Australian Famous Names Starting with Letter V

Is a football (soccer) player who plays for Wellington Phoenix FC in the A-League. Lia captained bot

Is a football (soccer) player who plays for Wellington Phoenix FC in the A-League. Lia captained both the Australian U-17's and U-20's at the 2003 and 2005 FIFA World Youth Championship respectively.

Is a New Zealand rugby player who has previously played in the National Rugby League and Air New Zea

Is a New Zealand rugby player who has previously played in the National Rugby League and Air New Zealand Cup. His position of choice is at Wing or in the Centres.

Is a retired Australian football (soccer) player.

Is a retired Australian football (soccer) player.

An Australian poet, teacher, editor, and critic

An Australian poet, teacher, editor, and critic

Was a New Zealand cricketer. He aws a right-handed batsman and wicket-keeper who played for Otago. H

Was a New Zealand cricketer. He aws a right-handed batsman and wicket-keeper who played for Otago. He was born in Dunedin and died in Christchurch. McCarten made a single first-class appearance for the team, during the 1944-45 season, against Canterbury.

Was an Australian politician. He was an Australian Labor Party member of the New South Wales Legisla

Was an Australian politician. He was an Australian Labor Party member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1964 to 1984, representing the electorate of Lakemba.Durick entered parliament at a 1964 by-election following the death of the incumben

Was an Australian poet, teacher, editor, essayist and critic.Buckley edited the magazine, Prospect,

Was an Australian poet, teacher, editor, essayist and critic.Buckley edited the magazine, Prospect, from 1958 to 1964, and, during this period, was also the poetry editor of the Bulletin from 1961 until 1963. Between 1967 and 1979, he lived for periods in Ireland where he founded the Committee for Civil Rights.

Was an Australian cricket player, who played one game for Tasmania. He has the distinction of having

Was an Australian cricket player, who played one game for Tasmania. He has the distinction of having participated in the first ever first class cricket match in Australia, and opened the batting in the second innings. Vincent Giblin died on May 15, 1884, in Milsons Point, New South Wales at the age of 66.

Is an Australian footballer, who is currently playing his club football as a defensive midfielder fo

Is an Australian footballer, who is currently playing his club football as a defensive midfielder for Blackburn Rovers in the English Premier League and also internationally for the Australian national football team. Prior to his move to Blackburn, Grella

Was an Australian football (soccer) player who used to play for NSL clubs Melbourne Knights, Perth G

Was an Australian football (soccer) player who used to play for NSL clubs Melbourne Knights, Perth Glory and the Football Kingz.

Is a professional rugby league footballer for the Warrington Wolves of Europe's Super League competi

Is a professional rugby league footballer for the Warrington Wolves of Europe's Super League competition. A New Zealand international representative loose-forward or stand-off, he previously played for St. Helens and NRL side, the New Zealand Warriors. He

Was a New Zealand swimmer, who represented New Zealand at the 1920 Summer Olympics at Antwerp at the

Was a New Zealand swimmer, who represented New Zealand at the 1920 Summer Olympics at Antwerp at the age of 15, making her New Zealand's first female Olympic athlete.

Was a Liberal Member of the New South Wales Legislative Council from 1978 to 1999. She was the first

Was a Liberal Member of the New South Wales Legislative Council from 1978 to 1999. She was the first NSW female Minister for Education; the first female President of the New South Wales Legislative Council; and Chair and CEO of the Great Barrier Reef Mari

Is an award-winning Australian journalist and author.

Is an award-winning Australian journalist and author.

Canadian hydrologist of Czech origin

Canadian hydrologist of Czech origin

Was an Australian tennis champion of the 1930s. Along with John Bromwich, he was one of the first gr

Was an Australian tennis champion of the 1930s. Along with John Bromwich, he was one of the first great players to use a two-handed backhand. His name was pronounced "McGraw". He won the Australian junior singles in 1932 and the French junior singles in 1

An Australian poet. He is considered one of the most lyrical and observant Australian poets of his g

An Australian poet. He is considered one of the most lyrical and observant Australian poets of his generation.Vivian Brian Smith was born in Tasmania but left in the late 1950s and has lived since then in Sydney, where he was a longtime professor at the University of Sydney until his retirement in the early 2000s. He returns to Tasmania every year and his poetry is still influenced by the landscape there. Smith has published criticism as well as a bibiliography of the work of Patrick White. He has been an advocate of Australian literature and of many individual Australian writers.

Is a former swimming representative from New Zealand.At the 1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Gam

Is a former swimming representative from New Zealand.At the 1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games she won the silver medal in the women's 110 yards breaststroke. She also won the bronze medal in the 220 yards breaststroke.

Trained as a painter at the National Art School in Sydney but has worked in many media and processes

Trained as a painter at the National Art School in Sydney but has worked in many media and processes.She was awarded the Order of Australia Medal (service to the Arts and Craft) 1983; the Ros Bower Memorial Award, Community Arts, 1985 and an Australian Artists Creative Fellowship in 1990. For a major part of her career she exhibited in an important and constructive relationship with Watters Gallery, Sydney. She is currently represented by Bellas Gallery, Brisbane; Sutton Gallery, Melbourne, and Helen Maxwell Gallery in Canberra. Her work is held in major museums and collections throughout Australia.

Is a former New Zealand football player who represented her country.Robertson made her Football Fern

Is a former New Zealand football player who represented her country.Robertson made her Football Ferns debut in a 2-1 loss to Australia on 4 October, 1981 and ended her international career with 36 caps and 8 goals to her credit.

Is a former Association footballer who played two matches for the Australia national association foo

Is a former Association footballer who played two matches for the Australia national association football team.

Was an Australian football (soccer) player. Beretovac played as a defender for NSL club Perth Glory

Was an Australian football (soccer) player. Beretovac played as a defender for NSL club Perth Glory and the Perth Kangaroos in the S-League. He also represented Western Australia on one occasion.

Is a retired Australian soccer player who played in Australia for South Melbourne and Footscray JUST

Is a retired Australian soccer player who played in Australia for South Melbourne and Footscray JUST, in Portugal for Beira-Mar, Sporting CP, Paços de Ferreira and FC Felgueiras, in England for Ipswich Town, in Turkey for Ankaragücü, and in Singapore for

Was a Croatian Australian Football (soccer) player and coach.

Was a Croatian Australian Football (soccer) player and coach.

Is a football (soccer) player.He most recently played as a central defender for the Australian A-Lea

Is a football (soccer) player.He most recently played as a central defender for the Australian A-League club Central Coast Mariners before being released at the end of the 2007 season. Tomasevic is best known for putting into the net one of the all time g