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People From Melbourne
This is a list of notable people from Melbourne, the capital city of Victoria, Australia. Native Melburnians The following were born or grew up in Melbourne. # * 360 – hip-hop rapper Back to top A * Daevid Allen – musician * Gordon Allpress – darts * Dennis Allen – criminal * Vanessa Amorosi – entertainer * Phil Anderson – cyclist * Bobi Andonov – singer * Peter Andre – entertainer/baddie * Beau Anderson – darts * Tina Arena – singer/entertainer * Asphyxia – puppeteer and children's author * Tilly Aston – rights activist for the blind * Stephany Avila – actress Back to top B * Merril Bainbridge – local singer * Dougie Baldwin – actor * Mike Baird – bank manager, former NSW premier * Eric Bana – comedian and actor * Adam Bandt – politician * Ron Barassi – Australian rules footballer * Frederick Oswald Barnett – social reformer * Jeremy Barrett – artist * Max Barry – writer * Kevin Bartlett – Australian rules foot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melbourne
Melbourne ( , ; Boonwurrung language, Boonwurrung/ or ) is the List of Australian capital cities, capital and List of cities in Australia by population, most populous city of the States and territories of Australia, Australian state of Victoria (state), Victoria, and the second most-populous city in Australia, after Sydney. The city's name generally refers to a metropolitan area also known as Greater Melbourne, comprising an urban agglomeration of Local Government Areas of Victoria#Municipalities of Greater Melbourne, 31 local government areas. The name is also used to specifically refer to the local government area named City of Melbourne, whose area is centred on the Melbourne central business district and some immediate surrounds. The metropolis occupies much of the northern and eastern coastlines of Port Phillip Bay and spreads into the Mornington Peninsula, part of West Gippsland, as well as the hinterlands towards the Yarra Valley, the Dandenong Ranges, and the Macedon R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dougie Baldwin
Dougie Baldwin (born 13 November 1996) is an Australian actor from Frankston, Victoria. He is best known for his starring role in the Netflix comedy television series ''Disjointed''. In 2013, Baldwin became the lead role in Emmy Award winning ABC3 children's television series ''Nowhere Boys'', as Felix Ferne. Since 2024, he has played Connor McAllister in the CBS sitcom '' Georgie & Mandy's First Marriage''. Early life Baldwin has been fond of performing and being in the limelight since his early childhood and would dress up and perform in front of his family and friends as young as four years old. From the ages of 9 to 14, Baldwin attended Helen O’Grady Drama Academy, where he quickly became active in community theatre productions. Career After drawing inspiration from his older sister Nathalie Antonia, who is also an actor, Baldwin took the step to pursue acting as a career in 2012, signing with an agent and soon cast as the lead characters in Australian television serie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hamish Blake
Hamish Donald Blake (born 11 December 1981) is an Australian comedian, television and radio presenter, actor and author. Since 2003, he has worked with Andy Lee as part of the comedy duo Hamish and Andy. The pair have performed live and on television and radio, most notably with their drive-time radio program '' Hamish & Andy''. As a solo performer, Blake has appeared on various Australian television programs, including the Melbourne International Comedy Festival's televised 2008 Great Debate, and has been a regular guest on TV programs such as '' Spicks and Specks'', '' Rove'', and '' Thank God You're Here''. In April 2012, Blake and Lee won a Logie Award for their television program '' Hamish and Andy's Gap Year''. Individually, Blake is a two-time winner of the Gold Logie Award for Most Popular Personality on Australian Television, winning the award in 2012 for ''Hamish and Andy's Gap Year'' and in 2022 for '' Lego Masters''. In 2022, Blake was the recipient of the TV We ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Travis Blackley
Travis Jarred Blackley (born 4 November 1982) is an Australian former professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Seattle Mariners, San Francisco Giants, Oakland Athletics, Houston Astros, and Texas Rangers. Blackley also played in the KBO League for the Kia Tigers and in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) for the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles. Aside from his time in Asia, Blackley also played in the Mexican League (LMB) for the Pericos de Puebla, in Liga Mexicana del Pacifico on the Aguilas de Mexicali and the Naranjeros de Hermosillo and the Brisbane Bandits & Melbourne Aces of the Australian Baseball League (ABL). Professional career Seattle Mariners Blackley was signed by the Seattle Mariners as an undrafted free agent on 29 October 2000. He began his professional career with the Single-A Everett AquaSox in . He had a 6–1 record with a 3.32 ERA in 14 starts. He also had 90 strikeouts in innings and held opponents to a .211 batting av ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Bertrand (Australian Sailor)
John Edwin Bertrand Order of Australia, AO (born 20 December 1946) is a yachtsman from Australia, who skippered ''Australia II'' to victory in the 1983 America's Cup, ending 132 years of American supremacy, and the only time Australia has won. Bertrand won the bronze medal in the Finn (dinghy), Finn competition at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal. In 2010 and 2016, he won the world Etchells class sailing championships. He is a life member of both the Royal Brighton Yacht Club in Melbourne, and the Sorrento Sailing Couta Boat Club. Biography John Bertrand was born in Melbourne, Victoria (Australia), Victoria. He wrote ''Born to Win'', ''The Power of a Vision,'' about the 1983 America's Cup victory, including insightful observations on the strategy for an unfavoured team against very long odds. During the 1983 competition, Bertrand and his crew deliberately employed their own psychological strategy ahead of the America's Cup breakthrough in refusing to refer to the all-conq ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monica Bello (basketball)
Monica Bello (born 16 September 1978) is a former Australian – Italian female professional basketball Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular Basketball court, court, compete with the primary objective of #Shooting, shooting a basketball (ball), basketball (appro ... player. External linksProfileat australiabasket.com 1978 births Living people Basketball players from Melbourne Australian women's basketball players Italian women's basketball players Point guards Sportswomen from Victoria (state) {{Australia-basketball-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russell Basser
Russell Basser (born 20 March 1960) is an Australian former water polo player who competed in the 1984 Summer Olympics. He is Jewish, and played in the Maccabiah Games in Israel in the 1980s. In 1985 he was named the Australian Jewish Sportsman of the Year. He was a torchbearer in Australia for the 2000 Sydney Olympics. ''Jews in Sports''. Basser went to from 1972-77."Russell Basser," caulfieldgrammarians. He graduated from the |
Kevin Bartlett (Aussie Rules Footballer)
Kevin Charles Bartlett AM (born 6 March 1947) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the Richmond Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL). Nicknamed "KB" or "Hungry" due to his appetite for kicking goals and apparent reluctance to handpass,Main (2006), p. 213 Bartlett is a Legend of the Australian Football Hall of Fame and is the first VFL/AFL player to have reached the 400-game milestone, a feat since achieved by five other players as of 2024; he has played the fourth-most games of any player in VFL/AFL history. He is a key member of a golden era in Richmond's history, playing in five premiership teams and winning five Jack Dyer Medals, equalling Jack Dyer's tally. Short and slender in stature, Bartlett possessed tremendous stamina, determination and a seemingly sixth sense to evade opposition players intent on negating his influence. He played much of his best football as Richmond's starting rover but adapted superbly when moved to the half-forw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Max Barry
Max Barry (born 18 March 1973) is an Australian author. He also maintains a blog on various topics, including politics. When he published his first novel, ''Syrup'', he spelled his name "Maxx", but subsequently has used "Max". Barry is also the creator of '' NationStates'', an online game created to help advertise '' Jennifer Government'' that eventually evolved into its own online community. He is the owner of the website "Tales of Corporate Oppression". He lives in Melbourne with his wife and daughters and worked as a marketer for Hewlett-Packard before he became a novelist. In early 2004 Barry converted his web site to a blog and began regularly posting to it. In the November 2004 issue of the magazine ''Fast Company'' the novel ''Company'' was ranked at number 8 on a list of the top 100 "people, ideas, and trends that will change how we work and live in 2005". Barry wrote the screenplay for ''Syrup,'' which was released in theatres on 7 June 2013. Universal Pictures has acq ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeremy Barrett (artist)
Jeremy Barrett (born 1936) is an Australian artist. His work is in the collection of the National Gallery of Victoria The National Gallery of Victoria, popularly known as the NGV, is an art museum in Melbourne, Victoria (state), Victoria, Australia. Founded in 1861, it is Australia's oldest and list of most visited art museums in the world, most visited art mu .... Notable exhibitions *"Jeremy Barrett: Survey Exhibition", solo show, 4 July - 23 August 2015, Castlemaine Art Gallery & Historical Museum, Castlemaine, Victoria, Australia References 1936 births Living people Artists from Melbourne Australian painters {{australia-artist-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frederick Oswald Barnett
Frederick Oswald Barnett (1883–1972) was an Australian social reformer. He was responsible for raising public awareness of inner-city poverty and leading the campaign for improved housing conditions. Early life Born on 28 September 1883 in Brunswick, Victoria, Brunswick, a suburb of Melbourne in Victoria, Australia, Barnett was the son of working-class parents. He attended the Albert Street Primary School until 1898 when he joined the Education Department, initially as monitor, and eventually as student-teacher. He resigned in 1902, to become a clerk in the civil service. By 1920 he had qualified as a public accountant and established his own practice. On 6 January 1909 he married Elizabeth Hyett, with whom he was to have four daughters and a son. Career Throughout his life, Barnett was influenced by the Christian socialist tradition of the Methodist Church. In 1923, shocked after a visit to a slum mission, he joined with a group of other young Methodists which resulted in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ron Barassi
Ronald Dale Barassi (27 February 1936 – 16 September 2023) was an Australian rules footballer, coach and media personality. Regarded as one of the greatest and most important figures in the history of the game, Barassi was the first player to be inaugurated into the Australian Football Hall of Fame as a "Australian Football Hall of Fame#Legends, Legend", and he is one of four Australian rules footballers to be elevated to the same status in the Sport Australia Hall of Fame Awards, Sport Australia Hall of Fame. When Barassi was five years old, his father, Melbourne Football Club player Ron Barassi Sr., died in action at Siege of Tobruk, Tobruk during World War II. Barassi was determined to follow in his father's footsteps at Melbourne, and heavy lobbying by the club to recruit him resulted in the introduction of the father–son rule, still in use by the Australian Football League, AFL today. Barassi subsequently lived with Norm Smith, Melbourne's then-coach and a former team ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
