Australian Famous Names Starting with Letter K

Is a female Australian football (soccer) player who currently plays for Melbourne Victory in the Aus

Is a female Australian football (soccer) player who currently plays for Melbourne Victory in the Australian W-League.

An Australian pop singer and the daughter of Australian music promoter Michael Gudinski AM. Alexa fi

An Australian pop singer and the daughter of Australian music promoter Michael Gudinski AM. Alexa first hit the spotlight in 2004 when her song "Always There" was featured in the Channel 7 series Home & Away. The second single was a mediocre success, but after supporting the Backstreet Boys on their Australia tour, her third single "All I Hear" shot straight into the ARIA top ten, and stayed inside the top twenty for eight weeks. There are many who think that Alexa's music success was due to an act of nepotism by her father, who in fact owns her record company[

Is an Australian sprint canoer who competed in the mid 2000s. At the 2004 Summer Olympics, she finis

Is an Australian sprint canoer who competed in the mid 2000s. At the 2004 Summer Olympics, she finished sixth in the K-4 500 m event.

Is an Australian fencer. She competed in the women's individual foil event at the 1960 Summer Olympi

Is an Australian fencer. She competed in the women's individual foil event at the 1960 Summer Olympics.

Is an Australian open water swimmer.

Is an Australian open water swimmer.

Is a prominent Australian linguist specialising in the Germanic languages. Burridge currently occupi

Is a prominent Australian linguist specialising in the Germanic languages. Burridge currently occupies the Chair of Linguistics in the School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics at Monash University.

An award winning Australian pop vocalist entertainer. She acquired local fame in the soul, jazz and

An award winning Australian pop vocalist entertainer. She acquired local fame in the soul, jazz and pop genres as well as in her brief forays into musicals with Jesus Christ Superstar and film. She has also achieved success as a songwriter, with the hit "Pash" going gold in 1998.Ceberano is an active member of the Church of Scientology[1][2] As of September 2008, Kate is the face of Playtex lingerie.Noted for her soulful and powerful vocal style, singer-songwriter Kate Ceberano has won almost every entertainment award in Australia. She has released five Platinum albums, five Gold albums, selling in excess of 1 million albums in Australia alone, performed tours, acted in feature films and hosted her own television show.

Was an Australian female Olympic archer.

Was an Australian female Olympic archer.

Is an Australian fantasy author, best known for the Witches of Eileanan series

Is an Australian fantasy author, best known for the Witches of Eileanan series

Is an Australian female football (soccer) player for the Australia women's national football (soccer

Is an Australian female football (soccer) player for the Australia women's national football (soccer) team. She is a striker that is strong in the air and on the ball. Possesses a great finishing and first touch. Kate graduated Hunter Valley Grammar School in 2002. In 2008, Gill played for the Newcastle United Jets in the W-League, before moving to Sweden where she played with Sunnanå SK in Skellefteå, Sweden, in Damallsvenskan during 2009. In the upcoming winter, she moved to LdB Malmö for the 2010 season.

An Australian novelist and teacher of creative writing. She holds degrees from the University of Syd

An Australian novelist and teacher of creative writing. She holds degrees from the University of Sydney and the University of Colorado.Grenville was one of three children born to Kenneth Grenville Gee, a lawyer and later judge, and Isobel Russell, a pharmacist.[1] It was a family tradition that the children could choose a surname after leaving school. While the eldest brother retained the family name, Kate and her other brother chose Grenville, the name of their paternal grandmother.[1] She was a born writer and wanted to be one right from childhood.[2] After completing her undergraduate degree in Australia, she worked in the film industry, mostly editing documentaries at Film Australia. In 1976, she went to the UK on a working holiday for six months,

Is an Australian water polo player from the gold medal squad of the 2000 Summer Olympics. Hooper pla

Is an Australian water polo player from the gold medal squad of the 2000 Summer Olympics. Hooper plays a center forward and is from Perth in Western Australia.

Is an Australian politician and Queensland Government minister. She is a member of the Australian La

Is an Australian politician and Queensland Government minister. She is a member of the Australian Labor Party and was elected in the seat of State Electorate of Ashgrove in the Queensland Legislative Assembly in 2006 which was previously held by former Sp

An Australian poet, essayist, memoirist, and novelist.Jennings grew up on a farm near Griffith, New

An Australian poet, essayist, memoirist, and novelist.Jennings grew up on a farm near Griffith, New South Wales. She attended Sydney University in the late 1960s, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree with honors. She was active in feminist and left wing-movements, in particular gaining notoriety for an incendiary speech given before a Vietnam Moratorium march in 1970 — a speech that is credited as signaling the beginning of the second wave of feminism in Australia.

A contemporary Australian poet and academic.Kate Lilley was born in Perth, Western Australia and mov

A contemporary Australian poet and academic.Kate Lilley was born in Perth, Western Australia and moved to Sydney with her family. (She is the daughter of writers Dorothy Hewett and Merv Lilley.) After studying at the University of Sydney she completed a Phd at University of London. Lilley published her first volume of poems, Versary, in 2002 and currently lectures in gender studies and literature at Sydney University.

S a female basketball player for New Zealand. At the 2006 Commonwealth Games she won a silver medal

S a female basketball player for New Zealand. At the 2006 Commonwealth Games she won a silver medal as part of the Tall Ferns New Zealand women's basketball team.

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

Is an Australian football (soccer) player, who currently plays for Queensland Roar in the Australian W-League.

A singer-songwriter from Brisbane, Australia. Although trained as an opera singer, she has followed

A singer-songwriter from Brisbane, Australia. Although trained as an opera singer, she has followed a career in popular music and currently records for Sony-BMG Australia.Kate Miller-Heidke had always had an interest in performing. She states in one of her interviews that when she was little she would charge her family members 5 cents for her performances. Miller-Heidke formed a band during her senior years of high school, comprising of 3 flautists. They split after a short while.[1] Miller-Heidke went on to University, completing degrees in music from Queensland Conservatorium of Music and Queensland University of Technology.

Is a former field hockey midfielder from Australia, who competed for her native country in three con

Is a former field hockey midfielder from Australia, who competed for her native country in three consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1992 (Barcelona, Spain). She was a member of the Australian Women's Hockey Team, best known as the Hockeyroos, that w

Is an Australian association footballer currently playing for Australian W-League team Perth Glory.

Is an Australian association footballer currently playing for Australian W-League team Perth Glory.

Is a female badminton player from Australia.Wilson-Smith competed in badminton at the 2004 Summer Ol

Is a female badminton player from Australia.Wilson-Smith competed in badminton at the 2004 Summer Olympics in women's doubles with partner Jane Crabtree. They were defeated by Pernille Harder and Mette Schjoldager of Denmark in the round of 32. In mixed doubles, Wilson-Smith and partner Travis Denney lost to Björn Siegemund and Nicol Pitro of Germany in the round of 32.

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.

Is a New Zealand cricketer who plays for the New Zealand in the women's one-day internationals and T

Is a New Zealand cricketer who plays for the New Zealand in the women's one-day internationals and Tests. She made her international debut in 2003.

Was an Australian author and co-founding member of the Communist Party of Australia.Prichard moved w

Was an Australian author and co-founding member of the Communist Party of Australia.Prichard moved with her husband, war hero Hugo "Jim" Throssell, VC, to Greenmount, Western Australia, in 1920 and lived at 11 Old York Road for much of the rest of her life. She wrote most of her novels and stories in a self-contained weatherboard workroom near the house. While Prichard was visiting the Soviet Union in 1933 Throssell committed suicide when his business failed during the Great Depression. They had one son, Ric Throssell, later a diplomat and writer. In her personal life she always referred to herself as Mrs Hugo Throssell. Her friends called her Katie.

She is an Australian cricketer who played in the victorious team that won the 2005 Women's Cricket W

She is an Australian cricketer who played in the victorious team that won the 2005 Women's Cricket World Cup in South Africa. In the 2005-06 season she played for the Wellington Blaze in the State League.