| 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 |
These are the birthdates of some very famous Australians and in Australia whose birthday is on March.
WERE YOU or someone you know born in March? You’ll find below some notable Australian politicians, footballers, actors, musicians, athletes and even an Olympic Gold Medal winner that have March birthdays.
MARCH 1 TO 15
| Birth | Death | Born in March | A little bit about them . . . |
| 01 Mar 1940 | Robin Trevor Gray | Australian politician, 37th Premier of Tasmania (1982-1989), Liberal Party, elected in part to build Franklin hydroelectric dam but Greens protested and was never built, Gray helped form Organisation for Tasmanian Development in 1982 (car stickers said – Keep Warm This Winter: Burn a Greenie) | |
| 01 Mar 1952 | Leigh Matthews | Australian rules footballer, coach, commentator, AFL Team of the Century, Australian Football Hall of Fame (Player of the Century, Legend 1996), All-Australian coach 2001, 2002,2003, AFLPA Most Valuable Player Award renamed Leigh Matthews Trophy in 2002, his statue is outside the MCG | |
| 01 Mar 1976 | Peter F. Bell | Australian rules footballer, All-Australian (1999, 2003), president AFL Players Assoc. (2003-7) | |
| 01 Mar 1981 | Will Power William Steven Power | Australian motorsport driver, winner Australian Drivers’ Championship 2002 | |
| 02 Mar 1899 | -1995 | Pattie Maie Menzies | Australian wife of Australia’s longest-serving Prime Minister Sir Robert Menzies, appointed Dame Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire in 1954 for her own charitable works, while still known as Dame Menzies, she actually became Lady Menzies when her husband was knighted in 1963 |
| 02 Mar 1900 | -1980 | “Black Jack” John McEwen | 18th Prime Minister of Australia (1967-68), was Prime Minister for only 23 days, last member of the Australian Country Party to serve as prime minister, was in parliament for 36 years 5 months, last serving parliamentarian from Great Depression era (1930s) |
| 02 Mar 1948 | Jeffrey Gibb Kennett | Australian politician, Premier of Victoria (1992-1999), Liberal Party, founding Chairman of BeyondBlue (national depression initiative) | |
| 02 Mar 1956 | Mark Evans | Australian bass guitarist, member of hard rock band AC/DC (1975-77), Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducted AC/DC in 2003, but Mark Evans name was removed from nomination without explanation | |
| 02 Mar 1961 | Simone Young | Australian conductor, chief conductor Opera Australia (2001-3), first female conductor at the Vienna Philharmonic (2005) and Vienna State Opera (1993), conducted Sydney Symphony Orchestra when they performed Advance Australia Fair at 2000 Summer Olympics opening ceremony | |
| 02 Mar 1978 | Tempany Deckert | Australian actress (Home and Away, First Daughter, Curse of the Talisman), author (Green-Eyed Monster, Stage Kiss, Maddy’s Big Break, Understudy to Miss Perfect, Going Batty) | |
| 02 Mar 1988 | Matthew Mitcham | Australian diver, gold medal 2008 Olympics, bronze medal 2009 World Championships, 4 silver medals 2010 Commonwealth Games | |
| 03 Mar 1910 | -1986 | Ainslie Dixon Meares | Australian psychiatrist, psychotherapist, hypnotherapist, author (Relief Without Drugs, Cancer: Another Way) |
| 03 Mar 1915 | -1991 | Manning Clark | Australian historian, best known for writing 6 volume A History of Australia, 1980 Australian of the Year |
| 03 Mar 1969 | The Wizard Simon Whitlock | Australian darts player, won Australian Grand Masters (2006-7), Japan Open (2005) | |
| 03 Mar 1976 | Fraser Gehrig | Australian rules footballer, owns restaurant Michelangelo’s, All-Australian Team (1997, 2004) | |
| 04 Mar 1948 | Lindy Chamberlain Alice Lynne Chamberlain-Creighton | Australian mother accused and convicted of killing her 2-month old daughter Azaria on 17 August 1980, she maintained that a dingo took and killed Azaria, eight years later the conviction was overturned, she received $1.3 million compensation from Australian government for wrongful imprisonment, in 1990 wrote Through My Eyes: an Autobiography, divorced in 1991, married John Creighton 1992, Lindy appealed on her website on 30th anniversary of Azaria’s death to have cause of death on Azaria’s death record amended (Aug 2010) | |
| 04 Mar 1953 | Scott Hicks Robert Scott Hicks | Australian film producer, best known as screenwriter and director of Oscar winning movie Shine, director (Lucky One, Boys Are Back, No Reservations, Hearts in Atlantis, Snow Falling on Cedars, Call Me Mr. Brown) | |
| 04 Mar 1959 | Rick Ardon | Australian newsreader, 1977 Cadet Journalist of the Year (West Australian), wrote/produced documentaries (Lives in the Balance, Riviera Rich and Raunchy), with his wife Erin runs the Beach Manor Bed and Breakfast in Perth, Western Australia | |
| 04 Mar 1966 | Steve Bastoni | Italian-Australian actor (Police Rescue, Neighbours, Prisoner, On the Beach, Stingers, Missing Persons Unit, Underbelly 3, Matrix Reloaded, Heartbreak Kid) | |
| 04 Mar 1979 | Geoff Huegill | Australian butterfly swimmer, 2000 Olympics (1 silver, 1 bronze medal), Commonwealth Games – 2 gold (1998), 3 gold (2002), 2 gold (2010), 1 silver (2010), World Championships (6 gold, 3 silver, 3 bronze), Pan Pacific Championships (3 silver, 1 bronze), Goodwill Games (2 gold, 1 silver) | |
| 05 Mar 1935 | Philip K Chapman | Australian-American astronaut, (Apollo 14), spent 15 months in Antarctica with Australian National antartic Research Expeditions (ANARE) as an auroral/radio physicist, after gaining US Citizenship was selected as a scientist-astronaut by NASA (1967-72) | |
| 05 Mar 1938 | Mike Walsh Michael Hayden Walsh | Australian TV host (Mike Walsh Show), Logie Hall of Fame 1999, Gold Logie awards (1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984), his highly successful Mike Walsh Show ran from 1973-85 | |
| 06 Mar 1956 | Stephen Vizard | Australian media personality, comedian, businessman, wrote & produced (Fast Forward series, The Bit Part), host (Tonight Live with Steve Vizard), Australian Father of the Year 2002, Vizard owned and ran a successful superfine wool Merino sheep stud station Roxby Park sold in 2002 to tuna fishing magnate Tony Santic who uses it as home of his Melbourne Cup winning horse Makybe Diva breeding and bloodstock operations, 2 Logie Awards 1991, 1992 | |
| 06 Mar 1978 | Lara Jane Cox | Australian actress (Heartbreak High, Mermaids, Stepfather of the Bride, The Lost World ) | |
| 07 Mar 1892 | -1966 | Norman McAlister Gregg | Australian ophthalmologist, discovered that rubella (German measles) in pregnancy could cause birth defects in the child (blindness and deafness), wounded in the field in WWI he was awarded the Military Cross for conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty during a raid attending the wounded under heavy enemy fire (24 Sept 1918), Australian Father of the Year 1962 |
| 07 Mar 1965 | Cameron Daddo | Australian actor (Golden Fiddles, Tracks of Glory, Six Lovers, Models Inc, Hope Island, She Spies, Inland Empire), host (Off the Dish, Perfect Match, Pirate Master), Logie Awards 1992, 1993, brother of Lochie and Andrew Daddo (actors, TV personality) | |
| 08 Mar 1932 | Gerard Kennedy | Australian actor (Homicide, Hunter, Against the Wind, Division 4, Bellbird, Skyways, Flying Doctors, Mango Tree, Lighthorsemen, Newsfront, Underbelly, Garbo, Fatty Finn), Logie Awards 1969, 1971, 1972, 1973 | |
| 08 Mar 1960 | Max Metzker | Australian long distance freestyle swimmer, bronze medal 1980 Olympics, Commonwealth Games – gold medal 1982, gold medal 1978, bronze medal 1978 | |
| 08 Mar 1972 | Angie Hart | Australian pop singer (Labour of Love, Accidentally Kelly Street, Ordinary Angels, Bizarre Love Triangle), founding member of the band Frente! in 1989 | |
| 09 Mar 1856 | -1931 | Tom Roberts | Australian fine oil landscapes and portrait painter (Shearing the Rams, The Big Picture, The Golden Fleece), his work can be seen at National Gallery of Australia and Parliament House Canberra |
| 09 Mar 1959 | Ian Rawlings | Australian actor (Sons and Daughters, Neighbours) | |
| 09 Mar 1966 | Tony Lockett Anthony Howard Lockett | Australian rules footballer, highest goal scorer in history of VFL/AFL with 1,360 goals in 281 games (1983-2002), 1987 Brownlow Medal, Australian Football Hall of Fame, All-Australian (1991, 92, 95, 96, 98) | |
| 09 Mar 1972 | Spencer Howson | Australian radio broadcaster (4RK, 4RPH, 4QR), over 15 consecutive years on 612 ABC Brisbane radio | |
| 10 Mar 1935 | “Polly” Graham Farmer | Indigenous-Australian footballer (Australian Rules) and coach, first Australian footballer to receive a Queen’s honour the MBE (Member of the Order of the British Empire), Australian Football Hall of Fame 1996 as a Legend, AFL Team of the Century 1996, Indigenous Team of the Century 2005, Graham Farmer Freeway in Perth WA named for him and opened 22 April 2000 | |
| 10 Mar 1940 | Tsebin Tchen | Australian town planner, politician, first Asian migrant elected to federal parliament (Victorian Liberal member of Australian Senate from 1999-2005) | |
| 10 Mar 1946 | Mike Hollands William Michael Hollands | Australian creative director and founder (1992) of the animation house Act3animation (Anaka, Pinata, and game cinematics – Starship Troopers, Jurassic Park, Fury, RoadKill, Neverwinter Nights 2) | |
| 10 Mar 1968 | Felice Arena | Australian children’s author (Specky Magee series, Boyz Rule series, Girlz Rock series, Dolphin Boy Blue, Bravo Billy, Whippersnapper), actor (Neighbours) | |
| 10 Mar 1983 | Che’Nelle Cheryline Lim | Malaysian-Australian singer (I Fell in Love with the DJ, Feel Good, First Love, Hurry Up, Baby I Love U) | |
| 11 Mar 1899 | -2009 | John Campbell Ross | Australian, last WWI Australian digger, oldest Aussie at the time of his death (110 years 84 days) |
| 11 Mar 1909 | -1971 | Francis John Hartley | Australian clergyman and peace activist, Methodist minister, appointed chaplain in Australian Imperial Force (1941) served with 7th Divisional Cavalry Regiment in the Middle East and in Sanananda Track Papua, his book Sanananda Interlude (1949) documented the campaign, Australian Prime Minister Menzies labelled him the ‘pink parson’ for his opposition to the banning of the Communist Party, Joliot-Curie gold medal from World Peace Council |
| 11 Mar 1917 | -2000 | Nancy Cato Nancy Fotheringham Cato | Australian writer (All the Rivers Run, Green Grows the Vine, Brown Sugar, Lady Lost in Time, Mister Maloga), campaigner for environmental and conservation issues, cousin also named Nancy Cato was host of children’s TV show Magic Circle Club in mid 1960s |
| 11 Mar 1931 | Rupert Murdoch Keith Rupert Murdoch | Australian born media mogul, founder and CEO of world’s second largest media conglomerate News Corp (The Sun, The Herald, The Times, Wall Street Journal, New of the World, NY Post, 20th Century Fox, Foxtel pay TV), by 2000 (worth over $5 billion) News Corp owned over 800 companies in over 50 countries, to expand into US market Rupert moved to NY (1974) and became a naturalised US citizen (1985), moved and re-incorporated News Corp from Adelaide Australia to New York, under fire in 2011 for illegal phone hacking by some of his 53,000 employees | |
| 11 Mar 1947 | Geoffrey Brian Hunt | Australian squash player, ranked World No. 1 (1975-1980), won World Open title (1976, 1977, 1979, 1980), World Squash Federation Hall of Fame | |
| 11 Mar 1968 | Simone Buchanan | Australian actress (Hey Dad, Neighbours, Runaway Island, Secret Valley, My Brilliant Career) | |
| 13 Mar 1942 | George Edward Negus | Australian high school teacher, journalist (Australian Financial Review), reporter (60 minutes, This Day Tonight), host (Today, Dateline, 6:30 with George Negus, Foreign Correspondent, George Negus Tonight),author (The World of Islam), in 2012 created heated public outcry over his comments on the TV show The Circle about Victoria Cross recipient Australian SAS serviceman Ben Roberts-Smith which was interpreted by many as implying Roberts-Smith might be impotent | |
| 13 Mar 1950 | “Aussie Joe” Joe Bugner | Hungarian-born British-Australian boxer, holds triple nationality, 69 wins 13 losses and 1 draw, oldest boxer (48years 110 days) to hold a world championship belt, adviser on 2005 Russell Crow film Cinderella Man | |
| 14 Mar 1904 | -2000 | Esther Freda Rofe | Australian musician and composer (Sea Legend, Terra Australis, Mathinna, The Lake, Esther Rofe Songbook) |
| 14 Mar 1970 | Lochie Daddo Christopher Lachlan Daddo | Australian actor (Neighbours), host (Getaway), first person eliminated from the celebrity reality singing TV show It Takes Two (2007), brother of Cameron and Andrew Daddo (actors, TV personality) | |
| 15 Mar 1866 | -1948 | Matthew Charlton | Australian coal miner, politician, Member for Hunter (1910-1928), Leader of the Labor Party (1922-1928) |
| 15 Mar 1985 | James MacLurcan | Australian actor (Zoey 101, Power Rangers Operation Overdrive), model (Australian Vogue) |
MARCH 16 TO 31
| Birth | Death | Born in March | A little bit about them . . . |
| 16 Mar 1883 | -1958 | Ethel Anderson | Australian poet, essayist, novelist (At Parramatta, Squatter’s Luck, Little Ghosts, Timeless Garden) |
| 16 Mar 1986 | Nicole Trunfio | Australian supermodel (Chanel, Victoria’s Secret, Christian Dior, Gucci, Guess, Dolce & Gabbana, Versace, Valentino, Anne Taylor), actress (Two Fists One Heart) | |
| 17 Mar 1892 | -1984 | Benjamin Drake Van Wissen | Australian civil engineer, designed an efficient machine to harvest guano phosphate deposits, guano was mined in Nauru for phosphates to use as fertilizer, his statue on Nauru commemorates his work and innovations to the mining program |
| 17 Mar 1895 | -1988 | Lloyd Frederic Rees | Australian landscape painter, teacher, Wynne Prize (1950, 1982), Medaille de la Ville de Paris (1987), Sunlit Tower painted at age 91 won Jack Manton Prize (1987), Australian Bicentennial Authority’s 200 People Who Made Australia Great (1988), his paintings appears in Parliament House Canberra, Australian National Gallery, and others |
| 18 Mar 1884 | -1968 | Bernard Cronin | Australian author (The Coastlanders, Stampede, Timber Wolves, Bluff Stakes, Red Dawson, White Gold, Valley of Stars, Second Sphere, Golden Skull), during WWII worked as a publicity censor |
| 18 Mar 1939 | Justice Kirby Michael Donald Kirby | Australian jurist, Justice of High Court of Australia (1996-2009), Australian National Living Treasure, youngest man appointed to the federal judiciary(1983), came out about being gay in Who’s Who in Australia (1999), attacked in parliament by Liberal Senator Bill Heffernan that he misused government funds (related to being gay) but 2002 evidence was forged and Heffernan had to apologize | |
| 18 Mar 1944 | Dick Smith Richard Harold Smith | Australian businessman, aviator, political activist, founder Dick Smith Electronics (1968, sold in 1982), Dick Smith Foods (1999), Australian Geographic (1985), Australian National Living Treasure | |
| 21 Mar 1926 | -2012 | Rolland “Rolly” Tasker | Australian sailor, won Australia’s first Olympic sailing medal (Silver at 1956 Melbourne Olympic Games), won record 28 championships in only seven years, Sport Australian Hall of Fame 1996, Order of Australia 2006 |
| 25 Mar 1930 | Harry Butler | Australian conservationist and naturalist, through his television program In the Wild and his books, he helped to popularise science and natural history for Australians of all ages, 1979 Australian of the Year, Australian National Living Treasure | |
| 26 Mar 1909 | -1971 | Chips Rafferty | Australian actor (Rats of Tobruk, Eureka Stockade, Overlanders, Mutiny on the Bounty, Double Trouble, They’re a Weird Mob, Wackiest Ship in the Army, Sundowners, Skullduggery, Desert Rats, Flaming Sword, 40,000 Horsemen, Wake in Fright), in 1950s appeared in commercials in Britain encouraging British emigration to Australia, Australia Post honoured Rafferty with his likeness on 1974 stamp |
| 26 Mar 1949 | Jon English Jonathan James English | Australian singer (Turn the Page, Hollywood Seven, Words Are Not Enough, Six Ribbons, Hot Town), actor (Against the Wind, All Together Now, Touch and Go), 700+ stage performances in Jesus Christ Superstar, ARIA Award 1991, Logie Award 1979 | |
| 27 Mar 1851 | -1935 | Rosa Campbell Praed Rosa Caroline Praed Rosa Murray-Prior | Australian novelist (An Australian Heroine, Policy and Passion, Rival Princess/Rebel Rose, Romance of a Station, Outlaw and Lawmaker, Opal Fire), gave a female perspective on life in the Australian bush and put forth Aboriginal’s case for justice and dignity |
| 27 Mar 1959 | Andrew Charles Farriss | Australian rock keyboardist, composer Australian band INXS, co-wrote and produced with Australian Aboriginal band Yothu Yindi and Australian country singer Tania Kernaghan | |
| 28 Mar 1940 | Tony Barber Anthony Ferraro Barber | Australian TV host (Sale of the Century, Jeopardy, Great Temptation, Family Feud, Wheel of Fortune, TV1s Cash Trivia Challenge), Gold Logie 1973 | |
| 28 Mar 1922 | -1999 | Neville Thomas Bonner | Aboriginal Australian politician, elder of the Jagera people, first indigenous Australian to become a Senator in Federal Parliament, Australian of the Year 1979, federal government established in 2000 the prestigious Neville Bonner Memorial Scholarship for Indigenous Australians to attend university |
| 29 Mar 1946 | -2007 | Billy Thorpe William Richard Thorpe | British-Australian singer, Billy Thorpe & the Aztecs (Blue Day, Poison Ivy, Over the Rainbow, Sick and Tired, Mashed Potato, Most People I know Think That I’m Crazy), author (The Puggle Tales, Tales from the Lost Forests), ARIA Hall of Fame 1991 |
| 29 Mar 1964 | Elle Macpherson Eleanor Nancy Gow | Australian model (record 5 times Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue cover 1986, ’87, ’88, 94, 2006), businesswoman (lingerie and skin care products), actress (Sirens, Alice, Batman & Robin, The Edge, The Mirror Has Two Faces, Friends, Jane Eyre), born Eleanor Gow but a clerical mistake registering at her new school used Macpherson (stepfather’s name) instead of her father’s name Gow | |
| 29 Mar 1979 | Amy Mathews | Australian actress (Home and Away, Gabriel, Love Bytes), Logie Award 2007 | |
| 30 Mar 1957 | Debra Anne Byrne | Australian singer (He’s a Rebel, Caught in the Act, Sleeping Child, Boogeyman), entertainer (Brian and the Juniors, Young Talent Time, Rebel, Saturday Show, Farnham and Byrne, Carols by Candlelight), Logie Award (1974, 1975), Herald Sun Best Cabaret Award (2002), autobiography Not Quite Ripe | |
| 30 Mar 1930 | Rolf Harris | Australian musician, singer-songwriter (Tie Me Kangaroo Down Sport, Six White Boomers), painter (80th birthday portrait of Queen Elizabeth II), TV personality (Rolf’s Cartoon Club, Animal Hospital, Rolf on Art), ARIA Hall of Fame (2008), Australian National Living Treasure, sang special rendition of Tie Me Kangaroo Down Sport at Opening Ceremony 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney | |
| 31 Mar 1890 | -1971 | William Lawrence Bragg | British-Australian physicist, at age 25 was youngest Nobel Prize winner (1915 Nobel Prize in Physics), discovered Bragg Law of X-Ray Diffraction making it possible to calculate the positions of the atoms within a crystal (1912), during WWI & WWII worked on sound ranging methods for locating enemy guns, awarded Military Cross (1918) |
| 31 Mar 1963 | Paul Mercurio | Australian actor (Strictly Ballroom, Exit to Eden, Welcome to Woop Woop, Kick, Back of Beyond, Life’s Burning Desire, Bible: Joseph), dancer, judge on Australian and New Zealand versions of Dancing with the Stars, hosts Mercurio’s Menu since 2008 |
