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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.
- Sports
- Politics & Law
- Film & TV
- Music
- Writing
- Science
- Other
- Filtered to 1950s Clear ×
Anthony LaPaglia
Born 1959
Rodney Brooks
Born 1954
Paul Kelly (Australian musician)
Born 1955
Alexander Downer
Born 1951
Sonia Todd
Born 1959
Andy Thomas
Born 1951
Gillian Rolton
1956 - 2017
Lewis Fitz-Gerald
Born 1958
John Kosmina
Born 1956
David Hookes
1955 - 2004
Andrew Clarke (actor)
Born 1954
Nick Xenophon
Born 1959
Bill Leak
1956 - 2017
Tracy Mann
Born 1957
John Quiggin
Born 1956
Amanda Vanstone
Born 1952
Elizabeth Alexander (actress)
Born 1952
Michael Turtur
Born 1958
Uwe Schummer
Born 1957
Tom Wigley
Born 1950
Graeme Koehne
Born 1956
Andrew Bolt
Born 1959
Phil Smyth
Born 1958
Susan Lyons
Born 1957
Wayne B. Phillips
Born 1958
Kym Anderson
Born 1950
Malcolm Blight
Born 1950
Susan Petrilli
Born 1954
Mark Holden
Born 1954
David Koch (television presenter)
Born 1956
Vicki Cardwell
Born 1955
Andris Blicavs
Born 1954
Jenny Cheesman
Born 1957
John James (tennis)
Born 1951
Pru Goward
Born 1952
Peter Combe
Born 1955
John Schumann
Born 1953
Tim Willoughby
1954 - 2008
David Horner
Born 1959
John Rau
Born 1959
Steve J. Spears
1951 - 2007
John Chryssavgis
Born 1958
Gale Edwards
Born 1954
Liddy Clark
Born 1953
Vic Bozanic
Born 1957
Steve Georganas
Born 1959
Phil Small
Born 1954
Paul Weston (footballer)
Born 1957
Mike Rinder
Born 1955
Stewart MacFarlane
Born 1953
Brian Morris (biologist)
Born 1950
Jan Stirling
Born 1955
Trevor McDougall
Born 1952
Stephen Dedman
Born 1959
Brian Cunningham
Born 1952
Peter Ali
Born 1956
Justin Milne
Born 1952
Michal Dutkiewicz
Born 1955
Stirling Griff
Born 1957
Nick Martin (scientist)
Born 1950
Dana Wortley
Born 1959
Graham Bidstrup
Born 1952
Nick Bolkus
Born 1950
Terry Connolly
1958 - 2007
Anne McEwen (politician)
Born 1954
Paul Blackwell
1954 - 2019
Prudence Murdoch
Born 1958
Bodo Niggemann
Born 1951
Anne Fulwood
Born 1959
Glenn Ridge
Born 1955
Margaret Quirk
Born 1957
Rob Walker (poet)
Born 1953
Jann Stuckey
Born 1955
Martin Hamilton-Smith
Born 1953
Angela Woollacott
Born 1955
Thérèse Rein
Born 1958
Brad Robinson
1958 - 1996
Lisa Edwards
Born 1958
John Kolc
Born 1950
Mike Bradley (politician)
Born 1955
Mark Bishop
Born 1954
Josephine Starrs
Born 1955
Philip Pardey
Born 1953
Annette Hurley
Born 1955
Peter Goers
Born 1956
Jane Doyle
Born 1958
Jenny Williams (sportsperson)
Born 1957
Eroia Barone-Nugent
Born 1959
Raymond Spencer
Born 1950
Gary Turner (musician)
Born 1954
Kym Lardner
Born 1957
James Porter (Australian politician)
Born 1950
Julie Russell
Born 1951
Carolyn Hewson
Born 1955
Kym Richardson
Born 1958
Riccardo Tossani
Born 1957
Andrew Sincock
Born 1951
Bill Dankbaar
1952 - 2013
John F. Davis (artist)
Born 1958
Peter Crawley (headmaster)
Born 1953
Rosalie Fahey
Born 1958
Wayne Pascoe
Born 1955
Paul Taylor (Musiker)
Born 1958
Barry Curtin
Born 1951
Ned Lander
Born 1956
Peter Clements
Born 1953
Paul Curtin
Born 1954
John Donaldson (Australian cricketer)
Born 1950
Robert Christensen
Born 1959