31.9559° S, 115.8606° E

PERTH

Most Famous People Born in Perth, Australia

Notable people

960

Peak decade

1980s

Median birth year

1970

Most distinctive

Polo 15.3×

The most isolated state capital on earth, and the roster reads like a ledger of wealthy colonial leisure with nowhere else to aim itself — a Polo bench running at better than fifteen times the global baseline, plus a thick Cricket, Golf and Rower culture grown out of the Swan River clubs. Heath Ledger and Judy Davis both left for London or Sydney without ever quite shedding the Perth vowels.