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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
Brandon Brine
Born 1992
Alissa Castrisos
Born 1984
Daniel Connell
Born 1970
Anna Maycock
Born 1982
Robert Evelyn Porter
1913 - 1983
Sam Lawn
1906 - 1971
Michael Mattiazzo
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Sarah Klau
Born 1994
Colin McKee (politician)
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Keegan Nash
Born 1986
Robert Ritson
1936 - 2013
Cecil Stuart
1900 - 1954
Richard Alfred O'Connor
1880 - 1941
Sonja Frühsammer
Born 1969
Jack Slater (politician)
1927 - 1997
Jai Angsuthasawit
Born 1995
Glenys Bauer
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Ian Chaplin
Born 1944