rugby league player. Joe Robinson, guitarist and winner of Australia's Got Talent, Season 2 Dave Sands, Indigenous Australian boxer Hector Thompson, boxer of the 1970s and 1980s Aiden Tolman, rugby league player. Jack Verge, Australian rugby union player Amy Winters, Paralympic gold medallist In Fiction Tom Keneally's novel A River Town, (1995), a mystery novel centred on the lives of an Irish settler Tim Shea and his family in the period on the eve of Federation, is set in Kempsey. See also References External links Kempsey Shire Council Homepage Macleay Valley Coast Tourist Information Site Macleay Valley Newspaper and Weather Towns in New South Wales Mid North Coast 1836 establishments in Australia Populated places established in 1836 Kempsey Shire