1950 in Australia - Births

Births

• 1 January – Wayne Bennett, rugby league footballer and coach
• 11 February – John Cobb, politician
• 14 February – Phil Dent, tennis player
• 16 February – Malcolm Blight, Australian Rules football player
• 20 February – Gary Manuel, football (soccer) player
• 1 March – Estelle Blackburn, journalist
• 11 March – Sam Kekovich, Australian Rules football player
• 18 March – Larry Perkins, ATCC/V8 Supercars racing driver
• 30 March – Warren Snowdon, politician
• 10 April – Mick Dodson, indigenous leader
• 15 April – Peter Cochrane, historian
• 29 April – Phillip Noyce, film director
• 11 May – Gary Foley, indigenous activist
• 15 May – Jim Bacon, Premier of Tasmania (2001–2004, died 2004)
• 26 May – Paul Omodei, WA politician
• 29 May – Lesley Hunt, tennis player
• 31 May – Warren Entsch, politician
• 13 June - Belinda Bauer, actress
• 15 July – Colin Barnett, WA politician
• 15 July – Alan Hurst, cricketer
• 15 July – Peter Reith, politician
• 17 July – Nick Bolkus, politician
• 21 July – Allan Maher, football (soccer) goalkeeper
• 8 August – Philip Salom, poet and novelist
• 16 August – Jeff Thomson, cricketer
• 6 September – Robyn Davidson, writer
• 11 September – Bruce Doull, Australian Rules football player
• 27 September – John Marsden, writer
• 14 October – Kate Grenville, novelist
• 30 October - Tim Sheens, rugby league footballer and coach
• 2 November – Graeme Murphy, choreographer
• 7 November – John Lang, rugby league footballer and coach
• 25 November – Alexis Wright, writer
• 1 December – Ross Hannaford, guitarist (Daddy Cool)
• 10 December – Robert Cusack, swimmer
• 12 December – Louis Nowra, writer and playwright
• 18 December – Gillian Armstrong, film director
• 22 December – Nick Enright, playwright, director