George Musarurwa Gregan AM (born 19 April 1973 in Lusaka, Zambia) is an Australian rugby union scrum-half who has made more appearances for his national team than any other player in the sport's history. He has captained the team to many victories and he is respected throughout the rugby world for his tenacity, tactical skill, leadership ability, and sportsmanship. Gregan has played Super 12 (now Super 14) for the Brumbies since the inception of that competition in 1996, …

Stephen Larkham (born 29 May 1974, Canberra) is an Australian rugby union footballer with the Brumbies in the Super 14 and the Wallabies at international level. Larkham has been the first-choice Australian fly-half over the last decade, playing in both the 1999 and 2003 Rugby World Cups. Steve Larkham is arguably the greatest Test flyhalf in the history of Australian rugby.

David Vernon is an Australian writer. Born in 1965 in Canberra, Australia he has published several books relating to scepticism and childbirth.

Michael Rogers (born 20 December, 1979) is an Australian professional road bicycle racer. Rogers turned professional in 1999 with the Italian super-team Mapei, which, following sponsorship changes, became Quick Step-Davitamon and then Quick Step-Innergetic. In 2005 Rogers joined the T-Mobile Team and has been appointed as it's leader for the 2007, Tour de France. He is often called "Mick Rogers" or "Dodger".

James Albert Hird (born February 4, 1973) is an Australian rules footballer, formerly the captain of the Essendon Football Club. A versatile player who can play in a key forward position, a midfielder or as a sweeper in defence, he is generally considered to be one of the best and most fearless modern player in the game of Australian rules football, and one of the greatest players of all time.

Barbara Vernon PhD is an Australian birth activist who lobbies government for improved provision of maternity services, particularly the expert use of midwives, and is currently the Executive Officer of the Australian College of Midwives. Born in New South Wales she moved to Canberra in the mid 1970s. She did an Honours Degree in Political Science at the Australian National University and in 1997 was awarded a PhD in public policy from Griffith University in Brisbane, …

Audrey Fagan (1962 - 20 April, 2007) was an Australian police officer, from 2005 holding the rank of Assistant Commissioner and the title of Chief Police Officer for the Australian Capital Territory (ACT), which included community policing responsibilities for Canberra and other parts of the ACT. She was awarded the Australian Police Medal in 2004. Fagan was born in Ireland in 1962. She and her parents, Arthur and Jenny, emigrated to South Australia in 1971, …

Michael 'Mike' Vernon A.M. (2 April 1932 - 6 November 1993) was a prominent Australian consumer activist. Vernon was born in Portsmouth, United Kingdom in 1932 to John Ernest Vernon (a writer in the Royal Navy) and Caroline Vernon (nee Clark) (later a cryptologist in the Royal Navy). He emigrated to Australia in 1955 and settled in Canberra, Australia.

Andrew "Tridge" Tridgell (born February 28, 1967) is an Australian computer programmer best known as the creator of and contributor to the Samba file server, and co-inventor of the rsync algorithm. He is known for his analysis of complex proprietary protocols and algorithms, to allow compatible free software implementations.

Wayne Sievers is a former Australian police officer, trade union official, social justice campaigner and political figure. He exposed the failure of the Australian Government, despite being forewarned, to prevent widespread Indonesian military-backed militia violence in the former Portuguese colony of East Timor during the territory’s 1999 independence ballot. Thousands of people are believed to have died and East Timor’s economic infrastructure was shattered.

Anu Singh (b. September 3, 1972) is an Australian of Indian descent who, in 1997, while a law student at the Australian National University, killed her boyfriend, Joe Cinque. She laced his coffee with Rohypnol, then injected him with heroin. Her case is famous in Australia due to her light sentence and a book by Helen Garner, "Joe Cinque's Consolation", published in 2004. Singh was found not guilty of murder, but was found guilty of manslaughter.

Shaun Smith (born July 22, 1969) is a former Australian rules footballer in the VFL/AFL. Originally from the ASS Football Club in the Australian Capital Territory, but recruited from Werribee and debuting in the Australian Football League in 1987, Smith is best known for his incredible leap and ability to take spectacular marks or speckies. His high leaping play enabled him to hold down a key position whilst being only 184 cm and is sometimes compared to Russell Robertson.

Michael Gwyl Bevan (born 8 May 1970 in Belconnen, Australian Capital Territory) was a left-handed cricket batsman (LHB) and a slow left arm chinaman (SLC) bowler. He was widely regarded as one of the finest ODI batsman in the world for his ability to see out a match, and his phenomenal average. He played 232 ODI matches for Australia, and was a part of the 1999 and 2003 teams that won the World Cup. In List A cricket as a whole, Bevan has an exceptional average of over 58, …

Lenny Hayes (born 14 January, 1980) is an Australian rules footballer. Originally from Sydney in New South Wales, Hayes was recruited from the Pennant Hills Demons AFC by St Kilda in the 1998 AFL Draft. He is a highly-skilled, classy midfielder. Coach Grant Thomas named Hayes as captain for the 2004 season, as part of St Kilda's policy of rotating the captaincy to a different player each season.

Michael (Mick) Joseph Keelty (born 13 July 1954), Australian police officer, is the current Commissioner of the Australian Federal Police. He joined the Australian Capital Territory police in 1974. The ACT Police and Commonwealth Police were merged in 1979, to create the Australian Federal Police. He became an Assistant Commissioner in 1995 and Deputy Commissioner in 1998. Keelty was appointed Commissioner of Police of the Australian Federal Police on 2 April 2001.

Thomas Charles George Weston MBE (October 14, 1866 - December 1, 1935) was an Australian horticulturalist and was responsible for the afforestation of Canberra. Weston was born in Middlesex, England. He trained as a horticulturalist in the United Kingdom and migrated to New South Wales in 1896. He was employed as a gardener at Admiralty House in Sydney from 1898 to 1908 and as the superintendent at Federal Government House, Sydney until 1912.

Hayley Jensen (born January 7, 1983) was thrust into celebrity status after appearing on the second season (2004) of television ratings hit show "Australian Idol", on Network Ten. She was the fourth finalist, leaving the show on November 1.

Clea Rose (29 January 1984-20 August 2005) was an Australian university student who died after a hit-and-run crime in 2005. A talented student, she was struck by a car driven by an underage driver who was being pursued by local police. She died three weeks later from a catastrophic brain injury. The incident saw criminal charges laid against the driver of the car and two passengers, …

Joe Cinque was a civil engineer, living in Canberra, who died in 1997 as a result of a heroin overdose administered by his girlfriend Anu Singh. Singh had first laced his coffee with Rohypnol. Singh was subsequently acquitted of murder but convicted of manslaughter over the death, and sentenced to ten years imprisonment. She was paroled after four years. The incident was the basis of Australian author Helen Garner's book "Joe Cinque's Consolation".

Bob Burton is a freelance journalist and public relations analyst based in Canberra, the capital of Australia. He worked until the early 1990’s as a researcher and campaigner on energy, mining and forestry issues for The Wilderness Society in Australia. He has been a contributor to PR Watch since 1997. He has also edited the website of mining industry watchdog, the Mineral Policy Institute.

Mathew Kemp (born August 8, 1980 in Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia) is an Australian football (soccer) player who plays as a versatile midfielder. He currently plays for Melbourne Victory in the Hyundai A-League.

The Reverend Pierce Galliard Smith (1826 - 1908) was the rector at St John the Baptist Church, Reid in Canberra, Australia. He was well known for planting trees all over his 2330 square kilometre parish. Born in Scotland he arrived in New South Wales with his family in 1885. He moved to Canberra and lived at a cottage at Acton until 1873 when he and his family moved into the new Glebe House (that was demolished in the mid 20th Century).

Samuel Shumack (1850 - 1940) was an early Canberra pioneer and Australian author. He was born in Mallow, County Cork, Ireland and moved to Australia with his family in 1856 where at the age of fifteen and with his father he took up a selection at Weetangera. He farmed his land until it was resumed by the Commonwealth in 1915 to become part of the National Capital. He then moved to Ravensworth in the Hunter Valley of New South Wales where he died in 1940.

Scott Taunton (born Canberra, Australia) became Chief Executive Officer of UTV Radio (GB) following its acquisition by UTV plc in June 2005. He was appointed to the UTV Plc Board later that year. Scott joined UTV in March 2000 when the group acquired DNA Internet, of which he was the General Manager. He was appointed Managing Director of UTV Internet, which became one of the largest service providers throughout Ireland.

Charles Groves Wright Anderson, VC, MC (12 February 1897-11 November 1988) was a South African-born, Australian recipient of the Victoria Cross and member of the Australian House of Representatives.

Geoffrey Pryor (born 1944) is an Australian political cartoonist who has spent many years in (and still lives in) Canberra. Said to have been influenced by fellow cartoonist Larry Pickering, Pryor currently appears most days in "The Canberra Times". His graphic style is ornate, much more detailed and portrait-like than that of such contemporaries as Patrick Cook.

Anthony Hill (b1942 -) is an Australian author based in Canberra. Born in Melbourne, Victoria, he attended Melbourne University from 1960 until 1963. Prior to becoming a fulltime author he worked as a jorunalist and speech writer for the Australian Governor-General. He has written twelve books, with "Young Digger" and "Soldier Boy" winning prizes.

John Tennant was an Australian bushranger who was active around the Canberra district in the 1820s. Mount Tennent is named after him as it was on the slopes of this steep mountain behind the village of Tharwa where he would hide. Tennant was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland and was 29 years old when he was sentenced to transportation to Australia for life in 1823. He arrived in Sydney on 12 July 1824 on the 'Prince Regent'.

Hong Jie Zhang, also known as Steffi Zhang was a 25 year old Chinese University of Canberra communications student found murdered in her flat in Belconnen in January 2005. The killing caused an uproar, because the body was not discovered for seven months after the murder, which was said to have happened in June 2004. Police identified a suspect in the killing, her boyfriend at the time : Zhang Long from the city of Dalian.

David Harold Eastman is a former public servant of Canberra, Australia. In 1995 he was convicted of murder over the January 10, 1989 shooting death of Australian Federal Police Assistant Commissioner Colin Winchester outside of Winchester's house. He attended Canberra Grammar School, graduating dux of his class.

Captain George Edward Nicholas Weston was the Superintendent of the Hyde Park Barracks in Sydney, Australia in the 1820s. The district of Weston Creek in the Australian Capital Territory is named after him. In 1831 he was granted 10 square kilometres of land in the Canberra district at a place described as "Yarrow-lumla Plains."

Josh Quong Tart (born October 16, 1979, Canberra) is an Australian actor who has performed in several television, commercial and film roles. Tart graduated from the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) in 1997 with a bachelor's degree in Performing Arts. He is a descendant of prominent Chinese Australian Mei Quong Tart, who ran a popular tea house in the Queen Victoria Building in Sydney, and was also an early Chinese ambassador to Australia.

Robert Matheson Douglas was born in South Australia in 1936. He studied medicine at the University of Adelaide, graduating in 1959. In 1967 he took up a position as Specialist Physician and Deputy Medical Superintendent of the Port Moresby hospital in Papua New Guinea. [1]

Edward Kendall Crace (1844-1892) was an Australian pastoralist who owned extensive land holdings around Canberra. Crace owned the properties of Ginninderra and Gungahlin and added Charnwood to his holdings in 1880. He arrived in Australia in 1865 on the "Duncan Dunbar" after being shipwrecked. In 1871 he married Kate Marion who had also been on the "Duncan Dunbar" and they had six daughters and two sons.

Brett Allison (born May 26 1968) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the North Melbourne Football Club and the Sydney Swans in the VFL/AFL. Allison played as a crumbing forward pocket or half-forward flanker and is perhaps best remembered for his Mark of the Year in 1992, as well as being a premiership player in 1996 and 1999. He was known for his "front and square" ability to get the ball and sharp shooting around goals.

Jeannette Jolley (1949-present), politician, author and teacher was born in the Netherlands and migrated with her family to Australia in 1953, where she completed her training as a high school science teacher in Melbourne. During the 1970s, Jeannette married and had two children, before moving to South Australia in 1980, Jeannette joined the Australian Democrats and stood unsuccessfully for the state seat of Murray-Mallee in 1989.

Richard Peirce Brent is an Australian mathematician and computer scientist, born in 1946. As of October 2005 he is an ARC Federation Fellow at the Australian National University. His research interests include number theory (in particular factorization), random number generators, computer architecture, and analysis of algorithms. In 1973, he published a root-finding algorithm (an algorithm for solving equations numerically) which is now known as Brent's method.

Aaron "Sammy" Hamill (born August 20, 1977) is an Australian rules footballer. Having played rugby league, rugby union and basketball as a junior, Aaron Hamill first played Australian rules football in the Australian Capital Territory for the Tuggeranong Football Club. Aaron attended Fadden Primary School, Marist College, Melrose High School and Phillip College (now Canberra College). Aaron went to Melrose High School with Essendon and Richmond player Justin Blumfield.

Gail Miller (born November 30, 1976 in Canberra) is an Australian water polo player from the gold medal squad of the 2000 Summer Olympics.