Australian Famous Names Starting with Letter V

Is an Indian-born cricketer who has played at List A level for Oman in the 2007 ICC World Cricket Le

Is an Indian-born cricketer who has played at List A level for Oman in the 2007 ICC World Cricket League Division Two. Wategaonkar made his debut against Argentina on 24 November 2007, and helped his team to an 18-run victory with 42 and the wicket of Don

Is a professional boxer who is the current WBA, WBC unified Super Flyweight World Champion. Darchiny

Is a professional boxer who is the current WBA, WBC unified Super Flyweight World Champion. Darchinyan was also formerly the IBF and IBO champion of the flyweight division and briefly reigned as the IBF and IBO's super flyweight champion also. He is a sou

Is a professional boxer who is the current WBA, WBC unified Super Flyweight World Champion. Darchiny

Is a professional boxer who is the current WBA, WBC unified Super Flyweight World Champion. Darchinyan was also formerly the IBF and IBO champion of the flyweight division and briefly reigned as the IBO's super flyweight champion also. He is a southpaw bo

Was an Australian pianist, harpsichordist and clavichordist. Her repertoire was very wide, including

Was an Australian pianist, harpsichordist and clavichordist. Her repertoire was very wide, including composers as diverse as William Byrd, Jan Sweelinck, Rachmaninoff and Bartok.Valda Aveling was born in Sydney, the youngest of four girls and a boy, and showed great talent at an early age. At 16 she received teaching and performing diplomas from the NSW Conservatorium of Music, then left for Britain to study harpsichord and clavichord with Violet Woodhouse. She returned in 1938 to make her piano debut under Malcolm Sargent, at the Sydney Town Hall. In one concert in Manila, she played Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1, Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2 and Beethoven's Emperor Concerto. She later came to dislike Beethoven's music, saying there was "nothing light in it".

Is a shot putter from New Zealand. She is the reigning Olympic, world and Commonwealth champion. She

Is a shot putter from New Zealand. She is the reigning Olympic, world and Commonwealth champion. She also currently holds the New Zealand, Oceanian and Commonwealth records for the shot put with a personal best of 21.07 m.

Is a retired athlete from New Zealand, who won 7 medals in the Shot Put and Discus events at the Com

Is a retired athlete from New Zealand, who won 7 medals in the Shot Put and Discus events at the Commonwealth Games.She competed at the 1958, 1962, 1966 and 1974 Commonwealth Games where she won her medals. She also competed in the 1956, 1960 and 1964 Oly

Is a Fijian former international footballer who played as a defender. He spent his entire career pla

Is a Fijian former international footballer who played as a defender. He spent his entire career playing for Ba in the National Football League. Between 1997 and 2002, he won seven caps and scored two goals for his country.

Was an Australian artist who specialized in fine pen and ink drawings, born in Canterbury, Sydney.Va

Was an Australian artist who specialized in fine pen and ink drawings, born in Canterbury, Sydney.Vali was a flamboyant artist who divided her life between her adopted home of Melbourne, the Hotel Chelsea in New York City, and a 14th century cottage in her valley near Il Porto (Positano), Italy. She was acquainted with Tennessee Williams, Salvador Dalí, Django Reinhardt, Jean Cocteau, and Jean Genet, among many others. Vali died in Melbourne after a short battle with cancer at the age of 72.On the 18th January 2003 The Age newspaper printed an article about the artist's life. The article concluded with the following quote from Vali Myers: "I've had 72 absolutely flaming years. It (the illness) doesn't bother me at all, because, you know love, when you've lived like I have, you've done it all. I put all my effort into living; any dope can drop dead. I'm in the hospital now, and I guess I'll kick the bucket here. Every beetle does it, every bird, everybody. You come into the world and then you go."

Is an Australian rugby union player for the Queensland Reds in the Super 14 competition.Humphries re

Is an Australian rugby union player for the Queensland Reds in the Super 14 competition.Humphries returned to Australia in 2007 and played for the Western Sydney Rams in the ill-fated Australian Rugby Championship and was the form lock of the competition

Is an Australian netball player in the ANZ Championship, playing for the New South Wales Swifts. She

Is an Australian netball player in the ANZ Championship, playing for the New South Wales Swifts. She was one of the seven members to help the Swifts win the 2008 ANZ Championship Grand Final over Waikato Bay of Plenty Magic. Although she did not make it i

Is a former Australian football (soccer) player of Greek descent.A prominent forward, Vasilios Kalog

Is a former Australian football (soccer) player of Greek descent.A prominent forward, Vasilios Kalogeracos was once played for Birmingham City FC and Stockport County FC in England, and Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia.

Is a football player, who frequently represented his country from the 1992 onwards. Coveny currently

Is a football player, who frequently represented his country from the 1992 onwards. Coveny currently plays for South Melbourne and is primarily a striker although he has also played as a winger.

Is a former New Zealand cricketer who played in two Tests and three ODIs. Brown was a left-handed mi

Is a former New Zealand cricketer who played in two Tests and three ODIs. Brown was a left-handed middle order batsman and a right-arm off-break bowler. In a first-class career spanning from 1978 to 1989, he played 83 matches for Canterbury and Auckland a

Is a New Zealand horseman who won a Bronze medal at the Olympic Games.

Is a New Zealand horseman who won a Bronze medal at the Olympic Games.

Is a Australian association footballer currently playing for Australian W-League team Melbourne Vict

Is a Australian association footballer currently playing for Australian W-League team Melbourne Victory.

Was a New Zealand politician. He was a member of the National Party, and served as a Cabinet Ministe

Was a New Zealand politician. He was a member of the National Party, and served as a Cabinet Minister in the government of Robert Muldoon. He is known for his failed attempt to legalise "homosexual acts" in 1975.

Was an Australian classical pianist and teacher, with a very long career. Her playing was admired fo

Was an Australian classical pianist and teacher, with a very long career. Her playing was admired for its depth and beauty of tone, classical unity and tremendous power.Vera Bradford was born in Melbourne to a musical family. Her mother Edith was a pianist, and her father Frederick and brother Cec were violinists. She started learning the piano at the age of seven, and she graduated from the University of Melbourne Conservatorium in 1927, with the highest honours. In 1928 she took up a scholarship with Percy Grainger in Chicago. (Grainger and his wife Ella became close friends of Vera’s, and Ella always stayed with Vera on Percy's visits to Australia.) She also studied at the Chicago Musical College with Rudolph Ganz and Alexander Raab. It was Raab who introduced her to the technique that made her famous, the 'arm weight' technique of the Russian teacher Theodor Leschetizky, which she had first experienced when seeing Benno Moiseiwitsch perform in Melbourne in the 1920s. It was this which developed the big tone and control that became a feature of her performances of the works of Brahms, Rachmaninoff and Liszt. Raab insisted she not play the piano for a year, so that she could unlearn her previous techniques, and practise with the piano lid down.

Was a sportsman who represented New Zealand in both cricket and rugby league. As of 2009 he is the o

Was a sportsman who represented New Zealand in both cricket and rugby league. As of 2009 he is the only player to have done so. A burly and upright right-handed opening batsman with little or no backlift, Scott started his cricketing career by scoring a c

A burly and upright right-handed opening batsman with little or no backlift, Scott started his crick

A burly and upright right-handed opening batsman with little or no backlift, Scott started his cricketing career by scoring a century on first-class debut versus Canterbury in 1937-38. He made his Test debut against Australia in the match arranged after the Second World War in March 1946 and was top scorer in the first innings with 14 out of a total of just 42. New Zealand totalled just 96 runs in the two completed innings.

Is a Fijian striker, who currently plays for Oakleigh Cannons in the Victorian Premier League in Aus

Is a Fijian striker, who currently plays for Oakleigh Cannons in the Victorian Premier League in Australia. He has also played in Singapore. He also plays for the Fiji national football team and led the goalscorers chart with 7 goals in the 2004 Oceania N

Is the Chief Executive Officer of the Public Education Foundation in Australia and a former politici

Is the Chief Executive Officer of the Public Education Foundation in Australia and a former politician.Firth served as a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly representing the electorate of Balmain for the Australian Labor Party from 2007 to

Is an Anglican social commentator and writer and a leading commentator on civil society. He is the D

Is an Anglican social commentator and writer and a leading commentator on civil society. He is the Director of the Melbourne-based Centre for Civil Society . Since 2007 he has been Secretary of the National Federation of Parents Families and Carers.From 1

Is a former road cyclist from New Zealand, who represented his native country in the men's individua

Is a former road cyclist from New Zealand, who represented his native country in the men's individual road race at the 1972 and 1976 Summer Olympics. He also competed at the 1974 and 1978 Commonwealth Games.

Was an Australian politician.Goodin was elected as an Australian Labor Party member for the seat of

Was an Australian politician.Goodin was elected as an Australian Labor Party member for the seat of Murray in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly in 1925. After being expelled from the party for opposition to Jack Lang he lost his seat in 1927 and re

Was an Australian cricketer who played in 20 Tests between 1907 and 1912. His best series was the 19

Was an Australian cricketer who played in 20 Tests between 1907 and 1912. His best series was the 1909 tour of England when he topped the Australian batting averages, helped by a career best score of 143 not out. The following year he was a Wisden Cricketer of the Year. After retiring from playing he served as secretary of the Melbourne Cricket Club (where he had played his domestic cricket) from 1939 to 1957.