptychs and other specific groupings. - David Brown
David Brown is a musician from Melbourne, Australia, who has played bass guitar or guitar in a series of improvisatory ensembles from 1978 to the present day. In 1978, Brown formed False Start, with the aid of funding from the Music Board of the Australia Council. The band featured David Tolley, Dure Dara, James Clayden, and Brown on bass guitar and guitar. From 1978 to 1983, Brown also played guitar and percussion in Signals, … - Lucinda Williams
Lucinda Williams Adams (born in Bloomingdale, Georgia) is an American athlete, who mainly competed in the 100 metres. She competed for the United States in the 4 x 100 metres at the 1960 Summer Olympics held in Rome, Italy, where she won the gold medal with her team mates Martha Hudson, Barbara Jones and Olympic 100 and 200 metre champion Wilma Rudolph. - 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. - Pete Smith
Peter Philip Smith OAM (born 29 May 1939, Melbourne, Victoria) is an Australian radio and television voice-over artist. He is primarily known for his work with GTV-9 Melbourne as their announcer, as well as the announcer on "Sale of the Century". - Barbara Baynton
Barbara Janet Ainsleigh Baynton was an Australian writer, made famous for "Bush Studies" which was written in retaliation to Henry Lawson's works. Baynton was the daughter of John Lawrence and Elizabeth Ewart, was born at Scone, Hunter River district, New South Wales, in 1857, although claiming to be born in 1862 also that her parents names were Penelope Ewart and Captain Robert Kilpatrick. - Thomas Keller
Thomas Keller also known as Thomi Keller was president of FISA the governing board for international rowing from 1958 until his death in 1989. A chemical engineer, industrialist and company director, he presided over and inspired the Swiss conglomerate for sport timing, “Swiss Timing” for more than a quarter of a century (from 1972 to 1989). - Cameron Reilly
Cameron Reilly (born October 10, 1970) of Yarraville in Melbourne, Australia is a blogger, podcaster and entrepreneur best known for his co-founding of The Podcast Network, a podcasting business with programming from around the world. Married to wife Belinda, they have twin sons Hunter (named after WWE Wrestler Triple_H i.e. Hunter Hearst Helmsley) and Taylor (named after Roger Taylor from Duran Duran). - Mark Evans
Mark Whitmore Evans (born March 2, 1956 in Melbourne, Australia) was the bassist for AC/DC from March 1975-1977. His playing featured on the albums "T.N.T", "High Voltage", "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap" and "Let There Be Rock". - Louis Nowra
Louis Nowra is one of Australia's most acclaimed and prolific writers. Playwright, screenwriter and librettist, Nowra is famous for such plays as "Così", "Byzantine Flowers", "Summer of the Aliens", "Radiance", and "The Golden Age". He has recently completed a major trilogy for Griffin Theatre Company: "The Woman with Dog's Eyes", "The Marvellous Boy" and "The Emperor of Sydney". - Rob Smith
Rob Smith (born November 10, 1961 in Melbourne, Australia) is a former field hockey player from Canada, who competed at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California. There the resident of North Vancouver, British Columbia finished in tenth place with the Men's National Team. - Helen Reddy
Helen Reddy (born October 25, 1941 in Melbourne, Australia) is an Australian pop singer and actress. Reddy was immensely successful as a singer in the 1970s with numerous hit records including three U.S. #1 singles. She has sold more than 15 million albums and 10 million singles, and was the first Australian-born performer to win a Grammy award. In 1974, she became a naturalized citizen of the United States, but currently lives near Sydney, Australia. - Ian Johnston
Ian Johnston was one of the true pioneers of reproductive medicine in Australia. He was a primary contributor to the development of human IVF (In vitro fertilisation) in Melbourne, Australia. He was the Head of the Reproductive Biology Unit at the Royal Women's Hospital, Melbourne and was the founding President and Honorary Life Member of The Fertility Society of Australia. - Ash Grunwald
Ash Grunwald is a young Australian radio announcer and blues musician from Melbourne, Australia. Born of an African father and an Australian mother, Ash grew up listening to the songs and myths of both Africa and Australia. Drawn to the blues from an early age he learned to play the music of Robert Johnson, Howlin Wolf, Muddy Waters, Buddy Guy and Junior Wells, influences that remain a strong part of his music today. - James Wan
James Wan (born 1977) is a film director from Perth, Australia of Chinese Ethnicity. He was born in Kuching, Malaysia, but grew up in Perth. Wan is best known for the 2004 horror/thriller "Saw" which he made with Leigh Whannell, whom he met while in film school. Before that he made his first feature film "Stygian" with Shannon Young that won Best Guerilla Film at the Melbourne Underground Film Festival in 2000. - Elisabeth Murdoch
Dame Elisabeth Murdoch AC, DBE (born February 8 1909), philanthropist, is the widow of Australian newspaper publisher Sir Keith Murdoch and the mother of international media proprietor Rupert Murdoch. Murdoch was born Elisabeth Joy Greene in Melbourne to an Irish Protestant father and an English mother. She was educated at St Catherine's School in Melbourne and at Clyde School. She married Keith Murdoch, 22 years her senior, in 1928, … - David Briggs
David Briggs (born David John Briggs, 26 January 1951, in Melbourne, Australia) is an Australian musician and record producer, best known for his time as a guitarist in the rock band, Little River Band between 1976 and 1981. In 1976 he joined the already-successful group, Little River Band. He wrote their hit single "Lonesome Loser", as well as "Happy Anniversary". From 1978 until 1981, Little River Band achieved six consecutive U.S. Top 10 singles with "Reminiscing", … - Ollie Olsen
Ollie Olsen (born 1958, Melbourne, Australia) is an Australian composer, synthesist and sound designer who has been producing and performing rock, electronic and experimental music for the past thirty years. He is probably best known in the mainstream for his collaboration with Michael Hutchence, Max Q in 1989. - Alan Marshall
Alan Marshall (2 May 1902, Noorat, Victoria - 21 January 1984, Melbourne) was an Australian writer, story teller and social documentor. His best known book, "I Can Jump Puddles" (1955) is the first of a three part autobiography. The other two are "This is the Grass" (1962) and "In Mine Own Heart" (1963). When he was six years old he contracted polio leaving him with a physical disability that grew worse as he grew older. - Lia Manoliu
Lia Manoliu was a Romanian discus thrower who competed at a record six Summer Olympics, winning three discus medals. Manoliu not only became the first track and field athlete to compete at six Olympic Games, but she also represented her country with distinction, winning medals on three of the six occasions. Lia started her Olympic odyssey at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, where she finished 6th with a throw of 42,64m. - Daryl Braithwaite
Daryl Braithwaite (born January 11, 1949 in Melbourne, Australia) is an Australian pop singer. Best known as the lead vocalist of Sherbet, Braithwaite has also sustained a successful solo career, placing 15 singles in the Australian top 40, including the #1 hits "You're My World" and "The Horses". He had a cameo appearence in the soap 'Neighbours' on 13th July 2007, where he sang 'Summer of Love' at the wedding of Janelle Timmins and Allan Steiger. - Peter Norman
Peter George Norman was an Australian track star best known for winning the silver medal in the 200 metres at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City. His time of 20.06 seconds still stands as the Australian 200 metre record. He is a five-time Australian champion of 200m. The gold and bronze medalists were Americans Tommie Smith and John Carlos, respectively. On the medal podium, during the playing of "The Star-Spangled Banner", … - Stephen Huss
Stephen Huss, is a professional tennis player from Australia. However, he is a citizen of Sweden. He, along with partner Wesley Moodie, became the first qualfier to win the Wimbledon men's doubles championship in 2005, beating the 6th, 9th, 3rd, 1st & 2nd seeds in the process. His Wimbledon title was only his second doubles title on the ATP tour after his 2002 success at Casablanca with Myles Wakefield. - Jane Turner
Jane Turner (born 7 June 1961, Melbourne) is an Australian actress, comedian and Logie Award winning Comedy writer. Turner has appeared in many popular Australian TV programs, namely "Prisoner" (aka "Prisoner Cell Block H") in a straight dramatic role, with comedy roles in sketch comedy programs "The D-Generation", "Fast Forward", "Full Frontal", "Big Girl's Blouse" and "Something Stupid". - Philip Brophy
Philip Brophy, born in Reservoir, Melbourne 1959 is an Australian musician, composer, sound designer, filmmaker, writer, graphic designer, educator and academic. - Elliot Goblet
Elliot Goblet is a character invented by Jack Levi, a Jewish comedian from Melbourne, Australia. The character is renowned for his deadpan delivery of quirky one-liners - his style can draw comparisons with that of the American comic Steven Wright. He started out with fish-eye lens spectacles and a goatee - these days, the spectacles are more mainstream and the goatee is often painted. - John Caldwell
John Caldwell (born May 7, 1938 in Belfast) is a former boxer from Northern Ireland, who won the bronze medal in the flyweight (51 kg) division at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia. Caldwell was considered to be a supreme fighter whose class and skill saw him claim a medal in 1956 and the world bantamweight crown in 1961. He enjoyed a magnificent career as an amateur and professional in which he contested 275 bouts, winning on all but ten occasions. - Shannon Shorr
Shannon Shorr (born 1985 in Birmingham, Alabama) is a professional poker player, recently moved from Tuscaloosa, Alabama to Las Vegas, Nevada. Shorr grew up in Birmingham, where he was a baseball player at Shades Valley High School. - Gregory David Roberts
Gregory David Roberts (born Gregory John Peter Smith, June 1952), is a convicted armed robber, former heroin addict, gangster, arms smuggler and author of the bestselling book "Shantaram". - John McCormack
John McCormack (born January 9, 1935 in Glasgow) was a Scottish boxer, who was nicknamed "Cowboy". Although born in Glasgow, his home town was Maryhill. He started boxing in 1950 at the age of fifteen, and by 1956 he held the Scottish and A.B.A. Light Middleweight Titles in 1956 as an amateur. He earned the bronze medal in the light middleweight division (71 kg) at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia. - Helen Dallimore
Helen Dallimore (b. October 31, 1971 in Melbourne, Australia) is an Australian actress. Dallimore grew up in Oxford, England and Sydney, Australia. She trained at National Institute of Dramatic Art in Sydney, graduating in 1995. Dallimore's stage credits with the Sydney Theatre Company include: David Edgar's "Pentecost", "The Unlikely Prospect of Happiness", Andrew Upton and Gale Edwards' "The Hanging Man", and "Miss Adelaide" in "Guys & Dolls". - Curtis Stone
Curtis P. Stone (b. 4 November 1975, Melbourne, Australia) is a chef and television personality. - Santo Cilauro
Santo Cilauro born in Melbourne, Australia in 1962, is an Australian television and feature film producer and screenwriter. He is a currently a member of the Working Dog production company which produced The Panel television show and the movie, The Castle. He played weatherman Geoffrey Salter on "Frontline" (1994–97), Stix on Funky Squad (1995), and IT technician Griffin on the Shaun Micallef sitcom "Welcher & Welcher" (2003). - Jimmy Nicol
James George Nicol, known as Jimmie Nicol or Jimmy Nicol, is an English drummer born 3 August 1939, and best known for being a temporary member of The Beatles. When Ringo Starr collapsed and was hospitalised on 3 June 1964 with tonsillitis on the eve of The Beatles' 1964 Australasian tour, manager Brian Epstein and producer George Martin discussed the possibility of using a stand-in. - Melbourne Australia Temple
The Melbourne Australia Temple is the 90th operating temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. On October 30, 1998 the First Presidency of the Mormon Church announced that a temple would be built in Melbourne, Australia. The Melbourne Australia Temple is one of five temples in Australia. Previously, members from the area had traveled twelve hours one-way to visit the Sydney Australia Temple. - Tara Moss
Tara Moss, born October 2nd, 1973 is a Canadian-Australian model and author. Her books include the best selling and critically acclaimed crime novels "Fetish", "Split", "Covet" and the novel "Hit" which was released in October 2006. She also hosts the crime documentary series "Tara Moss Investigates" on the National Geographic Channel. Born in Victoria, British Columbia, Moss took up residence in Australia in 1996, … - Samantha Sang
Samantha Sang (born Cheryl Gray, on August 5, 1953 in Melbourne, Australia) is a pop singer. She began her singing career at the age of eight on Australian radio, and during this time she entered and won several talent quests. By the age of 15 she had her first hit record in Australia, with the song "You Made Me What I Am", and she won a "Best Female Vocalist" award. She quickly became a well known celebrity on Australian television, … - Matt Lee
Matt Lee (born ??) is a radio presenter on Melbourne station SEN 1116. He is the producer of "World Sport Overnight" (Weekend Edition). He also contributes to segments "On This Day", Premier Cricket - giving a Preview and Review each weekend during the summer. During the football season he provides a VFL Preview and Review of all games. Matt is also apart of the VFL coverage doing Around the Grounds reporting, Stats or Boundary Rider.
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