- Henry Millicer
Henry K. Millicer, born Henryk Kazimierz Militzer (June 11, 1915 - August 28, 1996), was a Polish-Australian aircraft designer and pilot. He was born in Poland on June 11, 1915, the son of a university professor, Henry developed an early interest in aviation. In 1924 he won an aeromodelling competition with the prize being a flight over Warsaw, his home city. At age 14 he built a full-size glider and at 17 qualified as a glider pilot.
- David Helfgott
David Helfgott (born May 19, 1947) is a controversial Australian pianist. He is as well-known for having schizoaffective disorder as for his piano playing. Helfgott's life inspired the Oscar-winning film "Shine", directed by Scott Hicks and starring Geoffrey Rush and Noah Taylor as Helfgott at different periods of his life.
- Jerzy Zubrzycki
Jerzy B. Zubrzycki AO CBE is a Polish-born Australian sociologist, widely regarded as the "Father of Australian Multiculturalism". He is a member of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences.
- Alicia Molik
Alicia Molik (born January 27, 1981) is a professional female tennis player from Australia. Molik was born in Adelaide, Australia, and currently lives in Melbourne. She attended Our Lady of Perpetual Succour West Pymble, before completing her schooling in Adelaide.
- Michael Klim
Michael Klim OAM (born August 13, 1977 in Gdynia) is a Polish-born Australian swimmer. Klim was first selected to represent Australia in the Commonwealth Games in Victoria, Canada in 1994, while still a student at Wesley College, Melbourne. In 1996, he arrived at the Atlanta Olympics ranked first in the world for the 200 m freestyle, but was surprisingly eliminated in the heats. He rebounded to qualify for a finals position in the 100 m butterfly, …
- Marcel Weyland
Marcel Weyland is a translator of Adam Mickiewicz's Pan Tadeusz. He was born in Łódź, Poland. His family fled ahead of the German Occupation through Lithuania, Soviet Russia and Japan while being interned for the rest of WW2 by the Japanese in Shanghai. The family finally settled in Sydney, Australia in 1946. Here he studied both Architecture and Law. He has completed an English translation of Adam Mickiewicz's Pan Tadeusz.
- Ziggy Switkowski
Dr Zygmunt (Ziggy) Edward Switkowski (born 1948, Germany) is the former Chief Executive Officer of Telstra, an Australian telecommunications company. From September 2005, Dr Switkowski took on a non-executive director role at Suncorp-Metway Limited. He was appointed Chief Executive Officer of Telstra on 1 March 1999, and is also on the Board of Directors of Foxtel. Switkowski resigned as Telstra's CEO on December 3, 2004, …
- Magda Szubanski
Magda Szubanski (born April 12 1961 in Liverpool, England) is an Australian actress, comedian and writer. She is best known in having roles in Babe, Fast Forward, Happy Feet and Kath and Kim. She immigrated to Australia in 1966 with her brother and sister, Polish father and Scottish mother. Internationally, Szubanski is best known for her performance as Esme Hoggett in the film "Babe" and its sequel "Babe: Pig in the City", …
- Peter Luczak
Peter Luczak (born August 31, 1979 in Warsaw, Poland) is an Australian professional tennis player. Luczak Attended the High School Mazenod College in the Years (1995-2000) He turned professional in 2000 after playing NCAA college tennis in the United States at Fresno State University, where he holds the school record for most career singles wins. He has had a relatively average ATP Tour career, with his best performance coming in the 2006 Australian Open, …
- Helmut Bakaitis
Helmut Bakaitis (born September 26, 1944 in Lauban, Silesia, Germany (now Luban, Poland)) is an actor and screenwriter. He was educated at Fort Street High School, Sydney, Australia. He is best known for his role in the "The Matrix Reloaded" and "The Matrix Revolutions" as the character The Architect. Helmut currently holds the position of Head of Directing at Australia's National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) (2005).
- Daniel Kowalski
Daniel Kowalski (born on July 2, 1975 in Singapore) was an Australian middle- and long-distance swimmer specialising in freestyle events. He competed in the Olympic Games in 200 m, 400 m and 1,500 m individual freestyle events and in the 200 m freestyle relay. At the 1996 Summer Olympics, he was the first man in 92 years to earn medals in all of the 200 m, 400 m and 1500 m freestyle events.
- Brody Dalle
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.
- Karl Kruszelnicki
Karl Kruszelnicki AM (1948 Helsingborg, Sweden) is a scientist, although best known as an author and science commentator on Australian radio and television. He is usually referred to as "Dr Karl" by his fans, although his full name is actually Karl Sven Woytek Sas Konkovitch Matthew Kruszelnicki. He has a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics and Mathematics from the University of New South Wales, …
- Gosia Dobrowolska
Gosia Dobrowolska (born 1958), an Australian actress, was born in Poland. She came to Australia in the 1980s. Her first Australian film was "Silver City", and she played a Polish immigrant. She was also in the sequel. Paul Cox wrote and directed a film for her in 1991, called "Golden Braid", where she played a young woman who helped an old lady.
- Daniel Piorkowski
Daniel Piorkowski (born January 12, 1984) is an Australian football (soccer) player of Polish descent who plays as a Defender (football) for the Melbourne Victory in the A-League.
- Andrew Ziolkowski
Andrew Charles Frederick Ziolkowski (1963-12-12-1994-04-12) was an Australian politician. He served as Member for Parramatta in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1991 until his death three years later. He was one of three New South Wales MPs to die that year, with John Newman (47) dying close before and Tony Doyle (41) following soon after. Ziolkowski was born in Forbes, New South Wales, the son of a Polish immigrant.
- Ania Walwicz
Ania Walwicz (born 1951) is a contemporary Australian poet and visual artist. Ania Walwicz spent her childhood in Poland, coming to Australia in 1963 where she attended the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA) in Melbourne. Her writing tends toward an impressionistic, stream of consciousness exploration of inner states. It also exploits 'appropriative' or 'sampling' techniques of production.
- Zbych Trofimiuk
Zbych Krzysztof Trofimiuk (born April 7, 1979 in Prague, Czech Republic) is an AFI award winning actor and artist. He gained notoriety for his performance of Paul Reynolds, the lead character in the children's science fiction series "Spellbinder". He graduated in 2004 from Victoria University with a B.A. in Performance Studies, and is currently lecturing at Monash University in Melbourne.
- Matthew Dyktynski
Matthew Dyktynski is an Australian actor and comedian, graduating from Australia's National Institute of Dramatic Art in 1992. Dyktinski has played lead roles on television series Shock Jock and Raw FM, and has appeared on The Man from Snowy River, Stingers, Blue Heelers, Water Rats, Halifax f.p. and The Secret Life of Us. His movie credits include Love and Other Catastrophes (1996), Japanese Story (2003) and Wil (2006), in which he played the title role.
- Stan Pilecki
Stan Pilecki (born February 4, 1947 in Augustdorf, Germany) is a former Australian Rugby Union player. Pilecki was the first player to play 100 matches for Queensland Reds, playing 122 matches in total. Pilecki also played 18 tests, and was the first player of Polish descent to play for Australia. The Pilecki Medal is an award given to the Queensland Reds player of the year each season.
- Jessica Michalik
Jessica Anna Michalik (1986 - 26 January 2001 in Concord, New South Wales) was a teenage girl from Dee Why who died of asphyxiation five days after being crushed in a mosh pit during the Australia Day Big Day Out music festival. The coroner's findings into her death criticised the crowd control measures in use at the time, and also criticised Limp Bizkit lead singer Fred Durst for "alarming and inflammatory" comments during the rescue effort.
- Troy Wozniak
Troy Wozniak (born in Blacktown, New South Wales) was an Australian rugby league player for the Balmain Tigers and the Parramatta Eels and Wests Tigers in the National Rugby League competition. Also had one season for Widnes in the UK's Super League 2004
- Adam Kwasnik
Adam Kwasnik (born May 31 1983 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia) is an Australian football (soccer) player. He currently plays as a striker for the Australian A-League club the Central Coast Mariners. Kwasnik was scorer of the 200th goal in the Hyundai A-League on January 20, 2006. Adam is really starting to show his potential by scoring 7 goals and two assists in the 06/07 season from 19 starts.
- Greg Domaszewicz
Greg Domaszewicz is a former resident of Moe, Victoria, Australia, who was charged with, and acquitted of, the June 1997 murder of Jaidyn Leskie. There appeared to be overwhelming forensic evidence to prove that he killed Leskie. His defence was based on the possibility that there was someone else who committed the crime as a conspirator, rather than Domaszewicz acting alone (which the prosecutor tried to prove).
- Marzena Godecki
Marzena Godecki (born on September 28, 1978 in Waage, Poland) is a Polish-born Australian actress. She is best known for her starring role as Neri in "Ocean Girl"
- Ben Czislowski
Ben Czislowski (born April 8, 1983 in Townsville, Australia) is an Australian rugby league player for the Canterbury Bulldogs club in the National Rugby League competition, he also previously played for the Brisbane Broncos. His position of choice is at prop-forward. Czislowski recently experienced a collision with a opponent Matt Austin of the Tweed Heads. After complaining of head pains and an infection, his doctor finally found Austin's tooth embeded in his head.
- Stuart Musialik
Stuart 'Stuey' Musialik (born March 29, 1985 in Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia) is an Australian football (soccer) player. He currently plays as a central midfielder for the Australian A-League club Newcastle United Jets. Born and raised in Newcastle, he played junior football for Adamstown Rosebuds and was quickly selected to play in representative sides such as Northern NSW at a young age. He was on the Australian roster for the 2005 FIFA World Youth Championship, …
- David Tarka
David Tarka (born February 10, 1983 in Perth, Western Australia, Australia) is an Australian football (soccer) player. He currently plays as a central defender for A-League club Perth Glory. This is David's second spell at the club after he had a nightmare run of injuries while at Nottingham Forest F.C. David was an Australian youth international and was an Australian schoolboy international in 1999.
- George Isaak
George Richard Isaak (1933 -- June 5th, 2005) was a Polish Australian physicist.
- Natalie Gruzlewski
Natalie Gruzlewski is an Australian television presenter. Gruzlewski grew up on the Gold Coast and studied journalism at Griffith University after finishing school. She began her TV career on the Gold Coast as host of Prime Television's "Surf TV", a beach and surf conditions program. In 1999, Gruzlewski joined Channel Nine as weather presenter on the network's Gold Coast News bulletin.
- Clinton Schifcofske
Clinton Schifcofske (born November 10, 1975 in Moranbah, QLD) is an Australian rugby union player for the Queensland Reds in the Super 14 competition. Clinton previously played rugby league for the Parramatta Eels and the South Queensland Crushers before the club disbanded and he was signed to the Canberra Raiders where he eventually finished his rugby league career. His position of choice is at Fullback. In 2006, Schifcofske was made captain of the Canberra Raiders.
- Jason Krejza
Jason John Krejza (born January 14, 1983, Sydney, Australia) is an Australian cricket player, who plays for the Tasmanian Tigers and Leicestershire. Krejza's father was a footballer from Czechoslovakia and his mother was born in Poland.
- Michael Kasprowicz
Michael Scott Kasprowicz (born 10 February 1972 in Brisbane, Queensland) is an Australian cricketer. He is a right arm fast bowler, effective outfielder and useful lower order batsman, and has enjoyed a successful career both in Australia and in the English county scene since making his debut for Queensland as a seventeen year old in the 1989-1990 domestic season. He is well known for his 'never-say-die' and willing attitude.
- James Wesolowski
James Peter Wesolowski (born 25 August 1987) is an Australian professional football (soccer) player. He currently plays for Leicester City in central midfield. Wesolowski played for Australian side Northern Spirit FC before signing for the foxes in 2002. After showing a lot of potential in their reserves team, James played for Leicester in a pre-season friendly against Celtic in 2004, but broke a leg in that game, due to a challenge from Bobo Balde.
- David Sierakowski
David Sierakowski (born December 29, 1974) is a former Australian rules footballer in the Australian Football League. The son of former St Kilda Football Club premiership player Brian, David was recruited to the Saints in the 1992 AFL Draft under the father-son rule. He debuted in 1994 after spending the 1993 season in the reserves and became a solid key position player, particularly in defence, for the Saints.
- Richard Pratt
Richard J. Pratt, AC (born 1934) is a prominent Australian businessman, chairman of the privately owned cardboard company Visy Industries, president of the Carlton Football Club and a leading figure of Melbourne society. He is married to Jeanne Pratt and currently lives in Raheen, in the Melbourne suburb of Kew. As of 2005, Pratt's personal fortune was valued at A$4.7 billion, and he was Australia's third richest man.
- Brian Sierakowski
Brian Sierakowski is a former Australian rules footballer in the VFL, and a lawyer in Perth, Western Australia. He played as a ruckman and defender for the St Kilda Football Club playing 75 games and kicking 2 goals from 1964-68. He played in the 1966 premiership side and was named as one of the best players in the Grand Final. Later, he played for Subiaco and represented Western Australia. He survived a shark attack in 1997 off Cottesloe.
- John Kosmina
Alexander John Kosmina (born August 17, 1956) known as John Kosmina is a former Australian international Football (soccer) player. He is also the former head coach of the Australian A-League football club Adelaide United. He had previously coached the Newcastle Breakers and Brisbane Strikers in the NSL. He is a member of the Football Federation Australia Football Hall of Fame.
- Sulaiman Abdul Rahman Taib
Sulaiman Abdul Rahman Taib or YBhg. Dato Sulaiman Abdul Rahman Taib was born to Melanau father, Pehin Sri Abdul Taib Mahmud, the current Sarawakian Chief Minister, and to an Australian mother of Polish-Russian descent, Puan Sri Laila Taib. He is currently a non-executive Director of CMSB (Cahaya Mata Sarawak Berhad) and is a San Franciscan graduate in Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration.
- Marcin Jaskulski
Marcin Jaskulski is a Polish-born Australian journalist based in the North-Western NSW town of Bourke, New South Wales.He works at the regional Indigenous radio station 2CUZ FM. The radio station broadcasts to many towns of NSW including Walgett, Bourke and Brewarrina. He was born in the town of Bydgoszcz. He was educated at the University of Western Sydney. Marcin Jaskulski writes for a number of publications.