Famous people who grew up or lived in and around Sydney
9 notable people grew up or lived in and around Sydney. Each listing explores the home and neighbourhood, and how the place shaped the person they became.
Angus Young1963–1973
📍 Burwood NSW 2134, Australia
Angus McKinnon Young was born in Glasgow in March 1955, the youngest son of a large Scottish family, and grew up in a tenement flat on Skerryvore Road in the Cranhill housing scheme. After…
Hugh Jackman1968–1986
📍 Wahroonga, Sydney, NSW 2076, Australia
Hugh Jackman grew up in Wahroonga, on Sydney's Upper North Shore — a settled, green suburb of wide gardens where his English-born parents had migrated in 1967. When Hugh was eight his…
Layne Beachley1972–1990
📍 Manly NSW 2095, Australia
Layne Collette Beachley was born in Sydney in May 1972 and grew up in Manly, the famous beach suburb on Sydney's Northern Beaches, between the harbour and the Pacific, with its long…
Michael Hutchence1972–1978
📍 Belrose, Sydney, NSW 2085, Australia
After years away we came back to Sydney in 1972 and settled in Belrose, a quiet garden suburb on the plateau above the northern beaches. I was the new kid, the dreamer who had seen more of…
Midget Farrelly1950–1964
📍 Manly NSW 2095, Australia
I was born Bernard Farrelly in Paddington, Sydney, in September 1944, and when I was six my uncle, Ray Hookham, a well-known board rider, took me out into the surf at North Bondi for the…
Nat Young1947–1966
📍 Collaroy NSW 2097, Australia
Robert Harold Young was born in Sydney in November 1947 and grew up in Collaroy, a small seaside suburb on Sydney's Northern Beaches, between Long Reef and Narrabeen, with long, open…
Nicole Kidman1971–1985
📍 Longueville, Lane Cove, Sydney, NSW 2066, Australia
Nicole Kidman grew up in Longueville, a quiet, leafy enclave on Sydney's Lower North Shore where the streets slope down to the still water of the Lane Cove River. Her parents — Antony, a…
Pemulwuy1792–1802
📍 Toongabbie, Parramatta, NSW 2146, Australia
At the government farm at Toongabbie, near Parramatta, the strangers broke the ground that fed my people and worked it with chained men. From 1792 I carried the fight to them here and…
Tom Carroll1961–1983
📍 Newport NSW 2106, Australia
Thomas Victor Carroll was born in Sydney in November 1961 and grew up in Newport, a beach suburb on Sydney's Northern Beaches, near the mouth of Pittwater, with his older brother, Nick, and…