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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.
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 1900s Clear ×
John Farrow
1904 - 1963
Harry Hopman
1906 - 1985
Alan Marshal (actor)
1909 - 1961
Bobby Pearce (rower)
1905 - 1976
Daphne Akhurst
1903 - 1933
Ken G. Hall
1901 - 1994
Eleanor Dark
1901 - 1985
Robert Askin
1907 - 1981
Edward Ashley-Cooper
1904 - 2000
John Antill
1904 - 1986
Garfield Barwick
1903 - 1997
Nell Hall Hopman
1909 - 1968
Betty Stockfeld
1905 - 1966
Gordon Wellesley
1906 - 1980
Adrien Albert
1907 - 1989
Ena Gregory
1906 - 1993
Philip Lindsay
1906 - 1958
Kenneth Eather
1901 - 1993
Barbara Toy
1908 - 2001
John Conrad Jaeger
1907 - 1979
Ellis Irving
1902 - 1983
Mollie Gillen
1908 - 2009
Arthur Murch
1902 - 1989
Ralph Piddington
1906 - 1974
Victor Windeyer
1900 - 1987
Thistle Yolette Harris
1902 - 1990
Bill Wentworth
1907 - 2003
Thelma Bate
1904 - 1984
William Freshman
1902 - 1980
Henry Hanke
1901 - 1989
Moss Christie
1902 - 1978
Paulette McDonagh
1901 - 1978
Claire Weekes
1903 - 1990
Raymond McGrath
1903 - 1977
Keith Alfred Hindwood
1904 - 1971
Marcia Ralston
1906 - 1988
Helen Alma Newton Turner
1908 - 1995
Alan McGilvray
1909 - 1996
Albert Arlen
1905 - 1993
Dulcie Cooper
1903 - 1981
Normand Baker
1908 - 1955
Syd Ward
1907 - 2010
Kathleen Deery de Phelps
1908 - 2001
Margaret Holmes
1909 - 2009
Leslie Herron
1902 - 1973
Leslie Melville
1902 - 2002
Harris Horder
1900 - 1943
Alison Rehfisch
1900 - 1975
Anona Winn
1904 - 1994
Jim Cope
1907 - 1999
Cyril Walsh
1909 - 1973
Frederick Wood (historian)
1903 - 1989
Peter Phipps
1908 - 1989
Jim Taylor (explorer)
1901 - 1987
Kenneth Asprey
1905 - 1993
Eve Pownall
1901 - 1982
Roy Percy Cooper
1907 - 1976
George Heath (cinematographer)
1901 - 1968
Marjorie Chambers
1906 - 1989
Roy Levy
1906 - 1965
Fritz Langford-Smith
1904 - 1966
Eileen Louise Soper
1900 - 1989
Cecil Walker (Radsportler)
1900 - 1969
Stewart Wolfe Jamieson
1903 - 1975
Ernie Martin
1903 - 1996
John Howard (civil engineer)
1901 - 1986
Syd Einfeld
1909 - 1995
Demetrius Comino
1902 - 1988
Mary Ethel Hayter Florey
1900 - 1966
Alice Berry
1900 - 1978
Douglas Gardiner
1905 - 2001
Gordon Amos
1905 - 1995
John Alleyne (cricketer)
1908 - 1980
Norval Campbell
1908 - 1977
Gerry Matheson
1904 - 1964
Frederick Mair
1901 - 1959
Bryce Cooper
1905 - 1995
Leonard Leabeater
1906 - 1996
Dorothy Hawtree
1902 - 1981
Bob Steele (cricketer)
1901 - 1985
Jack Lynch (rugby league)
1900 - 1966
Leonard Vaughan
1908 - 1960
Ronald Eaton
1909 - 1960
Arthur Wells (Australian cricketer)
1900 - 1964
Reginald Gostelow
1900 - 1984
Leslie Campbell (cricketer)
1902 - 1970
George Chapman (cricketer)
1904 - 1986
Jack Carter (cricketer)
1907 - 1995
Roy Bubb
1900 - 1965
Leslie O'Brien (cricketer)
1905 - 1967
Maxwell Ward (cricketer)
1907 - 1983
Norman Morris (Australian cricketer)
1907 - 1982
Ernest O'Brien (cricketer)
1900 - 1935
Gordon Stewart (cricketer)
1906 - 1984
Henry Theak
1909 - 1979
Arthur Bridges
1901 - 1968
Eric Lewis (rugby league)
1909 - 1959
David Hunter (New South Wales politician)
1905 - 1981
Fred Green (Australian politician)
1900 - 1983
Harry Flower
1900 - 1970
Horace Grangel
1908 - 1970
Jerry Brien
1900 - 1962
Leycester Meares
1909 - 1994
William Ditchfield
1903 - 1991
Sadie Gale
1902 - 1950
Alf O'Connor
1900 - 1970
Norm Pope
1908 - 1985
Harry Bryant
1906 - 1963
Jack McCormack (rugby league)
1904 - 1996
George Agar (rugby league)
1902 - 1966
Arthur Greenup
1902 - 1980
Eric Bardsley
1903 - 1958
Ted Jessep
1904 - 1983
Richard Murden
1906 - 1997
Frank O'Connor (rugby league)
1906 - 1964
Otto Beeby
1906 - 1981
Jack Rosa
1905 - 1967
Thomas Murphy (Australian politician)
1906 - 1978
Gregor George
1904 - 1933
Arthur Toby
1903 - 1984
Arthur Finlay (rugby union born 1903)
1903 - 1981
Larry Newman (rugby union)
1902 - 1963
Clarrie Tupper
1908 - 1985
Chas Fennell
1902 - 1970
Frank O'Donnell (actor)
1907 - 1956
George Mackay (rugby union)
1906 - 1981
Ernie Lapham
1901 - 2000
Arthur Jamieson
Born 1901
Cecil Rhodes (rugby league)
1901 - 1966
Wal Ives
1906 - 1983
Reg Schuman
1909 - 1974
Iris Dexter
1907 - 1974
Gordon Stettler
1900 - 1951
John Crakanthorp
Born 1902
Ed Courtney Jr.
1905 - 1986