Famous people who grew up or lived in and around Melbourne

Barry Humphries1934–1952

📍 36 Christowel Street, Camberwell, Melbourne, VIC 3124, Australia

I was raised in a brand-new house on Christowel Street, in the genteel garden suburb of Camberwell — my father built it, and the one next door too. They called me Sunny Sam and gave me…

Cate Blanchett1969–1987

📍 Ivanhoe, Melbourne, Victoria 3079, Australia

Cate Blanchett grew up in Ivanhoe, a leafy suburb of parks and old houses in Melbourne's north-east, the middle of three children. Her mother, June, was a teacher and later a property…

Kylie Minogue1968–1985

📍 Surrey Hills, Melbourne, VIC 3127, Australia

Kylie Minogue spent her childhood in Surrey Hills, a quiet residential pocket of Melbourne's east, after a series of family moves between suburbs as money stayed tight. Her father Ron…

Olivia Newton-John1954–1965

📍 Ormond College, Parkville, Melbourne, VIC 3052, Australia

We came from Cambridge when I was six, and my father became Master of Ormond College at the University of Melbourne — so I grew up, improbably, inside a grand university college, all…

Rosé2004–2012

📍 Box Hill, Melbourne, Victoria 3128, Australia

Roseanne Park was born in Auckland, New Zealand, in 1997 to South Korean immigrant parents, and when she was about seven the family moved to Melbourne, settling in Box Hill, a lively…

Shane Warne1969–1988

📍 Black Rock, Melbourne, Victoria 3193, Australia

I grew up in Black Rock, a bayside suburb of Melbourne, and the beaches and backyards of Black Rock, Hampton and Brighton were my world. My dad, Keith, and mum, Brigitte, were great…

Steve Irwin1962–1970

📍 Essendon, Melbourne, VIC 3040, Australia

I was born in Essendon, in Melbourne's north, on my mum's birthday in 1962. Dad had a wild passion for reptiles and Mum was a wildlife rehabilitator — so even in suburban Victoria our house…