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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 1940s Clear ×
John Finnis
Born 1940
Michael White (psychotherapist)
1948 - 2008
Murray Bail
Born 1941
James Crawford (jurist)
Born 1948
Margaret Somerville
Born 1942
Leon Simon
Born 1945
Robert Hill (Australian politician)
Born 1946
Margaret Clunies Ross
Born 1942
Graeham Goble
Born 1947
Peter Best (composer)
Born 1943
Darryl Cotton
1949 - 2012
John Hirst (historian)
1942 - 2016
Ivar Kants
Born 1949
Geoffrey Douglas Madge
Born 1941
Jenny Graves
Born 1941
Dianne Burge
Born 1943
Leonie Sandercock
Born 1949
Tony Monopoly
1944 - 1995
Libby Kosmala
Born 1942
Geoffrey Simon
Born 1946
Gregory O'Kelly
Born 1941
Ian Fletcher (tennis)
Born 1948
Peter Colman
Born 1944
Dean Brown
Born 1943
Andrew Jones (Australian politician)
1944 - 2015
John Hepworth
Born 1944
John Boulger
Born 1945
Brian Ross Martin
Born 1947
John Cahill (footballer)
Born 1940
Geraldine Cox
Born 1945
Robert Haigh
Born 1945
Alison Broinowski
Born 1941
Richard Tipping
Born 1949
Martin Wesley-Smith
1945 - 2019
Derek Goldby
Born 1940
Joan Beaumont
Born 1948
Ashley Woodcock
Born 1947
Reg Spiers
Born 1941
David Combe
1943 - 2019
Jan Owen
Born 1940
Anthony William Thomas
Born 1949
Graeme Hugo
1946 - 2015
John Brewster (musician)
Born 1949
Scott Davie (basketball)
Born 1940
Andrew Pike
Born 1946
Susan Mitchell (Australian author)
Born 1945
Ann Newmarch
Born 1945
Pip Proud
1947 - 2010
David Ettridge
Born 1945
Jeff Guess
Born 1948
John Doyle (judge)
Born 1945
Len Roberts-Smith
Born 1945
David Hawker
Born 1949
Margaret Susan Brock
Born 1948
Glenn Marsland
Born 1947
Baden Teague
Born 1944
Christine Gallus
Born 1943
Anna Stewart (activist)
1947 - 1983
Peter Marker
Born 1949
Don Barker (actor)
Born 1940
Kerry Heysen
Born 1945
Grant Chapman
Born 1949
Bob Simunsen
Born 1941
Penny Ramsey
1947 - 2009
Brian Richardson (rower)
Born 1947
Rob Kelvin
Born 1944
Rod Atkinson
Born 1948
Michael J. Dallwitz
Born 1943
Bevan Morris
Born 1949
John Pascoe
Born 1949
Bronte Cockburn
Born 1941
Elizabeth Harvey
Born 1946
Jenny Pausacker
Born 1948
Jeffrey Langley
Born 1948
Helen Williams (Australian public servant)
Born 1945
Colin J. Gillespie
Born 1941
Geoffrey Proud
Born 1946
Peter Brideoake
Born 1945
Steve Gower
Born 1940
David Cappo
Born 1949
Noel Hicks
Born 1940
Bob Blewett (cricketer)
Born 1943
Allan Frost
Born 1942
Mark Wainwright
Born 1943
Desmond Mueller
Born 1943
Marlene Dayman
Born 1949
Rod Sawford
Born 1944
Graeme Farrell (South Australia cricketer)
1943 - 2013
Frank Tanti
Born 1949
Milton Hearn
Born 1943
Barry Causby
Born 1948
Jeffrey Barnes (cricketer)
Born 1948
Peter Curtin (cricketer)
1949 - 2008
John Causby
1942 - 2019
Rex Blundell
Born 1942
Graham Maguire
Born 1945
Richard Drewer
Born 1946
Terry McRae
1941 - 2006
Ian Chaplin
Born 1944