Australian Famous Names Starting with Letter V

Is an Australian former association footballer. He is the father of Oliver Bozanic. Bozanic played f

Is an Australian former association footballer. He is the father of Oliver Bozanic. Bozanic played for Polonia Adelaide before moving to West Adelaide in the National Soccer League. He later played for NSL clubs APIA and St George. Bozanic played one full

Was a rugby league player for the Eastern Suburbs and Canterbury Bulldogs and represented Australian

Was a rugby league player for the Eastern Suburbs and Canterbury Bulldogs and represented Australian in that sport. He also represented his country as an amateur golfer.

Is a football player who represented New Zealand.Ormond made her full Football Ferns debut as a subs

Is a football player who represented New Zealand.Ormond made her full Football Ferns debut as a substitute in a 1-2 loss to Japan on 2 June 2000 and finished her international career with 4 caps to her credit.

Was a twentieth century Australian poet and prose writer.Vicki Viidikas was born and grew up in Sydn

Was a twentieth century Australian poet and prose writer.Vicki Viidikas was born and grew up in Sydney, Australia. Dropping out of school, she encountered the Balmain New South Wales poetry scene in the late 1960s. There she encountered, among others, Ken Bolton, John Forbes, Martin Johnston and John Tranter. The ‘counter culture’ and her travels in Asia, especially India, are recurrent subjects in her poetry. Her untimely death was much mourned in Australia's poetry community.

An Australian politician and lawyer

An Australian politician and lawyer

Is a former dual cricket and football (soccer) player who represented New Zealand at international l

Is a former dual cricket and football (soccer) player who represented New Zealand at international level. Pollard, an old boy of Palmerston North Boys High School and Dux Ladorum, played 32 Tests and three One Day Internationals for New Zealand. He never

Is a former Australian sportsman who played first-class cricket for South Australia and Australian r

Is a former Australian sportsman who played first-class cricket for South Australia and Australian rules football in the VFL with Hawthorn. Austen played five games for Hawthorn in the 1942 VFL season, with the highlight coming in his second game when he kicked four goals against St Kilda at Toorak Park. His brother Colin also played at Hawthorn and had a more successful career, winning a Brownlow Medal in 1949. His only first-class cricket match was against Victoria at the Adelaide Oval where he struggled, taking 0/77 with the ball and making two in both of his innings. He was dismissed twice by George Tribe, a man who also played in the VFL.

Is an Australian football manager of Argentinian descent and former football player of the 1980s and

Is an Australian football manager of Argentinian descent and former football player of the 1980s and 1990s. Cristaldo became the first Australian player to play in Paraguay and the second to play in South America, after John Crawley and before Richard Por

Was an Australian first class cricketer who played for New South Wales and Leicestershire. Jackson m

Was an Australian first class cricketer who played for New South Wales and Leicestershire. Jackson made his first class debut during the 1936/37 Sheffield Shield season with New South Wales. It was after the war that he returned to make his Championship debut in 1946 County season. He took 88 wickets at 21.90 and passed 1000 runs.

Was an Austrian American theoretical physicist. During World War II he worked at Los Alamos on the M

Was an Austrian American theoretical physicist. During World War II he worked at Los Alamos on the Manhattan Project to develop the atomic bomb, and later campaigned against the proliferation of nuclear weapons. Weisskopf was a co-founder and board member of the Union of Concerned Scientists. He served as director-general of CERN from 1961-1966.Weisskopf was awarded the Max Planck medal in 1956 and the Prix mondial Cino Del Duca in 1972, National Medal of Science (1980), and Wolf Prize (1981).

Was a New Zealand rugby union administrator. He was born in Caversham, Dunedin. He was the son of "O

Was a New Zealand rugby union administrator. He was born in Caversham, Dunedin. He was the son of "Old Vic" Cavanagh. Between them, they greatly affected the development of the sport of rugby within New Zealand. In sport, Cavanagh represented Otago as a m

An Australian politician, is a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, representing the

An Australian politician, is a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, representing the electorate of Ryde for the Liberal Party of Australia since 2008, and is the Minister for Citizenship, Communities and Aboriginal Affairs since 2011 in the

Is a former Australian parliamentarian

Is a former Australian parliamentarian

Played 32 Tests and three One Day Internationals for New Zealand and he never played on Sundays beca

Played 32 Tests and three One Day Internationals for New Zealand and he never played on Sundays because he was a lay preacher. He also played International Football for New Zealand.

Was a famous Australian batsman in the sport of cricket. He was renowned for the stylishness of his

Was a famous Australian batsman in the sport of cricket. He was renowned for the stylishness of his batting: Archie MacLaren said of him, "Compared to Victor I was a cab-horse to a Derby winner".

Australian judge, soldier and educator, was a Justice of the High Court of Australia

Australian judge, soldier and educator, was a Justice of the High Court of Australia

Richardson is most famous for his contribution to cricket, representing Australia in 19 Test matches

Richardson is most famous for his contribution to cricket, representing Australia in 19 Test matches between 1924 and 1936, including five as captain in the 1935/36 tour of South Africa. He was forty-one years old when he played his last Test.

Is a New Zealand horsewoman who won two medals at the Olympic Games.

Is a New Zealand horsewoman who won two medals at the Olympic Games.

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 New Zealand in the women's one-day internationals and T20s.

Is a New Zealand cricketer who plays for New Zealand in the women's one-day internationals and T20s. She made her international debut in 2009.

Is a New Zealand netball player in the ANZ Championship, playing in 2011 for the Wellington based, C

Is a New Zealand netball player in the ANZ Championship, playing in 2011 for the Wellington based, Central Pulse team. She has previously played for the Canterbury Tactix in 2008, 2009 and 2010. From 2005 - 2007 Victoria Smith represented the Capital Shak

Is an Australian sprint canoer who competed in the mid 1960s. He was eliminated in the semifinals of

Is an Australian sprint canoer who competed in the mid 1960s. He was eliminated in the semifinals of the C-2 1000 m event at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo.

Was an Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist as well as a Holocaust survivor. Frankl was the founder

Was an Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist as well as a Holocaust survivor. Frankl was the founder of logotherapy, which is a form of Existential Analysis, the "Third Viennese School" of psychotherapy. His book Man's Search for Meaning (first published under a different title in 1959: From Death-Camp to Existentialism. Originally published in 1946 as Ein Psycholog erlebt das Konzentrationslager) chronicles his experiences as a concentration camp inmate and describes his psychotherapeutic method of finding meaning in all forms of existence, even the most sordid ones, and thus a reason to continue living. He was one of the key figures in existential therapy.

Widely known as Willie O, earned 41 caps for the Australian rugby union side from 1990 to 1998 and p

Widely known as Willie O, earned 41 caps for the Australian rugby union side from 1990 to 1998 and played in the World Cups of 1991 and 1995 as well as the World Cup Sevens in 1993. Ofahengaue played for New Zealand Schoolboys in 1988 and participated in

Was an Australian boxer.He beat James Grima to win the Australian heavyweight title in 1993, but los

Was an Australian boxer.He beat James Grima to win the Australian heavyweight title in 1993, but lost his title in his first defence to Joe Bugner. He was nicknamed the Voodoo Man.