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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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0005 PHARMACOLOGIST

Howard Florey

1898 - 1968

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0006 ACTOR

Judith Anderson

1897 - 1992

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0008 MATHEMATICIAN

Lawrence Bragg

1890 - 1971

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0128 MINERALOGIST

Cecil Edgar Tilley

1894 - 1973

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0154 POLITICIAN

Mabel Howard

1894 - 1972

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0166 DIPLOMAT

David Kelly (diplomat)

1891 - 1959

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0190 COMPOSER

Margaret Sutherland

1897 - 1984

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0220 FIGHTER PILOT

Cedric Howell

1896 - 1919

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0257 ACTOR

Roy Rene

1891 - 1954

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0340 FIGHTER

Les Holden

1895 - 1932

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0504 RACING

Arthur Waite (racing driver)

1894 - 1991

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0510 CRICKET

Herbert Hopkins

1895 - 1972

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0539 FOOTBALL

George Hele

1891 - 1982

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0588 MILITAR

Rudolph Bierwirth

1899 - 1993

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0651 POET

Vernon Knowles

1899 - 1968

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0685 MILITAR

Wilfred McClaughry

1894 - 1943

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0747 MILITAR

George Peters (aviator)

1894 - 1959

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0805 CIVIL SERVICE

Tasman Heyes

1896 - 1980

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0844 CRICKET

Victor Carlson

1893 - 1974

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0861 NATURALIST

Hedley Herbert Finlayson

1895 - 1991

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0876 POET

Mona Innis Tracy

1892 - 1959

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0921 MUSIC

Stefania Łukowicz-Mokwa

1892 - 1975

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0940 FOOTBALL

Mick Dunn

1897 - 1966

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0945 WORLD WAR

Robert McKenzie (aviator)

1895 - 1945

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0947 ROWER

Ted Thomas (rower)

1894 - 1943

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0955 FOOTBALL

Jack Kappler

1892 - 1969

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0969 CRICKET

Donald Steele

1892 - 1962

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1024 CRICKET

Royston Simms

1894 - 1978

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1069 FOOTBALL

Wally Stooke

1895 - 1962

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1113 POLITICIAN

Thomas Sheehy

1899 - 1984

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1121 CRICKET

Leonard Packham

1891 - 1958

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1129 CRICKET

William Osborne Cooper

1891 - 1930

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1150 SPORT

Roland Ellis Jacobs

1891 - 1981

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1190 POLITICIAN

John Ryan (Australian politician)

1890 - 1974

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