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 1880s Clear ×
Annette Kellermann
1886 - 1975
Fanny Durack
1889 - 1956
Frederick Septimus Kelly
1881 - 1916
Leon Errol
1881 - 1951
Snowy Baker
1884 - 1953
Charles Coleman (actor)
1885 - 1951
Cecil Healy
1881 - 1918
Frederic Manning
1882 - 1935
Frank Hagney
1884 - 1973
Allan Riverstone McCulloch
1885 - 1925
Harold Hardwick
1888 - 1959
Reggie McNamara
1888 - 1971
Bob Craig (rugby)
1885 - 1935
George Frederick Boyle
1886 - 1948
Tibby Cotter
1884 - 1917
Olive Kelso King
1885 - 1958
Leslie Boardman
1889 - 1975
Sydney Middleton
1884 - 1945
Jack Hickey (rugby)
1887 - 1950
Millicent Preston-Stanley
1883 - 1955
Bill Whitty
1886 - 1974
Thomas Griffen
1884 - 1950
Albert Rosenfeld
1885 - 1970
Cyril Monk
1882 - 1970
Henry Hauenstein
1881 - 1940
J. Griffyth Fairfax
1886 - 1976
John Joseph Wardell Power
1881 - 1943
Spencer Crakanthorp
1885 - 1936
Arthur Halloway
1885 - 1961
Ashley Campbell (tennis)
1880 - 1943
Claud O'Donnell
1886 - 1953
Victor Thompson
1885 - 1968
John Ryrie
1886 - 1927
Norman C. Deck
1882 - 1980
Dudley Williams (judge)
1889 - 1963
Dan Frawley
1882 - 1967
Stuart Poulter
1889 - 1956
Geoffrey Knox
1884 - 1958
Katie Ardill
1886 - 1955
Arthur Conlin
1883 - 1947
George Shaw (footballer, born 1886)
1886 - 1971
Howard Hallett
1880 - 1970
John Fletcher (Queensland politician)
1884 - 1965
George McDonald (Australian politician)
1883 - 1951
Arthur Butler (rugby league)
1883 - 1947
Stanley Moore
1886 - 1948
Johnno Stuntz
1884 - 1917
Clarrie Wallach
1889 - 1918
Susie O'Reilly
1881 - 1960
George English (tenor)
1882 - 1972
Percy William Woods
1885 - 1937
Con Sullivan
1883 - 1964
Bryan Desmond Hughes
1887 - 1918
Edye Rolleston Manning
1889 - 1957
Leornard Garnsey
1881 - 1951
Charles Barnes (cricketer)
1882 - 1947
Bob Williams (rugby)
1886 - 1969
Alex Angus
1889 - 1947
Jeremiah Mahoney (cricketer)
1880 - 1966
Ray Norman
1889 - 1971
Ernest Bubb
1884 - 1946
Keith Docker
1888 - 1977
Daniel Cullen (New South Wales cricketer)
1889 - 1971
Harold Webster (cricketer)
1889 - 1949
Tom Clayton
1880 - 1909
Horrie Miller (rugby league)
1882 - 1967
Billy Cann
1882 - 1958
Bert Shortland
1881 - 1946
Aubrey Johnston
1882 - 1960
Robert Graves (rugby)
1883 - 1958
Arthur Nichols (cricketer)
1881 - 1937
Rupert Minnett
1884 - 1974
Gordon Black (cricketer)
1885 - 1954
Harry Goddard
1885 - 1925
David Taylor (Australian cricketer)
Born 1881
William McCloy
1886 - 1975
Arthur Munn
1888 - 1975
Thomas Foster (Australian cricketer)
1883 - 1974
George Tarr
1881 - 1968
Horrie Davis
1889 - 1960
Eric McElhone
1887 - 1981
Harry Dupain
1889 - 1959
Paddy Lane (cricketer)
1886 - 1937
Percy Dive
1881 - 1965
James Smith (New South Wales cricketer)
1880 - 1958
Leslie Minnett
1883 - 1934
Frjeda Blanchard
1889 - 1977
Phillip Docker
1886 - 1978
Percy Newton (cricketer)
1880 - 1946
Lou Jones (rugby league)
1884 - 1924
William Denham
1888 - 1969
Alf Felton
1889 - 1951
John Rosewell
1882 - 1931
Ted Fahey
1888 - 1950
Frederick Toby
1888 - 1963
John Fitzpatrick (cricketer)
1889 - 1952
Con Wallace
1881 - 1921
Edwin Kerby
1885 - 1971
Arthur Cuthbertson
1888 - 1925
Billy Dalton
1888 - 1956
Paddy Stokes
1884 - 1945
James Hughes (rugby union)
1886 - 1943
Percy Bolt
1885 - 1953
Richard Simpson (rugby union)
Born 1889
John Holdsworth (rugby union)
Born 1884
Myrtle Meggy
1887 - 1959
John Manning (rugby union)
Born 1880
Arthur Surridge
1884 - 1963
Wally Dymant
1888 - 1969