A Samoan Australian is an Australian resident who is of ethnic Samoan descent from the of nation Samoa

Samoa

Samoa , officially the Independent State of Samoa, formerly known as Western Samoa is a country encompassing the western part of the Samoan Islands in the South Pacific Ocean. It became independent from New Zealand in 1962. The two main islands of Samoa are Upolu and one of the biggest islands in...

. Many Samoans live 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...

, Brisbane

Brisbane

Brisbane is the capital and most populous city in the Australian state of Queensland and the third most populous city in Australia. Brisbane's metropolitan area has a population of over 2 million, and the South East Queensland urban conurbation, centred around Brisbane, encompasses a population of...

 and 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...

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According to the 2006 Australian census 15,244 Australians were born in Samoa and 193 in American Samoa while 39,992 claimed Samoan ancestry, either alone or with another ancestry.

Notable Samoan Australians

• Tim Cahill
  Tim Cahill
  Timothy Filiga "Tim" Cahill is an football player of Australian nationality who plays for Everton and the Australian national football team...
  
  
• Aaron Edwards
  Aaron Edwards
  Aaron Edwards is an Australian rules footballer for the North Melbourne Football Club.-Early life:Edwards was born in Samoa to a Samoan mother and New Zealander father. He migrated with his family to Australia at the age of two and played rugby union until the age of 13...
  
  
• Ben Roberts
  Ben Roberts (rugby league)
  Ben Roberts is a New Zealand professional rugby League player currently playing club football for the Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs. He made his second international appearance for the New Zealand national rugby league team on Friday 20 April at the 2007 ANZAC test against the Australia national...
  
  
• Christian Lealiifano
  Christian Lealiifano
  Christian Lealiifano , is an Australian rugby union player. He currently plays for the ACT Brumbies wearing the number 10 jersey. In May 2010 the Waikato Rugby Union announced that they had signed Christian to become their new No.10 for the forthcoming ITM Cup...
  
  
• Karmichael Hunt
  Karmichael Hunt
  Karmichael Neil Matthew Hunt is an Australian professional multi-code football player, currently playing Australian rules football for the newly formed Gold Coast Suns in the Australian Football League ....
  
  
• Reni Maitua
  Reni Maitua
  Reni Maitua is an Australian professional rugby league footballer with the Parramatta Eels of the NRL. An Australian international representative player, he previously played for the Bulldogs RLFC, with whom he won the 2004 premiership...
  
  
• Brando Va'aulu
  Brando Va'aulu
  Brando Va'aulu is a New Zealand rugby union player for the Queensland Reds in the Super 14.-Career:Born in Auckland, Va'aulu's position of choice is as a wing. He was a member of the Under 19 World Cup winning side.-External links:*...
  
  
• Ben Te'o
• Lagi Setu
  Lagi Setu
  Lagi Setu is a rugby league player in the NRL competition, who plays for the Brisbane Broncos in the National Rugby League. Next year Setu will play for Sydney Roosters.-Career:...
  
  
• Digby Ioane
  Digby Ioane
  Digby Ioane is an Australian rugby union footballer playing for the Queensland Reds. He has previously played for the Western Force in their inaugural year in 2006 to 2007, and has been capped 11 times for the Wallabies.-Early life:...
  
  
• Junior Pelesasa
  Junior Pelesasa
  Junior Pelesasa is an Australian rugby union footballer who currently plays for Agen. He plays as a centre.-Career:Pelesasa moved to Australia from New Zealand at the age of 16...
  
  
• Josh Tatupu
  Josh Tatupu
  Josh Tatupu is a Samoan rugby union player. It was announced on 31 March 2011 that Tatupu had signed for Aviva Premiership side Exeter Chiefs-Career:...
  
  
• Antonio Winterstein
  Antonio Winterstein
  Antonio Winterstein is an Australian professional rugby league footballer for the North Queensland Cowboys of the NRL. A speedy outside back who played under-20s with the Roosters in 2008, his usual position is on the wing...
  
  
• Daniel Vidot
• Josh McGuire
  Josh McGuire
  Josh McGuire is a rugby league player who plays for the Brisbane Broncos in the National Rugby League . He primarily plays at prop.-Playing career:McGuire made his debut in round 3, 2009, against the New Zealand Warriors...