Cultural Production in

Present Day

Australia

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Australia ranks 22nd in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Czechia, Belgium, and Argentina. Memorable people born in present day Australia include Lawrence Bragg, Gough Whitlam, and Geoffrey Rush. Memorable people who died in Australia include Gough Whitlam, Truganini, and Jack Brabham. Australia has been the birth place of many athletes, and actors and the death place of many politicians, and athletes.

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands. Australia has a total area of 7,688,287 km2 (2,968,464 sq mi), making it the sixth-largest country in the world and the largest in Oceania. It is the world's oldest, flattest, and driest inhabited continent, with some of the least fertile soils. It is a megadiverse country, and its size gives it a wide variety of landscapes and climates including deserts in the interior and tropical rainforests along the coast. Read more on Wikipedia

People

Between 0 and 2006, present day Australia was the birth place of 1,456 globally memorable people, including Lawrence Bragg, Gough Whitlam, and Geoffrey Rush. Additionaly, 234 globally memorable people have passed away in present day Australia including Gough Whitlam, Truganini, and Jack Brabham.

People Born in Present Day Australia

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People Deceased in Present Day Australia

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Occupations

Most individuals born in present day Australia were athletes (360), actors (203), soccer players (160), tennis players (110), and cyclists (91),  while most who died were politicians (33), athletes (28), tennis players (22), writers (18), and swimmers (15).

Over the past 100 years, athletes have been the top profession of globally memorable people born in present day Australia, including Ron Clarke, Peter Norman, and John Winter. Whereas, throughout history, athletes have been the profession with the most memorable people born in present day Australia, including Ron Clarke, Peter Norman, and John Winter.

Places

Overlapping Lives

Below is a visual represetation of the lifespans of the top 25 globally memorable people born in present day Australia since 1700.