# Famous Australians that weren't born in Australia. **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 10, 2010, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-australians-that-werent-born-in-australia/563706 "2010-12-10T21:43:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2010, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-australians-that-werent-born-in-australia/563706/21 "2010-12-14T16:43:40Z")
> [@Snickers](#): > > Funny. Gillard was born in Wales. (Apparently y’all don’t have that native born clause in your laws, hey? Must be some Commonwealth thing.) I’m not even safe choosing Prime Ministers! She’s not even the first foreign-born Prime Minister: Chris Watson as born in Chile, though he and his mother managed to keep this a secret. (He may not even have been a British subject, though I suspect that he thought he was – at the time there was no such thing as Australian citizenship, and people born in Australia and in other parts of the Empire were British subjects.) ---
**Author:** ![Sevastopol](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cdc98d/32.png) [@Sevastopol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sevastopol)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2010, 11:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-australians-that-werent-born-in-australia/563706/22 "2010-12-15T11:45:06Z")
> [@Isamu](#): > > … > > Rupert Murdoch was also born in Melbourne, Australia. I grew up with cousins of his family. Not perhaps Anna Torv of ‘Fringe’ fame? ---
**Author:** ![Sevastopol](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cdc98d/32.png) [@Sevastopol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sevastopol)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2010, 11:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-australians-that-werent-born-in-australia/563706/23 "2010-12-15T11:52:07Z")
Mozart Howard Florey Spinoza Heath Ledger St Paul, all from suburban Australia. ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2010, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-australians-that-werent-born-in-australia/563706/24 "2010-12-15T12:08:56Z")
> [@Snickers](#): > > In response to the Australia question, I mentally responded: > > Hugh Jackman, Guy Pierce, Julia Gillard, and John Howard > > (I 'spose those last two are only famous for non-Australians that follow Australian politics.) How’d I do? I see Hugh’s already been cleared; was Pierce born in Australia? John Howard was born in Sydney. ---
**Author:** ![njtt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecd19e/32.png) [@njtt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/njtt)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2010, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-australians-that-werent-born-in-australia/563706/25 "2010-12-15T12:26:28Z")
I seem to remember seeing a movie about how Einstein came from Tasmania. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2010, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-australians-that-werent-born-in-australia/563706/26 "2010-12-15T13:52:16Z")
[Douglas Mawson](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Mawson): the most famous Australian you never heard of. His heroic trek of discovery, survival and tragedy in Antarctica was overshadowed by Scott’s death in his quest for the pole. He was born in Yorkshire, England. ---
**Author:** ![Wallenstein](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b5a626/32.png) [@Wallenstein](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wallenstein)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2010, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-australians-that-werent-born-in-australia/563706/27 "2010-12-15T14:32:24Z")
We already [did this](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=572163) in the summer, specifically with reference to Australia. ---
**Author:** ![Jim\_s\_Son](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19adc/32.png) [@Jim\_s\_Son](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jim_s_Son)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2010, 10:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-australians-that-werent-born-in-australia/563706/28 "2010-12-16T10:52:41Z")
Not quite sure if he is famous but Peter Windsor of F1 fame (such as the aborted USF1) was born in England. > **[Peter Windsor](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Windsor)** > > Peter David Windsor (born 11 April 1952) is a Formula One journalist, and former Formula One team and sponsorship manager. > Windsor started his journalism career at the monthly magazine Competition Car. He was the motorsport editor for the British weekly magazine Autocar from the late 1970s until 1985. > Windsor was Grand Prix Editor of the F1 Racing magazine from 1997 to 2009, and as of 2014, was the current senior columnist and feature writer on The Racer's Edge section. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-australians-that-werent-born-in-australia/563706.md?page=1)