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A person from Sydney is a Sydneysider with people from the state of New South Wales known colloquially as Cockroaches.

State knicknames: Western Australia (Perth): Sandgroper, South Australia (Adelaide): Crow Eater, New South Wales (Sydney): Cockroach & Sydneysider, Queensland (Brisbane): Cane Toad & Brisburnian, Northern Territory (Darwin): Territorian & Darwinian, Tasmania: Tasmanian & Victoria: Mexican & Melburnian

◉ 5 Seconds of Summer

Sydney

5 Seconds of Summer (5SOS) Australian band from Sydney, New South Wales, formed in 2011. Hailing from the outskirts of Sydney, 5 Seconds of Summer (5SOS) comprising Luke Hemmings (vocals/guitar), Michae ..

◉ AC/DC

Sydney

The band AC/DC that sold 200+ million records worldwide started their career living and working in Sydney. Fans are torn whether the band started in Melbourne or Sydney, but the band AC/DC that sold 200+ mil ..

◉ Alan Dargin

Sydney

Alan Dargin (b. July 13, 1967; d. February 24, 2008) was a didgeridoo player from Wee Waa, New South Wales, Australia. He started learning the instrument at age five, being taught by his grandfather. His sig ..

◉ Alex Dimitriades

Sydney

Alex Dimitriades (born 28 December 1973) is an Australian film and television actor. Dimitriades was born in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, the son of first generation Greek immigrants. He grew up in Ea ..

◉ Andrew Denton

Sydney

Andrew Christopher Denton (born 4 May 1960) is an Australian comedian and Gold Logie nominated television presenter, the host of the ABCs weekly interview program Enough Rope. He is known as one of Australias m ..

◉ Angourie Rice

Sydney

Angourie Rice will be a star... there we said it! The first time we saw Angourie she starred as Lisa in the Australian film adaptation of Ladies in Black. According to wikipedia.org Angourie Rice was bo ..

◉ Antonia Kidman

Sydney

Antonia Kidman (born 1970 in Melbourne, Australia) is an Australian journalist and the younger sister of actress Nicole Kidman. Born in Melbourne, her family moved to Sydney when she was two. She attended Mo ..

◉ Banjo Paterson

Sydney

Andrew Barton Paterson (17 February 1864 - 5 February 1941), more affectionately referred as Banjo Paterson, was an Australian bush poet, journalist and author, widely renowned for his poems Waltzing Matilda, T ..

Sydney

Bill Brown (July 31, 1912 - March 16, 2008) The cricketing community is mourning the death of one of Australias test greats, Bill Brown, after he passed away aged 95. Born in Toowoomba in 1912, Brown move ..

◉ Blokes of Influence: Jack Steele and Matt Ford

Sydney

Two mates from New South Wales' south coast: tradies Jack Steele and Matt Ford are Blokes of Influence. Jack Steele and Matt Ford are the 'Aussie battlers' behind the iconic social media account The Inspired ..

◉ Brett Whiteley

2 Raper St Surry Hills

Brett Whiteley is one of Australia's most celebrated artists. Brett Whiteley, AO (7 April 1939 - 15 June 1992) . He won the Art Gallery of NSW Archibald, Wynne and Sulman prizes several times. Whitel ..

◉ Casey Donovan

Sydney

Casey Lee Donovan (born May 13, 1988) is an Australian singer and the youngest winner of the Idol series anywhere in the world, winning the second season of Australian Idol, at the age of 16. Donovan came fr ..

◉ Chris Abrahams

Sydney

Chris Abrahams (born 1961 in New Zealand) is a Sydney-based pianist, best known for his jazz work. He first came to public attention with the formation of the Benders in the early eighties. During this time ..

◉ Craig McLachlan

Long Jetty

Film. TV. Theatre. Music. Coffee Drinker. Guitar Player. Ukulele Lover. Riff Maker and spends way too much time on Facebook. Craig McLachlan has been in film, television, music industry and theatre for 30+ y ..

◉ Dame Joan Sutherland

Sydney

Dame Joan Sutherland, OM, AC, DBE (born November 7, 1926) is an Australian dramatic coloratura soprano. She is particularly noted for her contribution to the bel canto renaissance of the 1950s and 1960s. Sut ..

◉ Dawn Fraser

Dawn Fraser Sydney

Dawn Fraser is considered by many Australias greatest Olympian. In November 1999, Dawn was awarded "World Athlete of the Century"at the World Sport Awards in Vienna. In the same year was also awarded "Athlet ..

◉ Dr Victor Chang

Sydney

Doctor Victor Peter Chang AC (21 November 1936-4 July 1991) was a Chinese-Australian heart surgeon, and one of the pioneers of modern heart transplantation. Born in Shanghai to Australian-born Chinese parent ..

◉ Frank Bennett

Sydney

Frank Bennett (born David Wray in 1959 in Sydney, Australia, ) is an Australian jazz singer whose stage name is formed from Frank Sinatra and Tony Bennett. His vocal style is clearly influenced by these two ..

◉ Fred Hollows

Sydney

Fred Hollows (1929-1993) was a New Zealand-born ophthalmologist who became known for his work in restoring eyesight for countless thousands of people in Australia and many other countries. It has been estima ..

◉ Gough Whitlam

Sydney

Edward Gough Whitlam, AC, QC (born 11 July 1916), known as Gough Whitlam (pronounced "Goff") became Australias 21st Prime Minister on 5 December 1972. A member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP), Whitlam en ..

◉ Henry Lawson

Sydney

Henry Lawson (17 June 1867 - 2 September 1922) Henry Lawson is one of Australias best known writers. Along with his contemporary Banjo Paterson, Lawson is among the best-known Australian poets and fiction wr ..

Sydney

apocalypse pop. artist, law student, dog mum. living on unceded yuin country. Jack River (Holly Rankin) is a Sydney based Australian singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer. Her debut a ..

◉ Jane McGrath

Sydney

Jane Louise McGrath (nee Steele), was born May 4, 1966 and passed away June 22, 2008 (aged 42) in her Cronulla home in New South Wales, Australia. Known as a devoted Cancer support campaigner and for her mar ..

◉ Jeff Fenech

Sydney

Jeff Fenech aka The Marrickville Mauler (born May 28, 1964 in Marrickville, Sydney, Australia) is an Australian of Maltese parents, a former boxer and current boxing trainer. Fenech had a stellar amateur car ..

◉ Jeff Harding

Sydney

Jeff Harding (born February 5, 1965 in Sydney) was a world champion boxer from Australia, known as "Hit Man". Jeff lived in South Grafton N.S.W. Australia and was a student at South Grafton High School. He trai ..

◉ Joern Utzon

Sydney

Joern Utzon, the visionary Danish architect who designed the Sydney Opera House, has died. Utzon, 90, who won a competition to design the Opera House in 1956, died of a heart attack early on Saturday (27 Nov ..

Sydney

Joh Bailey is an Australian hair stylist based in Sydney. His career has spanned 20 years and he has had considerable success, with high-profile clientele and a chain of self-branded salons. Bailey has r ..

◉ John Howard | Actor

Sydney

John Howard (born 22 October 1952 in Corowa, New South Wales) is an Australian stage and screen actor. He is best known for his appearances in the film The Club, the Australian comedy film, The Crop and the ..

◉ John Winston Howard

Sydney

John Winston Howard (born 26 July 1939) was the 25th Prime Minister of Australia from 11 March 1996 to 3 December 2007. He is the second-longest serving Australian Prime Minister after Sir Robert Menzies, an ..

Wahroonga

Mel Colmcille Gerard Gibson AO is an American actor and filmmaker (screenwriter, producer, and director). Gibson was born January 3, 1956 in Peekskill, New York. After his American family moved to Australia ..

◉ Michael Pate

Sydney

Michael Pate (26 February 1920 - 1 September 2008) was an Australian actor and writer. Pate was born on 26 February 1920 in Drummoyne, Sydney. In 1938, he became a writer and broadcaster for the Australian B ..

◉ Neville Bonner AO

Sydney

In his own words New South Wales-born Neville Bonner was educated in the school of hard knocks and he certainly came up the hard way, with a minimum of formal schooling. Yet the quietly spoken, articulate Ne ..

◉ Nicole Kidman

Sydney

Nicole Mary Kidman, AC (born 20 June 1967) is an Academy Award-winning Australian actress and occasional singer. In 2006, she became the highest paid actress in the film industry. In the same year, Kidman wa ..

◉ Norm ONeill

Sydney

Norm ONeill (February 19, 1937 - March 3, 2008) Former Australian cricketer Norm ONeill played 42 Tests in the 1950 and 1960s, in which he scored 2779 runs at 45.55, with six centuries and a highest score of ..

◉ Notable Sydneysiders

Sydney

The following is a List of notable Sydneysiders who come from or who have significant associations with Sydney, Australia: A person from Sydney is a Sydneysider, or the variant spelling Sydney-sider. ALau ..

◉ Paul Charles William Davies

Sydney

Paul Charles William Davies (born April 22, 1946) is a British-born physicist, writer and broadcaster, presently a professor at Arizona State University, as well as the Director of BEYOND: Center for Fundamenta ..

Lightning Ridge

Paul Hogan is one of Australias best known and loved actors known for his television comedy shows and Crocodile Dundee, for which he won a Golden Globe award. Hogan was born on 8th October 1939 in Lightning ..

◉ Paul Keating

Sydney

Paul John Keating (born 18 January 1944) was the 24th Prime Minister of Australia, from 1991 to 1996. He came to prominence as the reformist Treasurer in the Hawke government from 1983. As Prime Minister, he ..

◉ Peter Allen

Tenterfield

Peter Allen was an Australian songwriter, singer, pianist, and entertainer. Peter Allen was born Peter Richard Woolnough; 10 February 1944 - 18 June 1992 in Tenterfield, New South Wales Raised in Armidale ..

◉ Peter Doyle

Sydney

Dr Peter Doyle, BA, Phd (born 1951 Maroubra, Sydney, New South Wales) is a doctor of Media and Mass Communications, author, musician, and visual artist. He lives in Newtown, and works for Macquarie Universit ..

◉ Peter Garrett, AM, MP

Sydney

Peter Garrett was born in Sydney and attended Barker College in Hornsby before studying arts/law at the University of New South Wales. Elected as Labor Member for Kingsford Smith at the 2004 federal election ..

◉ Peter Greenwood

Sydney

Peter J. Greenwood (19 October 1962 - 7 January 2021) was an actor and voice actor who has also been involved in crew work, special effects, and the art departments for various TV shows and cartoons. He had ..

◉ Robert Ampt

Sydney

Robert Ampt has been the Sydney City Organist since his return from Vienna to Australia in 1978, after four years of study with Anton Heller. A former teacher/lecturer at the Sydney Conservatorium, Sydney Un ..

◉ Robert Luketic

Sydney

Robert Luketic (born 1973) is a Sydney-born film director. He directed the films Win a Date with Tad Hamilton!, Legally Blonde, Monster in Law and 21. Born in Sydney from an Italian mother and Croatian fathe ..

◉ Rose Tattoo

Sydney

Rose Tattoo led by Angry Anderson was an Australian hard rock band, . Their sound is mixed with blues rock influences. Among their best known songs are "We Cant Be Beaten", "Scarred for Life", "Rock n Roll ..

Sydney

Ruth Park (24 August 1917 - 16 December 2010) was one of Australias most-loved and awarded authors, the author of the highly acclaimed The Harp in the South and The Muddleheaded Wombat. Park was born in Auck ..

◉ Sarah Blasko

Sydney

Sarah Blasko (born September 23, 1976) is an ARIA Award winning Australian musician. She was born in Sydney soon after her family returned from French-speaking Reunion where her parents had been missionaries ..

◉ Sir Donald Bradman

Cootamundra

Sir Donald George Bradman (born in the western N.S.W. town of Cootamundra on 27 August 1908) is an Australian sporting legend. No other sportsperson in Australian history has captured the respect and admirat ..

◉ Toni Collette

Sydney

Toni Collette was born Antonia Collette in Blacktown, Sydney, New South Wales. When Collette was eleven years old she faked appendicitis out of boredom and longing for attention. She was so convincing that ..