* 1924 – David Rowbotham, Australian poet ( d. 2010 )

" Of the Australian national flag, the Australian poet Banjo Paterson wrote in 1893: The English flag may flutter and wave, where the world wide oceans toss, but the flag the Australian dies to save, is the flag of the Southern Cross.

* 1955 – Rex Ingamells, Australian poet ( b. 1913 )

* 1930 – Bruce Dawe, Australian poet

* 1929 – Peter Porter, Australian poet ( d. 2010 )

* 1867 – Henry Lawson, Australian poet ( d. 1922 )

* 1863 – George Essex Evans, Australian poet ( d. 1909 )

* 1920 – Gwen Harwood, Australian poet ( d. 1995 )

* 1913 – Rex Ingamells, Australian poet ( d. 1955 )

* 1883 – Ethel Anderson, Australian poet ( d. 1958 )

David Charles Mooney Australian poet

* 1908 – Harry Hooton, Australian poet ( d. 1961 )

* 1954 – Peter Bakowski, Australian poet

* 1876 – C. J. Dennis, Australian poet ( d. 1938 )

* 1923 – Nancy Keesing, Australian author and poet ( d. 1993 )

A late ( 1890s ) reference to the urban legend of the murdering barber can be found in the poem by the Australian bush poet Banjo Paterson — The Man from Ironbark.

** Kenneth Slessor, Australian poet ( died 1971 )

* February 6 – Banjo Paterson, Australian poet & journalist ( b. 1864 )

* James Alexander Allan, Australian poet ( d. 1956 )

* July 30 – Kenneth Slessor, Australian poet ( b. 1901 )

* June 24 – Adam Lindsay Gordon, Australian poet ( b. 1833 )

* October 5 – Christopher Brennan, Australian poet and scholar ( b. 1870 )

Notable members of the Industrial Workers of the World have included Lucy Parsons ; Helen Keller ; Joe Hill ; Ralph Chaplin ; Ricardo Flores Magon ; James P. Cannon ; James Connolly ; Jim Larkin ; Paul Mattick ; Big Bill Haywood ; Eugene Debs ; David Dellinger ; Elizabeth Gurley Flynn ; Sam Dolgoff, Monty Miller ; Indian Nationalist Lala Hardayal ; Frank Little ; ACLU founder Roger Nash Baldwin ; Harry Bridges, briefly, later helped form ILWU ; Minnesota Governor Floyd B. Olson ; Buddhist beat poet Gary Snyder ; Fredy Perlman ; Australian poets Harry Hooton and Lesbia Harford ; graphic artist Carlos Cortez ; artist Kevin McCoy ; counterculture icon Kenneth Rexroth ; Surrealist Franklin Rosemont ; Rosie Kane and Carolyn Leckie, former Members of the Scottish Parliament ; labor and environmental organizer Judi Bari ; folk musicians Utah Phillips, Harry McClintock, Anne Feeney, and David Rovics ; crime writer Jim Thompson ; Finnish folk music legend Hiski Salomaa ; Catholic Workers Dorothy Day and Ammon Hennacy.

* 1898 – Les Haylen, Australian politician and author ( d. 1977 )

* May 24 – Les Darcy, Australian boxer ( b. 1895 )

Dame Joan Sutherland gave her farewell performances for the Australian Opera in 1990 in a production of Meyerbeer's Les Huguenots.

Since the 1950s, the satirical character creations of Barry Humphries have included housewife " gigastar " Edna Everage and " Australian cultural attaché " Les Patterson, whose interests include boozing, chasing women and flatulence.

His satirical stage creations-notably Dame Edna and later Les Patterson-became Australian cultural icons.

" Micky " Martin ( an Australian serving in the RAF ); Young, Flt Lt David Maltby and Flt Lt Dave Shannon ( RAAF ), and ; Maudslay, Flt Lt Bill Astell and Flying Officer Les Knight ( RAAF ).

David Brooks argued in his 2011 book, The Sons of Clovis: Ern Malley, Adoré Floupette and a Secret History of Australian Poetry, that the Ern Malley hoax was modelled on the 1885 satire on French Symbolism and the Decadent movement, Les Déliquescences d ' Adoré Floupette by Henri Beauclair and Gabriel Vicaire.

In his best-selling history, Gallipoli ( 2001 ) Les Carlyon agrees that the film unfairly portrays the English during the battle and Carlyon lays the blame squarely at the feet of Antill and 3rd Australian Light Horse Brigade commander Brigadier General Frederic Hughes —" The scale of the tragedy of the Nek was mostly the work of two Australian incompetents, Hughes and Antill.

* Les Brennan, Australian rugby league footballer

Humphries ' other satirical characters include the " priapic and inebriated cultural attaché " Sir Les Patterson, who has " continued to bring worldwide discredit upon Australian arts and culture, while contributing as much to the Australian vernacular as he has borrowed from it ", gentle, grandfatherly " returned gentleman " Sandy Stone, iconoclastic 1960s underground film-maker Martin Agrippa, Paddington socialist academic Neil Singleton, sleazy trade union official Lance Boyle, high-pressure art salesman Morrie O ' Connor and failed tycoon Owen Steele.

Edna continued her Australian stage and television appearances including a record five appearances as guest presenter at the TV Week Logie Awards and a notable role as a co-narrator ( along with Humphries and Les Patterson ) of the ABC's Australian social history series: Barry Humphries Flashbacks in 1999.

Circa 1988, he was internationally regarded as the best Enjolras and was honoured by being selected for the Complete Symphonic Recording, along with leading Les Misérables performers from around the world along with fellow Australian actor Philip Quast as Javert.

This was arguably his break-through role, as he was cast as the Phantom as the Australian tour of Les Misérables was ending.

Finn has composed for a number of Australian films and TV productions, including 1981 teen tale Puberty Blues and comedy Les Patterson Saves the World.

Although the two have generally been considered separate species, the close similarities of their DNA sequences has led some, such as the Australian ornithologists Les Christidis and Walter Boles, to treat the Royal as a subspecies of the Macaroni.

Many successful people have resided in Taree, including poets Les Murray and Henry Kendall, Ian Moffitt ( journalist and author ), former deputy Prime Minister and National Party leader Mark Vaile, Troy Bayliss and Damian Cudlin ( professional motorcycle racers ), Danny Buderus ( former Australian rugby league captain ), Oenone Wood ( cyclist ), Jade North ( Socceroos, Newcastle Jets captain ), Murray Doust ( rower ), Dr Ken Henry ( Secretary to the Treasury ), John H. Coates ( mathematician ) and Liz Hayes ( Australian Television Reporter ).

He has also written the biographies of former Australian Labor Party leader Kim Beazley, Wallaby captains, Nick Farr-Jones and John Eales, WWII resistance fighter Nancy Wake and sportsmen Steve Waugh and Les Darcy.

Australian author Robert G Barrett's main character Les Norton hails from Dirranbandi.

Sir Leslie Colin " Les " Patterson is a fictional character portrayed by the Australian comedian Barry Humphries.

In Humphries ' words, “ The English merchant bankers and commodity brokers and Australian accountants there all recognised Les as someone they knew in the Australian diplomatic corps, and took him to their hearts ”.