Famous people from Australia
The most-searched people from Australia right now, with the latest news on each.
Aziz Behich
Australian soccer player
Josip Šimunić
Croatian footballer
Hana Mandlíková
Czech tennis player
Roy Emerson
Australian tennis player
Sally Pearson
Australian short-distance runner and hurdler
Stephanie Rice
Australian swimmer
Dawn Fraser
Australian swimmer and politician
Matthew Nicks
Matthew Nicks is a former professional Australian rules footballer and the current senior coach of the Adelaide Crows in the Australian Football League (AFL). Recruited from West Adelaide in the 1994 national draft, Nicks spent his entire playing career with the Sydney Swans between 1996 and 2005.
Natalie Barr
Natalie Ann Barr is an Australian television presenter, journalist, and news presenter.
Barnaby Joyce
Barnaby Thomas Gerard Joyce is an Australian politician who served as the deputy prime minister of Australia and the leader of the National Party from 2016 to 2018 and from 2021 to 2022. Now a member of One Nation, he has been the member of parliament (MP) for the New South Wales division of New England since 2013. Joyce previously held various ministerial positions in the Abbott, Turnbull, and Morrison governments.
Anne Aly
Anne Azza Aly is an Australian politician who has been a Labor member of the House of Representatives since the 2016 election, representing the electorate of Cowan in Western Australia. In 2025, Aly became Minister for Small Business, Minister for International Development and Minister for Multicultural Affairs, joining Albanese's cabinet. She held the Minister for Early Childhood Education and Minister for Youth portfolio in the Albanese ministry from 2022 to 2025.
Dane Gagai
Dane Gagai is a professional rugby league footballer who plays as a centre for the Brisbane Broncos in the National Rugby League, the Queensland Maroons in the State of Origin series and the Māori All Stars.
Isaac Humphries
Isaac Bradley Humphries is an Australian professional basketball player for the Adelaide 36ers of the National Basketball League (NBL). He played college basketball in the United States for the Kentucky Wildcats before making his professional debut in the NBL for the Sydney Kings in 2017. After two seasons in the NBA G League and making his NBA debut for the Atlanta Hawks in 2019, Humphries joined the Adelaide 36ers in 2020. He played two seasons for the 36ers before joining Melbourne United ...
Josh Giddey
Joshua James Giddey is an Australian professional basketball player for the Chicago Bulls of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He was selected by the Oklahoma City Thunder with the sixth overall pick in the 2021 NBA draft. Giddey is the youngest player in NBA history to record a triple-double, having done so at 19 years, 84 days old. He also became the first rookie since Hall of Famer Oscar Robertson in 1961 to record three consecutive triple-doubles.
Michelle Landry
Michelle Leanne Landry is an Australian politician who has been a member of the House of Representatives since the 2013 federal election, representing the Division of Capricornia. Landry served as the Assistant Minister for Children and Families (2018–2022) and as the Assistant Minister for Northern Australia (2020–2022) in the Morrison government. She is a member of the Liberal National Party of Queensland, and sits with the Nationals in federal parliament.
Carolyn Evans
Carolyn Maree Evans is an Australian academic administrator. She is currently the vice-chancellor of University of Melbourne.
Eddie McGuire
Edward Joseph McGuire is an Australian television and radio presenter, journalist, Australian Football League commentator and former TV executive. He is also an occasional Herald Sun newspaper columnist. He hosted Nine Network's Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? and later its spin-off, Millionaire Hot Seat from 2009 to 2023, Wednesday night episodes of Footy Classified, and Network 10's coverage of the Melbourne Cup Carnival.
Jason Cundy
Jason Victor Cundy is an English former professional footballer and radio broadcaster for Talksport who currently co-hosts The Sports Bar with Jamie O'Hara.
Billy Slater
William Slater, commonly known as Billy Slater, is an Australian rugby league coach and former professional player. Widely regarded as one of the greatest fullbacks in rugby league history, Slater played his entire National Rugby League (NRL) career with the Melbourne Storm, making 319 appearances and scoring 190 tries. He holds the club record for most tries and the NRL record for most tries scored by a fullback. Renowned for his speed, attacking instincts, positional awareness and support p...
Charles Wooley
Charles Wooley is a British-born Australian journalist, reporter, writer, TV personality and radio presenter and local politician, He started with ABC, before joining the Nine Network, he is perhaps best known as being a former reporter for the news magazine program 60 Minutes.
Mark Milligan
Australian association football player
Joshua Kennedy
Australian association football player
Matthew Spiranovic
Australian association football player
Hayden Foxe
Australian association football player