Australian Famous Names Starting with Letter L

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

Is 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 freestyle swimmer of the 1990s, who won a bronze medal in the 4x200m freestyle rela

Is an Australian freestyle swimmer of the 1990s, who won a bronze medal in the 4x200m freestyle relay at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics. She also competed in the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain.

Was an Austrian-born, later Swedish physicist who studied radioactivity and nuclear physics.[1] Lise

Was an Austrian-born, later Swedish physicist who studied radioactivity and nuclear physics.[1] Lise Meitner was part of the team that discovered nuclear fission, an achievement for which her colleague Otto Hahn was awarded the Nobel Prize. Meitner is often mentioned as one of the most glaring examples of scientific achievement overlooked by the Nobel committee.[2][3][4] A 1997 Physics Today study concluded that Meitner's omission was "a rare instance in which personal negative opinions apparently led to the exclusion of a deserving scientist" from the Nobel.[

Was an Austrian-born American photographer.Lisette Model was born Elise Felic Amelie Stern in Vienna

Was an Austrian-born American photographer.Lisette Model was born Elise Felic Amelie Stern in Vienna, Austria. Her father was an Italian/Austrian doctor of Jewish descent attached to the Austro-Hungarian Imperial and Royal Army and, later, to the International Red Cross; her mother was French and Roman Catholic, and Model was baptised into her mother's faith.

Was an Australian cricketer who played in one Test in 1932. His twin brother Vernon also play first-

Was an Australian cricketer who played in one Test in 1932. His twin brother Vernon also play first-class cricket for Victoria.

An Australian singer/actress who was best known in the 1990s as a member of the pop music group Teen

An Australian singer/actress who was best known in the 1990s as a member of the pop music group Teen Queens. Witt was born in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia in 1974.Witt, along with Kellie Hoggart and Roxanne Clark, formed the Teen Queens at age 17 in 1990 as part of possible TV pilot but when it was turned down the trio decided to turn the concept into a real act, scoring a top 10 ARIA hit with "Be My Baby" in 1992.After the group split in 1993, Witt continued with her acting career, but would later become a TV presenter. She can be seen as one of the presenters on the Australian home shopping channel TVSN.

Is an Australian football (soccer) player who currently plays for the Newcastle Jets in the Australi

Is an Australian football (soccer) player who currently plays for the Newcastle Jets in the Australian A-League. Milicevic attended secondary school at St James College in East Bentleigh. He began his professional career with Melbourne Knights in Australi

Sansone started in television at age eleven when Mike Gallagher of WJET-TV in Erie hired her to host

Sansone started in television at age eleven when Mike Gallagher of WJET-TV in Erie hired her to host her own children's sport show, Down to Size. She interviewed Michael Jordan, Bill Cowher, Tommy Lasorda, and other sports figures. Sansone later did several sports reports for ABC Sports, including interviews from the Little League World Series, Wide World of Sports, and the U.S. Figure Skating Championships.Sansone played basketball while attending high school at Villa Maria Academy (Erie, Pennsylvania) and graduated from Syracuse University's Newhouse School of Public Communications in 2003. While a junior at Syracuse she co-hosted Live with Regis and Kelly with Regis Philbin while Kelly Ripa was on maternity leave.

Is a former cricketer. His career started well, with Howell captaining the New Zealand Under-19 side

Is a former cricketer. His career started well, with Howell captaining the New Zealand Under-19 side in Youth Tests and ODIs in 1990/1 and 1991/2. Howell went on to make his One Day International debut in Sharjah in 1998, but he never played Tests as his

Was an Australian landscape painter, who twice won the Wynne Prize for his landscape paintings.Most

Was an Australian landscape painter, who twice won the Wynne Prize for his landscape paintings.Most of his works are preoccupied with depicting the effects of light, and emphasis is placed on the harmony between man and nature. Rees' oeuvre is dominated by sketches and paintings, in which the most frequent subject is the built environment in the landscape.Rees painted right up to his death, by which time he was in his nineties. His works of the last one to two decades in particular showed a preoccupation with the spiritual dimension of the relationship with and portrayal of the landscape, and this became the focus of the final book prepared in cooperation with the author Renée Free: Lloyd Rees: the last twenty years. His late works show an abstraction of form and a focus on the source and effects of light on the landscape,

Is an Australian first-class cricketer who plays for the Victorian Bushrangers. He is a left-handed

Is an Australian first-class cricketer who plays for the Victorian Bushrangers. He is a left-handed top order batsman. Mash had a superb debut season with the Bushrangers scoring 505 Pura Cup runs, although he failed to score a century. His first-class debut was made against the touring West Indian side. He scored 44 in his innings and in a Twenty20 game that they played he hit four sixes off Dwayne Bravo. His Pura Cup career began with 83 against Queensland and he made 94 against South Australia in his next game. His Junior club was the Eltham Cricket Club. He currently plays in the Victorian Premier Cricket compietition for Fitzroy Doncaster Cricket Club. He was schooled at Eltham High School, earning his VCE in 1999.

Is a field hockey player from New Zealand, who earned his first cap for the national team, nicknamed

Is a field hockey player from New Zealand, who earned his first cap for the national team, nicknamed The Black Sticks, in April 2001. Originally from Thames Valley, the striker/midfielder was based in Perth for 2005, but played in New Zealand most recentl

Is a Samoan rugby union player. Lucky is a talented winger who plays his rugby in New Zealand. Lucky

Is a Samoan rugby union player. Lucky is a talented winger who plays his rugby in New Zealand. Lucky made his provincial debut in 2003 for Nelson Bays against Manawatu. His position is winger. In 2003 Lucky Mulipola was introduced to NPC level rugby when

Is a chess Grandmaster from the Netherlands. He won the Dutch championship six times straight from 2

Is a chess Grandmaster from the Netherlands. He won the Dutch championship six times straight from 2000 through 2005. He was rated among the world's top ten in 2001. In 2002, in Maastricht, Netherlands, van Wely took on the computer program Rebel in a fou

Is an Australian fencer. She competed in the women's individual foil event at the 1956 Summer Olympi

Is an Australian fencer. She competed in the women's individual foil event at the 1956 Summer Olympics.

Was a British diplomat and colonial administrator.He served in numerous diplomatic posts, including

Was a British diplomat and colonial administrator.He served in numerous diplomatic posts, including as British minister in Prussia and Austria in the 1850s and 60s, and later as Governor of New South Wales (4 August 1879 – 10 November 1885).

Is an American philosopher

Is an American philosopher

Is an Australian football (soccer) player, who currently plays for Sydney FC in the Australian W-Lea

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

Is an Australian football (soccer) player.After playing at the AIS and Sunshine George Cross Kindtne

Is an Australian football (soccer) player.After playing at the AIS and Sunshine George Cross Kindtner played almost a decade in Belgium, playing for a number of teams including Club Brugge and Cercle Brugge.

Is a rugby league player for the Bulldogs in the National Rugby League. He plays as a prop or in the

Is a rugby league player for the Bulldogs in the National Rugby League. He plays as a prop or in the second-row. He was born in New Zealand with Tongan heritage.

An Australian pop singer. She has put out a number of records, was a session singer and appeared on

An Australian pop singer. She has put out a number of records, was a session singer and appeared on TV, both in Australia and Britain.She toured or recorded, under pseudonyms (as she puts it in the book Tales of The Brothers Gibb), with many artists such as Tina Turner, Cliff Richard, Bryan Ferry, U2, Joe Cocker, George Harrison, Lionel Richie, Van Halen & Johnny Rotten. In the mid/late 1970s, at a less tender age, she released a number of single records in Australia. She eventually married John Vallins (ex-member of bands, Steve & The Board and Tin Tin) and formed a duo with him, Short Notice. She sang the title song of the Australian movie, Melvin, Son of Alvin in 1984. In 1987 she sang backup vocals on the musical soundtrack of the Australian movie "Sons of Steel" and, in 1995, the movie "Billy's Holiday" (the latter under the name Lori Vallins). More recently she has been involved in the production of the Animalsoztralia CD and the singing group Ozkids.

Is a football (soccer) player who represented New Zealand at international level.Panther made her Fo

Is a football (soccer) player who represented New Zealand at international level.Panther made her Football Ferns in a 0-0 draw with Australia on 28 November 1983, and finished her international career with 14 caps to her credit.

Is a female former tennis player from the state of Victoria in Australia. Green teamed with Bob Howe

Is a female former tennis player from the state of Victoria in Australia. Green teamed with Bob Howe to win the mixed doubles title at Wimbledon in 1958. Green and Howe were the runner-up in mixed doubles at the 1958 French Championships.

Is a female former tennis player from the state of Victoria in Australia. Coghlan teamed with Bob Ho

Is a female former tennis player from the state of Victoria in Australia. Coghlan teamed with Bob Howe to win the mixed doubles title at Wimbledon in 1958. Coghlan and Howe were also the runner-ups in mixed doubles at the 1958 French Championships.

Is a former Olympic swimming champion representing Australia. She competed in two Olympic Games —

Is a former Olympic swimming champion representing Australia. She competed in two Olympic Games — the 1956 Summer Olympics and the 1960 Summer Olympics. Some time after her retirement, Crapp and her husband won the first prize in one of the Sydney Opera H