Spanish Australians

Spanish Australians
Hispano-australianos

Total population
92,952 (by ancestry, 2011)[1]
Regions with significant populations
Primarily capital cities
Languages
Australian English, Spanish. Minority speaks Catalan, Galician, and Basque.
Religion
Roman Catholicism
Related ethnic groups
Spaniards, Castilians, Asturians, Cantabrians, Aragonese, Galicians, Catalans, Basques, other Europeans and Latin Americans

People with Spanish ancestry as a percentage of the population in Sydney divided geographically by postal area, as of the 2011 census

Spanish Australians refers to Australian citizens and residents of Spanish descent, or people who were born in Spain and emigrated to Australia. There are approximately 58,271 Australians who are full or partial Spanish descent, most of whom reside within the major cities of Sydney and Melbourne, with lesser but rapidly growing numbers in Brisbane (which has over 15,000) and Perth. Of these, according to the 2006 Australian census, 12,276 were born in Spain.

Immigration to Australia from Spain was minimal during the 1850s and 1860s resulting from the social disruption of the Carlist civil wars. Larger numbers of Spanish immigrants entered the country in the first quarter of the twentieth century due to the same circumstances of rural poverty and urban congestion that led other Europeans to emigrate in that period, as well as unpopular wars. Many immigrants either moved back to Spain or to another country.

Spanish Australians

• Josh Cordoba, Rugby league player
• Richard Garcia, football (soccer) player
• Víctor García, musician
• Simon Palomares, comedian and actor
• Adam Lopez, musician
• Nathalia Ramos, actress born to an Australian mother in Madrid, Spain
• Monica Trapaga, actress and musician

See also

• European Australians

References

1. "The People of Australia – Statistics from the 2011 Census" (PDF). Australian Department of Immigration. 2014. p. 60. Archived from the original (PDF) on 14 July 2014.