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BRISBANE

Most Famous People Born in Brisbane, Australia

Notable people

1,331

Peak decade

1980s

Median birth year

1967

Most distinctive

Legislative 60.5×

A Queensland capital whose bench is extraordinarily athletic and extraordinarily parliamentary at the same time. Brisbane's distinctive professions are legislative-assembly members at sixty times the global rate, rugby players, players of every other code, racers, swimmers, judges, and cricketers — a profile that reflects the city's role as the state capital plus one of the strongest sporting programmes in the country. The Bee Gees, Geoffrey Rush, and Kevin Rudd all belong to this bench, and the 20th century accounts for almost the entire list.