- Mark Gasser
Mark Gasser (born 1972 in Sheffield, South Yorkshire) to Scottish and Austrian parents. Gasser studied at the Birmingham Conservatoire and Royal Academy of Music and is a Fellow of both. Gasser is renowned for playing both large scale standard piano literature as well as broadcasting and recording on five continents. He is recognized as having a dramatic affinity for the "Viennese Classics" (Mozart, …
- Mike Cadogan
Emergency Physician, Rugby Doctor and internet entrepreneur. CEO of HealthEngine.com.au, an health search engine designed to provide rapid contact with health professionals in Australia. CIO of Popfossa.com a world medical and allied health conference / scientific meeting resource. Emergency physician at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital and resuscitation doctor for the Western Force. Passionate about medical education and running LifeInTheFastLane.com to help disseminate medical education.
- Princess Diana of Wales
Diana, Princess of Wales (Diana Frances; née Spencer; 1 July 1961 - 31 August 1997) was the first wife of Charles, Prince of Wales. Their two sons, Princes William and Harry, are second and third in line to the thrones of the United Kingdom and 15 other Commonwealth Realms.
- 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.
- 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.
- Cameron Shepherd
Cameron Shepherd (born 30 March, 1984) is an Australian rugby union footballer. He currently plays for the Western Force in the international Super 14 competition. His usual position is at fullback or wing. Shephard was born in England but grew up in Sydney playing basketball and rugby for Barker College in the CAS competition. Scoring 23 points for Northern Suburbs in the Colts division, NSW selectors took notice of him. He signed with the New South Wales Waratahs.
- Prince Charles
The Prince Charles, Prince of Wales (Charles Philip Arthur George ; born 14 November 1948), is the eldest son of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. He has held the title of Prince of Wales since 1958, and is styled "His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales", except in Scotland, where he is styled "His Royal Highness The Prince Charles, Duke of Rothesay".
- Nathan Sharpe
Nathan Sharpe (born 26 February, 1976 in Wagga Wagga) is an Australian rugby union player. He plays lock and is the captain of the Western Force. During 1996, Sharpe played for the under-19 Australian rugby union team. The following year he went on to play for the under-21s national side. In 2002 he was voted as the Australian Rugby Medal for Excellence which, the award which is voted for by players from all the Australian Super 12 teams (then, Queensland Reds, …
- Drew Mitchell
Drew Mitchell (born 26 March, 1984) is an Australian rugby union player. He is a utility back, usually playing on the wing. Up to the 2006 season he played for the Queensland Reds. He currently plays for the Western Force for the 2007 Super 14 season. He made his debut for Australia in 2005. Mitchell was educated at St Patrick's College, Shorncliffe and played his junior rugby for a Pine Rivers club, going on to play rugby for University.
- Aung San Suu Kyi
Aung San Suu Kyi ; born 19 June 1945 in Yangon (Rangoon), is a nonviolent pro-democracy activist and leader of the National League for Democracy in Myanmar (Burma), and a noted prisoner of conscience. A Buddhist, Suu Kyi won the Rafto Prize and the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought in 1990 and in 1991 was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her peaceful and non-violent struggle under a military dictatorship.
- Matt Giteau
Matt Giteau (born on September 29, 1982 in Sydney, Australia) is an Australian rugby union footballer playing for the Western Force. Matt went to St Edmund's College, Canberra which has produced many Wallabies such as George Gregan, Matt Henjak and the former rugby league star and now coach Ricky Stuart. He has so far gained 40 Super 14 caps and 37 Test caps. Matt's main positions are at inside centre and fly-half although he started as a scrum half.
- Ryan Cross
Ryan 'Noughts' Cross (born October 6, 1979) was a rugby league footballer who played for the Sydney Roosters in the National Rugby League (NRL) competition before switching codes to join the rugby union Super 14 side the Western Force in 2007. Cross, a product of Waverley College, was a member of the Australian Rugby Union Schoolboys side in both 1996 and 1997, some of his team mates being Matt Dunning, Adam Freier, David Lyons, George Smith, Phil Waugh, …
- Matt Henjak
Matt Henjak (born 25 November, 1981 in Queanbeyan) is an Australian rugby union player. His position of choice is scrum half and he currently plays for the Super 14 team, the Western Force. Henjak is the nephew of former rugby league utility Ivan Henjak. Henjak was educated at St Edmunds College in Canberra, the same school as Matt Giteau and George Gregan. He played for the Canberra Vikings club whilst playing in the club division.
- Anna Rawson
Anna Rawson (born August 5, 1981, in Adelaide, Australia) is a professional golfer and model. She currently plays on the Ladies European Tour.
- Marion Jones
Marion Jones (born October 12, 1975 in Los Angeles, California) is an American athlete of half Belizean and half African American descent. She is the winner of five medals at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. She holds dual citizenship from the USA and Belize (her mother's home country).
- Scott Fava
Scott Fava (born 19 January 1976 in Kiama, Australia) is an Australian rugby union footballer. He plays back-row forward for the Wallabies and is vice-captain of the Western Force.
- Greg Norman
Gregory John Norman AM (born February 10, 1955) is an Australian professional golfer and entrepreneur who spent 331 weeks as the world's number one ranked golfer in the 1980s and 1990s. He is nicknamed "The Great White Shark", or simply, "The Shark", a reference to a shark inhabiting Australian waters as well as Norman's size and blond locks.
- Tai McIsaac
Tai McIsaac (born 19 March, 1975 in Brisbane) is an Australian rugby union footballer. His usual position is at hooker, and he currently plays for the Western Force in the Super 14 competition. McIsaac only started playing rugby in his early twenties and had formerly been a National League water polo player and represented Australian water polo in the under-21 team. In 1999 he was encouraged by his friends to give rugby a go, although he plays at hooker, …
- John Mitchell
John Eric Paul Mitchell, was born on 23 March 1964 in Hawera, New Zealand. A noted rugby union player and coach for the New Zealand All Blacks, Mitchell's rugby career blossomed with the club side Fraser-Tech after he moved from King Country in 1984 and was soon elected Waikato Colts captain. As a pupil at New Plymouth's Francis Douglas Memorial College he made the first XV and he was a member of the NZ secondary schools basketball team from 1981-83.
- Terri Irwin
Terri Raines Irwin, AM (born July 20, 1964) is an American-born naturalist, the widow of Australian naturalist Steve Irwin, and owner of Australia Zoo at Beerwah, Queensland, Australia. She co-starred with her husband on "The Crocodile Hunter", their unconventional television nature documentary series, as well as their spinoff series, "The Crocodile Hunter Diaries" and the "Croc Files". She has lived in Australia since 1992, when she married Irwin.
- Jennifer Hawkins
Jennifer Hawkins (born 22 December 1983 in Holmesville, New South Wales, Australia) is a beauty queen and television presenter from Newcastle, Australia who held the Miss Universe 2004 title.
- Bob Hawke
Robert James Lee (Bob) Hawke, AC (born 9 December 1929) is a former Australian trade union leader turned politician who became the 23rd Prime Minister of Australia. After a decade as president of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, he entered politics at the 1980 elections and became Prime Minister within three years. He became by far the longest-serving and most electorally successful Labor Prime Minister, …
- Tim Winton
Timothy John Winton (born 1960), known as Tim Winton, is an acclaimed Australian novelist. He was born in Perth, Western Australia.
- Rachel Siewert
Senator Rachel Siewert (b. November 4, 1961) is an Australian politician from the Australian Greens. She was elected to represent the State of Western Australia in the Senate at the 2004 federal election. From 1987 until her election campaign, Rachel Siewert had pioneered the establishment and expansion of the Conservation Council of Western Australia. This was at a time when the public awareness grew around environmental issues involving forests, water, …
- Greg Chappell
Gregory Stephen Chappell (born 7 August 1948 in Unley, South Australia) is a former cricketer who captained Australia between 1975 and 1977 and then joined the breakaway World Series Cricket (WSC) organisation, before returning to the Australian captaincy in 1979, which he held until 1983. The second of three brothers to play Test cricket, Chappell was the preeminant Australian batsman of his time who allied elegant stroke making to fierce concentration.
- Megan Gale
Megan Gale (born August 7, 1976) is an Australian supermodel and actress who has achieved considerable fame, first in Italy but now equally so in her native Australia.
- Missy Higgins
Missy Higgins (born Melissa Morrison Higgins on August 19, 1983) is an award-winning Australian singer-songwriter, best known for her hit singles "Scar" and "The Special Two" off her debut album "The Sound of White". Her second album, "On a Clear Night" was released in April 2007. Higgins is considered Australia's most popular female music star. She has begun touring in May, 2007 in Australia to promote her new album, …
- John Butler
John Butler (born 1 April, 1975 in Torrance, California) is an Australian musician having moved to Australia on 26 January, 1986 with his Australian father and American mother. He is the leader of the John Butler Trio, a band that has achieved two platinum records in Australia with "Three" (2001) and "Living" (2003). Their 2004 album "Sunrise Over Sea" debuted at number one on March 15, 2004 and shipped gold in its first week of release.
- Nicky Hayden
Nicholas "Nicky" Patrick Hayden, born in Owensboro, Kentucky, also known as The Kentucky Kid, is an American professional motorcycle racer and 2006 MotoGP World Champion.
- Bert Newton
Albert Watson "Bert" Newton, AM, MBE, (born 23 July 1938), is an Australian television, radio, film, stage performer and author.
- Bob Dwyer
Bob Dwyer (born 29 November 1940) is a rugby union coach. Educated at Sydney Boys High School, he coached Australia to victory at the 1991 Rugby World Cup. Dwyer, along with Duncan Hall then moved Leicester Tigers after the game turned professional in 1996. Tigers had immediate success, in 1997 reaching the Heineken Cup final, winning the Pilkington Cup but finished fourth in the league after player burnout stripped many of the key players.
- José Wendell Capili
José Wendell Capili is a poet and academic from the Philippines. He earned his degrees from the University of Santo Tomas, University of the Philippines, University of Tokyo and University of Cambridge. He is an Associate Professor at the College of Arts and Letters, University of the Philippines, where he previously served as Associate Dean for Administration and Development. Capili is the author of "A Madness of Birds" (poetry, University of the Philippines Press, …
- Ian Chappell
Ian Michael Chappell (born September 26, 1943 in Unley, South Australia) is a former Australian Test cricketer, who captained Australia between 1971 and 1975 before becoming one of the central figures in the breakaway World Series Cricket (WSC) organisation. Born into a cricketing family, Chappell had an inconsistent career in Tests as an aggressive top order batsman until his appointment as captain.
- John Howard
John Winston Howard is an Australian politician and the 25th Prime Minister of Australia. He is the second-longest serving Australian Prime Minister after Sir Robert Menzies. He previously served as Treasurer in the government led by Malcolm Fraser from 1977–1983 and was Leader of the Liberal Party (thus also Leader of the Coalition Opposition) from 1985–1989 through the 1987 federal election against Bob Hawke. Elected again as Leader of the Opposition in 1995, …
- 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.
- Lleyton Hewitt
Lleyton Glynn Hewitt (born February 24, 1981), is a former World No. 1 tennis player from Australia. In 2001, he became the youngest male ever to be ranked number one. His career best achievements are winning the 2001 US Open and 2002 Wimbledon men's singles titles. Hewitt is known for his competitiveness and wins most of his matches with relentless aggression, fitness, consistent shots, and highly skilled footwork. His serve improved greatly in 2004 and 2005.
- Matthew Flinders
Captain Matthew Flinders RN (16 March 1774 – 19 July 1814) was one of the most accomplished navigators and cartographers of his age. In a career that spanned just over twenty years, he sailed with Captain William Bligh, circumnavigated Australia and encouraged the use of that name for the continent, survived shipwreck and disaster only to be imprisoned as a spy, …
- Bob Brown
Dr. Robert James Brown (born December 27, 1944), is an Australian Senator, the inaugural Parliamentary Leader of the Australian Greens and the first openly gay member of the Parliament of Australia. Brown was elected to the Australian Senate on the Tasmanian Greens ticket joining with sitting WA Greens senator Dee Margetts to form the first Australian Greens senators following the 1996 federal election.
- Miriam Rivera
Miriam (born circa 1981) is a Mexican transwoman who appeared on the reality television shows "There's Something About Miriam" and "Big Brother Australia 2004". Miriam has worked as a model and currently has not had sexual reassignment surgery.
- Neil Jenkins
Neil Jenkins (born 8 July 1971) is a former rugby union footballer who played fly-half, centre, or full back for Pontypridd and Cardiff, Wales and the British and Irish Lions. Jenkins was born in Church Village, Wales. He attended Bryn Celynnog Comprehensive school in Beddau, South Wales. He made his Wales debut aged 19 along with Scott Gibbs. Jenkins strength was his kicking, and many felt that he was not worthy enough to inherit the Welsh number 10 shirt of Barry John, …