Table of contents
1 Art
2 Literature
3 Movies and TV
4 Music
5 Politics
6 Science
7 Sport
8 Other

Art

Literature

Movies and TV

Music

  • Tina Arena
  • Chris Bailey - frontman for punk rock band The Saints
  • Jimmy Barnes - singer
  • Betty Beath - composer
  • Richard Bonynge - conductor, pianist, husband of Dame Joan Sutherland
  • Philip Bracanin - composer
  • Daryl Braithwaite - singer
  • Joan Carden - soprano
  • Stuart Challender - conductor
  • Peter Dawson - baritone
  • Ross Edwards - composer
  • Peter Garrett - former lead singer and songwriter of Midnight Oil, currently a political activist
  • Lisa Gerrard, (1961?- ) - former Dead Can Dance(1981-1998) member, solo artist and movie score composer
  • Andy Gibb, (1958-1988), pop singer
  • Percy Grainger, pianist, composer (later became an American citizen)
  • Dame Joan Hammond - New Zealand born soprano
  • Sir Bernard Heinze - conductor
  • Matthew Hindson - composer
  • Michael Hutchence, (1960-1997), frontman for INXS
  • Natalie Imbruglia - singer
  • Daniel Johns, (born 1978), singer of Silverchair
  • Elena Kats-Chernin - Russian-born composer
  • Jeff Lang - guitar virtuoso
  • Sir Charles Mackerras - conductor
  • Dame Nellie Melba - opera singer
  • Kylie Minogue, (born 1968), singer
  • Olivia Newton-John, (born 1948), singer
  • Shannon Noll - singer, runner-up to Guy Sebastian in 2003 Australian Idol
  • Johnny O'Keefe - singer 'The Wild One'
  • Joseph Post - conductor
  • Helen Reddy - singer
  • Bon Scott, Malcolm & Angus Young - members of hard rock band AC/DC
  • Peter Sculthorpe - composer
  • Guy Sebastian - singer, winner of 2003 Australian Idol
  • Mark Seymour - lead singer of the Hunters & Collectors
  • Dame Joan Sutherland - soprano, known as 'La Stupenda'
  • Deniz Tek - of the punk rock band Radio Birdman
  • Keith Urban, (born NZ 1967), country musician
  • Carl Vine - composer
  • Gerard Willems - Dutch-born pianist
  • Simone Young - conductor
  • Mandawuy Yunupingu - singer & political activist

Politics

Science

Sport

Other

  • Daisy Bates - self-proclaimed anthropologist
  • Rev John Flynn - founder of the Royal Flying Doctor's Service
  • Megan Gale - model and actress
  • Rolf Harris - artist, singer and TV personality
  • Fred Hollows - eye doctor; move to List Of New Zealanders
  • Frank Hurley - photographer on Shackleton's ill-fated Antarctica expedition
  • Ned Kelly, (c. 1854-1880), bushranger
  • Sir Charles Kingsford Smith, (1897-1935), aviator
  • Elle MacPherson - model
  • Michael Mansell - Aboriginal activist
  • Sir Douglas Mawson - explorer
  • Peter Singer - philosopher, major influence on animal rights movement.
  • Truganini - so-called last of the Tasmanian Aborigines

See also: List of people by nationality