Notable Australian musicians include: the opera singers Dame Nellie Melba and Dame Joan Sutherland ; country music stars Slim Dusty ( Australia's biggest selling domestic artist ) and John Williamson ; solo artists John Farnham and Olivia Newton-John, Pub rock band Cold Chisel, folk-rocker Paul Kelly ; Dance group The Avalanches ; jazz guitarist Tommy Emmanuel ; pioneer rocker Johnny O ' Keefe, global folk-rock band The Seekers, global rock and pop bands Men At Work, The EasyBeats, Air Supply, Crowded House, AC / DC, INXS, Little River Band, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Midnight Oil, Dragon, Silverchair, Youth Group, You Am I and Powderfinger ; the " pop princess " Kylie Minogue, Pendulum, Pop Rock duo Savage Garden and alternative music stars the John Butler Trio, Xavier Rudd, Wolfmother, Tame Impala and The Vines.

He was born at Newark House, Searle Road, Farnham, Surrey, and educated at Lancing College.

The Erastus Farnham House, just south of Fremont, on State Road 827 ( Indiana ) | State Road 827.

The bombardment of Basing House was by a train of heavy cannon assembled at Farnham from other areas and, in 1646, most of the garrison was removed from Farnham to form a brigade to besiege Donnington Castle near Newbury.

* Full House ( John Farnham album ), a 1991 live album

Lord Farnham sat as a Member of Parliament for County Cavan and was an Irish Representative Peer in the House of Lords from 1825 to 1838.

Vansittart was born at Wilton House, Farnham, Surrey, the eldest of the three sons of Robert Arnold Vansittart, of Foots Cray Place, Kent, a Captain in the 7th Dragoon Guards, by his wife Susan Alice, daughter of Gilbert James Blane.

Farnham House, located at Farnham, a small rural district to the north-west of Cavan, is one of the largest country houses in the county.

It was originally converted from two small cottages in 1850 and at that time was owned by Farnham United Brewery and originally called The Half-way House.

A 1912 Railway Clearing House map of lines around Farnham railway station

The commissioner said: Mr Hunt has readily accepted that he was in error, and in breach of the rules of the House, in making a claim for utilities and other services on his Farnham home in the period during which it was still his main home.

* Somerset Maxwell, 8th Baron Farnham ( 1803 – 1884 ), MP for Cavan

He also executed church memorials, of which the Earl of Farnham ( 1826 ) in Cavan is a fine example.

Statue of Henry Maxwell, 7th Baron Farnham, outside the Johnston Central Library on Farnham Street in Cavan Town.

Baron Farnham, of Farnham in the County of Cavan, is a title in the Peerage of Ireland.

The Farnhams are remembered in the name of one of the main streets in Cavan town, Farnham Street, as well as in the name of a hotel, The Farnham Arms, which has the family crest with inscription Je suis pret ( I am ready ) above the door.

Development in Cavan during the early 19th century saw the building of a new wide street that still bears the name Farnham Street.

He was the son of Colonel Alexander Saunderson, Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Cavan ( d. 1857 ), his mother being a daughter of the 6th Baron Farnham.

They were overtaken by Alfred's oldest son, Edward, and were defeated in a general engagement at Farnham in Surrey.

At this point Curtis attended the 1980 Pace sponsored Stirling Moss benefit day at Brands Hatch, and met fellow Farnham resident Victor Gauntlett.

Farnham, Surrey ( UK ); Burlington, VT: Ashgate.

Farnham, UK: Ashgate Publishing.

The company also has shops in Cobham and Dorking and expanded by acquiring department stores Elphicks of Farnham in October 2004, and Knights of Reigate in September 2006.

Macainsh played with John Farnham on his Whispering Jack Tour and with Dave Warner's from the Suburbs, in 1988 he put together and managed a very successful AC / DC tribute band called Back in Black who went on to support Skyhooks on their comeback tour.

Mbeki married his wife Zanele ( née Dlamini ) at Farnham Castle, in the United Kingdom, in 1974.

* June 2 – Joseph Farnham, American screenwriter ( b. 1884 )

* November 12 – Australian singer John Farnham releases the album Whispering Jack, which becomes the highest selling album in Australia's history.

Nicks toured in Australia and New Zealand with popular Australian performer John Farnham.

In December 2009, two key components of the project were signed: the Homes and Communities Agency ( HCA ) signed its agreement to provide £ 11m of funding for infrastructure, and Thames Valley University ( TVU ) courses which are due to remain in the town have found a new home at The Centre in Farnham Road, Slough.

Jones collaborated with English-born Australian pop singer John Farnham in 2005 and released the live album John Farnham & Tom Jones-Together In Concert.

The men were initially led by Thomas J. Farnham and called themselves the Oregon Dragoons.

Although the group split up near Bent's Fort on the South Platte and Farnham was deposed as leader, nine of their members eventually did reach Oregon.

Pertwee was educated at Frensham Heights School, an independent school in Rowledge, near Farnham in Surrey, at Sherborne School in Sherborne in Dorset, and at some other schools from which he was expelled.

Newton-John, John Farnham and Anthony Warlow toured Australia as The Main Event.

She and Farnham performed " Dare to Dream " at the Opening Ceremony of the 2000 Sydney Olympics.

), and Jamie Redfern and Jane Scali bump into " their idol " Johnny Farnham at a Caravan Park.

It was directed by George W. Hill and written by Joseph Farnham, Martin Flavin, Frances Marion and Lennox Robinson.

The winning owner is ceremonially presented with the silver winner's trophy, designed by Paulding Farnham for Tiffany and Co.

The Church of St Bartholomew and Farnham Chapel is a Grade I listed building.

It also features comedian Buster Fiddess ( as ' Mr Crawley ') and Addie Black, and guest appearances by Johnny Young, Evie Hayes and John Farnham ( then known as Johnny Farnham ).

It was adapted by Harry Behn and King Vidor ( uncredited ) from the play by Joseph Farnham and the autobiographical novel Plumes by Laurence Stallings, and directed by Vidor.

* Ariadne, King Minos and the Minotaur appear in In the Grip of the Minotaur by Farnham Bishop and Arthur Gilchrist Brodeur, a novel which was serialized in Adventure magazine in 1916.

Aerial Ballet also contained Nilsson's version of his own composition, " One ", which was later taken to the top 5 of the US charts by Three Dog Night and also successfully covered in Australia by John Farnham.

The final era of the Iron Age, during the 1st century AD, found Farnham within the territory of the Belgic Atrebates tribe led by Commius, a former ally of Caesar, who had brought his tribe to Britain following a dispute with the Romans.

Farnham was granted its charter as a town in 1249 by William de Ralegh, then Bishop of Winchester.

In 1625 Farnham was again subject to an outbreak of the plague which, together with a severe decline in the local woollen industry ( the local downland wool being unsuitable for the newly fashionable worsted ) led by the 1640s to a serious economic depression in the area.

The following year, as the Royalists strengthened their position west of Farnham, the garrison at Farnham Castle was strengthened when it became the headquarters of the Farnham regiment of foot or " Greencoats ", with some eight to nine hundred officers and men, supported by a number of troops of horse.

Further reinforcement by three regiments from London, 4, 000 strong under Waller's command arrived in Farnham that October prior to an unsuccessful foray to recapture Winchester from the Royalists.

Also, the railway did not reach Aldershot until 1870 ; during the intervening period soldiers would be carried by train to Farnham station and then march to Aldershot.