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| Alan Dargin (b. July 13, 1967; d. February 24, 2008) was a didgeridoo player from Wee Waa, New South Wales, Australia.
He started learning the instrument at age five, being taught by his grandfather. His signature instrument was over a hundred yea Read more..view profile | Sydney |
Alex Dimitriades (born 28 December 1973) is an Australian film and television actor.
Dimitriades was born in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, the son of first generation Greek immigrants. He grew up in Earlwood, a working-class suburb of Sydney Read more..more information | Sydney |
Andrew Christopher Denton (born 4 May 1960) is an Australian comedian and Gold Logie nominated television presenter, the host of the ABC's weekly interview program Enough Rope. He is known as one of Australia's most quick-witted comedians and intervi Read more..more information | Sydney |
Antonia Kidman (born 1970 in Melbourne, Australia) is an Australian journalist and the younger sister of actress Nicole Kidman.
Born in Melbourne, her family moved to Sydney when she was two. She attended Monte Sant' Angelo Mercy College in North Read more..view profile | Sydney |
Admiral Arthur Phillip RN (11 October 1738 – 31 August 1814) was a British naval officer and colonial administrator. Appointed Governor of New South Wales, the first European colony on the Australian continent, Phillip was the founder of the site whi Read more..view profile | Sydney |
Andrew Barton Paterson (17 February 1864 - 5 February 1941), more affectionately referred as Banjo Paterson, was an Australian bush poet, journalist and author, widely renowned for his poems Waltzing Matilda, The Man from Snowy River and Clancy of th Read more..view profile | Sydney |
The cricketing community is mourning the death of one of Australia's test greats, Bill Brown, after he passed away aged 95.
Born in Toowoomba in 1912, Brown moved to Sydney as a child. Brown initially trained as a wicket-keeper in his youth, befor Read more..view profile | Sydney |
Casey Lee Donovan (born May 13, 1988) is an Australian singer and the youngest winner of the Idol series anywhere in the world, winning the second season of Australian Idol, at the age of 16.
Donovan came from a family of musicians, with several o Read more..more information | Sydney |
Chris Abrahams (born 1961 in New Zealand) is a Sydney-based pianist, best known for his jazz work.
He first came to public attention with the formation of the Benders in the early eighties. During this time Chris released two solo piano albums "P Read more..more information | Sydney |
Dawn Fraser is considered by many Australia's greatest Olympian.
In November 1999, Dawn was awarded "World Athlete of the Century" at the World Sport Awards in Vienna. In the same year was also awarded "Athlete of the Century" by the Australian Sp Read more..view profile | Sydney |
Doctor Victor Peter Chang AC (21 November 1936–4 July 1991) was a Chinese-Australian heart surgeon, and one of the pioneers of modern heart transplantation.
Born in Shanghai to Australian-born Chinese parents, he spent his childhood in Hong Kong, Read more..view profile | Sydney |
Frank Bennett (born David Wray in 1959 in Sydney, Australia, ) is an Australian jazz singer whose stage name is formed from Frank Sinatra and Tony Bennett.
His vocal style is clearly influenced by these two singers and the music of the 1940s and 1 Read more..more information | Sydney |
Fred Hollows (1929–1993) was a New Zealand-born ophthalmologist who became known for his work in restoring eyesight for countless thousands of people in Australia and many other countries.
It has been estimated that more than one million people in Read more..more information | Sydney |
Edward Gough Whitlam, AC, QC (born 11 July 1916), known as Gough Whitlam (pronounced "Goff") became Australia's 21st Prime Minister on 5 December 1972.
A member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP), Whitlam entered Federal Parliament in 1952, winni Read more..view profile | Sydney |
Henry Lawson (17 June 1867 - 2 September 1922) Henry Lawson is one of Australia's best known writers.
Along with his contemporary 'Banjo Paterson', Lawson is among the best-known Australian poets and fiction writers of the colonial period.
Laws Read more..more information | Sydney |
Jane Louise McGrath (née Steele), was born May 4, 1966 and passed away June 22, 2008 (aged 42) in her Cronulla home in New South Wales, Australia.
Known as a devoted Cancer support campaigner and for her marriage to Australian cricket fast bowler Read more..view profile | Sydney |
Jeff Fenech aka 'The Marrickville Mauler' (born May 28, 1964 in Marrickville, Sydney, Australia) is an Australian of Maltese parents, a former boxer and current boxing trainer.
Fenech had a stellar amateur career, which led to him representing his Read more..more information | Sydney |
Jeff Harding (born February 5, 1965 in Sydney) was a world champion boxer from Australia, known as "Hit Man". Jeff lived in South Grafton N.S.W. Australia and was a student at South Grafton High School. He trained with Steve Cansdell in Grafton.
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Joh Bailey is an Australian hair stylist based in Sydney.
His career has spanned 20 years and he has had considerable success, with high-profile clientele and a chain of self-branded salons.
Bailey has rendered his services to well-known peopl Read more..more information | Sydney |
John Howard (born 22 October 1952 in Corowa, New South Wales) is an Australian stage and screen actor.
He is best known for his appearances in the film The Club, the Australian comedy film, The Crop and the television series SeaChange and Always G Read more..view profile | 0 |
John Winston Howard (born 26 July 1939) was the 25th Prime Minister of Australia from 11 March 1996 to 3 December 2007.
He is the second-longest serving Australian Prime Minister after Sir Robert Menzies, and was leader of the Liberal Party of Aus Read more..view profile | Sydney |
In his own words New South Wales-born Neville Bonner was educated in the school of hard knocks and he certainly came up the hard way, with a minimum of formal schooling.
Yet the quietly spoken, articulate Neville Bonner became a polished speaker, Read more..view profile | Sydney |
Nicole Mary Kidman, AC (born 20 June 1967) is an Academy Award-winning Australian actress and occasional singer.
In 2006, she became the highest paid actress in the film industry. In the same year, Kidman was made a Companion of the Order of Austr Read more..view profile | Sydney |
The following is a List of notable Sydneysiders who come from or who have significant associations with Sydney, Australia:
A person from Sydney is a Sydneysider, or the variant spelling 'Sydney-sider.
ALaurie Aarons
Chris Abrahams
Corey Adams Read more..view profile | Sydney |
Paul Charles William Davies (born April 22, 1946) is a British-born physicist, writer and broadcaster, presently a professor at Arizona State University, as well as the Director of BEYOND: Center for Fundamental Concepts in Science. He has held previ Read more..view profile | Sydney |
Paul John Keating (born 18 January 1944) was the 24th Prime Minister of Australia, from 1991 to 1996.
He came to prominence as the reformist Treasurer in the Hawke government from 1983. As Prime Minister, he is noted for his many legislative achie Read more..view profile | Sydney |
Dr Peter Doyle, BA, Phd (born 1951 Maroubra, Sydney, New South Wales) is a doctor of Media and Mass Communications, author, musician, and visual artist.
He lives in Newtown, and works for Macquarie University where he teaches Print Media Productio Read more..more information | Sydney |
Peter Greenwood (born October 17, 1962 in Sydney, Australia) is an actor and voice actor who has also been involved in crew work, special effects, and the art departments for various TV shows and cartoons.
He has been acting and doing crew work si Read more..more information | 0 |
Robert Ampt has been the Sydney City Organist since his return from Vienna to Australia in 1978, after four years of study with Anton Heller.
A former teacher/lecturer at the Sydney Conservatorium, Sydney University and the University of Wollongon Read more..view profile | Sydney |
Sarah Blasko (born September 23, 1976) is an ARIA Award winning Australian musician.
She was born in Sydney soon after her family returned from French-speaking Reunion where her parents had been missionaries.
An original and largely self-relian Read more..more information | Sydney |
Sir Donald George Bradman (born in the western NSW town of Cootamundra on 27 August 1908) is an Australian sporting legend.
No other sportsperson in Australian history has captured the respect and admiration of the sporting public the way 'The Don Read more..view profile | Cootamundra |
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