Kevin Junee

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Kevin Junee (born 1 August 1943) is a former Australian rugby league halfback who played in the 1960s and 1970s. He played for Eastern Suburbs from 1964 to 1973 and for Manly-Warringah from 1974 to 1975, finishing with a brief return to Easts in 1976. He appeared in 204 first‑grade games and scored 91 tries. He represented New South Wales (1965–1968) and was selected for the Australian team on the 1967–68 Kangaroo Tour, though he did not play in a Test. He won the Rothmans Medal in 1970 as the league’s best player. A highlight was the 1972 Grand Final when Easts reached the decider, losing 19–14 to Manly.

In 1974 he joined Manly-Warringah and became the club’s top try-scorer with 23 tries, a club record at the time. He later returned to Eastern Suburbs for his final season in 1976. Junee is a life member of Easts and founded Kevin Junee's Run For Your Life, a chain of sports stores with locations in Bondi Junction and elsewhere in Sydney.

Junee is of Russian and Greek descent, grew up in Paddington, Sydney, and trained as a fitter and turner. He has been married to Frances since 1967 and they have three children: Natalie, Tiffanny, and Darren. Darren is a rugby league and rugby union player; Tiffanny is a rugby union journalist and a lecturer at the University of Sydney. Mark Harris, a former Easts teammate, is godfather to Tiffanny.