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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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- Filtered to 1860s Clear ×
Guy Boothby
1867 - 1905
Richard Sanders Rogers
1861 - 1942
Carlton Dawe
1865 - 1935
Lee Batchelor
1865 - 1911
William Ernest Cooke
1863 - 1947
Walter Griffiths
1867 - 1900
Oswald Bertram Lower
1863 - 1925
Percival Hill
1868 - 1950
Harry Blinman
1861 - 1950
Mathieson Jacoby
1869 - 1915
Hermann T. Schrader
1860 - 1934
Alfred Haddrick
1868 - 1939
Henry Chesson
1862 - 1948
Henry Tassie
1863 - 1945
William Delaney
1866 - 1921
William Amos (cricketer)
1860 - 1935
Herbert Day
1868 - 1947
Francis Bernard Keogh
1861 - 1927
John Craigie (cricketer)
1866 - 1948
Douglas Gawler
1860 - 1915