33.8678° S, 151.2100° E
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.
Standouts
Notable Births by Decade
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What Sydney Is Known For
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Player is Sydney's biggest profession — 19% of all notables (815).
Sydney over-indexes on rugby — 25.1× the global rate.
Sydney under-produces painter — only 0.5× the global rate.
Profession Mix Over Time
Each band shows a profession family's share of Sydney's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.
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- Filtered to 1860s Clear ×
Elizabeth von Arnim
1866 - 1941
Gilbert Murray
1866 - 1957
Selwyn Edge
1868 - 1940
Robert Garran
1867 - 1957
Hubert Murray
1861 - 1940
William Fleetwood Sheppard
1863 - 1936
J. J. Ferris
1867 - 1900
Sydney Deane
1863 - 1934
Sammy Jones
1861 - 1951
Margaret Windeyer
1866 - 1939
William Holmes (Australian general)
1862 - 1917
Percy Allan
1861 - 1930
Richard Dixon (sailor)
1865 - 1949
Adrian Knox
1863 - 1932
Philip Whistler Street
1863 - 1938
Dowell Philip O'Reilly
1865 - 1923
Frank Tidswell
1867 - 1941
John Patrick McGlinn
1869 - 1946
Percy Spence
1868 - 1933
Jane Foss Barff
1863 - 1937
Douglas McLean (rower)
1863 - 1901
Theodora Cowan
1868 - 1949
John Cottam
1867 - 1897
Robert Anderson (Australian general)
1865 - 1940
Albert J. Hanson
1867 - 1914
Gother Victor Fyers Mann
1863 - 1948
Robert Crawford (Australian poet)
1868 - 1930
Jennie Yeamans
1862 - 1906
Mat Davidson
1869 - 1949
William Wilks (Australian politician)
1863 - 1940
Walter Wearne
1867 - 1931
Jack Buckland
1864 - 1897
Sydney Christian
1868 - 1931
Charles Smith (cricketer, born 1864)
1864 - 1920
Edward McCausland
1865 - 1936
Sydney Austin
1866 - 1932
James Cleeve
1864 - 1909
Charles Patrick
1866 - 1919
Arthur Gregory
1861 - 1929
Albert Whiting
1866 - 1946
Albert Atkins
1867 - 1943
Charles Richardson (cricketer, born 1864)
1864 - 1949
Robert Brewster (cricketer)
1867 - 1962
William Richardson (New South Wales cricketer)
1866 - 1930
Ernest Hume
1869 - 1912
William Camphin
1867 - 1942
James Searle (cricketer)
1861 - 1936
Francis Downes (cricketer)
1864 - 1916
Michael Pierce (cricketer)
1869 - 1913
Henry Lawson (cricketer)
1862 - 1923
Alfred Clarke (Australian cricketer)
1868 - 1940
George Henry Abbott
1867 - 1942
Charles MacCormick
1862 - 1945
William Savigny
1864 - 1922
Arthur MacCormick
1864 - 1948
Augustus James
1866 - 1934
Francis McLean (politician)
1863 - 1926
William Dick (Australian politician)
1865 - 1932
Arthur Anderson (politician)
1860 - 1915
Syd Miller
1869 - 1909
Thomas Hicks (tennis)
1869 - 1956
May Summerbelle
1867 - 1947