Australia
11 profiles with fame based in Australia
Australians with Russian and Soviet roots
Australia’s Russian-heritage community grew from post-revolutionary émigrés, Jewish refugees from the Empire and USSR, and later Soviet and post-Soviet arrivals.
This page documents notable Australians whose heritage traces to the Russian Empire, the Soviet Union, or modern Russia.
Arina Rodionova
Russian-born tennis player who represented Australia on the WTA tour
Daria Gavrilova
Moscow-born tennis player who became an Australian citizen and Grand Slam competitor
Frank Lowy
Holocaust survivor born in Fiľakovo, Czechoslovakia; co-founder of Westfield
Harry Seidler
Born in Vienna to Russian-Bessarabian Jewish parents, became Australia's greatest modernist architect
Josh Frydenberg
Australian Treasurer and deputy Liberal leader whose mother's family survived the Holocaust in Hungary
Kostya Tszyu
Born in Serov in 1969; undisputed light-welterweight world champion who boxed for Australia
Mark Dreyfus
Australia's Attorney-General whose grandparents fled the Russian Empire to build a new life
Nikita Tszyu
Son of legendary Kostya Tszyu — Australian boxing's next world champion in waiting
Sidney Myer
Born in Krychaw (Krichev), Russian Empire; founder of Myer, Australia's largest chain of department stores
Tim Tszyu
Son of Kostya Tszyu — the Australian boxing superstar who unified the super-welterweight world title
Harry Triguboff
'High-Rise Harry' — born in China to Russian-Jewish refugees, built Australia's largest apartment empire