Celebrating Our Heroes
celebrating our heroes
Famous Australian June Birthdays
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Were you or someone you know born in June? You'll find below some notable Australian politicians, footballers, actors, musicians, athletes and even a couple of Brownlow Medal winners that have June birthdays.
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| Birth | Death | Aussies Born in June | A little bit about them . . . |
| 17 June 1867 | -1922 | Henry Lawson | Australian poet (Drovers Wife, Freedom on the Wallaby), honoured in 1949 with his likeness on an Australian postage stamp and in 1966 on the Australian $10 note. |
| 17 June 1955 | Gail Jones | Australian author (Sorry, Dreams of Speaking, Black Mirror) | |
| 17 June 1988 | Andrew Ogilvy | Australian basketball player, played for Chicago Bulls in NBA Summer League 2010 in the USA | |
| 18 June 1863 | -1909 | George Essex Evans | Australian poet (Women of the West) |
| 18 June 1891 | -1946 | Mae Busch | Australian actress (Foolish Wives, Unholy Three, Sons of the Desert, many Laurel & Hardy comedies)worked in silent and sound films in early Hollywood, has a star on Hollywood Walk of Fame |
| 18 June 1938 | Kevin Murray | Australian rules footballer, Brownlow Medal 1969, Australian Football Hall of Fame 2010 | |
| 18 June 1980 | Craig Mottram | Australian distance runner, silver medallist 2006 Commonwealth Games | |
| 19 June 1938 | Ian Smith | Australian actor and screenwriter (Neighbours, Prisoner, Bellbird, Homicide) | |
| 19 June 1968 | Alastair Lynch | Australian rules footballer, AFL Mark of the Year 1989 | |
| 19 June 1970 | Claire Mitchell-Taverner | Australian field hockey player, gold medallist 2000 Olympics, gold medal 1998 Commonwealth Games | |
| 19 June 1975 | Poppy Montgomery | Australian actress (Without a Trace, Glory Days, Strange Magic, True Blue) | |
| 20 June 1915 | -2002 | Dick Reynolds | Australian rules footballer and coach, Brownlow Medallist 1934, 1937, 1938, his statue erected 2004 at Parade of Champions, Melbourne Cricket Ground |
| 21 June 1948 | -2011 | Lionel Rose | Australian bantamweight boxer, first Indigenous Australian to win a world title (1968), first
Indigenous Australian named Australian of the Year (1968), Australian National Boxing Hall of Fame (2003) |
| 21 June 1974 | Craig Lowndes | Australian race car driver, V8 Supercar champion 1999, 2000, 2005 - 2007, Bathurst 1000 winner 1996 and Bathurst 1000 winner 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010 | |
| 21 June 1976 | Nigel Lappin | Australian rules footballer, All-Australian 2001-2004, Australian Asthma Sportsman of the Year 1998 | |
| 22 June 1953 | Bruce McAvaney | Australian sports broadcaster, Order of Australia Medal | |
| 22 June 1957 | Garry Beers | Australian musician, founding bass guitarist for rock group INXS (By My Side) | |
| 05 June 1987 | Lara Bingle | Australian fashion model, known for 2006 Tourism Australia ad "So where the bloody hell are you?" | |
| 23 June 1940 | Diana Trask | Australian singer (Sing Along With Mitch, Jack Benny TV show) | |
| 23 June 1941 | Roger McDonald | Australian author (1915, Slipstream, Rough Wallaby, Shearers' Motel), Miles Franklin Literary Award 2006 | |
| 23 June 1949 | Gordon Bray | Australian sports broadcaster, Member of the Order of Australia | |
| 23 June 1974 | Joel Edgerton | Australian actor (Secret Life of Us, Kinky Boots, Warrior) | |
| 24 June 1924 | -1991 | Brian Bevan | Australian rugby league footballer, featured on British 1995 stamp, only player inducted into both Australian (2005) and British (1988) rugby league Hall of Fame |
| 24 June 1951 | Raelene Boyle | Australian sprinter, silver medal (1968, 1972) Olympics, 7 gold medals (1970, 1974, 1982) and 2 silver medals (1978, 1982) Commonwealth Games, named a National Living Treasure in 1998 | |
| 24 June 1971 | Nicole Livingstone Nicole Stevenson |
Australian swimmer, TV sports commentator, backstroker, bronze medals 1992 & 1996 Olympics, silver medal 1996 Olympics | |
| 24 June 1972 | Robbie McEwen | Australian cyclist, silver medal at 2002 UCI Road Cycling World Championship | |
| 24 June 1980 | Andrew Jones | Australian race car driver, won 2004 Konica Minolta V8 Supercar Series | |
| 26 June 1910 | -1994 | Charles Spry | Australian security chief, first ASIO (Australian Security Intelligence Organisation) Director-General, was knighted on 1 January 1964 |
| 27 June 1963 | Paul Roos | Australian rules footballer and coach, Australian Football Hall of Fame, named All-Australian 7 times, named Australian Father of the Year 2008 | |
| 27 June 1979 | Benjamin Speed | Australian musician and film composer, 2010 APRA/AGSC Screen Music Award | |
| 28 June 1981 | Michael Crafter | Australian musician and singer-songwriter, member of bands: I Killed the Prom Queen, Confession, Carpathian, Bury Your Dead | |
| 29 June 1942 | Mike Willesee | Australian television presenter (Four Corners, A Current Affair, This Day Tonight), inducted into the TV Week Logies Hall of Fame 2002 | |
| 29 June 1953 | Colin Hay | Scottish-Australian musician and singer, co-founded the band Men at Work | |
| 29 June 1957 | Robert Forster | Australian musician and singer-songwriter, co-founded the band The Go-Betweens | |
| 29 June 1984 | Christopher Egan | Australian actor, (Home and Away, Kings, Vanished, Empire, Resident Evil: Extinction) | |
| 30 June 1944 | Glenn Shorrock | Australian singer, founding member of: Axiom, The Twilights, Little River Band. Inducted into ARIA Hall of Fame 1991 (solo artist) and 2004 (band member) | |
| 30 June 1948 | Galarrwuy Yunupingu | Aboriginal leader and land rights activist, one of 100 Australian National Living Treasure, 1978 Australian of the Year, member of the Yolngu people | |
| 30 June 1960 | Murray Cook | Australian musician and songwriter, wearing his red shirt he's best known as a founding member of the children's band The Wiggles. 2010 was made a Member of the Order of Australia | |
| 30 June 1978 | Ben Cousins | Australian rules footballer, Brownlow Medal 2005 |
