Australia Day is January 26, so we're celebrating with some famous Aussies this week.
Per WikiTre.com, I am:

22 degrees from Cate Blanchett - actress known for her role as "Galadriel" in The Lord of
the Rings movies and "Katherine Hepburn" in The Aviator.

28 degrees from Russell Crowe - New Zealand-born actor, film producer and musician
who identifies himself as an Australian, and who made his name as an actor in Australia
before gaining international recognition.

22 degrees from Howard Florey - Australian pharmacologist who made penicillin into an
effective and useful drug, ten years after Alexander Fleming (who discovered penicillin)
had abandoned it.

27 degrees from Dawn Fraser - champion freestyle swimmer and Olympian who won eight gold medals at three consecutive Olympics Games.

33 degrees from Cathy Freeman - Aboriginal gold medal-winning runner at the 2000
Sydney Olympics.

27 degrees from Barry Humphries - comedian and satirist.

24 degrees from Albert Jacka - Australia's first Victoria Cross recipient.

31 degrees from Hugh Jackman - actor notable for his roles as mutant "Wolverine" in the
X-Men universe and in musicals such as Les Miserables and The Greatest Showman.

25 degrees from Bertram Mackennal - sculptor and medalist.

21 degrees from Rupert Murdoch - Australian-born business magnate, investor, and
media mogul.

22 degrees from Banjo Paterson - musician who wrote "Waltzing Matilda."

19 degrees from Henry Ross - leader of the miner's rebellion at the Eureka Stockade and
designer of the Eureka flag

It is always interesting to visit the past to see how we are related to each other.

I have some ancestors that were astronauts, black, bank robbers, musicians, politicians,
physicians, detectives, architects, actors, comedians. I guess that I am a collection of
all of them, as we ALL are.

https://www.wikitree.com helps me gather this information with their weekly newsletters.

If you would like to find your connections to famous people, you can start by giving me
some basic information by going to: https://www.hobbyline.com/genealogy_web_design.htm
and click on the 'Request Form' link.

I have researched the ancestry for many persons interested in their family history.

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