Famous People with Name Philip

Philip Ian Hodgins            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Philip Ian Hodgins: was an Australian poet.[1]Philip Hodgins was born in Shepparton, Victoria in 1959 and spent his childhood on his parent's dairy farm at nearby Katandra West. He went to school in Geelong and later moved to Melbourne where he worked for several years with a publishing house and before moving to live in Maryborough in central Victoria.Hodgkins' experience of farm life is strongly present through much of his poetry. His verse novella Dispossessed describe the last weeks of a poor rural family about to be evicted from their farm. Hodgins also wrote about Australian Rules football.

Philip Martin            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Philip Martin: was an Australian academic, poet, translator, critic and broadcaster.Born in Melbourne, Martin taught English at Monash University from 1964 and his poems have been published, anthologised and broadcast both in Australia and overseas.His poetic output was tragically cut short when he suffered a severe stroke in 1987. He lived through a long period of illness from that time until his death in 2005.An obituary of Philip Martin, written by Australian poet Kate Llewelynn was published in the Poet's Union magazine Five Bells in its Summer 2005-2006 edition

Philip Salom            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Philip Salom: a contemporary Australian poet and novelist.Growing up on a farm in Brunswick Junction (In the south-west of Western Australia.) Philip Salom had an isolated childhood before boarding at Bunbury during high school. While studying Agricultural Science at University of Western Australia he developed his passion for the arts, painting and singing in the university choir. Uninterested in his course he left university, took various casual jobs, and started writing on a 1972 painting trip to New Zealand. On returning to Perth he enrolled in Curtin University's Literature and Creative Writing course, one of the first of its kind in Australia.

Philip John Smyth            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Philip John Smyth: is an Australian former basketball player and previous head coach of the National Basketball League's Adelaide 36ers.Smyth played over 350 NBL games for the St Kilda Saints (1982), Canberra Cannons (1983-1992), the Adelaide 36ers (1993-1994) and the Sydne

Philip Grant Anderson            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Philip Grant Anderson: is an Australian former professional racing cyclist who was the first non-European to wear the yellow jersey of the Tour de France.There he won the Tour de l'Essone, the Tour de l'Hérault and the amateur version of the unofficial world time-trial champion