Australian Famous Names Starting with Letter R

Is a former New Zealand rower

Is a former New Zealand rower

Is a former field hockey goalkeeper from New Zealand, who played at two Summer Olympics (1968 and 19

Is a former field hockey goalkeeper from New Zealand, who played at two Summer Olympics (1968 and 1972), before being succeeded by Trevor Manning.

A New Zealand public figure, has at various times gained public attention as a police officer, a bus

A New Zealand public figure, has at various times gained public attention as a police officer, a businessman, a politician, and a political lobbyist.

Is a football (soccer) goalkeeper who represented New Zealand at international level. Nicholson made

Is a football (soccer) goalkeeper who represented New Zealand at international level. Nicholson made his full All Whites debut as a substitute in an 8-1 win over Vanuatu at the Oceania Nations Cup in Australia on 28 September 1998. He was included in the

Is a former New Zealand rower who won an Olympic Bronze medal at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Ang

Is a former New Zealand rower who won an Olympic Bronze medal at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. Along with Don Symon, Kevin Lawton, Barrie Mabbott and Brett Hollister (cox) Tong won the Bronze medal in the coxed four.

Was a New Zealand cricketer who played 56 first-class matches for Central Districts & Wellington wit

Was a New Zealand cricketer who played 56 first-class matches for Central Districts & Wellington without being selected for the Black Caps. In 1981-82 he and Evan Gray added 226 for Wellington against Central Districts.

Was a New Zealand cricketer. He played 20 Tests for New Zealand. He was a good batsman and bowler sc

Was a New Zealand cricketer. He played 20 Tests for New Zealand. He was a good batsman and bowler scoring 97 in his second Test against Pakistan in Christchurch in 1965. He was dropped after New Zealand's tour of the West Indies in 1972.

Is a former butterfly and freestyle swimmer from New Zealand, who competed for the latter country at

Is a former butterfly and freestyle swimmer from New Zealand, who competed for the latter country at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea.

Is an Australian footballer who currently plays for A-League team Central Coast Mariners. Griffiths

Is an Australian footballer who currently plays for A-League team Central Coast Mariners. Griffiths started his youth career with Australian club ECU Joondalup before moving to England to play for Blackburn Rovers where he never made a senior appearance

A Queensland-born Australian visual artist working primarily with paint, textiles, installation and

A Queensland-born Australian visual artist working primarily with paint, textiles, installation and in mail art. In the early 1990's Craig was involved in an artists collaborative, Atomic Art, with fellow artists Donna Free, Brad Nunn, Kirsti Watson, Neil Degney and Geoff Corbett.[1][2]

He is host of variety show Rove and owner of the production company Roving Enterprises.McManus worke

He is host of variety show Rove and owner of the production company Roving Enterprises.McManus worked as a scanner/digital painter on the animated television series Lil' Elvis and the Truckstoppers (1996).[4] He hosted The Loft Live on community television station Channel 31 and subsequently landed ten late night episodes of his own tonight show, Rove, on GTV9 in 1999. The Nine Network cancelled the series at the end of its run. The Ten Network offered McManus a contract for a new show based on the old one in late 2000. The resulting Rove Live was almost identical to Nine's Rove. It has become a flagship show for Network Ten, and is also broadcast on TV3 in New Zealand. The show involves celebrity guests, comedy acts, variety segments, local and international comedians and live bands.

Was an Australian cricket player, who played for the Tasmanian Tigers. He was a left-handed fast med

Was an Australian cricket player, who played for the Tasmanian Tigers. He was a left-handed fast medium bowler who only represented the team from 1976 until 1979.

Is a former football (soccer) player who represented New Zealand at international level.Fulham score

Is a former football (soccer) player who represented New Zealand at international level.Fulham scored on her Football Ferns début, a 1-2 loss to Australia on 4 October 1981, and finished her international career with eight caps and two goals to her credit

Was an Australian politician and coalminer. Born at Lambton, New South Wales to Moses James and Mary

Was an Australian politician and coalminer. Born at Lambton, New South Wales to Moses James and Mary Ann, née James, he was educated at public school and worked in the mines for twenty-five years (including a five-year stint in Western Australia). On 24 J

Was an Australian politician. He was the Liberal member for Nepean in the New South Wales Legislativ

Was an Australian politician. He was the Liberal member for Nepean in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1965 to 1971.In 1948 he was elected to Liverpool Council, resigning in 1953 but serving again from 1954 to 1962. He was mayor from 1949 to

Was an Australian architect, civil engineer and politician.He was elected to the South Australian Ho

Was an Australian architect, civil engineer and politician.He was elected to the South Australian House of Assembly as member for Burra (1873-81) and Onkaparinga (1882-90). He advanced liberal ideas, such as free education, the regulation (rather than ban

Was an Australian singer/actress who in the 1990s was part of the pop music act Teen Queens. Clark w

Was an Australian singer/actress who in the 1990s was part of the pop music act Teen Queens. Clark was born in Sydney, New South Wales in 1974.At age 17, Clark, along with Kellie Hoggart and Liza Witt, formed the Teen Queens in 1990 as a TV series pilot. But when it was turned down the trio decided to make the concept into a real pop music act, scoring a top 10 ARIA hit in 1992 with an updated remake of "Be My Baby."

Is a professional rugby league footballer who currently captains the South Sydney Rabbitohs of the N

Is a professional rugby league footballer who currently captains the South Sydney Rabbitohs of the National Rugby League. A New Zealand international representative prop forward, he previously played for the Bulldogs RLFC, with whom he won the 2004 NRL Pr

Was an Australian cricketer who played in 9 Tests from 1911 to 1912.

Was an Australian cricketer who played in 9 Tests from 1911 to 1912.

Was a New Zealand cricketer. He was a left-handed batsman and right-arm off-break bowler who played

Was a New Zealand cricketer. He was a left-handed batsman and right-arm off-break bowler who played for Otago. He was born and died in Dunedin. Blair made a single first-class appearance for the side, during the 1953-54 season, against Canterbury. From th

Is an Australian former football (soccer) player. Blitz played in the NSW State League for Prague, P

Is an Australian former football (soccer) player. Blitz played in the NSW State League for Prague, Pan Hellenic and Canterbury-Marrickville. His £2,300 transfer in 1965 from Prague to Pan Hellenic was a league record. Blitz played six matches for Australi

Was an Australian rugby league footballer of the 1940s and 50s who also coached the club he spent hi

Was an Australian rugby league footballer of the 1940s and 50s who also coached the club he spent his whole career with, Manly-Warringah. In addition to playing in three New South Wales Rugby Football League premiership grand finals, he was also a represe

He joined the Communist Party of Australia in the 1930s but, according to art historian Bernard Smit

He joined the Communist Party of Australia in the 1930s but, according to art historian Bernard Smith, his bohemian temperament was incompatible with party puritanism. He left the party in 1949. In the late 1930s he travelled to the canefields of North Queensland, where he concentrated on his painting.He co-founded the Studio of Realist Art (SORA) Sydney in 1946. From 1947 to 1949 he worked as lecturer at the East Sydney Technical College. After studying in Paris, he moved to India, where he co-founded Editions Anarkali, publisher of fine arts in Bombay, while being employed as a visiting lecturer in lithography at the School of Fine Arts.

Was an Australian artist and youngest son of Etienne L. de Mestre, the Thoroughbred racehorses train

Was an Australian artist and youngest son of Etienne L. de Mestre, the Thoroughbred racehorses trainer of the first two Melbourne Cup winners.De Maistre studied at the Royal Art Society under Dattilo Rubbo and at the Julian Ashton Art School. He developed an interest in "colour-music," the relationship of colour harmony to musical harmony, and in 1919 held a joint exhibition with Roland Wakelin titled "Colour in Art" to expound his theories. Influenced by earlier exponents of colour-music theory in Europe and America, this exhibition has since been identified as the earliest experiment in pure abstractionism in Australia, but de Maistre soon turned to a more recognisably figurative style, influenced by Cubism.

Was an Australian politician. He was a Labor member of the New South Wales Legislative Council from

Was an Australian politician. He was a Labor member of the New South Wales Legislative Council from 1976 to 1984.In 1939 he joined the Australian Labor Party. In 1958 he was a member of the Sydney Mental Health Tribunal, and from 1963 was a member of the