- 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).
- Paul Dempsey
Paul Dempsey (born 1976 in Melbourne) is the lead singer of Australian rock group Something for Kate. Paul was a founding member of the band, and has since gone out on his own whilst continuing his work with Something for Kate.
- 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.
- 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.
- Melbourne H. Ford
Melbourne Haddock Ford was a politician from the U.S. state of Michigan. Ford was born in Salem, Michigan and moved to Lansing with his parents in 1859. He attended the common schools and the Michigan State College of Agriculture (now Michigan State University) at East Lansing. Ford enlisted in the United States Navy in 1864, and in 1867 was appointed a midshipman at the United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland.
- Melbourne Gass
Melbourne Gass was a Prince Edward Island politician, having served as Member of Parliament for Malpeque and then leader of the PEI Progressive Conservatives.
- John Marsden
John Marsden (born September 27, 1950) is an Australian writer.
- Jeff Kennett
Jeffrey Gibb Kennett AC (born 25 July, 1948), Australian politician, was the Premier of Victoria (6th October, 1992 to 20th October, 1999). He is also the current Chair of beyondblue (the National Depression Initiative) and President of the Hawthorn Football Club.
- Anthony Callea
Anthony Cosmo Callea (born December 13, 1982 in Melbourne to Italian parents) is an ARIA Award winning Australian singer and was the runner-up in the 2004 season of Australian Idol. Callea currently holds the record for the highest-selling single and fastest-selling single in Australia for his debut single "The Prayer".
- Kathie M. Thomas
Kathie M. Thomas pioneered the Virtual Assistant industry in Australia and established the first VA network in the southern hemisphere. She started operating a home-based secretarial business in March 1994 and first went online in January 1996. In April 1996 she started a network of operators as her workload grew, bringing on board other women who also wanted to work from home as she was doing.
- Ron Walker
Ronald Joseph Walker AC CBE (born September, 1939) is an Australian businessman renowned in Melbourne for his work in managing sporting events.
- George Jelinek
Academic emergency physician Perth Western Australia; group leader Gawler Foundation Multiple Sclerosis Residential Retreats
- Peter Singer
Peter Albert David Singer (born July 6, 1946 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia) is a Jewish-Australian philosopher. He is the Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University, and laureate professor at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, University of Melbourne. He specializes in practical ethics, approaching ethical issues from a preference utilitarian perspective. In addition, he holds an atheistic view of the world.
- Bert Newton
Albert Watson "Bert" Newton, AM, MBE, (born 23 July 1938), is an Australian television, radio, film, stage performer and author.
- Eric Bana
Eric Bana (born Eric Banadinovich on August 9, 1968) is an Australian film and television actor. He began his career as a comedian in the sketch comedy series "Full Frontal" before gaining critical recognition in the biopic "Chopper" (2000). After a decade of critically acclaimed roles in Australian television shows and films, …
- Andrew Bogut
Andrew Michael Bogut (born November 28, 1984) is an Australian professional basketball player. He currently plays for the Milwaukee Bucks of the National Basketball Association. Bogut was selected first overall by the Milwaukee Bucks in the 2005 NBA Draft. The 7'0", 245 lb (2.13 m, 111 kg) forward/center was a star at the University of Utah for two years before declaring for the draft. Bogut is the first Australian to be drafted first overall.
- Steve Irwin
Stephen Robert "Steve" Irwin, nicknamed "The Crocodile Hunter", was an Australian wildlife expert and television personality. He achieved world-wide fame from the television program "The Crocodile Hunter", an internationally broadcast wildlife documentary series co-hosted with his wife Terri Irwin. Together with her, he also co-owned and operated Australia Zoo, founded by his parents in Beerwah, Queensland.
- Hamish Blake
Hamish Blake (born 11 December 1981) is an Australian comedian from Melbourne, Australia.
- Graham Kennedy
Graham Cyril Kennedy, AO (15 February 1934 - 25 May 2005) was an Australian radio, television and film performer, often called "The King" of Australian television.
- Barry Humphries
John Barry Humphries, AO, CBE (born 17 February 1934 in Camberwell, Melbourne, Victoria) is an Australian comedian, satirist and character actor best known for his on-stage and television "alter egos" Dame Edna Everage, a Melbourne housewife, and Sir Les Patterson, Australia's foul-mouthed cultural attaché to Britain. Humphries is also a film producer and script writer, a star of London's West End musical theatre, …
- Rachel Griffiths
Rachel Anne Griffiths (born on December 18, 1968) is a Golden Globe-winning, Academy Award-nominated and Emmy Award-nominated Australian film and television actress. She is perhaps best known for her roles as Brenda Chenowith in Six Feet Under, Sarah Whedon in Brothers and Sisters, and her role in the film Hilary and Jackie.
- John Safran
John Safran (born 1972) is an Australian documentarian and media personality, well known for pranks and indelicate handling of controversial issues. He is known for his outlandish stunts such as rummaging through Australian television personality Ray Martin's rubbish in "John Safran: Media Tycoon" (an early pilot for a TV series), placing a temporary fatwa on the life of Rove McManus, …
- Alan Freeman
Alan Leslie "Fluff" Freeman MBE (6 July 1927 - 27 November, 2006), was a well-known disc jockey and radio personality in the United Kingdom for 40 years.
- Keith Miller
Keith Ross Miller MBE (born 28 November 1919, died 11 October 2004, Melbourne, Australia) was a famous Australian Test cricketer and World War II pilot. Miller is widely regarded as Australia's greatest ever all-rounder. Because of his irreverent manner and good looks he was a crowd favourite. In his younger days Miller was also a classy Australian rules footballer, who played for St. Kilda and in his last season played interstate football for Victoria as a full-back.
- Jason Donovan
Jason Sean Donovan (born June 1, 1968) is an Australian actor and singer. In the UK, he has sold in excess of 3 million records, where his debut album "Ten Good Reasons" was the highest selling album of 1989 with sales of over 1.5 million copies. He has also had four UK no.1 singles, one of which was "Especially For You", his 1988 duet with Kylie Minogue. In more recent years, he has mainly worked as a leading man in stage musicals in the UK. Jason Donovan, …
- Air Supply
Air Supply is a duo of soft rock musicians who had a succession of hits worldwide through the late 1970s and early 1980s. It consists of English guitarist and vocalist Graham Russell (born Graham Cyril Russell, 11 June 1950, Sherwood, Nottingham, England) and Australian lead vocalist Russell Hitchcock (born 15 June 1949, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia).
- 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.
- Tina Arena
Tina Arena (born Filippina Lydia Arena on November 1, 1967, in Moonee Ponds, Melbourne, Australia) is an ARIA award winning singer/songwriter.
- Julian Knight
Julian Knight (born March 4, 1968) is the mass murderer who on August 9 1987, shot dead 7 people and injured 17 during a shooting spree in Clifton Hill, Victoria, in what became known in Australian history as the Hoddle Street Massacre. He is currently serving a life sentence, with a minimum 27 year sentence before parole. Knight currently resides in the maximum security HM Prison Barwon near Geelong and is eligible for parole in 2014.
- Shane Warne
Shane Keith Warne (born 13 September 1969 in Upper Ferntree Gully, Victoria), is an Australian cricketer and the current captain of Hampshire. He is generally regarded as one of the greatest bowlers in cricket history. Warne retired from international cricket in January 2007, following Australia's 5-0 Ashes series victory over England. Two other players integral to the Australian team of recent years, Glenn McGrath and Justin Langer, …
- 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.
- Jon Bisset
Jon Bisset (born 11 July 1968) is currently the Deputy Chief Executive Officer of the Fundraising Institute Australia. Founded in 1968 FIA has for almost forty years provided career development opportunities for professional fundraisers and advocated on behalf of the fundraising industry.
- Father Bob Maguire
Father Bob Maguire AO, RFD, (born approx. 1935) is an Australian Catholic priest, and community worker from South Melbourne. He was awarded the Order of Australia in 1989.
- Tony Dorigo
Anthony Robert Dorigo is a retired football (soccer) player who played for Aston Villa, Chelsea, Leeds United and the England national side as a left-back. He is now a football pundit and appears on satellite television channel, Bravo, as part of their Serie A coverage. He signed for Chelsea from Aston Villa for £475,000 and he won the club's player of the year award in his first season, though they were also relegated.
- Evan Thornley
Evan Thornley (born 1965), Australian businessman and politician, was elected to the Victorian Legislative Council for the Australian Labor Party at the 2006 Victorian state election. He was a founder (with his wife, Tracey Ellery) and former Chairman and CEO of internet company Looksmart Ltd. He founded predecessor businesses in 1995 with an investment from Reader's Digest. He resigned as CEO in October 2002 and as Chairman in July 2004.
- Colleen Hartland
Colleen Hartland is a Greens member of the Victorian Legislative Council. She won a seat for the Greens in the Western Metropolitan Region of the Victorian Legislative Council in the 2006 State election, held on the 25th of November. She was elected to the final spot in Western Metropolitan, narrowly beating Labor's Henry Barlow, after a dramatic vote recount conducted by the Victorian Electoral Commission.
- John Williams
John Christopher Williams (born 24 April 1941) is an Australian classical guitarist.
- Phil Rudd
Phillip Hugh Norman Rudd (born Phillip Hugh Norman Witschke Rudzevecuis, on May 19, 1954 in Melbourne, Australia) is the drummer for Australian rock band AC/DC. He held the position from 1975 until 1983, and again from 1994 to present. After the 1977 departure of bassist Mark Evans, he became the only Australian-born member of the band. He uses SONOR drums, Paiste cymbals, and Aquarian drumheads.
- Manning Clark
Charles Manning Hope Clark AC (3 March 1915 - 23 May 1991), Australian historian, was the author of the best-known general history of Australia, his six-volume "History of Australia", published between 1962 and 1987. He has been described as "Australia's most famous historian," but his work has been the target of much criticism, particularly from conservatives.
- Toby Rand
Toby William Lloyd Rand (born December 21 1977, in Melbourne) is an Australian singer best known for his appearance on Rock Star: Supernova. On September 13th 2006, he lost out to Canadian performer Lukas Rossi for the right to front the supergroup Rock Star Supernova (originally known as simply "Supernova").