Editing Woolloomooloo (section)

==Popular culture==
* [[The Bushwackers (band)|The Bushwackers]] play a song "Woolloomooloo Lair" about an inhabitant of the suburb.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.grainger.de/music/songs/woolloomooloo.html|title=Woolloomooloo Lair|last=G.H.Grainger|website=grainger.de|access-date=18 April 2018}}</ref>
* Steve Mullins recorded "Woolloomooloo" in 1910 for Jumbo Records in the UK.<ref>National Film and Sound Archive: [http://nfsa.gov.au/collection/sound/sounds-australia/songs-about-towns-and-places/ Does your town have its own song?]</ref>
* The [[Tommy Leonetti]] song "My City of Sydney", later covered by the post-punk band [[XL Capris]], mentions "That little church steeple in Woolloomooloo".
* The [[Bruces sketch]] by [[Monty Python]] is set in the fictitious University of Woolloomooloo, mainly due to its typical Australian name.
* In the show ''[[Flight of the Conchords (TV series)|Flight of the Conchords]]'', Jemaine claims that his short-time girlfriend Keitha ("[[Unnatural Love]]") is from Woolloomooloo.
* The 1984 album ''[[Zoolook]]'' by [[Jean Michel Jarre]] has a track titled "Woolloomooloo".
* In 1970, Australian educator, journalist and politician [[Irina Dunn]] created the phrase "A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle," scribbling the phrase on two bathroom doors: one at Sydney University where she was then a student, and the other at Soren's Wine Bar in Woolloomooloo. The quip is often incorrectly attributed to American feminist [[Gloria Steinem]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://john-s-allen.com/humor/herstory.htm |work=A Bit of Herstory
|title=The Definitive Word on the Origin |publisher=The Fish and Bicycle Page |last=Allen |first=John S |quote=I scribbled the phrase on the backs of two toilet doors, would you believe, one at Sydney University where I was a student, and the other at Soren's Wine Bar at Woolloomooloo, a seedy suburb in south Sydney.}}</ref>
* The 1982 album ''[[Circus Animals]]'' by [[Cold Chisel]] contains the song "Numbers Fall", which refers to Forbes Street and Springfield Avenue, Woolloomooloo.  "Letter to Alan", on the same album, also refers to the Wayside Chapel in neighbouring Potts Point.
* The 1989 album ''[[The Big Don't Argue]]'' by [[Weddings Parties Anything]] contains the song "Ticket in Tatts", which refers to Woollomooloo.
* The popular children's book ''The Kangaroo from Woolloomooloo'' (written by [[Joy Cowley]]; illustrated by Rodney McRae, 1985), featured, among a wide variety of other Australian fauna, a kangaroo from Woolloomooloo.
*Author/musician and sometime resident Nathan Roche set his novels ''Vagrer'', ''Cleaning Off The Cobwebs on the Skeletons in the Closet'' and ''The Harbour Review'' in the suburb and also wrote the song "Sailors into Woolloomooloo" which appeared on his 2013 record, ''Watch It Wharf''.
* In the Dutch city of [[Utrecht (city)|Utrecht]], a student's disco is called Her Majesty's first discobar "Woolloomooloo", or "Woo" in brief.
* The song "[[Bhaag Milkha Bhaag (soundtrack)|Slow Motion Angreza]]" from the Hindi movie ''[[Bhaag Milkha Bhaag]]'', featuring [[Farhan Akhtar]] and [[Rebecca Breeds]], references Woollomooloo in its lyrics.
* The infamous brothel owner and underworld figure [[Tilly Devine]] was based at Woolloomooloo, and was nicknamed the Queen of Woolloomooloo<ref name="adb">{{cite book|url=https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/divine-matilda-mary-tilly-5970|title=Devine , Matilda Mary (Tilly) (1900-1970)|publisher=Australian Dictionary of Biography|author=Judith Allen/Baiba Irving|chapter=Matilda Mary (Tilly) Devine (1900–1970) }}</ref>