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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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- Field: Rower Clear ×
Kate Slatter
Born 1971
James McRae
Born 1987
Chris Morgan (rower)
Born 1982
Tim Willoughby
1954 - 2008
Renee Chatterton
Born 1989
Alison Davies
Born 1974
Brian Richardson (rower)
Born 1947
Ted Thomas (rower)
1894 - 1943
Carmen Klomp-Wearne
Born 1975
Alf Taeuber
1887 - 1961
Michael McBryde
Born 1981
Bill Dankbaar
1952 - 2013
Vaughan Bollen
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