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ADELAIDE
Most Famous People Born in Adelaide, Australia
- Notable people
- 1,218
- Peak decade
- 1980s
- Median birth year
- 1960
- Most distinctive
- Cricket 8.0×
The cricket over-index at 8.0× is Don Bradman's long shadow — the Adelaide Oval is still the sport's most photographed ground. But the city's real surprise sits elsewhere in the stats: Howard Florey isolated the first stable penicillin from a fungus culture here, and Terence Tao was solving international olympiad problems before most kids his age could read cursive.
Standouts
Notable Births by Decade
Click a decade to filter the list below. Peak: 1980s with 182 notable births.
What Adelaide Is Known For
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Football is Adelaide's biggest profession — 15% of all notables (181).
Adelaide over-indexes on cricket — 8.0× the global rate.
Adelaide under-produces writer — only 0.5× the global rate.
Profession Mix Over Time
Each band shows a profession family's share of Adelaide's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.
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- Film & TV
- Music
- Writing
- Science
- Other
- Filtered to 1840s Clear ×
John Downer
1843 - 1915
John Cox Bray
1842 - 1894
Frank Johnson (politician)
1848 - 1904
John Chanter
1845 - 1931
Ben Rounsevell
1843 - 1923
Joseph Sylvester O'Halloran
1842 - 1920
Alfred von Doussa
1848 - 1926
Samuel Gason
1845 - 1897
S. G. Kingston
1848 - 1897
William Menz
1849 - 1898
Arthur Addison
1842 - 1915
John Allworth Clark
1846 - 1932
William James Magarey
1840 - 1920
Spencer Skipper
1848 - 1903