| 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 September.
WERE YOU or someone you know born in September? You’ll find below some notable Australian politicians, authors, actors, musicians, athletes and even a Nobel Prize winner that have September birthdays.
SEPTEMBER 1 TO 15
| Birth | Death | Born in September | A little bit about them . . . |
| 01 Sept 1965 | Craig McLachlan | Australian singer, actor (Sons and Daughters, Neighbours, Home and Away, McLeod’s Daughters) | |
| 01 Sept 1976 | Marcos Ambrose | Australian race car driver, Australian V8 Supercar champion (2003, 2004) | |
| 03 Sept 1899 | -1985 | Macfarlane Burnet | Australian virologist, co-recipient 1960 Nobel Prize for Medicine, first person named Australian of Year (1960) |
| 03 Sept 1962 | Costas Mandylor | Greek-Australian actor (Picket Fences, Players, 7th Heaven, Secret Agent Man, Primal Doubt) | |
| 04 Sept 1937 | Dawn Fraser | Australian swimmer, 4 gold medals Commonwealth Games (1962), 4 gold and 4 silver Olympics medals (1956, 1960, 1964), held 27 individual world records, 1964 Australian of the Year | |
| 04 Sept 1959 | Kevin Harrington | Australian actor (Neighbours, Blue Heelers, Sea Change, The Dish, Australian Rules,) | |
| 04 Sept 1969 | Noah Taylor | English-Australian actor (Shine, Vanilla Sky, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Bangkok Hilton) | |
| 05 Sept 1939 | George Lazenby | Australian actor (On Her Majesty’s Secret Service – James Bond, Universal Soldier, Kentucky Fried Movie, General Hospital, The Marlboro Man cigarette ads, ) | |
| 05 Sept 1964 | Frank Farina | Australian footballer, FFA Hall of Champions 2001, Oceania Footballer of the Year 1988, NSL Player of the Year 1987, 1988, NSL Top Scorer 1987, 1988 | |
| 06 Sept 1958 | Nigel Westlake | Australian composer, and conductor, APRA_AMC Classical Music Awards (2005, 2007, 2008), APRA-AGSC Screen Music Awards (2005, 2007) | |
| 06 Sept 1961 | Simon Reeve | Australian television presenter (Weekend Sunrise, It’s Academic), journalist (Beyond 2000, Vis News) | |
| 06 Sept 1965 | John Polson | Australian actor, film director (Hide and Seek), founder of Tropfest (world’s largest short film festival) | |
| 06 Sept 1969 | Michellie Jones | Australian triathlete, Silver medal at 2000 Olympics, XTERRA Triathlon World Championships 1996, ITU Triathlon World Championships (1992, 1993), first Aussie woman to win World Ironman Championship | |
| 07 Sept 1815 | -1866 | John McDouall Stuart | Australian explorer, led first successful expedition to traverse Australian mainland from south to north and return, Stuart Highway named in his honour, Alice Springs was originally called Stuart after him but the town’s name was changed in 1933 |
| 07 Sept 1876 | -1938 | C.J. Dennis Clarence Michael James Stanislau Dennis | Irish-Australian poet (My Poor Relation, Silent Member, Hopeful Hawkins), known for his humorous poems, wrote around 4,000 prose and poetry pieces |
| 07 Sept 1914 | Graeme Bell | Australian Dixieland and classical jazz pianist and composer (Graeme Bell All-Stars, Cakewalkin’ Babies Back Home), 1997 ARIA Hall of Fame | |
| 07 Sept 1917 | -2013 | John Cornforth John Warcup Cornforth Jr | Scientist, 1975 Nobel Prize in Chemistry recipient, 1975 Australian of the Year, completely deaf by the age of 20 due to progressive disease otosclerosis |
| 07 Sept 1960 | Andrew Voss | Australian television personality (Boots ‘n All, Sunday Roast, Footy Show, Olympics) | |
| 08 Sept 1961 | Paul Zanetti | Australian political cartoonist, from the age of 16 he regularly contributed to The Sun newspaper in Sydney, youngest recipient of a Australia’s media award the Walkley Award (equal to Pulitzer Prize) | |
| 08 Sept 1967 | James Packer | Australian businessman, personal wealth estimated at $4 – 7 billion, son of media mogul Kerry Packer | |
| 08 Sept 1971 | Lachlan Murdoch | Australian businessman, eldest son of Australian-American media mogul Rupert Murdoch | |
| 08 Sept 1983 | Chris Judd | Australian footballer, Brownlow Medal 2004, 2010 | |
| 08 Sept 1988 | Caitlin Hill | Australian internet personality, YouTube video blogger TheHill88, Australian 60 Minutes dubbed her the “goofy princess of cyberspace”. | |
| 09 Sept 1911 | -2002 | John Gorton | 19th Prime Minister of Australia (1968-1971) Australian Liberal Party, Sydney Church of England Grammar School classmate of Errol Flynn, (very famous swashbuckling Australian film star) |
| 09 Sept 1951 | Alexander Downer | Australian politician, longest serving Foreign Minister of Australia (1996-2007), hold a Professorship at Carnegie Mellon University in USA, long time opponent to replacing the Queen with a president | |
| 10 Sept 1844 | -1918 | Abel Hoadley | Australian confectioner, invented the Violet Crumble in 1913 (honeycomb bars are covered with chocolate to prevent the bars from sticking together) |
| 11 Sept 1934 | Norma Croker Fleming | Australian sprinter, gold medallist 1956 Olympics | |
| 12 Sept 1948 | Max Walker | Australian cricketer and television personality (Nine’s Wide World Of Sports), author (How to Kiss a Crocodile, How to Puzzle a Python) | |
| 12 Sept 1977 | Grant Denyer | Australian television personality (It Takes Two, Australia’s Got Talent, All Time Greatest Aussie Bloopers), won fourth series of Dancing with the Stars, competed in Bathurst 1000 and Sandown 500 | |
| 13 Sept 1924 | -1976 | Harold Blair | Aboriginal-Australian tenor, activist, studied at the famed Juilliard School in New York, established the Aboriginal Children’s Holiday Project |
| 13 Sept 1931 | Marjorie Jackson | Australian sprinter, 4 gold at 1950 Commonwealth Games, 3 gold at 1954 Commonwealth Games, 2 gold at 1952 Olympics, Governor of SA (2001-2007) | |
| 13 Sept 1966 | Louis Mandylor Louis Theodosopoulos | Greek-Australian actor (My Big Fat Greek Wedding, Suckers, Down the Shore, Martial Law) | |
| 14 Sept 1933 | Zoe Caldwell | Australian actress (Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, The Purpose Rose of Cairo, Just a Kiss, Lilo & Stitch) | |
| 14 Sept 1953 | Judy Playfair | Australian swimmer, silver medal 1968 Olympics | |
| 15 Sept 1879 | -1939 | Joseph Lyons | 10th Prime Minister of Australia (1932-1939) United Australia Party, the only Prime Minister in office during the reigns of three monarchs: George V, Edward VIII, and George VI |
| 15 Sept 1934 | Fred Nile | Australian politician, clergyman, longest-serving member of NSW parliament |
SEPTEMBER 16 TO 30
| Birth | Death | Born in September | A little bit about them . . . |
| 17 Sept 1962 | Baz Luhrmann | Australian screenwriter, producer, film director (Strictly Ballroom, Moulin Rouge, Australia), Australian Film Institute 1992, 1999, and BAFTA Awards 1998 | |
| 18 Sept 1876 | -1953 | James Scullin | 9th Prime Minister of Australia (1929-1932), Australian Labor Party, his portrait is on 1975 stamp |
| 18 Sept 1889 | -1970 | Doris Blackburn | Australian politician, second woman elected to Australian House of Representatives (1946-1949), co-founded Aboriginal Advancement League, president of Woman’s International League for Peace and Freedom |
| 18 Sept 1893 | -1960 | Arthur Benjamin | Australian pianist, composer (Jamaican Rumba, opera – The Devil Take Her), film scores (Scarlet Pimpernel, Hitchcock’s Man Who Knew Too Much) |
| 18 Sept 1939 | Gerry Harvey | Australian businessman, co-founder Harvey Norman Australian retail chain, got his start selling vacuum cleaners and fridges door-to-door, Forbes ranked 23rd richest Australian (2012), one of largest horse breeders in world with over 600 thoroughbreds in his stables | |
| 19 Sept 1973 | Jeremy Lindsay Taylor | Australian actor (Heartbreak High, Stingers, Blue Heelers, Underbelly Razor, Sea Patrol) | |
| 19 Sept 1991 | Demelza Reveley | Australian model, 2008 Australia’s Next Top Model | |
| 20 Sept 1969 | Tim Rogers | Australian singer, songwriter, front man of Australian rock band You Am I, movie soundtrack (Dirty Deeds) | |
| 20 Sept 1972 | Jenny Morris | Australian field hockey, gold at 1996 and 2000 Olympics, gold at 1994 World Cup, gold at 1993, 1995, 1997, 2000 (bronze) for Hockey Champions Trophy (International Hockey Federation) | |
| 20 Sept 1960 | Peter Phelps | Australian actor (Stingers, Baywatch, Rafferty’s Rules, Heartbreak High, Water Rats, Underbelly: Tale of Two Cities), Logie Award 2002, AFI Award 1993 | |
| 21 Sept 1983 | Anna Meares | Australian track cyclist, gold & bronze medals 2004 Olympics, bronze 2002 Commonwealth Games | |
| 21 Sept 1957 | Kevin Michael Rudd | 26th Prime Minister of Australia (two terms: 2007 – 2010, 2013 – 2013) Australian Labor Party, 13 Feb 2008 read an apology to Indigenous Australian for stolen generations | |
| 22 Sept 1953 | Kerri-Anne Kennerly Kerri-Anne Wright | Australian television personality (Midday, Greed, Good Morning Australia, What’s Cooking, Kerri-Anne), actor (Restless Years), first TV appearance at age of 13 (Channel Niners, Everybody’s In) | |
| 22 Sept 1885 | -1951 | Ben Chifley | 16th Prime Minister of Australia (1945-1949), Labor Party, during his term: establishment of Australian citizenship, Snowy Mountains Scheme, founding of ASIO (Australian Security Intelligence Organization) start of Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) |
| 22 Sept 1957 | Nick Cave | Australian musician, composer (Metamorphosis), band member (Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Birthday Party, Grinderman), ARIA Hall of Fame 2007 | |
| 22 Sept 1967 | Kim Watkins | Australian television personality (9am with David and Kim, The Circle, 7PM Project), started at age of 12 as the co-host of the children’s show You Asked For It | |
| 24 Sept 1961 | Fiona Corke | Australian actress (Neighbours, Prisoner Cell Block H, Man from Snowy River series, Blue Heelers, Sea Change, Saddle Club, City Homicide) | |
| 24 Sept 1899 | -1970 | William Dobell | Australian sculptor and painter, Archibald Prize in 1943 (Joshua Smith), 1948 (Margaret Olley), and in 1959 (Dr. Edward MacMahon) |
| 24 Sept 1914 | -1991 | John Kerr | 18th Australian Governor-General, dismissed Prime Minister Gough Whitlam’s Labor government (1975) creating a constitutional crisis forcing an election, after Kerr’s resignation years later he moved to London due to relentless harassment while in Australia |
| 25 Sept 1862 | -1952 | William Hughes | 7th Prime Minister of Australia (1915-1923), Australian Nationalist Party, honoured in a 1972 stamp, known for irrepressible optimism & patriotism |
| 25 Sept 1952 | Colin Friels | Scottish-Australian actor (Play School, Monkey Grip, Malcolm, Ground Zero, Water Rats, Black Jack, Bastard Boys), 1997 Logie Award | |
| 25 Sept 1927 | Val Jellay | Australian actress (Flying Doctors, Prisoner, Neighbours), began in vaudeville working in Tivoli circuit (1893-1950s) before moving to radio, film & TV | |
| 26 Sept 1964 | Brett Climo | Australian actor (Sons and Daughters, Country Practice, Flying Doctors, Man from Snowy River, Water Rats, Blue Heelers, Stingers, All Saints) | |
| 26 Sept 1962 | Peter Foster | Australian con man, from age of 20 convicted of a variety of offences in Australia and abroad, sold his memoirs to UK publisher for reported for $1.2 million | |
| 27 Sept 1923 | James Condon | Australian actor (Homicide, Neighbours, Number 96, Sons and Daughters, Prisoner, Blue Heelers), married to actress Anne Haddy (Helen Daniels in Neighbours) | |
| 27 Sept 1953 | Greg Ham | Australian musician (Men At Work), actor (While You’re Down There), primary school guitar teacher | |
| 27 Sept 1954 | Ray Hadley | Australian talkback radio broadcaster (2UE, 2GB), television personality (Sky News Australia, Footy Show), long-time promoter in Lowes menswear ads | |
| 28 Sept 1947 | Bob Carr | Australian politician, 39th Premier of NSW (1995-2005) Labor Party, championed embryonic stem cell research, argued for calorie info on restaurant menus | |
| 28 Sept 1968 | Naomi Watts | British-Australian actress (Hey Dad, Brides of Christ, Home and Away, The Ring, King Kong, 21 Grams) | |
| 29 Sept 1887 | -1957 | Billy Bevan William Bevan Harris | Australian actor (Mr Deeds Goes to Town, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Picture of Dorian Gray), when talkies came his Aussie accent was taken as British |
| 29 Sept 1930 | Richard Bonynge | Australian conductor, pianist, coached famed soprano Joan Sutherland and later married her (1954), from early ’60’s he conducted almost all her performances | |
| 29 Sept 1951 | Maureen Caird | Australian track athlete, gold medal 1968 Olympic Games, silver medal 1970 Commonwealth Games | |
| 29 Sept 1961 | Julia Eileen Gillard | 27th Prime Minister of Australia (2010 – 2013) Labor Party, first woman Australian Prime Minister, migrated to Australia from Wales when she was 5 | |
| 30 Sept 1922 | Alan Stretton | Australian Army officer, Major General of Australian Army, commander of the Cyclone Tracy Relief Operation (1974), Australian of the Year 1975 | |
| 30 Sept 1951 | Barry Marshall | Australian physician, 2005 Nobel Prize in Medicine for discovering the role of Helicobacter pylori in gastritis and ulcers, Australian Centenary Medal 2003 |
