Australian Famous Baby Names

She is perhaps best known for her roles in the films Muriel's Wedding (1994), The Sixth Sense (1999)

She is perhaps best known for her roles in the films Muriel's Wedding (1994), The Sixth Sense (1999) and Little Miss Sunshine (2006). She is currently working on her next project in which she will play the title character in the upcoming Showtime series,

A New Zealand actress most famous for her role as Loretta West in the hit television show Outrageous

A New Zealand actress most famous for her role as Loretta West in the hit television show Outrageous Fortune. She became interested in acting at an early age, starring in the stage play The Magical Kingdom of Thingymijig in 1993.Throughout the late 1990s Antonia started to work a lot with New Zealand children's TV production companies, having starring and guest roles in several programmes. Two of her larger roles include that of Mandy McFarlane in Mirror Mirror 2 in 1997 and as Trudy in five series' of The The Tribe from 1999 to 2003. She has also guest starred in two episodes of Power Rangers: Dino Thunder as Krista, alongside two of her fellow cast members from The Tribe. In 2006 she began her role in Power Rangers: Mystic Force as Clare, Udonna's apprentice and the Gatekeeper.

Is the Australian Labor Party representative for the electoral division of Makin in north-eastern Ad

Is the Australian Labor Party representative for the electoral division of Makin in north-eastern Adelaide, South Australia in the 2007 federal election. He successfully defeated Liberal representative Bob Day in the 2007 election, claiming the seat of Ma

Is a former professional rugby league player who is the current head coach of the Ponsonby Ponies. H

Is a former professional rugby league player who is the current head coach of the Ponsonby Ponies. He played mainly at prop or at lock forward. He was nicknamed The Chief because he is a chief back in his native Samoa. He played for the Mt Albert Lions an

Is an Australian football (soccer) player who currently plays for the A-League club Sydney FC. Golec

Is an Australian football (soccer) player who currently plays for the A-League club Sydney FC. Golec was a member of the inaugural Sydney FC National Youth League squad in 2008/2009. On October 25, 2008 Golec made his debut for Sydney FC against Melbourne

Is an Australian freestyle swimmer. Coming from Perth, Western Australia, Matkovich became a scholar

Is an Australian freestyle swimmer. Coming from Perth, Western Australia, Matkovich became a scholarship holder at the Australian Institute of Sport in 2000. he had previously been a member of Australia's Water Polo team. He made his international debut i

Australian politician and judge

Australian politician and judge

Is an Australian football (soccer) player. Melbourne Victory recruited Kovacic from Oakleigh Cannons

Is an Australian football (soccer) player. Melbourne Victory recruited Kovacic from Oakleigh Cannons as a short-term replacement for the injured Daniel Piorkowski towards the end of the 06/07 season, featuring in two games. He also played for several year

An Australian of Indian descent

An Australian of Indian descent

Is a former professional sumo wrestler from Tongatapu, Tonga. He made his debut in 2001 but had many

Is a former professional sumo wrestler from Tongatapu, Tonga. He made his debut in 2001 but had many injury problems. In 2006, he obtained Japanese citizenship, adopting the official name of Tebita Togawa. He retired in May 2009. As an amateur he competed

Is an Australian-Greek footballer who is on loan to Ethnikos Piräus from AO Kavala until July, 2010

Is an Australian-Greek footballer who is on loan to Ethnikos Piräus from AO Kavala until July, 2010. In 2006, Giannou represented Australia's U-17 team at the team's unsuccessful AFC U-17 Championship 2006 Qualification, the qualifying tournament for AFC

Is a New Zealand former netball player, television host and celebrity.Ieremia was known as one of Ne

Is a New Zealand former netball player, television host and celebrity.Ieremia was known as one of New Zealand's best goal-attack players, playing provincial netball for Canterbury from 1986?96. At age 20, Ieremia represented the Silver Ferns (New Zealand'

Is an Australian association footballer currently playing for Australian W-League team Adelaide Unit

Is an Australian association footballer currently playing for Australian W-League team Adelaide United.

Was an Australian cricketer who played eight Test matches as a specialist batsman between 1929 and 1

Was an Australian cricketer who played eight Test matches as a specialist batsman between 1929 and 1931. A teenage prodigy, he played first grade cricket at only 15 years of age and was selected for New South Wales at 17. In 1929, aged 19, Jackson made his Test debut against England, scoring 164 runs in the first innings to become the youngest player to score a Test century. Test debut (cap 130) 1 February 1929 v England, Last Test 14 February 1931 v West Indies.

Was an Australian politician. His grandson is Liberal Senator Michael Ronaldson.Fisken was elected t

Was an Australian politician. His grandson is Liberal Senator Michael Ronaldson.Fisken was elected to the federal House of Representatives in 1934, as the United Australia Party member for Ballarat. He was notably concerned with unemployment, stating that

Is an Australian football player, currently playing for Melbourne Victory in the Australian A-League

Is an Australian football player, currently playing for Melbourne Victory in the Australian A-League, where he holds the all time scoring record for most goals in one international match, 13, against American Samoa.

Australian boxer from Melbourne who died in the ring while fighting for the Australian Lightweight T

Australian boxer from Melbourne who died in the ring while fighting for the Australian Lightweight Title against Jack Hassen.

An Australian award winning writer of novels, short stories and screen plays.Weller states he wrote

An Australian award winning writer of novels, short stories and screen plays.Weller states he wrote his first book, The Day of the Dog, "within a period of six weeks in a spirit of anger after his release from Broome jail for what he regarded as a wrongful conviction".[2] It won the 1980 The Australian/Vogel Literary Award, the 1982 Prose Fiction award in the Western Australian Premier's Book Awards,[3] and was made into a film entitled Blackfellas, which won two AFI Awards in 1993.[4] Weller's second novel Land of the Golden Clouds was published in 1998.

Is an Australian legal academic

Is an Australian legal academic

Was an Australian poet and professor.Born in China of Greek parents in Chefoo (now Yantai), Paradiss

Was an Australian poet and professor.Born in China of Greek parents in Chefoo (now Yantai), Paradissis moved to Shanghai in 1932. He studied at St. Francis Xavier's College and then business and law at the Aurora University (Shanghai). [1] Paradissis arrived in Australia in 1949 and continued his studies at the University of Melbourne and at La Trobe University. [2] He was senior lecturer in French, Spanish, and European literature at La Trobe University (1967-85).

An award winning author.Chai is a Filipino-Chinese-Australian, who migrated to Australia with her pa

An award winning author.Chai is a Filipino-Chinese-Australian, who migrated to Australia with her parents and sisters in 1982 because of the political upheaval. She became an advertising copywriter at George Patterson's advertising agency in 1972 and has been working there since. It is there that she met her mentor Bryce Courtney, who continuously inspires her to improve her work. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree from Maryknoll College. She is infamous for her ability to weave the political struggle of the Philippines so well into her fiction, so much that she is often compared with Isabel Allende, a successful magical realist Chilean novelist. She won the Louis Braille Adult Audio Book of the year for her novel "On the Goddess Rock" in 1999. Some of her works include her novels: "The Last Time I saw my Mother and "Eating Fire and Drinking Water"

Is an Austrian-American bodybuilder, Golden Globe-winning actor, businessman and politician, current

Is an Austrian-American bodybuilder, Golden Globe-winning actor, businessman and politician, currently serving as the 38th Governor of the U.S. state of California.

Was a rugby union player who represented Australia.Tancred, a flanker, was born in Leichhardt, New S

Was a rugby union player who represented Australia.Tancred, a flanker, was born in Leichhardt, New South Wales and claimed a total of 3 international rugby caps for Australia.

Was an Austrian and later American composer, associated with the expressionist movement in German po

Was an Austrian and later American composer, associated with the expressionist movement in German poetry and art, and leader of the Second Viennese School

Is a former Australian sportsman who played first-class cricket in the Sheffield Shield for Western

Is a former Australian sportsman who played first-class cricket in the Sheffield Shield for Western Australia and Australian rules football with Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL). Byfield, known as 'Bud', was a member of Claremont's 1940 premiership team, at the age of just 16. In 1946 he joined the Melbourne Football Club in Victoria and played in the 1946 VFL Grand Final, which they lost to Essendon. His highest score however came against the touring South Africans in 1953 he scored 38 not out, after an unbeaten 16 in the first innings.