* 1961 – Lisa Gerrard, Australian singer, musician, and composer ( Dead Can Dance )

* 1987 – Nikki Webster, Australian singer

* 1953 – Peter Garrett, Australian singer and politician ( Midnight Oil )

* 1983 – Tammin Sursok, Australian actress and singer

* 1970 – Sherrié Austin, Australian actress and singer

* 1977 – Phil Jamieson, Australian singer ( Grinspoon )

* 1964 – James Blundell, Australian country singer

* 1979 – Sophie Monk, Australian actress, singer, and model

* 1982 – Anthony Callea, Australian singer / songwriter

* 1980 – Bon Scott, Australian singer ( AC / DC ) ( b. 1946 )

* 1973 – Peter André, Australian singer

* Judy Stone ( 1942 –): Australian pop singer, was born and raised in Granville.

* John Paul Young ( born 1950 ), Australian singer

* 1952 – Graeme Strachan, Australian rock singer ( Skyhooks ) ( d. 2001 )

* 1949 – Daryl Braithwaite, Australian rock singer ( Sherbet )

* 1997 – Cody Simpson, Australian singer

* 1958 – Kirk Pengilly, Australian singer and musician ( INXS )

* 1968 – Jason Donovan, Australian actor and singer

* 1985 – Stephanie McIntosh, Australian singer and actress

* 1983 – Lee Harding, Australian singer

* 1987 – Danielle Foote, Australian singer

* 1998 – Bindi Irwin, Australian television host, actress, and singer

* 1997 – Jack Vidgen, Australian singer

* 1951 – Steve J. Spears, Australian playwright, actor, writer and singer ( d. 2007 )

* 1960 – Michael Hutchence, Australian singer ( INXS and Max Q ) ( d. 1997 )

The 2007 Australian film Dr Plonk, was a silent comedy directed by Rolf de Heer.

Quintessential Australian country music hits included the novelty songs " A Pub with No Beer " ( 1957 ) by Slim Dusty and " Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport " ( 1960s ) by Rolf Harris which help define a comic tradition of Australian music.

Novelists of classic Australian works include Marcus Clarke ( For the Term of His Natural Life ), Rolf Boldrewood ( Robbery Under Arms ), Miles Franklin ( My Brilliant Career ), Mary Durack ( Kings in Grass Castles and Keep Him My Country ) and Jeannie Gunn ( We of the Never Never ).

Artists such as Pro Hart and Ken Done contributed to the development of modern, popular style of Australian art-as has painter and performing artist Rolf Harris.

Other well-known singers of Australian folk music include Rolf Harris ( who wrote " Tie Me Kangaroo Down Sport "), John Williamson, and Eric Bogle whose 1972 song " And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda " is a sorrowful lament to the Gallipoli Campaign.

* Australian diplomat Richard Butler succeeds Rolf Ekéus as Executive Chairman of UNSCOM

Maidenhead's riverside location has drawn many celebrities, including Australian personality Rolf Harris and former broadcaster Michael Parkinson.

The wobble board is an instrument popularized by the Australian musician and artist Rolf Harris and featured in his best-known song " Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport ".

This usage became common throughout the British Empire, and in his 1884 novel My Run Home the Australian author Rolf Boldrewood wrote " your bedroom curtains were still drawn as I passed on my morning jog ".

Versions would occasionally tie in with the theme of the episode (" Guns-the Musical " had a Broadway-style version by Jodie Gilles as the conclusion, while the episode on Australian Comedy had the Doug Anthony All Stars performing it with the assistance of Barry Crocker ) but the most surprising of all was the version by Rolf Harris which eventually reached number 7 on the UK singles chart.

Harbin wrote many books on the subject, beginning with Paper Magic ( illustrated by the young art student, the Australian Rolf Harris who in the middle of the project, caught the origami idea and contributed several intricate models himself ) in 1965, and was the first President of the British Origami Society.

Novelists of classic Australian works include Marcus Clarke ( For the Term of His Natural Life ), Miles Franklin ( My Brilliant Career ), Henry Handel Richardson ( The Fortunes of Richard Mahony ), Joseph Furphy ( Such Is Life ), Rolf Boldrewood ( Robbery Under Arms ) and Ruth Park ( The Harp in the South ).

Writers such as Rolf Boldrewood ( Robbery Under Arms ), Marcus Clarke ( For the Term of His Natural Life ), Henry Handel Richardson ( The Fortunes of Richard Mahony ) and Joseph Furphy ( Such Is Life ) embodied these stirring ideals in their tales and, particularly the latter, tried to accurately record the vernacular language of the common Australian.

He co-wrote the UK Top Ten music hit " Sun Arise " with fellow Western Australian Rolf Harris.

He received the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research in 1995, the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly with Rolf M. Zinkernagel in 1996 and was named Australian of the Year in 1997.

Kangaroos are apparently a kind of signature – he includes them in every place he creates ( implying that Australia itself was created by him, but also possibly in reference to Australian cartoonist Rolf Harris, who frequently includes " Rolf-aroo " self-caricatures in his work ).

Bad Boy Bubby is a 1993 Australian black comedy / drama film written and directed by Rolf de Heer.

Bubby won four 1994 Australian Film Institute awards ; Best Director ( Rolf de Heer ), Best Actor in a Leading Role ( Nicholas Hope ), Best Original Screenplay ( Rolf de Heer ) and Best Editing ( Suresh Ayyar ).

The coin was designed by current Ginger Meggs cartoonist, Jason Chatfield with the assistance of fellow Australian artists Peter Broelman and Rolf Harris.

* Rolf Harris ( born 1930 ), Australian musician, composer, painter, and television host

* Rolf Harris, Australian entertainer

Singer-songwriter John Williamson began to build his reputation as an iconic Australian entertainer with his 1970 performance of his first song " Old Man Emu " on New Faces ( influenced by novelty works of Rolf Harris such as Tie Me Kangaroo Down Sport ).