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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.