French Australians are residents of Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

 who are of French

French people

The French are a nation that share a common French culture and speak the French language as a mother tongue. Historically, the French population are descended from peoples of Celtic, Latin and Germanic origin, and are today a mixture of several ethnic groups...

 ancestry.

According to the 2006 Australian census 19,186 Australian residents were born in France

France

The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

  while 98,332 claimed French ancestry, either alone or with another ancestry.

Demography

At the 2006 Census 19,189 Australian residents stated that they were born in France. Of these 12,735 had Australian citizenship

Australian nationality law

Australian nationality law determines who is and who is not an Australian, and is based primarily on the principle of Jus soli. The status of Australian citizenship was created by the Nationality and Citizenship Act 1948 which received Royal Assent on 21 December 1948 and came into force on...

. 8,281 residents (43%) had arrived in Australia in 1979 or earlier.

Notable French Australians

name	Born - Died	Notable for	Connection with Australia	Connection with France
Allan La Fontaine Allan La Fontaine Allan La Fontaine was an Australian rules footballer in the Victorian Football League.Born in Victoria, La Fontaine attended St Kevin's College, Melbourne. He was recruited from University Blacks as a brilliant full-forward, and was to earn his fame playing with the Melbourne Football Club as a...	1910-	Australian rules footballer	Emigrated to Australia	born France
Ted Baillieu Ted Baillieu Edward Norman "Ted" Baillieu MLA is an Australian politician. He is currently the Premier of Victoria and the member for the Legislative Assembly seat of Hawthorn...	1953	Victorian Premier	Born in Australia	French Belgian ancestry
Johnny Famechon Johnny Famechon Johnny Famechon, born 28 March 1945, is a former Australian featherweight boxer, who was born as Jean-Pierre Famechon in Paris, France.He moved to Australia in 1950 at the age of five. Over his twenty-year career he developed a reputation for being a skilled boxer whose strength was his defence...	1945-	Boxer	Emigrated to Australia 1950 (about age 5)	born France
Gabriel Gaté Gabriel Gaté Gabriel Gaté is a French chef living in Australia. He has appeared on a number of Australian television shows and in 2000, Gaté received the La Croix de Chevalier dans L’Ordre du Merite Agricole.-Early life:...	1955	Chef and television presenter	lives Australia	born France
Mark Gasnier Mark Gasnier Mark Gasnier is an Australian former rugby league player, a state and national representative centre three-quarter. He played eleven top-grade seasons with the St. George Illawarra Dragons in the NRL, interrupted by two seasons of rugby union played with the French club Stade Français. He was a...		Rugby player	lives Australia	born Australia
Richie Benaud Richie Benaud Richard "Richie" Benaud OBE is a former Australian cricketer who, since his retirement from international cricket in 1964, has become a highly regarded commentator on the game....	1930	Australian Test Cricketer	Fourth generation French Australian
Julia Zemiro Julia Zemiro Julia Zemiro is an Australian television presenter, radio host, actor, singer and comedian.- Early life :...		Television presenter and comedian	lives Australia	born France
Iggy Pintado Iggy Pintado Iggy Pintado is a Philippines-born Spanish-Australian author, "super-connector" and marketing expert. based in Sydney, Australia...		Social Network writer	lives Australia	Swiss French Swiss French Swiss French is the name used for the variety of French spoken in the French-speaking area of Switzerland known as Romandy. Swiss French is not to be confused with Franco-Provençal/Arpitan or Romansh, two other individual Romance languages spoken in areas not far from Romandy.The differences...  ancestry
Guillaume Brahimi Guillaume Brahimi Guillaume Brahimi is a French-born chef based in Sydney, Australia. He is currently head chef of Guillaume at Bennelong restaurant located at the Sydney Opera House.-Background:...	1967-	Chef	lives Australia	born France