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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 1880s Clear ×
Elton Mayo
1880 - 1949
Lionel Logue
1880 - 1953
Henry Lamb
1883 - 1960
Peter Dawson (bass-baritone)
1882 - 1961
Herbert Basedow
1881 - 1933
Lancelot de Mole
1880 - 1950
Ted Theodore
1884 - 1950
C. Montague Shaw
1882 - 1968
Lily Addison
1885 - 1982
Lionel Hill
1881 - 1963
Harold Boas
1883 - 1980
Richard Head (footballer)
1887 - 1940
George Edwards (actor)
1886 - 1953
Fannie Eleanor Williams
1884 - 1963
Tom MacKenzie
1882 - 1927
Clytie Hine
1887 - 1983
Bert Edwards (politician)
1887 - 1963
Elsa Stralia
1881 - 1945
Stanley Hill
1885 - 1970
Zoe Benjamin
1882 - 1962
Gordon Gurr
1881 - 1960
Alfred Hodgeman
1885 - 1964
Frank Hansen (Australian footballer)
1884 - 1975
Edmund Britten Jones
1888 - 1953
Alf Dowsing
1882 - 1963
Ruth Sutherland
1884 - 1948
Alfred Eckhold
1885 - 1931
Emmett Ryan
1885 - 1937
Harold Cooper
1886 - 1970
Les Hill (cricketer)
1884 - 1952
A. E. Martin
1885 - 1955
Herbert Hudd
1881 - 1948
Ethel Barringer
1883 - 1925
Herbert Mayo (judge)
1885 - 1972
Roy Middleton
1889 - 1975
Arthur G. Jenkins
1887 - 1963
Arthur Bagot
1888 - 1979
Ralph Upton
1885 - 1981
Mac Evans
1884 - 1977
Bill Hickey (footballer, born 1886)
1886 - 1973
John White (footballer, born 1887)
1887 - 1950
Alf Taeuber
1887 - 1961
Rob Dashwood
1882 - 1964
Leonidas Bott
1889 - 1968
Charles McHugh (politician)
1887 - 1927
George Bloomfield
1882 - 1958
Harry Simms (cricketer)
1888 - 1942
Doug Padman
1885 - 1970
Joseph Gardiner
1886 - 1965
Charles Backman
1884 - 1915
Harry Howard (cricketer)
1885 - 1960
Walter Hughes (cricketer)
1882 - 1917
Ernest Bailey
1881 - 1966
Percy Coombe
1880 - 1947
George Foster (Australian politician)
1884 - 1956
Eric Tassie
1887 - 1936
Tom Howard (Australian politician)
1880 - 1949
Richard Alfred O'Connor
1880 - 1941