Victoria's MH17 victims

THE 17 MH17 VICTIMS FROM VICTORIA:

* Itamar Avnon, a 27-year-old dual Dutch-Israeli national who was a student at Melbourne's Swinburne University, living in Windsor

* Frankie and Liam Davison, 53 and 57. Frankie was a teacher at Toorak College in Mount Eliza, while husband Liam was an award-winning novelist and a teacher

* Marco Grippeling, 48, a Dutch national IT consultant who was living in Melbourne with his wife Angela

* Gary and Mona Lee, of Glen Iris, who emigrated from Malaysia in the 1970s

* Emiel Mahler and Elaine Teoh, who lived in Melbourne. Ms Teoh was from Penang and Mr Mahler from The Netherlands

* Gerry and Mary Menke, who owned an abalone pearl company in Mallacoota

* Albert and Maree Rizk, of Sunbury. Mr Rizk, a Sunbury estate agent, and his wife were returning home after a month-long European holiday

* Family of five Shaliza Dewa and Hans van den Hende and children Piers, Marnix and Margaux, from Eynesbury, west of Melbourne