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 1940s Clear ×
Spencer Martin
Born 1940
Peter Young (judge)
Born 1940
Stephen Hatton
Born 1948
Barclay Wade
Born 1944
Billy Moeller
Born 1949
Ross Collins (cricketer)
Born 1945
Peter Kelly (cricketer)
Born 1942
Lynn Marks
1942 - 1997
Alan Jacobson
Born 1942
Noeleen Batley
Born 1944
Bruce Best
Born 1945
Nina Mba
1944 - 2002
John Cole
Born 1946
Kevin Longbottom
1940 - 1986
Ron Crippin
Born 1947
Ron Corry
Born 1941
Janet Hogan
Born 1945
Gordon Guasco
1941 - 1970
Garrick Fay
Born 1948
Geoff Buckland
Born 1947
Terry Griffiths (politician)
1944 - 2009
George Evans (rugby league)
1941 - 2015
John Hudson (rower)
Born 1940
Kerry Owen
Born 1943
Molly Robson
Born 1942
Allan McKean
Born 1944
Earl Black (wrestler)
Born 1943
John Wilson (New South Wales cricketer)
Born 1947
Doug Moppett
1940 - 2002
Ruth Hall (scientist)
Born 1945
Brian Stacey
1946 - 1996
Peter Barter
Born 1940
Russell Turner
Born 1941
David Watson (Queensland politician)
Born 1945
Peter Green (physician)
Born 1947
Stuart St. Clair
Born 1949
Julie Campbell (vascular biologist)
Born 1946
Patricia Bergin
Born 1949
Nicholas Saunders (vice-chancellor)
Born 1946
David Mulready
Born 1947
Bruce Pollard
Born 1945
Peter Gray (bioengineer)
Born 1946
Stephen Lusher
Born 1945
Andrea Hull
Born 1949
Kerry Bartlett
Born 1949
John Williams (rugby union)
Born 1940
Stuart Macdougall
Born 1947
Graeme Macdougall
Born 1940
Lionel Woodward
Born 1942
Eric Tindall
Born 1944
Noel Thornton
1943 - 2018
Colin Rasmussen
1947 - 1997
Denise Bradley
1942 - 2020
Alan Skinner (rugby union)
Born 1942
Barry Cox (rugby league)
Born 1949
John McGhee
1945 - 1975
Eric Ellis (politician)
Born 1942
Vince Bruce
Born 1942
Terence Anderson (sport shooter)
Born 1946
Bob McLean (rugby union)
Born 1949
Sylvia Walton
Born 1941
Trevor Stegman
Born 1946
James Angus (scientist)
Born 1949
Sonny King (artist)
Born 1940
Sally Gearin
Born 1949