In Honor Of Australia Day Here Are 12 Performers We Love

Hello, lovely! Born in Sydney, Jackman is probably one of the most recognizable male actors from Australia. He's also Wolverine so that's pretty damn important.

Fancy a falsetto anyone? The Bee Gees were the band in the 70's during the height of the disco era.

It was their contribution to the soundtrack for the 1977 film Saturday Night Fever that made their song "Stayin' Alive," forever synonymous with white leisure suits. Thanks, guys!

Born in Melbourne, Blanchett has solidified herself as a phenomenal actress and style icon. She won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress in 2004 for her portrayal of Katharine Hepburn in The Aviator.

Not just a model and businesswoman, Macpherson has also appeared on the cover of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue five times - a record she still holds.

Another Melbourne-born actor, Bana resurrected the role of Bruce Banner and got green in 2003's Hulk. If being the Hulk wasn't enough, he confirmed that you don't want to fuck with his characters with his role in Munich.

The 1980's pop band fronted by Michael Hutchence will always be a standard when it comes to 80's music. Unfortunately Hutchence's life ended in 1997. To this day, it's unsure if it was an intentional suicide or autoerotic asphyxiation gone wrong.

Technically Newton-John was born in Cambridge, England but she and her family moved to Melbourne when she was six. If it weren't for the sweatband and legwarmers, we may have skipped her, but this photo sums up the 1980's so well it would be wrong to not include her.

Let's get physical, shall we?

Brilliant, gorgeous and on the brink of huge and well-deserved stardom, Ledger's life was cut short in 2008 at the age of 28. After his death he was nominated and won the posthumous Academy Award for his terrifyingly dark role in The Dark Knight.

Born and raised in Canberra, this 22-year-old is slowly making her mark on the movie industry with roles in The Kids Are All Right and Jane Eyre.

The pop princess made her debut with her 1980's cover of "Locomotion." Despite a battle with breast cancer, Minogue just keeps on going, um, "locomoting."

"He just smiled and gave me a vegemite sandwich
and he said, 'I come from a land down under...'"

The 1980's band Men at Work gave us the song that many Australians are probably rocking out to today.

Australia was certainly good to the world in the 1980's!

What can we say that hasn't already been said about Kidman? She married a crazy man once upon a time and she has more Botox in her face than 50% of Hollywood put together. Oh, she's also been in a few movies.