Australian Famous Names Starting with Letter D

Is a former Australian first class cricketer who played for Queensland. A tall left arm paceman, he

Is a former Australian first class cricketer who played for Queensland. A tall left arm paceman, he also had a stint in England with Surrey. His best season for Queensland came in 1987–88 when he shared with Mark Waugh the award for State Player of the Year.

Is a New Zealand Rugby union player who is currently captain of the New Zealand Sevens team. His unc

Is a New Zealand Rugby union player who is currently captain of the New Zealand Sevens team. His uncle is former Samoan international Peter Fatialofa who is his mothers younger brother.

Is a New Zealand former rugby league player. His position of preference was at Fullback.Murray start

Is a New Zealand former rugby league player. His position of preference was at Fullback.Murray started his rugby league career playing for the Ellerslie Eagles club in the Auckland Rugby League competition. Between 1993 and 1994 he was an Auckland represe

Is an Italian-Australian former heavyweight boxer, who once was a serious contender for the Australi

Is an Italian-Australian former heavyweight boxer, who once was a serious contender for the Australian Heavyweight title.Gatto is a professional mediator within the building industry in Melbourne. Gatto runs a chain of companies, Arbitrations and Mediatio

Is a rugby union player for the SC Albi in the Guinness Premiership. He plays in the centre's. He is

Is a rugby union player for the SC Albi in the Guinness Premiership. He plays in the centre's. He is a Samoan rugby union international. He played primarily on the wing. He has also played for Pontypridd RFC, the Wellington Hurricanes in the Super 12 comp

Is a former Australian politician. He was a union official and South Australian Secretary of the Veh

Is a former Australian politician. He was a union official and South Australian Secretary of the Vehicle Builders' Employees' Union before entering politics. From 1979-1980 he was President of the South Australian Labor Party. In 1980, he was elected to t

Is a retired Australian football (soccer) player. Longo played for the Australian national football

Is a retired Australian football (soccer) player. Longo played for the Australian national football team between 1993 and 1998.

Is an Australian cricketer who plays for the New South Wales Blues in Australian domestic cricket. T

Is an Australian cricketer who plays for the New South Wales Blues in Australian domestic cricket. Thornely made his debut for the Blues aged 25 and made his maiden First class century with 143 against Victoria at Newcastle. He would go on to receive Australia A selection in his debut season. He had an outstanding 2004-05 series in the Pura Cup scoring 1065 runs at 62.65 with 4 centuries. NSW would go on to win the competition. His highest score of 261 was made against Western Australia at the SCG and in it he beat the record of David Hookes for most sixes in an Australian domestic game with 11. Another record came in his 219-run stand for the last wicket with Stuart MacGill. He played country cricket with Surrey in 2005 and for Hampshire in 2007. He represented Mumbai Indians in the Indian Premier League 2008 season.

Is an Australian Tennis player. Singles - French Championships: eighth-finals in 1956 and 1960.

Is an Australian Tennis player. Singles - French Championships: eighth-finals in 1956 and 1960.

Was the Foundation Director of the Australian Institute of Family Studies

Was the Foundation Director of the Australian Institute of Family Studies

Was a New Zealand rugby league player. A fullback, Ladner played 8 tests for the Kiwis from 1969–7

Was a New Zealand rugby league player. A fullback, Ladner played 8 tests for the Kiwis from 1969–70, scoring 76 points, all from goal kicking. He died in Reefton on January 26, 2009 after suffering a heart attack. He was 60.

is a former New Zealand rower who won an Olympic Bronze medal at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los An

is a former New Zealand rower who won an Olympic Bronze medal at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. Along with Kevin Lawton, Barrie Mabbott, Ross Tong and Brett Hollister (cox) Symon won the Bronze medal in the coxed four.

Is an Australian musician and songwriter

Is an Australian musician and songwriter

Is an author and public intellectual, who was speechwriter to former Australian Prime Minister Paul

Is an author and public intellectual, who was speechwriter to former Australian Prime Minister Paul Keating

Is a former water polo player from Australia, who became a coach in his sport after his active caree

Is a former water polo player from Australia, who became a coach in his sport after his active career. He guided the Australia men's national water polo team to the 8th place at the 2000 Summer Olympics in his native Sydney.

Was a former weightlifter for New Zealand. He represented New Zealand at three Olympic Games in the

Was a former weightlifter for New Zealand. He represented New Zealand at three Olympic Games in the heavyweight division. Competing at the 1960, 1964 and 1968 Games his best result was eighth at the 1968 Summer Olympics. He won the gold medal at the 1966

Is a New Zealand sprint canoer who competed in the early to mid 1970s. At the 1972 Summer Olympics i

Is a New Zealand sprint canoer who competed in the early to mid 1970s. At the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, he was eliminated in the semifinals of the K-1 1000 m and the repechages of the K-2 1000 m event. Four years later in Montreal, Cooper was elimin

An Australian politician, is a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly representing Balli

An Australian politician, is a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly representing Ballina for the National Party of Australia since 1988. Page is currently the Minister for Local Government and the North Coast in the O'Farrell/ Stoner Liberal

Was an Australian politician and Minister for Health.After the war Cameron joined the newly formed L

Was an Australian politician and Minister for Health.After the war Cameron joined the newly formed Liberal Party of Australia, and at the 1949 election he was elected to the Australian House of Representatives for the new seat of Oxley, based on Ipswich.

An Australian politician

An Australian politician

Is an Australian first-class cricketer who played for the New South Wales Blues. A right arm fast me

Is an Australian first-class cricketer who played for the New South Wales Blues. A right arm fast medium bowler and hard hitting lower order batsman, Nash made his first class debut in 1999-2000. In his 37 game career he took 99 wickets at 31.06 including two hauls of seven wickets in an innings. With the bat he once scored the second fastest half-century in the history of domestic one-day cricket in Australia.

Is an Australian arts administrator

Is an Australian arts administrator

An Australian poet, and is considered by many as one of the most influential Australian poets.Until

An Australian poet, and is considered by many as one of the most influential Australian poets.Until he went to University on a teaching scholarship in 1954, he worked as a clerk in various firms, and as a sales assistant, an office-boy in an advertising agency, and as a copy-boy at Melbourne newspapers Truth and Sun. He also worked as a labourer in the Public Works Department as a tailer-out in various Melbourne saw-mills, and as a farm-hand in the Cam River valley.

Was a New Zealand cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman who played for Otago. Cameron made a sing

Was a New Zealand cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman who played for Otago. Cameron made a single first-class appearance for the side, during the 1930-31 season, against Canterbury. He took the wicket of Jack Kerr early in the match. He scored 6 runs

Is a former Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of New Zealand. He was the Secreta

Is a former Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of New Zealand. He was the Secretary-General of the Commonwealth of Nations from 2000 until 2008.