Discover famous Australians born in the month of February! From actresses and singers to television personalities, there are plenty of ways to get inspiration from our February celebrities.
WERE YOU or someone you know born in February? You’ll find below some notable Australian politicians, footballers, actors, musicians, athletes and even our Man From Snowy River, Banjo Paterson, that have February birthdays.
| JAN | 1-15 16-31 | APR | 1-15 16-30 | JULY | 1-15 16-31 | OCT | 1-15 16-31 |
| FEB | 1-15 16-29 | MAY | 1-15 16-31 | AUG | 1-15 16-31 | NOV | 1-15 16-30 |
| MAR | 1-15 16-31 | JUNE | 1-15 16-31 | SEPT | 1-15 16-30 | DEC | 1-15 16-31 |
February Birthdays
| Birth | Death | Born in February | A little bit about them . . . |
| 01 Feb 1985 | Jodi Gordon | Australian model and actress (Home and Away, Blood Brothers, The Cup), 2006 Logie Award | |
| 01 Feb 1931 | Roger David Covell | Australian musicologist, critic (Sydney Morning Herald principal music critic) and author (Australia’s Music: Themes of a New Society), 2006 Classical Music Award, 1993 Pascall Prize for Critical Writing | |
| 01 Feb 1947 | Normie Rowe | Australian singer (Que Sera Sera, Ooh La La, It’s Not Easy) and actor (Sons & Daughters), Variety Clubs of Australia National Ambassador, 1991 TV infamous on-air melee over disparaging remarks talkback radio host Ron Casey made about Normie’s Vietnam service | |
| 02 Feb 1888 | -1969 | Frederick Lane | Australian swimmer, first person to represent Australia in swimming at an Olympic Games, won 2 Gold Medals 1900 Paris Olympics |
| 02 Feb 1958 | Fiona Wood | British-Australian, well-known for invention of spray-on-skin for burn victims greatly reducing scarring, led team to save 2002 Bali bombing burn survivors, Australian of the Year 2005 | |
| 03 Feb 1920 | -2013 | Tony Gaze | Australian decorated World War II flying ace (488 combat missions), awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross 3 times becoming the only Australian in WWII to achieve this honour, after the war became a race car driver, helped to develop Australian motorsport |
| 03 Feb 1944 | Trisha Noble (Patsy Ann Noble) | Australian singer using the name Patsy Ann Noble (Like I’m in Love, Busy Lips, Good Looking Boy) and actress using the name Trisha Noble (Strike Force, The Private Eyes, Star Wars Episode II and III) | |
| 03 Feb 1948 | Les Twentyman | Australian youth outreach worker and community activist, worked at Open Family Australia (youth refuge house in Victoria), runs 20th Man Fund (youth services) | |
| 03 Feb 1976 | Isla Fisher | Australian actress (Paradise Beach, Home and Away, Scooby-Doo, Wedding Crashers, Definitely Maybe) | |
| 04 Feb 1893 | -1988 | Raymond Dart | Australian anthropologist, best known for involvement in 1924 discovery in South Africa of the first fossil ever found of Australopithecus Africanus (extinct hominid closely related to humans), later worked over 20 years with IAHP an organization treating brain injured children |
| 04 Feb 1937 | John Devitt | Australian swimmer, gold medal 1956 & 1960 Olympics and 3 Gold Medals at 1958 Commonwealth Games | |
| 04 Feb 1975 | Natalie Jane Imbruglia | Australian actress (Neighbours, Johnny English, Closed for Winter), singer-songwriter (Tom, Big Mistake), judge on X Factor 2010, MTV Award for Best New Artist 1998, 6 ARIA Awards in 1998, and 2 ARIA Awards in 1999 | |
| 04 Feb 1980 | Cameron Muncey | Australian guitarist and vocalist, member rock band Jet (Radio Song, Are You Gonna Be My Girl, I Spy I Spy, Bring It on Back), APRA Award 2006, 2007 | |
| 05 Feb 1972 | Crown Princess Mary Mary Elizabeth Donaldson | Australian married to Crown Prince Frederik (14 May 2004) became Her Royal Highness Crown Princess of Denmark, Countess Mary of Monpezat, she gave birth to Prince Christian (2005), Princess Isabella (2007), and in 2011 twins Prince Vincent and Princess Josephine | |
| 05 Feb 1976 | John Aloisi | Australian footballer, league total of 438 games and 118 goals, his penalty kick against Uruguay was voted by Sport Australia Hall of Fame as one of three of the greatest moments in Australian sporting history | |
| 06 Feb 1952 | Richard Charsworth | Australian women Hockeyroos head coach when team won gold at Olympics 1996, 2000 & at Commonwealth Games 1998), Sport Australia Hall of Fame 1987, Australian Sports Medal 2000, Federal Member for Perth (Labor Party) 1983-1993 | |
| 06 Feb 1954 | Peter Bensley | Australian actor (Class of ’74, Waterloo Street, Young Doctors, Restless Years, Prisoner, Neighbours, Home and Away, Water Rats, Packed to the Rafters), 1980’s nude photo (strategically placed scuba gear) of Peter was the centrefold in Cleo magazine (Jack Thompson in Cleo was first-ever nude male centrefold in Australia) | |
| 06 Feb 1970 | Mark Hutton | Australian baseball pitcher, played in USA major leagues (NY Yankees, Cincinnati Reds, Florida Marlins, Colorado Rockies), member of Australia national baseball team in the 2000 Summer Olympics | |
| 06 Feb 1983 | Jamie Whincup | Australian race car driver, V8 Supercars champion (2008, ’09, ’11), Bathurst 1000 winner (2006, ’07, ’08) | |
| 07 Feb 1912 | -1981 | Russell Drysdale | Australian artist, virtually blind in his left eye since age 17 yet he became famous for painting the remote Australian landscape and people |
| 07 Feb 1941 | Peter Foxhall | English-Australian evangelist, author (Odd Socks: God’s Beloved Eccentrics), ran Rainbow Ministries | |
| 08 Feb 1884 | -1953 | Reginald “Snowy” Baker | Australian athlete (played 26 sports, 2 international rugby caps for Australia, silver medal 1908 Olympics for boxing) and actor (Enemy Within, Man from Kangaroo, Shadow of Lightning Ridge), he taught many Hollywood stars how to ride, fence and swim (Elizabeth Taylor, Shirley Temple, Greta Garbo, and Rudolph Valentino) |
| 09 Feb 1897 | -1935 | Charles Edward Kingsford-Smith | Australian aviator, first trans-Pacific flight from USA to Australia 1928 in the Southern Cross, first non-stop crossing Australian mainland, first flights between Australia and New Zealand, flew from Australia to London in a record 10.5 days, served at Gallipoli as a motorcycle despatch rider, earned his pilot’s wings in 1917 in Royal Flying Corps, Military Cross for gallantry in battle (shot down and injured in 1917), worked as a barnstormed in USA and in Australia, flew under Cowra traffic bridge for fun, disappeared flying from Allahabad India to Singapore 1935 trying to break the England-Australia speed record, his body was never recovered |
| 09 Feb 1929 | -2005 | Clement Meadmore | Australian-American sculptor, known for his massive outdoor steel sculptures, author (How to Make Furniture without Tools), designed furniture for several years |
| 09 Feb 1940 | J. M. Coetzee John Maxwell Coetzee | South African-Australian novelist, 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature, first writer to be awarded the Booker Prize twice 1993 & 1999, three time winner CNA Prize, novels (Dusklands, Life & Times of Michael K, Age of Iron, Diary of a Bad Year), film & TV (Dust, Lives of Animals, Disgrace) | |
| 09 Feb 1944 | Derryn Hinch | Australian media personality (Melbourne radio), police reporter, foreign correspondent, TV personality (Beauty and the Beast, Hinch, Midday Show), publicly identified a man on trial who was previously convicted of indecent assault with a minor yet was running a youth camp, for letting the public know about it Hinch was convicted of contempt of court, fined $10,000 and jailed for 12 days | |
| 10 Feb 1944 | -1992 | Peter Allen born Peter Woolnough | Australian singer, songwriter (I Still Call Australia Home, I Go to Rio, Legs Diamond), first male dancer to dance with the Rockettes in Radio City Music Hall, many of his songs were recorded by others (I Honestly Love You, Don’t Cry Out Loud), once married to Liza Minnelli, his ashes were scattered at sea, stage musical The Boy from Oz was based on his life |
| 10 Feb 1970 | Melissa Doyle | Australian television personality (Today Tonight, Sunrise, Where Are They Now, The Zoo), author (Working Mother’s Survival Guide) | |
| 11 Feb 1965 | Vicki Wilson | Australian netballer, won gold medals with her team Olympics 1999, 1995, 1991 and gold medal at 1998 Commonwealth Games, Sport Australia Hall of Fame 2004, Australian Netball Hall of Fame 2008 | |
| 11 Feb 1982 | Neil Robertson | Australian snooker player, at age 14 was youngest player to make a century break in an Australian ranking event, won 2010 World Championship, 2007, 2011, 2011 World Open, only Aussie to win a ranking event | |
| 11 Feb 1969 | Alex Papps | Australian actor (Home and Away, Henderson Kids, Blue Heelers, Neighbours, Saddle Club, Flying Doctors, MDA, Stingers), TV host (The Factory, ABC’s Play School), 1988 Logie Award | |
| 11 Feb 1948 | Peter Conrad | Australian academic specializing in English literature, Rhodes Scholar, writer of features and reviews (for New York Times, New Yorker, Observer), author (Behind the Mountain: Return to Tasmania), teacher at Oxford Uni. | |
| 12 Feb 1958 | -2006 | Grant McLennan | Australian musician, co-founder of The Go-Betweens (Unkind and Unwise, Send Me a Lullaby), his 1983 song Cattle and Cane named by APRA as one of 30 greatest Aussie songs of all time, 2005 ARIA Award |
| 12 Feb 1959 | Sigrid Thornton | Australian actress (Underbelly 3, Little Oberon, Sea Change, Whipping Boy, Father Dear Father, Last Outlaw, Far Country, Inspector Gadget 2, Man from Snowy River 1 & 2), known for her ongoing work with World Vision, Royal Children’s Hospital, Vision Australia and other charities, Logie Award 2000, 1984 | |
| 12 Feb 1979 | Jesse Spencer | Australian actor (House, Neighbours, Death in Holy Orders, Winning London, Uptown Girls, Swimming Upstream, Lorna Doone), plays violin in Band From TV music group with includes Hugh Laurie (lead in House) | |
| 12 Feb 1985 | Saskia Burmeister | Australian actress (Hating Alison Ashley, Sea Patrol, Underbelly Razor, Home and Away, Blue Heelers, Ned Kelly, Water Rats), AFI Award 2006 | |
| 13 Feb 1921 | -1993 | Leonard Meares | Australian writer (Battle of Jericho Street, Dead Man Smiling, Rescue a Tall Texan, Jo Jo and the Private Eye, Major and the Miners), wrote over 740 novels mostly westerns, used pseudonym Marshall McCoy, Marshall Grover, Ward Brennan and Glenn Murrell, he could turn out as many as 30 books in one year |
| 13 Feb 1939 | Andrew Peacock | Australian politician, federal leader of the Liberal Party (1983-1985 and 1989-1990), ran against Prime Minister Bob Hawke but lost (1990), Australian Ambassador to the USA (1996-1999), past President Boeing Australia, had a well-publicised relationship with Shirley MacLaine | |
| 14 Feb 1934 | -1985 | Neil Brian Davis | Australian photojournalist, achieved worldwide recognition for his work during the Vietnam War and other Indochinese conflicts, earned the ire of the US military for filming the perspective of both sides of the Vietnam War, was wounded several times almost losing a leg, briefly imprisoned in Syria accused of spying for Israel (1981), while filming a minor Thai coup attempt in Bangkok he was killed by shrapnel fired by a tank, Logie Awards Hall of Fame 1986 (posthumously) |
| 14 Feb 1934 | Marlene Matthews | Australian sprinter, 2 bronze medals Olympics 1956, 1 silver & 2 gold medals Commonwealth Games 1958, Sports Australia Hall of Fame 1985 | |
| 15 Feb 1930 | Bruce Dawe Donald Bruce Dawe | Australian teacher and poet (No Fixed Address, An Eye for a Tooth, Just a Dugong at Twilight, Heat-Wave), Braille Book of the Year 1979, Dame Mary Gilmore Medal 1973, has four university degrees all completed by part-time study (B.A., M. Litt., M.A., Ph. D.) | |
| 15 Feb 1934 | -2005 | Graham Cyril Kennedy | Australian radio, TV and film performer, known as the King of Australian television, started in radio as a news runner at ABC studios and then in the record library at 3UZ, eventually going on-air with (and learning from) the popular Nicky Nicholls (early 1950s), first appearance on TV was in March 1957 on a Red Cross telethon, his career really started May 1957 In Melbourne Tonight (similar to American Tonight Show format), later the Graham Kennedy Show (Feb 1960), Hall of Fame Gold Logie 1998, Logie Awards in 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1973, 1974, 1978, following his wishes, his ashes were scattered at sea |
| 15 Feb 1955 | Bev Francis | Australian powerlifter and female bodybuilder, broke more than 40 powerlifting records, won 6 powerlifting championships, first woman to officially bench press over 300 pounds, won the 1982 Australian national shot put championships, 1st place Pro World Championship of Bodybuilding 1987, International Federation of Body Builders Hall of Fame 2000, International Powerlifting Federation Hall of Fame 1987, appeared in the movie Pumping Iron II: The Women | |
| 15 Feb 1974 | Jodie McMullen | Australian actress (Requiem, Jack of Diamonds), Miss Australia 1996, Miss Congeniality (Miss Universe pageant) 1996 |
| Birth | Death | Born in February | A little bit about them . . . |
| 16 Feb 1929 | -2010 | Peter Porter | Australian poet (Possible Worlds, Max Is Missing, Better Than God, Automatic Oracle, Dragons in Their Pleasant Places), 2002 Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry, 1990 Australian Literature Society Gold Medal |
| 16 Feb 1967 | Alyssa Jane Cook | Australian actress (E Street, Above the Law, Home and Away, Beauty and the Beast), Alyssa’s daughter Georgia-May Davis is a member of Young Talent Time | |
| 16 Feb 1973 | Cathy Freeman Catherine Astrid Salome Freeman | Australian athlete, at age 16 became first Aboriginal to win a Gold Medal at the Commonwealth Games, Olympic Games medallist (silver 1996, gold 2000), Commonwealth Games medallist (gold 1990, silver and 2 gold 1994, gold 2002), World Championships (gold 1999, gold 1992, bronze 1995), dramatically lit the Olympic Flame at Sydney 2000 Summer Olympics, Australian of the Year 1998, tattooed mid-way between her shoulder and elbow on the side facing spectators when she runs it says “Cos I’m Free” | |
| 17 Feb 1848 | -1920 | Louisa Lawson | Australian suffragist, writer (An Australian Song, The Digger’s Daughter, A Woman’s Love), published monthly The Dawn was Australia’s first journal produced solely by women (1888-1905), Louisa is considered the Mother of Suffrage in NSW when in 1902 women were finally given the vote (unfortunately did not include Indigenous Australians), mother of famed Aussie poet Henry Lawson |
| 17 Feb 1864 | -1941 | Banjo Paterson Andrew Barton Paterson | Australian poet (Waltzing Matilda, The Man From Snowy River, Clancy of the Overflow, A Dream of the Melbourne Cup, his image appears on the $10 note and in 1981 a postal stamp, more information on our Banjo Paterson page plus over 30 poems and stories |
| 17 Feb 1909 | -1979 | Marjorie Lawrence | Australian soprano who performed all over the world (Paris, Metropolitan Opera in New York City, Mexico), her autobiography was made into the 1955 film Interrupted Melody, she was stricken with polio in 1941 with paralysis in both legs undertook Sister Kenny’s treatment of muscle stimulation, during WWII sitting in a chair she performed charity concerts to entertain the troops in Australia, was awarded the cross of the Legion d’honneur for her work in France |
| 17 Feb 1934 | Barry Humphries John Barry Humphries | Australian comedian, TV host, best known for his delightful comedic alter ego Dame Edna Everage (Dame Edna Experience, Dame Edna’s Neighbourhood Watch, Dame Edna The Royal Tour), Tony Award 2000, Barry collects books and reportedly has over 20,000 in his in his London house, he was the voice of Bruce the Shark in the 2003 film Finding Nemo | |
| 17 Feb 1962 | -1999 | David McComb | Australian singer, songwriter of the band The Triffids (Bury Me Deep in Love, Raining Pleasure, Falling Over You), APRA named his 1986 song Wild Open Road as one of the 30 greatest Australian songs of all time, author (Beautiful Waste: Poems by David McComb) |
| 18 Feb 1883 | -1956 | Jessie Litchfield Jessie Sinclair Phillips | Australian author and Northern Territory pioneer, mother of seven she published Far North Memories (1930) about her experiences, was the Darwin press representative for a variety of papers including Reuters, first Justice of the Peace in the Northern Territory (1955), her ashes were scattered over Darwin |
| 18 Feb 1967 | Andrew Daddo | Australian author (Flushed, Good Night Me, Youse Two, It’s All Good), TV personality (Worlds Greatest Commercials, The Great Outdoors, The One), did the voice-over for The Apprentice Australia, brother of Cameron and Lochie Daddo (actors, TV personality) | |
| 18 Feb 1970 | Tammy McIntosh | Australian actress (All Saints, Police Rescue, Flying Doctors, Stingers, Farscape, Sea Patrol) | |
| 19 Feb 1946 | Peter Hudson | Australian rules footballer, kicked 1,874 goals in senior matches (1963-1981), averaged over 7 goals a game over his entire career, All Australian 1966 & 1969, Australian Football Hall of Fame 1996 | |
| 19 Feb 1971 | Lisa McCune | Australian actress (Blue Heelers, Sea Patrol), Logie Award 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000 | |
| 20 Feb 1934 | Neil Kerley Donald Neil Kerley | Australian football player and coach, only South Australian National Football League coach to win premierships at four clubs over three decades, Australian Football Hall of Fame 1997 | |
| 21 Feb 1937 | Ronald William Clarke | Australian athlete, Mayor of Gold Coast Queensland (2004), multiple record-breaking distance runner, during a 44-day European tour broke 12 world records (1965), bronze medal 1964 Olympics, Commonwealth Games 2 silver medals in 1966, one silver medal 1962 and 1970, at age 19 was chosen to light the Olympic Flame during Opening Ceremony 1956 Melbourne Olympics, at age 69 was chosen to be one of the four final runners who carried the Queen’s Baton at Opening Ceremony Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth Games | |
| 22 Feb 1962 | -2006 | Steve Irwin Stephen Robert Irwin | Australian naturalist, wildlife expert and documentary host (The Crocodile Hunter), zoo owner (Australia Zoo), originally his parent’s zoo was called Queensland Reptile and Fauna Park but was renamed Australia Zoo in 1992, first episode of The Crocodile Hunter was actually film of Steve and Terri’s honeymoon spent trapping crocodiles together, Steve died 4 September 2006 after being pierced in the chest by a stingray barb while filming an underwater documentary (Ocean’s Deadliest), Steve was survived by his wife Terri Raines Irwin and their children Bindi Sue Irwin (born 24 July 1998) and Robert Clarence Irwin (born 1 December 2003), two newly discovered animals have been named after Steve – in 1997 Irwin’s turtle (Elseya irwini) and the rare species of Queensland air-breathing land snail (Crikey steveirwini) in 2009 .. editor – yes, it’s true |
| 23 Feb 1890 | -1925 | Lottie Lyell Charlotte Edith Cox | Australian actress, screenwriter, filmmaker, known as Australia’s first film star (Captain Midnight, The Bush King, The Romantic Story of Margaret Catchpole, ‘Neath Austral Skies, Australia Calls, The Sentimental Bloke, Ginger Mick), her acting and writing spanned the early years of Australian silent film 1911 to 1925 |
| 23 Feb 1891 | -1978 | Harold Horder | Australian rugby league player, regarded as one of the greatest winger to play the game, named one of Australia’s 100 Greatest Players (1908-2007), Australian Rugby League Hall of Fame 2004 |
| 23 Feb 1908 | -1988 | William McMahon | 20th Prime Minister of Australia (1971-72), Australian Liberal Party, longest serving Prime Minister to have never won an election, longest continuously serving government minister in Australian history (21.5 years) |
| 24 Feb 1942 | David K Williamson | Australian playwright (also screenplays and teleplays) (Removalists, Stork, Gallipoli, Duet for Four, Phar Lap, Year of Living Dangerously), Australian Film Institute (AFI) Award 1977, 1981, 1987, 2009, Sydney Theatre Company box office revenue from his plays has grown to well over a million dollars each year (1998-2005), he is one of Australia’s best-known playwrights | |
| 24 Feb 1942 | Colin Bond | Australian race car driver, 1st place Australian Rally Championship 1971, 1972, and 1974, V8 Supercar Hall of Fame 2002 | |
| 24 Feb 1964 | Russell Ingall | Australian race car driver, British Formula Ford Champion 1993, won 1995 and 1997 Bathurst 1000, won V8 Supercar Championship Series 2005 | |
| 24 Feb 1967 | Brian Schmidt Brian Paul Schmidt | American-Australian astrophysicist, Nobel Prize in Physics 2011, donated $100,000 of Nobel Prize money to PrimaryConnections program which assists primary school teachers, Vice-Chancellor of Australian National University (ANU), astrophysicist at Mount Stromlo Obervatory, Shaw Prize in Astronomy 2006, Harvard University Bok Prize 2000, Gruber Cosmology Prize 2007, with his wife operate Maipenrai Vineyard and Winery since 2000 in Sutton near Canberra, at Nobel Prize Ceremonies in Stockholm, presented King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden with a bottle of wine from his winery, appointed government’s Australian Wine Research Institute | |
| 24 Feb 1976 | Bradley McGee | Australian racing cyclist, Olympics (gold and silver 2004, bronze 2000, 2 bronze 1996), Commonwealth Games (2 gold 1994, 2 gold 1998, gold 2002) | |
| 24 Feb 1977 | Jason Akermanis | Australian rules footballer, All-Australian team 1999, 2001, 2002, 2004, Brownlow Medal 2001, to communicate with his wife Megan’s hearing-impaired parents he learned Auslan (sign language of the Australian deaf community) | |
| 24 Feb 1981 | Lleyton Glynn Hewitt | Australian tennis player, won 2000 US Open men’s doubles, 2001 US Open and 2002 Wimbledon men’s singles, Tennis Masters Cup 2001, 2002, member of Australian Davis Cup team that won the Davis Cup in 1999 and 2003, Young Australian of the Year 2003 | |
| 25 Feb 1845 | -1918 | George Houstoun Reid | 4th Prime Minister of Australia (1904-05), Australian Free Trade Party, born in Scotland and migrated to Australia when he was 7, appointed in 1910 as Australia’s first High Commissioner in London |
| 25 Feb 1938 | Herb Elliott Herbert James Elliott | Australian athlete, environmentalist, humanitarian, gold medal 1960 Olympics, 2 gold medals 1958 Commonwealth Games, one of the bearers of the Olympic Torch at Opening Ceremony 2000 Olympics, he is one of Australia’s National Living Treasures | |
| 25 Feb 1963 | Doris Younane | Australian actress (McLeod’s Daughters, Heartbreak High, Mortgage, Death in Brunswick, Heartbreak Kid) | |
| 25 Feb 1969 | Kerry Dienelt | Australian softball catcher, bronze medal 1996 and 2000 Olympics, member Australian national team, member NCAA championship squad 1988-1990 | |
| 25 Feb 1970 | Libby Tanner | Australian actress (Pacific Drive, All Saints, fireflies, HeadLand, Scorched, Rescue Special Ops) | |
| 25 Feb 1979 | David Hoflin | Swedish-Australian actor (Ocean Girl, Neighbours, Head Start, Alcatraz) | |
| 26 Feb 1945 | -2006 | Peter Geoffrey Brock | Australian motor racing driver, automotive designer and manufacturing consultant, motorsports champion, V8 Supercar Hall of Fame 2001, won 1972 Bathurst 500, Bathurst 1000 – 1975, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1987 |
| 26 Feb 1986 | Teresa Palmer | Australian actress (December Boys, Bedtime Stories, Sorcerer’s Apprentice, Take Me Home Tonight) | |
| 27 Feb 1929 | -2008 | Jack Gibson | Australian rugby league footballer and coach, best remembered for his introduction into the sport new coaching innovations and training methods, reporters liked him for his notable quotes such as “The day that God invented Rugby League he didn’t do anything else but sit around and feel good”, so well respected that when he died a minute’s silence was held for him at all rugby league matches that weekend |
| 27 Feb 1936 | Ronald Dale Barassi | Australian Rules footballer and coach, one of the most important figures in the history of Australian football, coached 515 games and 4 premierships, All Australian 1956, 1958, 1961, first player inaugurated into Australian Football Hall of Fame as a Legend (2006) | |
| 27 Feb 1940 | -2011 | Bill Hunter William John Hunter | Australian actor (Ned Kelly, Gallipoli, Muriel’s Wedding, On the Beach, Kangaroo Jack, Australia, Adventures of Priscilla Queen of the Desert, Strictly Ballroom), AFI Award 1978, Bill’s portrait by artist Jason Benjamin won the Packing Room Prize at the Archibald 2005 |
| 27 Feb 1973 | Peter Andre | British-Australian musician (Mysterious Girl, Flava, Behind Closed Doors, Defender, Perfect Night), author (My World in Pictures and Words), released woman’s fragrance (Unconditional, Mysterious Girl) | |
| 27 Feb 1977 | James Wan | Malaysian-Australian producer, screenwriter, film director (Saw, Dead Silence, Death Sentence, Insidious) | |
| 28 Feb 1961 | Mark William Latham | Australian politician and author (Latham Diaries, Loner An Inside Labor Tragedy, A Conga Line of Suckholes), Member for Werriwa NSW (ALP) 1994-2005, Leader of the Australian Labor Party 2003-5 | |
| 29 Feb 1852 | -1936 | Frank Gavan Duffy | Irish-Australian judge, fourth Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia (1913-1935), founded Australian Law Times, appointed a Queen’s Council (1900), his son Charles Leonard Gavan Duffy became a Justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria, Frank’s half-brother George Gavan Duffy (1882-1951) was a Judge of the High Court in Ireland |
| 29 Feb 1956 | Jono Coleman Jonathan Harry Coleman | British-Australian comedian, TV and radio personality (Simon Townsend’s Wonder World, Off the Record, Jono & Dano Show, Sunrise, Mornings with Kerri-Anne) voice-overs and narrations for ads (Tooheys, Fosters, Qantas, Air New Zealand, BBC TV), voice of popular Aussie 70s & 80s music radio program My Generation | |
| 29 Feb 1964 | Guy Leech | Australian Ironman surf lifesaving champion, won seven Uncle Toby’s Super Series races and twice won The Coolangatta Gold, World Ironman Championships in Vancouver Canada 1986, won Australia’s Celebrity Survivor Vanuatu 2006 | |
| 29 Feb 1968 | Frank Woodley Frank Wood | Australian comedian (Lano and Woodley), regular guest appearances on a variety of Australian shows (Spicks and Specs, Thank God You’re Here, Good News Week), co-host Aussie Gold on the Comedy Channel |
