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 1870s Clear ×
Jack Lang (Australian politician)
1876 - 1975
Victor Trumper
1877 - 1915
Christopher Brennan
1870 - 1932
Horace Rice
1872 - 1950
Monty Noble
1873 - 1940
Hugh D. McIntosh
1876 - 1942
George Augustine Taylor
1872 - 1928
Stanley Doust
1879 - 1961
John Le Gay Brereton
1871 - 1933
William Dixson
1870 - 1952
Reggie Duff
1878 - 1911
Fred Leist
1878 - 1945
Agnes Bennett
1872 - 1960
John Saumarez Dumaresq
1873 - 1922
Arthur Hennessy
1876 - 1959
Willie Kelly (politician)
1877 - 1960
Samuel Walder
1879 - 1946
Henry Manning (politician)
1877 - 1963
Sydney Elliott Napier
1870 - 1940
James Heane
1874 - 1954
Henry Normand MacLaurin
1878 - 1915
Ethel Page
1875 - 1958
Armar Lowry-Corry, 5th Earl Belmore
1870 - 1948
Henry Barraclough
1874 - 1958
Alexander Jerrems
1874 - 1948
Walter Cresswell O'Reilly
1877 - 1954
Alick Mackenzie
1870 - 1947
Denis Lutge
1879 - 1953
Tom Dent (cricketer)
1879 - 1929
Eleanor Glencross
1876 - 1950
Friedrich Scholer
1874 - 1949
Joseph Lynch (athlete)
1878 - 1952
Harry Andreas
1879 - 1955
Stan Enfield
1873 - 1935
James S. Stening
1870 - 1953
Alf Hadden
1877 - 1936
Gother Clarke
1875 - 1917
Edward Kavanagh (Australian politician)
1871 - 1956
David Wilson (barrister)
1879 - 1965
Sidney Redgrave
1878 - 1958
Alexander Kermode
1876 - 1934
Ed Fry
1879 - 1968
Daniel Gee
1876 - 1947
Bert Folkard
1878 - 1937
William John Miles
1871 - 1942
Bertie Grounds
1878 - 1950
David Noonan (cricketer)
1876 - 1929
Alfred Sullivan
1872 - 1942
Arthur Furness
1873 - 1948
Albert Bowden
1874 - 1943
Arthur McBeath
1876 - 1945
Thomas Hartigan
1878 - 1963
Walter Duff
1876 - 1921
Harry Whiddon
1878 - 1935
Thomas Howard (Australian cricketer)
1877 - 1965
John Gould (cricketer)
1872 - 1908
Walter Pite
1876 - 1955
John Hodgkinson (cricketer)
1873 - 1939
Emile de Lissa
1871 - 1955
Edward Lloyd Jones
1874 - 1934
Norman Ebsworth
1878 - 1949
James Fitzgerald (Australian cricketer)
1874 - 1950
Hyram Marks
1872 - 1957
Inez Bensusan
1871 - 1967
Alex Kelly (rugby union)
1871 - 1913
Percy McNamara
1870 - 1940
Arch Boyd
1872 - 1905