Russell Crowe Two of his cousins, Martin Crowe and Jeff Crowe, captained the Black Caps New Zealand international cricket team. Crowe has been a supporter of the rugby league football team the South Sydney Rabbitohs since childhood. Since his rise to fame as an actor, he has continued appearing at home games, and supported the financially troubled club. Following the Super League war of the 1990s Crowe made an attempt to use his Hollywood connections to convince Ted Turner, rival of Super League's Rupert Murdoch, to save the Rabbitohs before they were forced from the National Rugby League competition for two years.
Eyre Evans Crowe Crowe A.R.A. (1824–1910), Sir Joseph Archer Crowe (1825–1896), and George Crowe (1840–1889), husband of the actress Kate Bateman. Eyre Evans Crowe Eyre Evans Crowe (1799 – February 25, 1868) was an English journalist and historian. The son of an Army officer of Anglo-Irish ancestry, Crowe was born in Southampton and educated at Trinity College, Dublin. In the 1820s he turned to writing novels: V"ittoria Colonna, To-Day in Ireland" (1825), "The English in Italy" (1825), (1828), "Yesterday in Ireland" (1829), and "The English at Home" (1830). His work appeared as well in "Blackwood's Magazine". He commenced his work as a writer