Australian Famous Names Starting with Letter Y

Yahoo Serious was born in Cardiff, City of Lake Macquarie in the Hunter Valley, New South Wales, Aus

Yahoo Serious was born in Cardiff, City of Lake Macquarie in the Hunter Valley, New South Wales, Australia. He went to Cardiff High School, then worked as a tire fitter to pay for his tuition at the National Art School in Sydney

Is an Australian sprint canoer who competed from the mid 1990s to the early 2000s. Competing in two

Is an Australian sprint canoer who competed from the mid 1990s to the early 2000s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, she earned her best finish of eighth in the K-4 500 m event at Atlanta in 1996.

Is an Australian theatre director

Is an Australian theatre director

Is a former sumo wrestler from Tonga. He was one of six Tongan wrestlers recruited by the Asahiyama

Is a former sumo wrestler from Tonga. He was one of six Tongan wrestlers recruited by the Asahiyama stable. He made his debut in November 1974 and reached his highest rank of Makushita 53 in March 1976. He was forced to quit sumo in September 1976 after h

Was a philosopher, mathematician, and linguist at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, best known for

Was a philosopher, mathematician, and linguist at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, best known for his pioneering work in machine translation and formal linguistics.During World War II, he served in the Jewish Brigade of the British Army. He fought with the Haganah during the Israeli War of Independence, losing an eye.Bar-Hillel received his PhD in Philosophy from the Hebrew University where he also studied mathematics under Abraham Fraenkel, with whom he eventually coauthored Foundations of Set Theory (1958, 1973).

Is an economist at Monash University

Is an economist at Monash University

Is a former Australian football (soccer) player of Greek background. Anastasiadis began his career a

Is a former Australian football (soccer) player of Greek background. Anastasiadis began his career at Heidelberg United before being signed by the Greek club PAOK Thessaloniki FC at the age of 19. He made his debut in 1988 and became an influential part o

Is a rugby league footballer who plays for the Penrith Panthers in the National Rugby League. He has

Is a rugby league footballer who plays for the Penrith Panthers in the National Rugby League. He has also played for the South Sydney Rabbitohs and the Bulldogs. His playing position is centre or second row.

Is a backstroke swimmer from Israel, who represented his native country at the 2000 Summer Olympics

Is a backstroke swimmer from Israel, who represented his native country at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia.There he competed in the 200m backstroke, advancing to the semifinals after posting the 13th fastest time in the preliminaries (2:00.80). In his semifinal heat, he finished in 2:03.80, and did not advance to the finals; Gath finished in 16th place overall.

Is a footballer from New Caledonia. He plays as a Defence and has played football with ACB Poya sinc

Is a footballer from New Caledonia. He plays as a Defence and has played football with ACB Poya since 2007. He previously played for JS Baco.

Is an Australian butterfly and freestyle swimmer. At the 2010 Telstra Australian Swimming Championsh

Is an Australian butterfly and freestyle swimmer. At the 2010 Telstra Australian Swimming Championships in Sydney at just 14, Kukla earned selection for the Commonwealth Games team for Delhi, where she won the gold medal in the 50m freestyle and 50m butte

Is a weightlifter from Nauru. He finished in eighth place at the 2004 Olympic Games in the Men's 69

Is a weightlifter from Nauru. He finished in eighth place at the 2004 Olympic Games in the Men's 69 kg division. In December 2008, Yukio won a gold medal in the Commonwealth Weightlifting Championships in Limassol, Cyprus. Competing in the 77kg category,

A Russian-born New Zealand crossover singer. Her first solo album 'Into The West' went platinum in i

A Russian-born New Zealand crossover singer. Her first solo album 'Into The West' went platinum in its first week of sales in New Zealand, achieving four times platinum sales. She won two NZ Music Awards; 'Best female solo artist' and '42 Below' best selling album in New Zealand'. She has supported Amici and Russell Watson with two sold-out tours in Tokyo. Yulia's albums "Into the West" and "Montage" had three top 40 radio hits in New Zealand, "Into the West", "Angel" and "We're All Alone". She was also the lead singer in a pop duo with her husband Glyn MacLean, called the MacLeaNZ. Yulia has a contralto singing voice. [5]

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

Is an Australian water polo player from the gold medal squad of the 2000 Summer Olympics. She attended Riverside Girls High School. Higgins scored the winning goal during the gold medal game with 1.3 seconds left on the clock.

Is a retired athlete from New Zealand, the first woman from her country to win an Olympic gold medal

Is a retired athlete from New Zealand, the first woman from her country to win an Olympic gold medal. Williams, who grew up in Dunedin, is recalled naturally for her dramatic long jump gold medal at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, and for her world

Was an Australian pop singer who made the Top 40 charts in Melbourne & Sydney and was nationally kno

Was an Australian pop singer who made the Top 40 charts in Melbourne & Sydney and was nationally known for her TV appearances.She began her performing career early, commencing ballet lessons at the age of two and a half. This led to appearances in stage shows such as Sound of Music and Carnival. She took singing lessons in her mid-teens and was able to pass an audition for Australia's national pop music TV program. The Go! Show. She soon became a regular on this show doing songs like "Off & Running", "I Walk Alone" and The Toys "A Lovers Concerto". Signed to Go records, a record label spin-off from the show, Yvonne achieved her most chart success in 1965-66 with her version of the Tony Hatch song, "You're The One" b/w " Little People". In Dec 1965 she performed over Xmas in a tour for Australian troops in Vietnam.

Is an Australian opera singer. She is variously billed as a soprano, mezzo-soprano, or contralto.She

Is an Australian opera singer. She is variously billed as a soprano, mezzo-soprano, or contralto.She studied voice on a scholarship at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. She won the National Eisteddfod in Canberra, as well as number of other singing competitions.

An Australian soprano, particularly associated with Handel and Mozart roles.she first studied at the

An Australian soprano, particularly associated with Handel and Mozart roles.she first studied at the University of Sydney in science, hoping to become a biochemist, but decided to pursue a career in music instead. She studied first with Myra Lambert at the Sydney Conservatorium, and later won a schorlarship to study at the opera school at La Scala in Milan.After a year of study there she came to England, where after a few recitals and TV appearances, her breakthrough came on October 11, 1975, when she replaced, with only four days' notice, the soprano scheduled to sing in an Opera Rara concert performance of Donizetti 's Rosmonda d'Inghilterra at the Queen Elizabeth Hall. It was a triumph and the virtually unknown Kenny became an overnight star.

She is the sister of music producer and recording engineer Christopher Vallejo.

She is the sister of music producer and recording engineer Christopher Vallejo.

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

Is a football (soccer) goalkeeper who represented New Zealand at international level.Vale made her Football Ferns début as a substitute in a 0-1 loss to Russia on 28 August 1994, and finished her international career with 13 caps to her credit.