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.
Standouts
Notable Births by Decade
Click a decade to filter the list below. Peak: 1980s with 194 notable births.
What Perth Is Known For
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Football is Perth's biggest profession — 15% of all notables (147).
Perth over-indexes on polo — 15.3× the global rate.
Perth under-produces writer — only 0.5× the global rate.
Profession Mix Over Time
Each band shows a profession family's share of Perth's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.
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- Filtered to 1940s Clear ×
Dennis Lillee
Born 1949
Kim Beazley
Born 1948
John Brosnan
1947 - 2005
Ken Freeman (astronomer)
Born 1940
Judy Nunn
Born 1945
Robert French
Born 1947
Marcus Feldman
Born 1942
Val Lehman
Born 1943
Joan London (Australian author)
Born 1948
John Dawkins
Born 1947
Brian Burke (Australian politician)
Born 1947
Kerry Hill
1943 - 2018
Robin Anderson
1948 - 2002
Ross Dunkerton
Born 1945
Barbara Young, Baroness Young of Old Scone
Born 1948
Brian Cadd
Born 1946
Bob Hodge (linguist)
Born 1940
Richard Alston (politician)
Born 1941
Margaret Burvill
1941 - 2009
Colin L. Masters
Born 1947
Iain Donald Campbell
1941 - 2014
Graeme Snooks
Born 1944
Mike Willesee
1942 - 2019
Fred Chaney
Born 1941
Frank Pyke
1941 - 2011
Jocelynne Scutt
Born 1947
Hal Gibson Pateshall Colebatch
1945 - 2019
David Irvine (diplomat)
Born 1947
Marshall Perron
Born 1942
Jo Vallentine
Born 1946
Barbara Wall
Born 1948
Bob Hammond
1942 - 2020
Mel Whinnen
Born 1942
John Williams (New South Wales state politician)
Born 1948
Rob Langer
Born 1948
Vincent Smith (television presenter)
1943 - 1991
Bob McMullan
Born 1947
Katherine Kessey
Born 1946
Terry Willesee
Born 1945
David Thomas King
Born 1946
Ron Boswell
Born 1940
Ric Smith
Born 1944
Graeme Martin
Born 1949
Shirley Finn
1940 - 1975
Ian Temby
Born 1942
Robert Bell (artist and curator)
1946 - 2018
Piers Maxwell Dudley-Bateman
1947 - 2015
Lex Watson
1943 - 2014
Barry MacKinnon
Born 1944
Peter Hill (Slawist)
Born 1945
Len Vlahov
1940 - 1997
Peter Smedley
1943 - 2019
Ron Edwards (Australian politician)
Born 1945
Kay Hallahan
Born 1941
John Quigley (politician)
Born 1948
Diana Warnock
Born 1940
Christine Barnetson
1948 - 2019
Gerard Sibbritt
Born 1942
Tom Hoad
Born 1940
Robert Hitchcock
Born 1944
Gerald Holohan
Born 1947
Bob Pearce
Born 1946
Peter Nattrass
Born 1941
David Andrich
Born 1941
Lance Armstrong (politician)
Born 1940
Kim Chance
1946 - 2017
Richard Alan Fox
Born 1943
Tom Marinko
1941 - 1981
Winston Crane
Born 1941
Tony Micale
Born 1948
Peter Shakespear
Born 1946
Diane Airey
Born 1943
Philip Gardiner
Born 1946
Glenys Godfrey
Born 1949
Peter Metropolis
Born 1944
Val Buffham-Norris
Born 1943
Justin Bianchini
Born 1941
Keith Punch
Born 1940
Doug Underwood
Born 1949
Gary Snook
Born 1947
Geraldine Wooller
Born 1941