Greek Australian
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Greeks
Greeks
The Greeks, also known as the Hellenes , are a nation and ethnic group native to Greece, Cyprus and neighboring regions. They also form a significant diaspora, with Greek communities established around the world....

 are the seventh-largest ethnic group in Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

, after those declaring their ancestry simply as "Australian". In the 2006 census
Census
A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring and recording information about the members of a given population. It is a regularly occurring and official count of a particular population. The term is used mostly in connection with national population and housing censuses; other common...

, 365,147 persons declared having Greek ancestry, either alone or in conjunction with another ethnicity.
The 2006 census recorded 97,218 people of Greek ancestry born in Greece
Greece
Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , and historically Hellas or the Republic of Greece in English, is a country in southeastern Europe....

 and 18,381 in Cyprus
Cyprus
Cyprus , officially the Republic of Cyprus , is a Eurasian island country, member of the European Union, in the Eastern Mediterranean, east of Greece, south of Turkey, west of Syria and north of Egypt. It is the third largest island in the Mediterranean Sea.The earliest known human activity on the...

, though it is uncertain how many of the latter are Greek Cypriots
Greek Cypriots
Greek Cypriots are the ethnic Greek population of Cyprus, forming the island's largest ethnolinguistic community at 77% of the population. Greek Cypriots are mostly members of the Church of Cyprus, an autocephalous Greek Orthodox Church within the wider communion of Orthodox Christianity...

.

Early migration

The first Greek migrants to Australia were seven convict
Convict
A convict is "a person found guilty of a crime and sentenced by a court" or "a person serving a sentence in prison", sometimes referred to in slang as simply a "con". Convicts are often called prisoners or inmates. Persons convicted and sentenced to non-custodial sentences often are not termed...

 sailors convicted of piracy by a British naval court in 1829 and sent to serve out their terms in New South Wales
New South Wales
New South Wales is a state of :Australia, located in the east of the country. It is bordered by Queensland, Victoria and South Australia to the north, south and west respectively. To the east, the state is bordered by the Tasman Sea, which forms part of the Pacific Ocean. New South Wales...

. Though eventually pardoned, two of the seven settled in the country. The first known free Greek immigrant to Australia was Katerina Georgia Plessos (1809–1907), who arrived in Sydney
Sydney
Sydney is the most populous city in Australia and the state capital of New South Wales. Sydney is located on Australia's south-east coast of the Tasman Sea. As of June 2010, the greater metropolitan area had an approximate population of 4.6 million people...

 with her husband Major James Crummer in 1835. They married in 1827 on the island of Kalamos where Crummer, the island's commandant met the young refugee from the Greek independence
Greek War of Independence
The Greek War of Independence, also known as the Greek Revolution was a successful war of independence waged by the Greek revolutionaries between...

 wars. She is thought to be one of the last people to speak to Lord Byron. They lived in Sydney, Newcastle and Port Macquarie where she is buried. They had 11 children. The first free Greek settler to South Australia was George Tramountanas who arrived in Pt. Adelaide in 1842. He was a Pastoralist on the West Coast of South Australia and eventually became a well-respected sheep farmer and prominent member of the Elliston District. He is revered by the Greek Orthodox Community of South Australia as their Pioneering Grandfather. Groups of Greeks then settled in significant numbers during the gold rushes of the 1850s.

20th Century migration

The 1901 census recorded 878 Greek-born, but this must surely omit a few hundred other ethnic Greek migrants from the Ottoman Empire
Ottoman Empire
The Ottoman EmpireIt was usually referred to as the "Ottoman Empire", the "Turkish Empire", the "Ottoman Caliphate" or more commonly "Turkey" by its contemporaries...

 and elsewhere. The expulsion of Greeks from Asia Minor
Asia Minor
Asia Minor is a geographical location at the westernmost protrusion of Asia, also called Anatolia, and corresponds to the western two thirds of the Asian part of Turkey...

 in 1922-23 led to further Greek migration to Australia, primarily to New South Wales
New South Wales
New South Wales is a state of :Australia, located in the east of the country. It is bordered by Queensland, Victoria and South Australia to the north, south and west respectively. To the east, the state is bordered by the Tasman Sea, which forms part of the Pacific Ocean. New South Wales...

. These Greeks are difficult to trace but the number of Greeks from Greece proper had risen to 12,291 by the time of the 1947 census.

Greeks – alongside Italians – were one of the main groups targeted by Australian Government migration schemes in the 1950s and 1960s. By 1971 there were 160,200 Greek-born persons in Australia, and smaller numbers from Cyprus and Egypt. Today, just under half of the Greek-born (49.6%) live in Victoria
Victoria (Australia)
Victoria is the second most populous state in Australia. Geographically the smallest mainland state, Victoria is bordered by New South Wales, South Australia, and Tasmania on Boundary Islet to the north, west and south respectively....

, with a further third in New South Wales
New South Wales
New South Wales is a state of :Australia, located in the east of the country. It is bordered by Queensland, Victoria and South Australia to the north, south and west respectively. To the east, the state is bordered by the Tasman Sea, which forms part of the Pacific Ocean. New South Wales...

 (31.7%). In comparison, only 24.7% of Australians as a whole live in Victoria, underlining the density of the Greek presence there.

Melbourne
Melbourne
Melbourne is the capital and most populous city in the state of Victoria, and the second most populous city in Australia. The Melbourne City Centre is the hub of the greater metropolitan area and the Census statistical division—of which "Melbourne" is the common name. As of June 2009, the greater...

 has been known as one of the largest Greek cities in the world, although it is difficult to confirm this fact given the different methods countries use to conceptualise and measure people of particular backgrounds. In 2006, 149,195 persons in the Melbourne Statistical District claimed Greek ancestry, either alone or in combination with another ancestry. Four Greek cities had larger populations in 2007. In addition 224,500 persons reside in the Greek part of Nicosia
Nicosia
Nicosia from , known locally as Lefkosia , is the capital and largest city in Cyprus, as well as its main business center. Nicosia is the only divided capital in the world, with the southern and the northern portions divided by a Green Line...

, and 159,763 Greek American
Greek American
Greek Americans are Americans of Greek descent also described as Hellenic descent. According to the 2007 U.S. Census Bureau estimation, there were 1,380,088 people of Greek ancestry in the United States, while the State Department mentions that around 3,000,000 Americans claim to be of Greek descent...

s reside in New York State.

Return migration

Greek Australians have an exceptionally high rate of return migration to Greece. In December 2001, the Department of Foreign Affairs estimated that there were 135,000 Australian citizens resident in Greece. It is assumed that these are mostly returned Greek emigrants with Australian citizenship
Australian nationality law
Australian nationality law determines who is and who is not an Australian, and is based primarily on the principle of Jus soli. The status of Australian citizenship was created by the Nationality and Citizenship Act 1948 which received Royal Assent on 21 December 1948 and came into force on...

, and their Greek Australian children.

Religion

According to census data released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics
Australian Bureau of Statistics
The Australian Bureau of Statistics is Australia's national statistical agency. It was created as the Commonwealth Bureau of Census and Statistics on 8 December 1905, when the Census and Statistics Act 1905 was given Royal assent. It had its beginnings in section 51 of the Constitution of Australia...

 in 2006, Greek Australians are mainly Christian by religion, with 95.3% of Greece-born persons identifying with that religion. 1.6% identified with no religion or atheism, and a further 1.1% identified with other religions, while 1.9% did not answer the census question on religion.

Greek language

In 2006, the Greek language
Greek language
Greek is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages. Native to the southern Balkans, it has the longest documented history of any Indo-European language, spanning 34 centuries of written records. Its writing system has been the Greek alphabet for the majority of its history;...

 was spoken at home by 252,222 Australian residents, a 4.125% decrease from the 2001 census data. Greek is the fourth most commonly spoken language in Australia after English, Chinese and Italian.

Art and design

  • Stelios Arkadiou (Stelarc)
    Stelarc
    Stelarc is a Cypriot-Australian performance artist whose works focuses heavily on extending the capabilities of the human body. As such, most of his pieces are centred around his concept that the human body is obsolete...

     – artist
  • Nonda Katsalidis
    Nonda Katsalidis
    Nonda Katsalidis is an Australian architect.He is currently a practicing director of architecture firm Fender Katsalidis Architects in partnership with Karl Fender.-Life:Katsalidis migrated to Melbourne, Australia as a 5 year old...

     – architect
  • Marc Newson
    Marc Newson
    Marc Newson was born in Sydney, Australia. Now based in London, he is a successful industrial designer who works in aircraft design, product design, furniture design, jewellery, and clothing. He incorporates a design style known as biomorphism to his various designs...

     – industrial designer
  • Tony Rafty
    Tony Rafty
    Tony Rafty OAM is a Greek Australian artist. He specialises in drawing caricatures.Rafty was born in Paddington, New South Wales...

     – caricaturist
    Caricature
    A caricature is a portrait that exaggerates or distorts the essence of a person or thing to create an easily identifiable visual likeness. In literature, a caricature is a description of a person using exaggeration of some characteristics and oversimplification of others.Caricatures can be...


Business

  • Mark Bouris
    Mark Bouris
    Mark Bouris is an Australian businessman who is best known as the founder and chairman of 'Wizard Home Loans', Australia's second largest non-bank mortgage lender behind Aussie Home Loans...

     – managing director of Wizard
  • George Calombaris
    George Calombaris
    George Calombaris is an Australian chef and a judge of the Network Ten series MasterChef Australia. Prior to his role on MasterChef, Calombaris regularly appeared on the daytime Ten cooking show Ready Steady Cook. He owns three restaurants in Melbourne and one in Mykonos, Greece...

     – chef, judge, MasterChef Australia
    Masterchef Australia
    MasterChef Australia is a Logie award winning Australian competitive cooking game show based on the original British MasterChef. It is produced by FremantleMedia Australia and screens on Network Ten. Restaurateur and chef Gary Mehigan, chef George Calombaris and food critic Matt Preston serve as...

  • Andrew Demetriou
    Andrew Demetriou
    Andrew Demetriou is the chief executive officer of the Australian Football League and a former Australian rules footballer. He is the youngest son of Greek-Cypriot immigrants and, before becoming a VFL player, he worked in the dental import industry...

     – chief executive, Australian Football League
    Australian Football League
    The Australian Football League is both the governing body and the major professional competition in the sport of Australian rules football...

  • Andrew N. Liveris
    Andrew N. Liveris
    Andrew Liveris is a Greek-Australian-American executive from Australia and is the Chairman, CEO and President of The Dow Chemical Company based in the United States. He recently released his first book, "Make it in America: The Case for Re-Inventing The Economy", which has received wide publicity...

     – CEO of Dow Chemical Company
    Dow Chemical Company
    The Dow Chemical Company is a multinational corporation headquartered in Midland, Michigan, United States. As of 2007, it is the second largest chemical manufacturer in the world by revenue and as of February 2009, the third-largest chemical company in the world by market capitalization .Dow...

  • Nick Pappas
    Nick Pappas
    Dr Nicholas George Pappas is a solicitor from Sydney, Australia, and also the current chairman of the South Sydney Rabbitohs Rugby league club. He was also chairman of the club from April 2003 to June 2006...

     – chairman, South Sydney Rabbitohs
    South Sydney Rabbitohs
    The South Sydney Rabbitohs are an Australian professional rugby league football team based in Redfern, a suburb of South-central Sydney, New South Wales. They participate in the National Rugby League premiership and are one of nine existing teams from the state capital...

  • Nicholas Paspaley Senior and Paspaley family (Paspalis) – Paspaley
    Paspaley
    Paspaley is the largest pearling company in Australia. It started operations in the 1930s and is based in Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia. It has about 20 farms, situated between Dampier, Western Australia and the Cobourg Peninsula east of Darwin....

     dominate the pearling industry; large property holdings in Darwin CBD
    Darwin, Northern Territory
    Darwin is the capital city of the Northern Territory, Australia. Situated on the Timor Sea, Darwin has a population of 127,500, making it by far the largest and most populated city in the sparsely populated Northern Territory, but the least populous of all Australia's capital cities...

     and properties in Sydney
    Sydney
    Sydney is the most populous city in Australia and the state capital of New South Wales. Sydney is located on Australia's south-east coast of the Tasman Sea. As of June 2010, the greater metropolitan area had an approximate population of 4.6 million people...

  • George Peponis
    George Peponis
    Dr George Peponis is a former rugby league player for the Canterbury Bulldogs, New South Wales and for the Australian national side. He was the first player born outside Australia to captain the Australian rugby league team...

     – chairman, Canterbury Bulldogs
    Canterbury Bulldogs
    The Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs are an Australian professional rugby league football club based in Belmore, a suburb in the Canterbury-Bankstown region of Sydney. They compete in the National Rugby League premiership, as well as New South Wales Rugby League junior competitions...

  • James Samios – Hon. MBE Museum of Contemporary Art
    Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
    The Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney, Australia is an Australian museum solely dedicated to exhibiting, interpreting and collecting contemporary art, both from across Australia and around the world...

    , Circular Quay, Sydney
    Sydney
    Sydney is the most populous city in Australia and the state capital of New South Wales. Sydney is located on Australia's south-east coast of the Tasman Sea. As of June 2010, the greater metropolitan area had an approximate population of 4.6 million people...


Fashion

  • Christopher Chronis
    Christopher Chronis
    Christopher Chronis is an Australian fashion designer. Chronis has designed men's and women's fashions under the Christopher Chronis Designs, Gas Station and Christos fashion labels...

     – fashion designer
  • Napoleon Perdis
    Napoleon Perdis
    Napoleon Perdis is an Australian makeup artist and businessman.Napoleon launched a small makeup studio in the Sydney suburb of Leichhardt in 1992. He created a line of cosmetic products which he sold through his own concept store in the Sydney suburb of Paddington in 1995 and later through major...

     – make-up artist
  • Alex Perry
    Alex Perry
    Alex Perry is an Australian fashion designer, particularly noted for his designs in womenswear. After graduating from East Sydney Technical College in 1984, Perry worked as a model agent representing Australian models for international modelling agencies. In 1992 Perry opened his first atelier...

     – fashion designer
  • Olivia Wilkinson - Your mum

Film, theatre and television

  • Peter Andrikidis
    Peter Andrikidis
    Peter Andrikidis is an Australian television director and producer.Peter Andrikidis graduated from the Australian Film Television and Radio School in Film Direction in 1981 and was immediately recruited to Crawford Productions where he worked on The Flying Doctors.He moved to the ABC, where he...

     – director, Underbelly
    Underbelly
    Underbelly Limited is an English company that operates a series of four venues at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, in Scotland. From 2000-2004, Underbelly, Cowgate was the only venue operated by Underbelly. In 2005, Underbelly added the Baby Belly venue. In 2006, these venues were joined by the E4...

  • Alex Blias
    Alex Blias
    -Television Credits:* Home and Away as Chris Poulos, brother of Leah Poulos* Always Greener as ‘Skid’ Mark Pannas* All Saints as Jack-Film Credits:* Spank! * -Theatre Credits:* * -External links:...

     – actor
  • Elena Carapetis
    Elena Carapetis
    Elena Carapetis is an Australian actress of Greek and Cypriot descent, known for her role as Jackie Kassis in Heartbreak High, as well as numerous other television series and theatre roles.-Biography:...

     – actress
  • Gia Carides
    Gia Carides
    Gia Carides is an Australian actress. She is best known for her portrayals of Liz Holt in Strictly Ballroom, Susy Connor in Brilliant Lies, and Cousin Nikki in My Big Fat Greek Wedding.-Early life:...

     – actress
  • Zoe Carides
    Zoe Carides
    Zoe Carides is an Australian film and television actress who is best known for her roles in the television series G. P. as Dr. Sonia Kapek and Grass Roots as Liz Murray. Carides was born in Sydney, Australia.-Family:...

     – actress
  • Chantal Contouri
    Chantal Contouri
    Chantal Contouri is an Australian actress.Contouri has had starring roles in Australian films and played guest and recurring roles in various television series. Television roles including nurse Tracey Wilson in the soap opera Number 96 in 1974–1975...

     – actress
  • Mary Coustas
    Mary Coustas
    Mary Coustas is an Australian television personality. Originally from Melbourne, Coustas often performs as the character "Effie": a stereotypical second-generation Greek Australian...

     – comedian
  • Alex Dimitriades
    Alex Dimitriades
    Alex Dimitriades is a Greek Australian film and television actor.-Early life:Dimitriades was born in Sydney, the son of first generation Greek immigrants and is the youngest of three siblings . He grew up in the suburb of Earlwood...

     – actor
  • Rebekah Elmaloglou
    Rebekah Elmaloglou
    Rebekah Elmaloglou is an Australian actress who is best known for portraying the role of Sophie Simpson on the long-running Australian soap opera Home and Away from 1989 to 1993 and again on a recurring basis from 2002 to 2005...

     – actress, Home and Away
    Home and Away
    Home and Away is an Australian soap opera that has been produced in Sydney since July 1987 and is airing on the Seven Network since 17 January 1988. It is the second-longest-running drama and most popular soap opera on Australian television...

  • Sebastian Elmaloglou
    Sebastian Elmaloglou
    Sebastian Elmaloglou is an Australian stage, film and television actor best known for portraying the role of Max Sutherland on the long-running Australian soap opera Home and Away from 2002 to 2004.-Background:...

     – actor, Home and Away
    Home and Away
    Home and Away is an Australian soap opera that has been produced in Sydney since July 1987 and is airing on the Seven Network since 17 January 1988. It is the second-longest-running drama and most popular soap opera on Australian television...

  • Damien Fotiou
    Damien Fotiou
    Damien Fotiou is an Australian actor who has appeared in many fims and television series.Fotiou is probably best known for his roles in the television series Kick and Thunderstone. His guest roles on television series include Blue Heelers, Halifax f.p., Stingers and The Saddle Club...

     – actor
  • Nick Giannopoulos
    Nick Giannopoulos
    Nick Giannopoulos is a Australian stand-up comedian, film and TV actor. He is best known for his comedy stage show Wogs Out of Work alongside George Kapiniaris and the television sitcom Acropolis Now and is an exponent of wog comedy.-Early life:Nick is an actor/writer/producer/director...

     – actor and director
  • Diana Glenn
    Diana Glenn
    -Life:Glenn has an English father, Greek mother and three siblings. The family migrated to Australia when she was 14. She went to Melbourne Girls Grammar School and studied arts at Monash University and Melbourne University.-Career:...

     – actress
  • George Houvardas
    George Houvardas
    George Houvardas is an Australian actor who is best known for his role as Nick "Carbo" Karandonis in the television series Packed to the Rafters.-Biography:...

     – actor, Packed to the Rafters
    Packed to the Rafters
    Packed to the Rafters is an Australian family-orientated television series which premiered on the Seven Network on Tuesday 26 August 2008 at 8:30 pm. The drama series features a mix of lighthearted comedy woven through the plot. It revolves around the Rafter family facing work pressures and...

  • George Kapiniaris
    George Kapiniaris
    George Kapiniaris is Greek Australian television actor, stage actor and comedian.-Career:Kapiniaris broke through in the stage show Wogs Out of Work with Nick Giannopoulos. He then starred in the Melbourne based television sitcom Acropolis Now with Giannopoulos, Simon Palomares and Mary Coustas...

     – actor and comedian
  • Peter Kelamis
    Peter Kelamis
    Peter Kelamis is an Australian-born Canadian actor and comedian.-Life and career:Kelamis was born in Sydney, Australia of Greek origin. In 1985, Kelamis enrolled in the University of British Columbia...

     – comedian
  • Ana Kokkinos
    Ana Kokkinos
    Ana Kokkinos is an Australian film director. Kokkinos was born in Melbourne and prior to her career in film, she worked as an industrial lawyer...

     – director
  • Nico Lathouris
    Nico Lathouris
    Nico Lathouris is an Australian actor of Greek descent. Nico has many years of acting experience in the theatre, film and television. He has worked on the television series Police Rescue He appeared in George Miller's Mad Max movie as a car mechanic...

     – actor
  • Panda Likoudis
    Panda Likoudis
    -Television Credits:* Rain Shadow as Achmed Aziz* All Saints as Bryce, the ambo* White Collar Blue as Ricky Spinetti* Young Lions as Carver-Theatre Credits:* * Alkestis-External links:...

     – actor
  • Costas Mandylor
    Costas Mandylor
    Costas Mandylor is a Greek Australian actor. He is perhaps best known for his role as Kenny in Picket Fences, and for portraying Mark Hoffman in the Saw films.-Early life:...

     – actor
  • Louis Mandylor
    Louis Mandylor
    Louis Mandylor is an Australian film and television actor.-Life and career:Mandylor was born in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, the son of Greek immigrants Louise and Yannis Theodosopoulos, a taxi driver...

     – actor
  • Lex Marinos
    Lex Marinos
    Lex Marinos OAM is an Australian television actor, director and writer. Notable for his acting role as 'Bruno', the Italian son-in-law of bigot Ted Bullpitt, on the Australian comedy television series Kingswood Country as and host of Late Night Legends on ABC2, he was also a presenter on radio...

     – actor, director, writer and broadcaster
  • Harry Michaels
    Harry Michaels
    Harry Michaels is an Australian television producer and director. he is also a former actor and television host. He has been involved in the companies Harry Michaels Productions and zer0-1-zer0 . His wife, Effie Michaels, was one of the aerobics demonstrators on the Aerobics Oz Style television...

     – actor (TV series: Number 96) producer (Exercise Video: Aerobics Oz Style), Sports TV Director
  • Bill Miller (II)
    Bill Miller (film producer)
    -Life and career:Bill Miller was born in -Life and career:Bill Miller was born in -Life and career:Bill Miller was born in [[Queensland]and, like his older brother [[George Miller |George Miller]], who gave up practicing medicine to become a [[film director]], Bill, a successful arts and...

     – director and producer
  • George Miller
    George Miller (producer)
    George Miller is an Australian film director, screenwriter, producer, and former medical doctor. He is most well known for his work on the Mad Max movies, but has been involved in a wide range of projects, including the Oscar-winning Happy Feet and "Babe" family films.Miller is the older brother...

     – Academy-Award winning director and producer, Mad Max
    Mad Max
    Mad Max is a 1979 Australian dystopian action film directed by George Miller and revised by Miller and Byron Kennedy over the original script by James McCausland. The film stars Mel Gibson, who was unknown at the time. Its narrative based around the traditional western genre, Mad Max tells a story...

    , Babe
    Babe (film)
    Babe is a 1995 Australian-American film directed by Chris Noonan. It is an adaptation of the 1983 novel The Sheep-Pig, also known as Babe: The Gallant Pig in the United States, by Dick King-Smith and tells the story of a pig who wants to be a sheepdog...

    , Happy Feet
    Happy Feet
    Happy Feet is a 2006 American-Australian computer-animated family film with music, directed and co-written by George Miller. It was produced at Sydney-based visual effects and animation studio Animal Logic for Warner Bros., Village Roadshow Pictures and Kingdom Feature Productions and was released...

  • Ada Nicodemou
    Ada Nicodemou
    Ada Nicodemou is a Greek Cypriot-born Australian actress, best known for her role as Leah Patterson-Baker in the soap opera Home and Away.-Early life:Nicodemou was born in Larnaca, Cyprus. She has been an Australian resident since 1987....

     – actress, Home and Away
    Home and Away
    Home and Away is an Australian soap opera that has been produced in Sydney since July 1987 and is airing on the Seven Network since 17 January 1988. It is the second-longest-running drama and most popular soap opera on Australian television...

  • Phaedra Nicolaidis
    Phaedra Nicolaidis
    Phaedra Nicolaidis is an Australian actress, who has appeared in television, film and theatre roles. Phaedra graduated from Australia's National Institute of Dramatic Art with a degree in Performing Arts in 2004.-Film Credits:...

     – actress
  • Irini Pappas
    Irini Pappas
    Irini Pappas is an Australian actress, born and raised in Melbourne, of Greek heritage. She has appeared in many television and movie roles and has worked in both Australia and Greece....

     – actress
  • Alex Papps
    Alex Papps
    Alex Papps is an Australian actor and television host, who is best known for his role on soap opera Home and Away and as a host of The Factory...

     – actor and TV host
  • Thaao Penghlis
    Thaao Penghlis
    Thaao Penghlis is an Australian actor. He is better known for roles in the U.S. daytime soap operas such as Days of our Lives, Santa Barbara, and General Hospital, but he has also guest-starred on a number of crime dramas, such as Kojak, Cannon, Tenspeed and Brown Shoe, Hart to Hart, Nero Wolfe, ...

     – actor (Nicholas Black in TV series Mission Impossible)
  • Alex Proyas
    Alex Proyas
    Alexander "Alex" Proyas is a Australian film director, screenwriter, and producer. He is best known for directing such films as The Crow, Dark City, I, Robot and Knowing. He is known for employing a stylish photographic techniques in his films, with dark overtones usually in a post-apocalyptic...

     – director, I, Robot
    I, Robot (film)
    I, Robot is a 2004 science-fiction action film directed by Alex Proyas. The screenplay was written by Jeff Vintar, Akiva Goldsman and Hillary Seitz, and is very loosely based on Isaac Asimov's short-story collection of the same name. Will Smith stars in the lead role of the film as Detective Del...

    , Dark City, The Crow
    The Crow
    The Crow is a comic book series created by James O'Barr. The series was originally written by O'Barr as a means of dealing with the death of his girlfriend at the hands of a drunk driver. It was later published by Caliber Comics in 1989, becoming an underground success, and later adapted into a...

    , Knowing
    Knowing
    Knowing may refer to:* Knowledge* "Knowing", a song by OutKast from their 2003 album Speakerboxxx/The Love Below* Knowing , a 2009 science fiction film directed by Alex Proyas and starring Nicolas Cage and Rose Byrne...

  • Gina Riley
    Gina Riley
    Gina Riley is an Australian actress, writer, singer and comedian.Riley became a popular television performer in the sketch shows Fast Forward, its successor Full Frontal, Big Girl's Blouse and Something Stupid. In the latter she was also a producer and writer...

     – actress, Kath & Kim
    Kath & Kim
    Kath & Kim is a Logie Award-winning character-driven Australian television situation comedy series. The series was created by, and is written by Jane Turner and Gina Riley who play the title characters: a suburban mother and daughter with a dysfunctional relationship...

    , comedian and singer
  • George Spartels
    George Spartels
    George Spartels is an Australian actor of Greek descent, who is best known for his role on the television soap opera Neighbours, playing Benito Alessi. He was married to actress Elizabeth Alexander....

     – actor
  • Nadia Tass
    Nadia Tass
    Nadia Tass is a film director, producer and actress, originally from Macedonia, northern Greece, who moved to Australia in the 1960s. She began her career as an actress appearing in the television series Prisoner. Ms...

     – director
  • John Tatoulis
    John Tatoulis
    John Tatoulis is an award winning Australian film and television producer and director.Tatoulis was the producer of such movies as Take Away, Let's Get Skase and Beware of Greeks Bearing Guns...

     – director and producer
  • Maria Theodorakis
    Maria Theodorakis
    Maria Theodorakis is an Australian actress who has many credits in television, movies and theatre. She is best known for her roles in the television series CrashBurn and Marshall Law...

     – actress
  • Alkinos Tsilimidos
    Alkinos Tsilimidos
    Alkinos Tsilimidos is an Australian film director. Raised in comfortable circumstances in middle-class Doncaster, Tsilimidos won the Montréal First Film Prize at the Montréal World Film Festival for his 1994 film Everynight ... Everynight...

     – director
  • Zoe Ventoura
    Zoe Ventoura
    Zoe Ventoura is an Australian actress. In early life she attended Penrhos College in Perth, Western Australia. Ventoura is best known for portraying Melissa Rafter in Packed to the Rafters...

     – actress
  • Helen Zerefos
    Helen Zerefos
    Helen Zerefos OAM, is an Australian coloratura soprano. Her career has spanned almost 50 years on stage, television, in nightclubs, concerts and recordings....

     – actress and cabaret singer

Journalism

  • Georgia Cassimatis
    Georgia Cassimatis
    Georgia Cassimatis is an Australian journalist of Greek and British origins. She has worked on numerous internationally known magazines.-Biography:...

     – journalist, Australian Cosmopolitan
    Cosmopolitan (magazine)
    Cosmopolitan is an international magazine for women. It was first published in 1886 in the United States as a family magazine, was later transformed into a literary magazine and eventually became a women's magazine in the late 1960s...

     magazine
  • George Donikian
    George Donikian
    -Radio career:George commenced his media career as an announcer with Radio station 4AM in far North Queensland in the mid 1970s, and was soon lured in a southerly direction and arrived at 2WL in Wollongong, New South Wales....

     – news presenter, Ten Network
  • Peter Frilingos
    Peter Frilingos
    Peter Frilingos was a sports journalist and commentator, best known for his work as a rugby league writer. He was affectionately known as Chippy because of his Greek background....

     (dec.) – sports journalist with the Daily Telegraph in Sydney, and broadcaster and commentator with the Continuous Call Team
    Continuous Call Team
    The Continuous Call Team is an Australian radio sports program, covering the news and live games of the National Rugby League. It is produced and broadcast by 2GB Sydney, and is relayed to stations in New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, Western Australia and Papua New Guinea.The team have...

    .
  • Helen Kapalos
    Helen Kapalos
    Helen Kapalos is an Australian television news presenter.Kapalos began her career in her hometown of Newcastle, New South Wales, as a reporter for ABC Radio in 1994, before moving to television on SBS in Sydney...

     – news presenter, Ten Network
  • Mary Kostakidis
    Mary Kostakidis
    Mary Kostakidis is the former weeknight SBS World News Australia presenter.Mary Kostakidis was the first woman appointed to present a national prime time news bulletin in Australia....

     – journalist, SBS
    Special Broadcasting Service
    The Special Broadcasting Service is a hybrid-funded Australian public broadcasting radio and television network. The stated purpose of SBS is "to provide multilingual and multicultural radio and television services that inform, educate and entertain all Australians and, in doing so, reflect...

  • John Mangos
    John Mangos
    John is an Australian news presenter.He is also a host on talk back radio station 2UE and a regular on Sunrise on the Seven Network. He has also made cameo appearances on the Australian comedy programs Pizza and Swift and Shift Couriers....

     – news presenter and journalist, Sky News Australia
    Sky News Australia
    Sky News Australia is an Australian 24 hour cable and satellite news channel available in 2.5 million homes on Foxtel, Austar, Optus Television and Neighbourhood Cable subscription platforms....

    , Foxtel
    Foxtel
    Foxtel is an Australian pay television company, operating cable, direct broadcast satellite television and IPTV services. It was formed in 1995 through a joint venture established between Telstra and News Corporation....

  • George Megalogenis
    George Megalogenis
    George Megalogenis is an Australian journalist, political commentator and author.George is a senior feature writer for The Australian newspaper. He is also a regular on the ABC's political analysis program Insiders, where a panel discusses events in Australian politics.George spent eleven years in...

     – author and The Australian
    The Australian
    The Australian is a broadsheet newspaper published in Australia from Monday to Saturday each week since 14 July 1964. The editor in chief is Chris Mitchell, the editor is Clive Mathieson and the 'editor-at-large' is Paul Kelly....

     newspaper columnist
  • Harry Nicolaides
    Harry Nicolaides
    Harry Nicolaides is an Australian writer of Greek-Cypriot origin imprisoned in Thailand under the Thai lèse majesté law, for a passage in a 2005 novel of his deemed to defame the Thai monarchy. On 19 January 2009 he was sentenced to three years in prison...

     – novelist – incarcerated in Thailand on charges of 'lese majeste' (the crime of insulting the Thai monarchy) in his novel Verisimilitude.
  • Andy Pasquelidis – sports commentator
  • Peter Peters
    Peter Peters
    Peter Peters is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer, commentator and journalist.He was a first grade player for Parramatta Eels and Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles from 1969 to 1974, playing in the 1972 and 1973 premiership winning teams, Later he became a football commentator on...

     – sports broadcaster and commentator (also Manly Sea-Eagles general manager)

Music

  • Peter Andre
    Peter André
    Peter James Andrea , better known by the stage name as Peter Andre, is an English-born Australian musician, singer-songwriter, television personality and businessman. As a recording artist, he has achieving four top 10 UK albums and ten top 10 singles.-Early life:Andre was born at Northwick Park...

     – singer
  • Alex Carapetis
    Alex Carapetis
    Alex Carapetis is a professional drummer. After studying jazz at the Adelaide Conservatorium in 2000, he moved to Sydney to further his music career. In 2004 and 2005, Carapetis toured full-time with Jimmy Barnes in Australia and New Zealand. In July 2005, Carapetis toured with Delta Goodrem on...

     – drummer
  • Chris Joannou
    Chris Joannou
    Christopher John Joannou is a Macedonian Australian musician, best known as the bass player for the successful alternative rock band Silverchair. Born in Newcastle, New South Wales, he has a twin sister and an older sister. He has a nephew and two nieces. He was the first of the three band...

     – musician (Silverchair
    Silverchair
    Silverchair were an Australian rock band, which formed in 1992 as Innocent Criminals in Merewether, Newcastle with the line-up of Ben Gillies on drums, Chris Joannou on bass guitar and Daniel Johns on vocals and guitars. The group got their big break in mid-1994 when they won a national demo...

    )
  • James Kannis
    James Kannis
    James Jay Kannis is a singer from Australia who was well known for participating in the reality television show Australian Idol. Kannis was placed in seventh position, eliminated on 17 October 2005....

     – singer (Australian Idol
    Australian Idol
    Australian Idol is a Logie Award-winning Australian singing competition, which began its first season on July 2003 and ended its run in November 2009. As part of the Idol franchise, Australian Idol originated from the reality program Pop Idol, which was created by British entertainment executive...

    )
  • Vasilliki Karagiorgos (Vassy) – singer and songwriter
  • Orianthi Panagaris – guitarist/musician
  • Sally Polihronas – singer (Bardot)
  • Costas Tsicaderis
    Costas Tsicaderis
    Costas Tsicaderis was a Greek-Australian singer-songwriter.- Biography :Costas Tsicaderis was born in Katerini in the north of Greece in 1945, and his family migrated to Australia in 1954, when Costas was nine years old...

     – singer-songwriter

Politics

  • Nick Bolkus
    Nick Bolkus
    Nick Bolkus is a former Australian Labor Party politician. He was a member of the Senate from July 1981 to 2005, representing the state of South Australia.-Early career:...

     – federal politician
  • Michael Costa – former Finance Minister, New South Wales
  • Jim Fouras
    Jim Fouras
    Demetrios "Jim" Fouras is a former Australian politician. Born in Greece, he migrated to Queensland where he was a research chemist and then a marketing economist with the Department of Primary Industries. In 1977, he was elected to the Queensland Legislative Assembly as the Labor member for South...

     – politician, Queensland
  • Steve Georganas
    Steve Georganas
    Steven "Steve" Georganas , Australian politician, is the Australian Labor Party representative for the House of Representatives seat of Hindmarsh in South Australia since the 2004 federal election....

     – federal politician
  • Petro Georgiou
    Petro Georgiou
    Petro Georgiou , Australian politician, was a Liberal member of the Australian House of Representatives from November 1994 to July 2010, representing the Division of Kooyong, Victoria.-Early life:...

     – federal politician
  • John Hatzistergos
    John Hatzistergos
    John Hatzistergos is a former Australian politician who was a Member of the New South Wales Legislative Council representing the Australian Labor Party between 1999 and 2011...

     – Attorney General
    Attorney General
    In most common law jurisdictions, the attorney general, or attorney-general, is the main legal advisor to the government, and in some jurisdictions he or she may also have executive responsibility for law enforcement or responsibility for public prosecutions.The term is used to refer to any person...

    , New South Wales
  • Peter Katsambanis
    Peter Katsambanis
    Peter Argyris Katsambanis is a former Australian politician. He was a Liberal member of the Victorian Legislative Council from 1996 to 2002, representing Monash Province....

     – former politician, Victoria
  • Steve Kons
    Steve Kons
    Steven Kons was an Australian Labor politician and member of the Tasmanian House of Assembly in the electorate of Braddon...

     – Deputy Premier, Tasmania
  • Nick Kotsiras – Minister, Victoria
  • Tom Koutsantonis
    Tom Koutsantonis
    Anastasios "Tom" Koutsantonis is a South Australian politician and a member of the Australian Labor Party, representing the seat of West Torrens in the South Australian House of Assembly...

     – Minister for Trade, South Australia
  • Ken Michael
    Ken Michael
    Kenneth Comninos Michael, AC was the 32nd Governor of Western Australia, succeeding Lieutenant-General John Sanderson.His vice-regal appointment was announced on 6 June 2005 by the then Premier Geoff Gallop and he was sworn in at Government House, Perth on 18 January 2006 by the Chief Justice of...

     – politician
  • Jenny Mikakos
    Jenny Mikakos
    Jenny Mikakos is an Australian politician for the Australian Labor Party. She is currently the Victorian Parliamentary Secretary for Planning, and a Member of the Legislative Council for Northern Metropolitan Region....

     – politician, Victoria
  • Sophie Mirabella
    Sophie Mirabella
    Sophie Mirabella is an Australian federal politician. She has been a Liberal member of the Australian House of Representatives since 2001, representing the Division of Indi, Victoria...

     – federal politician
  • John Pandazopoulos
    John Pandazopoulos
    John Pandazopoulos is a Victorian politician. He is a Member of the Legislative Assembly, representing the electorate of Dandenong for the Australian Labor Party. During the Bracks Government, he was a member of Cabinet, serving as Minister for Major Projects, Employment, Tourism, Gaming and Racing...

     – politician, Victoria
  • Theo Theophanous
    Theo Theophanous
    Theo Charles Theophanous is a former Australian politician who served in the Victorian Legislative Council representing the Northern Metropolitan Region. He is the brother of former federal politician Andrew Theophanous...

     – politician, Victoria (born Cyprus
    Cyprus
    Cyprus , officially the Republic of Cyprus , is a Eurasian island country, member of the European Union, in the Eastern Mediterranean, east of Greece, south of Turkey, west of Syria and north of Egypt. It is the third largest island in the Mediterranean Sea.The earliest known human activity on the...

    )
  • Arthur Sinodinos – former Chief of Staff, PM John Howard
    John Howard
    John Winston Howard AC, SSI, was the 25th Prime Minister of Australia, from 11 March 1996 to 3 December 2007. He was the second-longest serving Australian Prime Minister after Sir Robert Menzies....

  • Maria Vamvakinou
    Maria Vamvakinou
    Maria Vamvakinou , is an Australian politician. She has been member of the Australian House of Representatives since November 2001, representing the Division of Calwell, Victoria for the Australian Labor Party...

     – federal politician
  • Kon Vatskalis
    Kon Vatskalis
    Konstantine "Kon" Vatskalis is an Australian politician. He has been an Australian Labor Party member of the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly since September 2001, representing the Darwin-based electorate of Casuarina...

     – politician, Northern Territory
  • Nick Xenophon
    Nick Xenophon
    Nicholas "Nick" Xenophon is a South Australian barrister, anti-gambling campaigner and politician. He attended Prince Alfred College, and studied law at the University of Adelaide, attaining his Bachelor of Laws in 1981. Xenophon established and became principal of his own law firm, Xenophon & Co....

     – politician, South Australia

Science and technology

  • Gerasimos Danilatos
    Gerasimos Danilatos
    Gerasimos D. Danilatos is a Greek-Australian physicist and inventor of ESEM, the environmental scanning electron microscope.He was born in Cefalonia, Greece...

    -physicist, inventor of environmental scanning electron microscope
  • George North (Tramountanas)
    George North (Tramountanas)
    George Tramountanas , anglicised as George North in 1858, was the first settler of Greek origin in South Australia. The Greek Orthodox community of South Australia regards North as their Pioneering Grandfather....

     – pastoralist, sheep farmer and first Greek to settle in South Australia in 1842
  • Christos Pantelis
    Christos Pantelis
    Professor Christos Pantelis is an Australian professor of medicine who is the Director of the Melbourne Neuropsychiatry Centre.- Profile :Prof. Christos Pantelis completed his medical degree at the University of Melbourne and trained at St Vincent's Hospital in Melbourne. Two years later, in 1979,...

     – psychiatrist

Australian Rules

  • Ang Christou
    Ang Christou
    Ang Christou is a former Australian rules footballer for Carlton in the Australian Football League.-Football career:Christou played for the Carlton Football Club and along with Anthony Koutoufides was a popular figure as a Greek Australian.In 2001, Christou had a solid pre-season, but missed the...

     – player
  • Andrew Demetriou
    Andrew Demetriou
    Andrew Demetriou is the chief executive officer of the Australian Football League and a former Australian rules footballer. He is the youngest son of Greek-Cypriot immigrants and, before becoming a VFL player, he worked in the dental import industry...

     – CEO
  • Anthony Koutoufides
    Anthony Koutoufides
    Anthony Koutoufides is a former Australian rules footballer with the Carlton Football Club. One of the most powerful and athletic players of all-time, he played in almost every position and was often called the prototype of the modern footballer.Of Greek and Italian descent, Koutoufides has been...

     – player
  • Angelo Lekkas
    Angelo Lekkas
    Angelos Lekkas is a former Australian rules footballer who played his entire professional career with the Hawthorn Football Club in the Australian Football League...

     – player
  • Lou Richards
    Lou Richards
    Lewis Thomas Charles "Lou" Richards is a retired Australian rules footballer, who played 250 games with the Collingwood Football Club in the Victorian Football League between 1941 and 1955...

     – player
  • David Zaharakis
    David Zaharakis
    David Zaharakis is an Australian rules footballer for Essendon in the Australian Football League who is of Greek heritage.-Career:...

     – player
  • Greek Team of the Century
    Greek Team of the Century
    The Greek Team of the Century was a representative team chosen in 2004 in the sport of Australian rules football.Anthony Koutoufides and Peter Daicos were named vice-captains, Lou Richards was captain. The criteria was that any Greek blood whatsoever constituted eligibility for the team...

     – players

Boxing and Kickboxing

  • Evangelos Goussis
    Evangelos Goussis
    Evangelos Goussis, is an Australian former boxer and kickboxer from Geelong, Victoria, and is a multiple murderer, guilty of the murders of two victims of the Melbourne gangland killings...

     – kickboxer and boxer, convicted murderer
  • Michael Katsidis
    Michael Katsidis
    Michael Alan Katsidis is an Australian professional boxer of Greek descent. He is a former two-time WBO interim lightweight titleholder whose crowd-pleasing, all-action fighting style has often drawn comparisons with the late Arturo Gatti.-Amateur career:In an amateur career which began at the...

     – Professional Boxer, former WBA, WBO, The ring magazine, lightweight champion
  • Stan Longinidis
    Stan Longinidis
    Stan "The Man" Longinidis is a retired Australian Heavyweight kickboxer and 8 time Kickboxing World Champion. Born in Australia of Greek ethnicity, Longinidis is one of the few fighters to have won World titles in three different styles, International Rules Kickboxing, Full Contact and Muay Thai,...

     – kickboxer
  • Tosca Petridis
    Tosca Petridis
    Tosca Petridis is a Greek-Australian former Kickboxer and Boxer.He was born in Melbourne, Australia, however is of Greek ethnicity...

     – kickboxer and boxer
  • Daniel Dawson
    Daniel Dawson
    Daniel "The Rock" Dawson is an Australian super welterweight kickboxer and boxer, fighting out of Perth, Western Australia.-Boxing Career:Daniel Dawson has a boxing record of 34 wins and 2 losses...

     -Kickboxing,Muay Thai World Champion & Current regional Boxing Champion-Mother and Grandmother-Greek/Cypriot

Football (Soccer)

  • John Anastasiadis
    John Anastasiadis
    Yiannis Anastasiadis is a former Australian football player of Greek background.-Club career:...

     – former player and coach
  • Con Boutsianis
    Con Boutsianis
    Con Boutsianis is an Australian Football player and former International, noted for his ability in dead ball situations. Con is known affectionately by fans as 'Boutsi'....

     – former player
  • Dean Bouzanis
    Dean Bouzanis
    Dean Anthony Bouzanis is an Australian football player who currently plays as a goalkeeper for League One side Oldham Athletic on non-contract terms.-Club career:...

     – player
  • Chris Kalantzis
    Chris Kalantzis
    Chris Kalantzis is an Australian association football player. He began his career with Sydney Olympic, First Grade, at the age of 15. He was then signed by the Greek team Panathinaikos, where he played for five years. During these years he represented the Australian Socceroos in many games....

     – player
  • Stan Lazaridis
    Stan Lazaridis
    Stanley "Stan" Lazaridis is a former football player. He was predominantly a left winger though he had been known to perform at left-back...

     – player, Perth Glory and Socceroos
  • Lucas Pantelis
    Lucas Pantelis
    Lucas Pantelis is a Greek Australian football player. He currently plays for Wellington Phoenix in the Hyundai A-League.-Club career:...

     – player
  • Ange Postecoglou
    Ange Postecoglou
    Angelos "Ange" Postecoglou is a former Australian football player and manager of Brisbane Roar.-Club career:Postecoglou played 193 games from 1984 to 1993 for South Melbourne in the National Soccer League, where he was involved in their 1984 and 1990–91 titles, the latter as captain, before moving...

     – coach, former player
  • Nick Theodorakopoulos
    Nick Theodorakopoulos
    Nick Theodorakopoulos is a football coach from Australia.-Managerial career:He previously coached in the predecessor to the A-League, the NSL with now-defunct Parramatta Power....

     – coach
  • Michael Theoklitos
    Michael Theoklitos
    Michael Theoklitos is an Australian football player for the Brisbane Roar.-Early career:Theoklitos made several appearances in the Australian National Soccer League before moving away to Blackpool in England as a youngster, where he only played three games due to an injury sustained shortly after...

     – player, Melbourne Victory
    Melbourne Victory
    Melbourne Victory Football Club is an Australian professional football club based in Melbourne, Victoria, that plays in the A-League....

  • Michael Valkanis
    Michael Valkanis
    Michael Valkanis is a former Australian football player who played as a Central Defender.-Club career:He has played in the Greek League with Iraklis, most notably with Larissa where he played for five seasons and won 102 caps, and Agios Nikolaos...

     – player, Adelaide United
  • Andy Vlahos
    Andy Vlahos
    Andrew Vlahos is an Australian-Greek football , who currently plays and coaches for Hume City in the Victorian Premier League....

     – player

Rugby League

  • Braith Anasta
    Braith Anasta
    Braith Anasta is a Greek-Australian professional rugby league footballer who captains the Sydney Roosters of the National Rugby League...

     – player, Sydney Roosters
    Sydney Roosters
    The Sydney Roosters are an Australian professional rugby league football club based in the Eastern Suburbs of Sydney. The club competes in the National Rugby League and is one of the oldest and most successful clubs in Australian rugby league history, having won twelve New South Wales Rugby League...

  • George Gatis
    George Gatis
    George Gatis is a professional rugby league player who has played in the National Rugby League and Super League competitions. His position of choice is at hooker.-North Queensland:...

     – player, New Zealand Warriors
    New Zealand Warriors
    The New Zealand Warriors are a professional rugby league football club based in Auckland, New Zealand. They compete in the National Rugby League premiership and are the League's only team from outside Australia...

  • Steve Georgallis
    Steve Georgallis
    Steve Georgallis is an Australian professional rugby league football coach and former player. Appointed as the Penrith Panthers head coach part-way through the 2011 NRL season, he played during the 1990s in Sydney for the Eastern Suburbs Roosters, Western Suburbs Magpies and Wests Tigers, as well...

     – player/coach
  • Michael Korkidas
    Michael Korkidas
    Michael Korkidas is an Australian-Greek rugby league player who currently plays for the Keighley Cougars. He primarily plays at .-Playing career:...

     – player, Salford City Reds
    Salford City Reds
    Salford City Reds are an English rugby league club based in Salford, Greater Manchester. Formed in 1873, they currently play in the Super League. They have won six Rugby Football League Championships and one Challenge Cup...

  • Nick Kouparitsas
    Nick Kouparitsas
    Nick Kouparitsas is an Greek/Australian professional rugby league footballer for the Sydney Roosters of the National Rugby League...

     – player, Canterbury Bulldogs
    Canterbury Bulldogs
    The Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs are an Australian professional rugby league football club based in Belmore, a suburb in the Canterbury-Bankstown region of Sydney. They compete in the National Rugby League premiership, as well as New South Wales Rugby League junior competitions...

  • Glen Lazarus – player Canberra Raiders
    Canberra Raiders
    The Canberra Raiders are an Australian professional rugby league football club based in the national capital city of Canberra, Australian Capital Territory. They have competed in Australasia's elite rugby league competition, the National Rugby League premiership since 1982...

    , Brisbane Broncos
    Brisbane Broncos
    The Brisbane Broncos are an Australian professional rugby league football club based in the city of Brisbane, the capital of the state of Queensland. Founded in 1988, the Broncos play in Australasia's elite competition, the National Rugby League premiership. They have won six premierships and two...

     and Melbourne Storm
    Melbourne Storm
    The Melbourne Storm are an Australian professional rugby league club based in the city of Melbourne. They are the first fully professional rugby league team based in the Australian rules football-dominated state of Victoria....

  • George Peponis
    George Peponis
    Dr George Peponis is a former rugby league player for the Canterbury Bulldogs, New South Wales and for the Australian national side. He was the first player born outside Australia to captain the Australian rugby league team...

     – former Australian captain
  • Willie Peters
    Willie Peters
    Willie Peters is a halfback who played for South Sydney Rabbitohs i. He has also played for the St George Illawarra Dragons as well as in England for the Widnes Vikings, where he was unable to save them from relegation in 2005. Because of his Greek background, he is eligible to represent the...

     – player, South Sydney Rabbitohs
    South Sydney Rabbitohs
    The South Sydney Rabbitohs are an Australian professional rugby league football team based in Redfern, a suburb of South-central Sydney, New South Wales. They participate in the National Rugby League premiership and are one of nine existing teams from the state capital...

  • Jim Serdaris
    Jim Serdaris
    Jim Serdaris is an Australian former rugby league footballer of the 1980s, 90s and 2000s. He played for the South Sydney Rabbitohs, Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs, Western Suburbs Magpies, Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles, New South Wales and for the Australian national side...

     – player
  • John Skandalis
    John Skandalis
    John Skandalis is an Australian professional rugby league footballer for the Wests Tigers of the NRL. He played previously for the Western Suburbs Magpies and Huddersfield Giants...

     – player, Huddersfield Giants
    Huddersfield Giants
    Huddersfield Giants are a professional rugby league club from Huddersfield, West Yorkshire who play in the European Super League competition. They play their home games at the Galpharm Stadium which is shared with Huddersfield Town F.C....

  • Jason Stevens
    Jason Stevens
    Jason Anthony Stevens is a former professional rugby league footballer who represented his country and state. He primarily played at prop...

     – player, retired
  • Justin Tsoulos
    Justin Tsoulos
    Justin Tsoulos is a Greek Australian rugby league player who plays in the NRL for the Canterbury Bulldogs. He made his first grade debut on the 29th of June 2003 as a 19 year old, playing for the Parramatta Eels against the Newcastle Knights at EnergyAustralia Stadium...

     – player, Parramatta Eels
    Parramatta Eels
    The Parramatta Eels are an Australian professional rugby league football club based in the Sydney suburb of Parramatta. The Parramatta District Rugby League Football Club was formed in 1947, with their First Grade side playing their first season in the New South Wales Rugby Football League...


Shooting

  • Michael Diamond
    Michael Diamond (sport shooter)
    Michael Constantine Diamond, OAM is a professional target shooter from Australia. Mastering the shotgun, Diamond succeeded in winning the Olympic gold medal for trap both in Atlanta and Sydney . He also holds the world record in double trap, and held the final world record in trap between 2007...

     – shooter – Olympic gold medallist, Sydney 2000

Skiing

  • Lydia Lassila (née Lerodiaconou) – skier – Winter Olympian
    Olympic Games
    The Olympic Games is a major international event featuring summer and winter sports, in which thousands of athletes participate in a variety of competitions. The Olympic Games have come to be regarded as the world’s foremost sports competition where more than 200 nations participate...

     (gold medalist)

Writing

  • Mary Kalantzis
    Mary Kalantzis
    Professor Mary Kalantzis is an Australian author and academic, who is Dean of the College of Education at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in the United States...

     – writer and academic
  • Dean Kalimniou
    Dean Kalimniou
    Dean Kalimniou is an Australian lawyer, writer and journalist of Greek descent. Dean Kalimniou was born in Melbourne, Australia in 1977...

     – poet and journalist
  • Antigone Kefala
    Antigone Kefala
    Antigone Kefala is a contemporary Australian poet and prose-writer of Greek-Romanian heritage. She has also been a teacher, and a member of the Literature Board of the Australia Council....

     – poet
  • Angelo Loukakis
    Angelo Loukakis
    Angelo Loukakis is an Australian author. He was born in Australia, attended Fort Street High School, studied English Literature at the University of New South Wales, and acquired a Dip. Ed. from Sydney Teachers College and a Doctorate in Creative Arts from the University of Technology, Sydney. He...

     – novelist
  • Tess Mallos
    Tess Mallos
    Tess Mallos is an Australian food and cooking, writer, journalist, author, and commentator. She has written a number of books on Greek and Middle Eastern cuisine.-Biography:...

     – food and cooking, writer, journalist, author and commentator
  • George Megalogenis
    George Megalogenis
    George Megalogenis is an Australian journalist, political commentator and author.George is a senior feature writer for The Australian newspaper. He is also a regular on the ABC's political analysis program Insiders, where a panel discusses events in Australian politics.George spent eleven years in...

     – journalist, political commentator and author
  • Pi O
    Pi O
    П. O. is an Australian, working class, anarchist, poet of Greek origin.Born in Katerini, Greece, П. O. came to Australia with his family around 1954. After time in Bonegilla Migrant Reception and Training Centre, the family moved to the Melbourne suburb of Fitzroy.П. O...

     – performance poet
  • Dimitris Tsaloumas
    Dimitris Tsaloumas
    -Biography:Dimitris Tsaloumas was born in Greece on the island of Leros, one of the Dodecanese islands, which were then under Italian rule . Consequently his formal education was in Italian. His later schooling was on Rhodes where he also studied the violin...

     – poet
  • Christos Tsiolkas
    Christos Tsiolkas
    -Biography:He was born and grew up in Melbourne and was educated at Blackburn High School and the University of Melbourne where he completed an Arts Degree in 1987. www.austlit.edu.au. Retrieved 2007-07-22. He edited the student newspaper Farrago in 1988....

     – novelist
  • Spiro Zavos
    Spiro Zavos
    Spiro Zavos is an Australasian historian, philosopher, journalist and writer...

     – journalist and author

See also

  • Greeks
    Greeks
    The Greeks, also known as the Hellenes , are a nation and ethnic group native to Greece, Cyprus and neighboring regions. They also form a significant diaspora, with Greek communities established around the world....

  • Australian-Greek relations
    Australian-Greek relations
    Australian–Greek relations are the relations between Australia and Greece. Relations between the two states are close: both country were allies during both World Wars and the Korean War. During World War II, Australian forces took part in the Battle of Greece and Battle of Crete...

  • Greek Cypriots
    Greek Cypriots
    Greek Cypriots are the ethnic Greek population of Cyprus, forming the island's largest ethnolinguistic community at 77% of the population. Greek Cypriots are mostly members of the Church of Cyprus, an autocephalous Greek Orthodox Church within the wider communion of Orthodox Christianity...

  • Greeks in New Zealand
    Greeks in New Zealand
    There is a community of about 4,500 people of Greek descent in New Zealand.Greek New Zealanders have a heavy concentration in Wellington, and to a lesser extent Christchurch and Auckland...

  • Neos Kosmos (newspaper)
    Neos Kosmos (newspaper)
    Neos Kosmos is a Greek language newspaper published in Melbourne, Australia every Monday and Thursday. In 2010 it launched a third edition every Saturday with Australia's first English language Greek newspaper. Founded in 1957, it is published by Ethnic Publications Pty. Ltd.-External links:* *...


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