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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.

  1. Football 181 1.4×
  2. Politician 129 0.9×
  3. Cricket 124 8.0×
  4. Actor 83 1.3×
  5. Basket 55 3.6×
  6. Player 53 2.2×
  7. Sport 47 2.3×
  8. Singer 27 1.1×
  1. Cricket 124 8.0×
  2. Basket 55 3.6×
  3. Rower 13 2.9×
  4. Swimmer 15 2.5×
  5. Sport 47 2.3×
  6. Player 53 2.2×
  1. Writer 19 0.5×

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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0039 ARTIST

Margaret Preston

1875 - 1963

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0091 PHYSICIAN

Helen Mayo

1878 - 1967

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0163 PAINTER

Hayley Lever

1876 - 1958

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0164 ACTIVIST

Bessie Rischbieth

1874 - 1967

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0165 PAINTER

Bessie Davidson

1879 - 1965

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0294 LAWYER

Bill Denny

1872 - 1946

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0341 WRITER

Frank Fox (author)

1874 - 1960

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0425 CRICKET

Joe Travers

1871 - 1942

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0527 POLITICIAN

Henry Barwell

1877 - 1959

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0543 INDUSTRIALIST

Alfred Allen Simpson

1875 - 1939

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0561 POLITICIAN

Crawford Vaughan

1874 - 1947

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0634 POLITICIAN

Victor Wilson

1877 - 1957

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0637 PHYSICIAN

Phoebe Chapple

1879 - 1967

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0652 FOOTBALL

Bert Renfrey

1879 - 1940

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0733 ZOOLOGIST

Agnes Murgoci

1875 - 1929

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0748 POLITICIAN

Grace Benny

1872 - 1944

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0791 FOOTBALL

George Bruce (footballer)

1879 - 1928

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0809 BUSINESS

James Hay Gosse

1876 - 1952

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0855 JOURNALISM

John Lavington Bonython

1875 - 1960

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0858 FOOTBALL

Mick Pleass

1874 - 1925

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0927 POLITICIAN

George Cummins Morphett

1876 - 1963

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0995 CRICKET

Henry Hill (Australian cricketer)

1878 - 1906

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1010 CRICKET

Arthur Hill (Australian cricketer)

1871 - 1936

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1018 CRICKET

Wally Watts

1872 - 1946

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1065 CRICKET

Alexander Addison (cricketer)

1877 - 1935

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1109 POLITICIAN

Fred Katz

1877 - 1960

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1126 CRICKET

William Dunstan (cricketer)

1878 - 1955

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1128 CRICKET

Bertram Bailey

1874 - 1964

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1159 CRICKET

Hubert Chinner

1870 - 1953

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