Australian Famous Names Starting with Letter R

Scott was a middle-order right-handed batsman and a medium-pace bowler who played for Canterbury acr

Scott was a middle-order right-handed batsman and a medium-pace bowler who played for Canterbury across the 1940s. His single Test was the one match in New Zealand played by the 1946-47 MCC side led by Walter Hammond. The match was ruined by rain; Scott scored 18 and took one wicket, that of Bill Edrich.

A former Australian jockey who rode in the late 1960s and the 1970s. He grew up in the southern New

A former Australian jockey who rode in the late 1960s and the 1970s. He grew up in the southern New South Wales town of Deniliquin.Despite a constant battle with his weight Higgins won almost every major race on the Australian calendar.[citation needed].S

Is a former New Zealand cricketer who played in 3 Tests in 1968.

Is a former New Zealand cricketer who played in 3 Tests in 1968.

Is a Fiji football striker currently playing for New Zealand football club Waitakere United and Laba

Is a Fiji football striker currently playing for New Zealand football club Waitakere United and Labasa F.C. Krishna joined NZFC side Waitakere United from local outfit Labasa F.C. in January 2008. Krishna made his debut for Fiji at the South Pacific Games

Was an all-round athlete and doctor. He played both cricket for Australia and also AFL/VFL football.

Was an all-round athlete and doctor. He played both cricket for Australia and also AFL/VFL football.

Is a former Australian cricketer and baseballer who represented the Australian baseball team in 1936

Is a former Australian cricketer and baseballer who represented the Australian baseball team in 1936. He also played for the Queensland Sheffield Shield team for seven years, captaining them 11 times in his 25 appearances.

Is a former Australian tennis player who won 12 Grand Slam singles titles and 16 Grand Slam men's do

Is a former Australian tennis player who won 12 Grand Slam singles titles and 16 Grand Slam men's doubles titles. He is the only male player to have won singles and doubles titles at all four Grand Slam tournaments. His 28 Grand Slam titles are an all-time record for a male player. Most of his titles were won in the final years of the period where the Grand Slam events were open only to amateur players, just before the start of the open era when professionals were admitted into tennis' most prestigious events.

He is a descendant of the American playwright

He is a descendant of the American playwright

Is an Australian football (soccer) player. He last played as a striker for the Wellington Phoenix. R

Is an Australian football (soccer) player. He last played as a striker for the Wellington Phoenix. Royce Brownlie was born in Coffs Harbour, New South Wales and began his football career at the Queensland Academy of Sport, representing them in the Nationa

Was an Australian Rugby Union player who represented for the Wallabies twenty-five times. Prosser wa

Was an Australian Rugby Union player who represented for the Wallabies twenty-five times. Prosser was once Australia's most capped prop.Prosser played a club record 220 first grade games for Northern Suburbs Rugby Club and was a member of our three premie

Is a former international cricketer who played one One Day International for New Zealand in 1995.

Is a former international cricketer who played one One Day International for New Zealand in 1995.

An Australian dance music singer, best known in France.In 1989, Clarke was playing the part of Bomba

An Australian dance music singer, best known in France.In 1989, Clarke was playing the part of Bombalurina in the famous musical Cats. During a performance in Paris she caught the eye of French producer Nicolas Skorsky who was looking for a vocalist for a dance track he had just written. Rozlyne recorded the song in one day and left for London to perform the part of Rizzo in Grease. The song called Eddy Steady Go was released in late 1990 and became an instant club smash reaching #1 on the French club play chart. Skorsky called Rozlyne and asked her to come back to Paris in order to do the promotion of the song and to record a full album.

Is an Australian football player who attended Woonona High School in Wollongong NSW and currently pl

Is an Australian football player who attended Woonona High School in Wollongong NSW and currently plays for the Newcastle United Jets in the Hyundai A-League. Zadkovich had previously played for Football League Two club Notts County, scoring on his debut

A Bundjalung woman,[1] an acclaimed author and historian.She was born at the Box Ridge Mission, Cora

A Bundjalung woman,[1] an acclaimed author and historian.She was born at the Box Ridge Mission, Coraki on the NSW north coast, grew up at Bonalbo and went to high school in Casino.At 15, she moved to Sydney where she qualified as a clothing machinist. She married young and had nine children, and many grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Like many women writers, she didn't start her writing career until later in life.

Was an Australian pioneer in radiophysics and radio astronomy and is believed to have been the first

Was an Australian pioneer in radiophysics and radio astronomy and is believed to have been the first female radio astronomer.One of the best physicists that Australia has ever produced and one of the first people in the world to consider the possibility of radio astronomy, and thereby responsible for what is now a fundamental part of the modern lexicon of science, this brilliant woman was often the only female in her classes at the University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia.Her career arguably reached its zenith while working for the Australian government's Commonwealth Scientific Industrial Research Organisation (then called CSIR now known as CSIRO) at Lucas Heights, Sydney. Some of her fundamental contributions to solar radio astronomy came at the end of this period and during her early "home duties" career.

Is an Australian former rugby union player.A very promising young player - Rudi represented Australi

Is an Australian former rugby union player.A very promising young player - Rudi represented Australia at schoolboy, U/19, U/21 and Australia A level, but beyond this level his career was interrupted by a string of injuries.

Was an Austrian-born engineer and physicist, best known as the inventor of the traveling-wave tube (

Was an Austrian-born engineer and physicist, best known as the inventor of the traveling-wave tube (TWT).He was originally trained as an architect and after receiving his university degree in 1933 he moved to England (due to the rise of anti-Semitism) where he worked as an architect until 1941. However, he had a strong interest in physics and electronics, and after being briefly detained by the British as an enemy alien at the start of World War II he was recruited to work in a secret microwave vacuum tube research program at the University of Birmingham. While there, Kompfner invented the TWT in 1943. After the war he became a British citizen, continued working for the Admiralty as a scientist, and also studied physics at the University of Oxford, receiving his PhD in 1951.

Is a Samoan sprint canoer. He represented Samoa at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing in the K-1 50

Is a Samoan sprint canoer. He represented Samoa at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing in the K-1 500 m and K-1 1000 m events. He qualified for the semi-finals in the K-1 1000 m with a time of 4:00.784 and for the semi-finals in the K-1 500 m event with a

Was an Australian poet.E.J. Rupert Atkinson was born in Sandhurst, Victoria, and died in East Melbou

Was an Australian poet.E.J. Rupert Atkinson was born in Sandhurst, Victoria, and died in East Melbourne, Victoria, just after his eightieth birthday. Atkinson completed his high school education at Rugby School and Dover College, after commencing at St Andrew's College, Bendigo. He matriculated and studied medicine at the University of Melbourne but did not complete the course. After his father's death Atkinson inherited substantial property in the Bendigo area and soon devoted himself to a life of literature.

Is a former Australian Rugby Union player for the Australian Wallabies.Rosenblum played 3 test match

Is a former Australian Rugby Union player for the Australian Wallabies.Rosenblum played 3 test matches in 1969-1970; at that point in time, he and Myer Rosenblum were the first father and son to have represented Australia in Rugby union.

He was knighted in 1982 as Dick Hamer, Australian Liberal Party politician,

He was knighted in 1982 as Dick Hamer, Australian Liberal Party politician,

Is a football (soccer) player who represented New Zealand at international level. Puna has played fo

Is a football (soccer) player who represented New Zealand at international level. Puna has played for Caversham AFC, Otago United and currently plays for Waitakere United in the New Zealand Football Championship. Puna made his full All Whites debut in a 0

Is a former Fiji Islands cross-country skier. He represented Fiji at the 1988 Winter Olympics in Cal

Is a former Fiji Islands cross-country skier. He represented Fiji at the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, finishing 83rd in the 15 kilometre cross-country event. He had reportedly "learned to ski while studying electrical engineering in Oslo". He competed

Is an Australian professional rugby league footballer with the AS Carcassonne rugby league club in F

Is an Australian professional rugby league footballer with the AS Carcassonne rugby league club in France.While attending Cronulla High School, Aitken played for the Australian Schoolboys team in 2002After brief stints with Cronulla and North Queensland,

Is an Australian former rugby league footballer for the Brisbane Broncos, Melbourne Storm, London Br

Is an Australian former rugby league footballer for the Brisbane Broncos, Melbourne Storm, London Broncos and for the Queensland State of Origin Team.