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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
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- Science
- Other
- Filtered to 1850s Clear ×
Kairakutei Black I
1858 - 1923
Charles Kingston
1850 - 1908
Sidney Kidman
1857 - 1935
James Allen (New Zealand politician)
1855 - 1942
Elizabeth Webb Nicholls
1850 - 1943
Vaiben Louis Solomon
1853 - 1908
Thomas Hudson Beare
1859 - 1940
George Prendergast
1854 - 1937
Effie Adelaide Rowlands
1859 - 1936
Rosetta Jane Birks
1856 - 1911
Charles Cawthorne
1854 - 1925
S. J. Jacobs
1853 - 1937
Robert Davenport (cricketer)
1852 - 1934
William Story (Australian politician)
1857 - 1924
Wesley Maley
1857 - 1926
William Willshire (policeman)
1852 - 1925
Frank Johnson (mayor)
1855 - 1921