Murray Rose

Murray Rose was an Australian swimmer who swam for the University of Southern California and later worked as an actor, sports commentator and marketing executive. Born in 1939, he moved with his family to Australia as a baby in 1940 and grew up in Sydney. He was a six-time Olympic medalist, with four golds, one silver and one bronze, and at one time held the world records in the 400, 800 and 1500 metre freestyle. At the 1956 Games in Melbourne he won three golds at the age of seventeen, the youngest Olympian to be awarded three golds at one Games, and at Rome in 1960 he won one gold, one silver and one bronze.