* Sherrié Austin ( born 1970 ), Australian musician

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

* 1928 – Don Burrows, Australian musician

* 2007 – Lobby Loyde, Australian musician, songwriter, and producer ( Purple Hearts, Wild Cherries, and Rose Tattoo ) ( b. 1941 )

* 1958 – Frank Gambale, Australian musician

* 1948 – Stevie Wright, English-born Australian musician and songwriter

* 1955 – Ed Kuepper, German-born Australian musician ( The Saints, Laughing Clowns )

* 1975 – Scott Owen, Australian musician ( The Living End )

* 1950 – Bob Daisley, Australian musician, bassist ( Rainbow, Ozzy Osbourne )

* Ron Peno – Famous Australian Punk & 1980's Rock musician ; Lead Singer of Died Pretty

* 1975 – Chris Cheney, Australian musician ( The Living End )

* 1943 – Judith Durham, Australian singer-songwriter and musician ( The Seekers )

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

* 1961 – Rick Price, Australian singer-songwriter and musician

* 1927 – Norman Kaye, Australian actor and musician ( d. 2007 )

* 1960 – Conway Savage, Australian singer-songwriter, musician, and composer ( Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds )

* 1972 – Greg Page, Australian musician and actor ( The Wiggles )

* 1963 – Anthony Field, Australian musician, songwriter, producer, and actor ( The Cockroaches and The Wiggles )

* 1966 – Mary Hansen, Australian musician ( Stereolab ) ( d. 2002 )

* 1951 – Lindy Morrison, Australian musician ( The Go-Betweens )

* 1947 – George Young, Australian musician ( Easybeats )

* 1965 – Amanda Brown, Australian musician ( The Go-Betweens )

* 1979 – Ben Gillies, Australian musician ( Silverchair )

* 1975 – Tim Minchin, Australian comedian and musician

* 1963 – Brendan Kibble, Australian musician

Bassist Nick Seymour ( ex-Plays with Marionettes, Bang, The Horla ) is the younger brother of singer-songwriter and guitarist Mark Seymour of the now defunct Australian rock group Hunters & Collectors.

Peter Jones and Nick Seymour joined Australian group Deadstar for their second album, Milk, in 1997.

* 1958 – Nick Seymour, Australian bassist ( Crowded House )

* Nick Riewoldt – Australian Rules Footballer, current captain of the St. Kilda Football Club

* Jack Riewoldt – Australian Rules Footballer for Richmond, winner of the 2010 Coleman and Jack Dyer Medal, cousin of Nick.

* 1942 – Nick Tate, Australian actor

Nick Xenophon was elected on an independent No Pokies ticket in the South Australian Legislative Council at the 1997 South Australian state election on 2. 9 percent, and re-elected at the 2006 election on 20. 5 percent, before being elected to the Australian Senate at the 2007 federal election on 14. 8 percent.

* September 22 – Nick Cave, Australian musician, songwriter, author, screenwriter and actor

** Nick Tate, Australian actor

* October 17 – Nick Riewoldt, Australian rules footballer

In November 2004, Australian authorities apprehended Nick Marinellis of Sydney, the self-proclaimed head of Australian 419ers who later boasted that he had " 220 African brothers worldwide " and that he was " the Australian headquarters for those scams ".

The annual festival has also been a launching platform for many Australian artists, with various acts performing on the tour multiple times, such as Silverchair, Powderfinger, You Am I, The Living End, Jebediah, Grinspoon, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Kisschasy, and Wolfmother.

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.

* Nick Carter ( footballer ) ( born 1978 ), Australian rules footballer

* Nick Bromley ( born 1983 ), Australian middle distance track athlete

Other notable musicians from Fremantle include bassist Martyn P. Casey, member of The Triffids and Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds ; American-born slide guitarist Lucky Oceans ; indie pop group San Cisco ; rock musician and manager Vince Lovegrove ; and Australian Idol finalist Cosima De Vito.

In July 2009, Nickelodeon unveiled a new logo for the first time in 25 years on the packaging of Nickelodeon DVDs coming out beginning that month, the Australian service's " Nick Shack " website, and that year's Nickelodeon Animation Festival, intending to create a unified look that can better be conveyed across all of MTV Networks's children's channels.

Post-war immigration has seen migrant humour flourish: from They're a Weird Mob ( 1957 ) about an Italian immigrant adapting to Sydney life, to the works of Vietnamese refugee Anh Do, Egyptian stand-up comic Akmal Saleh and Nick Giannopoulos ' Wog Boy 2: Kings of Mykonos ( 2010 ) about second generation Australian Greeks returning to their ancestral home.

Eminent writers of Australian plays have included Steele Rudd ( On Our Selection ), David Williamson, Alan Seymour and Nick Enright.

Pearce continues to perform in Australian theatre productions as well as Australian films, such as The Hard Word ( 2002 ) and the critically lauded The Proposition ( 2005 ), written by fellow Australian Nick Cave.