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Australia

11 profiles with fame based in Australia

AR
B
Sports

Arina Rodionova

Russian-born tennis player who represented Australia on the WTA tour

🇷🇺 Tambov
DG
B
Sports

Daria Gavrilova

Moscow-born tennis player who became an Australian citizen and Grand Slam competitor

🇷🇺 Moscow
FL
B
Business Moguls

Frank Lowy

Holocaust survivor from the Russian Empire borderlands who built the Westfield shopping empire

🇷🇺 Slovakia (Rus/Hun)
HS
B
Fashion & Entertainment

Harry Seidler

Born in Vienna to Russian-Bessarabian Jewish parents, became Australia's greatest modernist architect

🇷🇺 Bessarabia / Rus
JF
B
Politics & Public Figures

Josh Frydenberg

Australian Treasurer and deputy Liberal leader whose mother's family survived the Holocaust in Hungary

🇷🇺 Hungary (E. Bloc)
KT
B
Sports

Kostya Tszyu

Born in Serov, became Australia's adopted boxing legend and undisputed light-welterweight champion of the world

🇷🇺 Serov
MD
B
Politics & Public Figures

Mark Dreyfus

Australia's Attorney-General whose grandparents fled the Russian Empire to build a new life

🇷🇺 Germany / Russia
NT
B
Sports

Nikita Tszyu

Son of legendary Kostya Tszyu — Australian boxing's next world champion in waiting

🇷🇺 Sverdlovsk (Roots)
SM
B
Business Moguls

Sidney Myer

Born in Krichev, Belarus — founded Australia's largest department store and built Melbourne's cultural heart

🇷🇺 Krichev (Belarus)
TT
B
Sports

Tim Tszyu

Son of Kostya Tszyu — the Australian boxing superstar who unified the super-welterweight world title

🇷🇺 Sverdlovsk (Roots)
HT
A
Business Moguls

Harry Triguboff

'High-Rise Harry' — born in China to Russian-Jewish refugees, built Australia's largest apartment empire

🇷🇺 Dalian (China)