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SYDNEY

Most Famous People Born in Sydney, Australia

Notable people

4,402

Peak decade

1980s

Median birth year

1962

Most distinctive

Rugby 25.1×

A harbour city that exports athletes by the boatload. Almost a fifth of Sydney's notable births are professional players of one code or another — rugby league, rugby union, cricket, swimming, rowing — at concentrations no other Australian city quite matches. The non-sport half is dominated by actors and an unusually deep bench of the professional class of a city that has always been the New South Wales capital first and a global one second.