Australian Famous Names Starting with Letter J

Australian politician

Australian politician

Was a female tennis player from Australia.Bathurst won the singles title at the Australian Champions

Was a female tennis player from Australia.Bathurst won the singles title at the Australian Championships three times and was a semifinalist at Wimbledon in 1934 (losing to Helen Jacobs) and 1935 (losing to Helen Wills Moody).

A Melbourne based playwright, screenwriter, novelist, librettist and newspaper columnist.Joanna Murr

A Melbourne based playwright, screenwriter, novelist, librettist and newspaper columnist.Joanna Murray-Smith was born in Mount Eliza, Victoria; her father was the literary editor and academic Stephen Murray-Smith (1922–1988). She attended Toorak College, Mt Eliza[1] and graduated with a BA (Hons) from the University of Melbourne.[2] On a Rotary International Scholarship in 1995, Murray-Smith attended the writing program at Columbia University, New York.[3] In 2003, she took a sabbatical in Italy.[4] She is married to husband Raymond Gill and has two sons Sam and Charlie and a daughter Lucy.[

A dance, pop singer-songwriter from Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Joanne was born in London, but i

A dance, pop singer-songwriter from Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Joanne was born in London, but is South African by descent. She moved to Australia at age 10.Joanne's first single Jackie, was released in late 1998. It reached #3 on the ARIA Charts and became the highest selling single in Australia in 1999, earning her an ARIA award.For Jackie, Joanne was credited as "B.Z. featuring Joanne" or "Joanne/BZ", referring to the original performers of the song, Blue Zone.Her solo album, Do Not Disturb, was released in 2001 after being a work in progress for 2 and a half years.[1] It features a remix of Jackie, her 2 singles released in 1999 and 3 new singles, So Damn Fine, I Don't Know, and Busted. It was produced and recorded in Dance World Studios, South Melbourne.

Is a female field hockey striker from Australia, who made her debut for the Australian women's natio

Is a female field hockey striker from Australia, who made her debut for the Australian women's national team during the Argentina Tour in 2001. Nicknamed Joey she was a member of the Hockeyroos at the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester, where the team

Is a former Australian cricketer. A left-handed batsman and left-arm medium pace bowler, she played

Is a former Australian cricketer. A left-handed batsman and left-arm medium pace bowler, she played 10 Test matches for Australia between 1990 and 1998, scoring 437 runs, highlighted by a 200 against England in August 1998. She has also played 60 One Day Internationals for Australia, scoring 993 runs with an average in the mid-twenties. She took her best ODI bowling figures of 5/10 against New Zealand in 1993.

Is an Australian football (soccer) player, who currently plays for Brisbane Roar in the Australian W

Is an Australian football (soccer) player, who currently plays for Brisbane Roar in the Australian W-League.She has represented Australia at the 2006 AFC Women's Asian Cup and the 2007 FIFA Women's World Cup.

A contemporary Australian poet and prose writer, with a strong emphasis on performance in her work.J

A contemporary Australian poet and prose writer, with a strong emphasis on performance in her work.Joanne Burns grew up and lives in Sydney.[1] She studied at the University of Sydney and has taught English and creative writing at secondary and tertiary levels in Australia and England. Her work hovers between poetry and prose, and often incorporates 'found writing' from newspapers and other everyday sources. In the 1980s she participated in the experimental writing group Sydney Women Writers' Workshop.[2] She has published ten collections of poetry, with Footnotes of a hammock sharing the 2005 Judith Wright Award for a collection of poetry

Is an Australian who has played association football, Australian rules football and international ru

Is an Australian who has played association football, Australian rules football and international rules football.After changing sports at the suggestion of her sister-in-law she soon became a star for North Cairns in the AFL Cairns Women's League. She was the league Best and Fairest four times in five years between 2003 and 2008. She was selected in the All-Australian team between 2005 and 2007. She was, as of 2009, player-coach of North Cairns.

Is an Australian water polo player from the gold medal squad of the 2000 Summer Olympics. Fox also p

Is an Australian water polo player from the gold medal squad of the 2000 Summer Olympics. Fox also played on the 2004 Summer Olympics squad in Athens, Greece.

Is a former New Zealand heptathlete.

Is a former New Zealand heptathlete.

Is an Australian golfer, who currently plays on the Ladies' European Tour.Mills was born in Sydney,

Is an Australian golfer, who currently plays on the Ladies' European Tour.Mills was born in Sydney, New South Wales. As an amateur, she won the 1991 New South Wales Strokeplay Championship, the 1992 Tasmanian Strokeplay Championship, and the 1993 Victoria

Is a female football (soccer) player who currently plays for the Newcastle Jets the Australian W-Lea

Is a female football (soccer) player who currently plays for the Newcastle Jets the Australian W-League.

"is an Australian television and radio personality. Stanley has appeared as the host of Network Ten'

"is an Australian television and radio personality. Stanley has appeared as the host of Network Ten's Bread TV program, a show that focuses on small business and is currently the host of The Matt and Jo Show on Austereo's FOX FM, a show she joined in 2003.

Is an Australian football (soccer) player. He currently plays as an attacking midfielder for the Aus

Is an Australian football (soccer) player. He currently plays as an attacking midfielder for the Australian A-League club Newcastle United Jets. Wheelhouse was injured for the majority of the 2006-07 A-League season and made his return against Perth Glor

Was an Australian professional track cyclist from Adelaide, South Australia.Dajka was sent home from

Was an Australian professional track cyclist from Adelaide, South Australia.Dajka was sent home from the 2004 pre-Olympic training camp, accused of having lied to the enquiries into the Mark French doping affair. His appeal at his expulsion and later susp

Has played six women's test matches and two women's one-day internationals for the New Zealand women

Has played six women's test matches and two women's one-day internationals for the New Zealand women's cricket team. In 1966 she took 7-41 against England to claim the New Zealand's women's test matches.

Is a former New Zealand football player who represented her country.Parr made her Football Ferns deb

Is a former New Zealand football player who represented her country.Parr made her Football Ferns debut in a 0-0 draw with Australia on 10 October, 1991and ended her international career with 4 caps to her credit.

Is an Australian politician currently serving as the member for Ripon in the Victorian Legislative A

Is an Australian politician currently serving as the member for Ripon in the Victorian Legislative Assembly, representing the Australian Labor Party.Helper was first elected in the 1999 election on the back of the anti-Kennett rural swing and has held thi

Is an Australian Olympic fencer. He competed in five events at the 1952 Summer Olympics.

Is an Australian Olympic fencer. He competed in five events at the 1952 Summer Olympics.

An Australian singer-songwriter living in Sydney. Her professional music career began in mid-1996 wh

An Australian singer-songwriter living in Sydney. Her professional music career began in mid-1996 while she was still a student at Southern Cross University, when she got be the opening act for Arlo Guthrie first Australian tour.

Is an Australian football (soccer) player. She played for the Central Coast Mariners in the Australi

Is an Australian football (soccer) player. She played for the Central Coast Mariners in the Australian W-League during the 2008–09 season.Jodie made her debut against Perth Glory on Saturday, 1 November 2008.

Is an Australian swimmer, Olympic gold medalist and former world-record holder.

Is an Australian swimmer, Olympic gold medalist and former world-record holder.

Is a former champion surfer. She won 13 international surfing events, including titles in Australia,

Is a former champion surfer. She won 13 international surfing events, including titles in Australia, Japan, Hawaii and mainland United States and was runner-up on a further 13 occasions between 1983 and 2002. Despite her event successes, she never won the

An Australian cricketer who has played one Women's Test, 20 Women's One-day Internationals and two W

An Australian cricketer who has played one Women's Test, 20 Women's One-day Internationals and two Women's Twenty20s for Australia.