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MELBOURNE
Most Famous People Born in Melbourne, Australia
- Notable people
- 3,404
- Peak decade
- 1970s
- Median birth year
- 1956
- Most distinctive
- Cricket 8.9×
The cricket capital of the southern hemisphere. Melbourne's most distinctive profession is cricket at almost nine times the global rate, joined by novelists, basketballers, rowers, players, and swimmers — a profile that reads like a sports network's call sheet with a literary annex attached. The notable births start with the 1850s gold rush and barely look back.
Standouts
Notable Births by Decade
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What Melbourne Is Known For
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Cricket is Melbourne's biggest profession — 11% of all notables (388).
Melbourne over-indexes on cricket — 8.9× the global rate.
Profession Mix Over Time
Each band shows a profession family's share of Melbourne's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.
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Kylie Minogue
Born 1968
Cate Blanchett
Born 1969
Chris Hemsworth
Born 1983
Eric Bana
Born 1968
Rupert Murdoch
Born 1931
Germaine Greer
Born 1939
Peter Singer
Born 1946
Liam Hemsworth
Born 1990
Flea (musician)
Born 1962
Lisa Gerrard
Born 1961
Emily Browning
Born 1988
Dannii Minogue
Born 1971
Rachel Griffiths
Born 1968
Jason Donovan
Born 1968
Radha Mitchell
Born 1973
Nellie Melba
1861 - 1931
Percy Grainger
1882 - 1961
Holly Valance
Born 1983
Tina Arena
Born 1967
Barry Humphries
Born 1934
Jesse Spencer
Born 1979
Ben Mendelsohn
Born 1969
Costas Mandylor
Born 1965
Anna Torv
Born 1979
Leigh Whannell
Born 1977
Helen Reddy
1941 - 2020
Isabel Lucas
Born 1985
Gabriella Cilmi
Born 1991
Eliza Taylor
Born 1989
John Eccles (neurophysiologist)
1903 - 1997
Alfred Deakin
1856 - 1919
Ruby Rose
Born 1986
Pat Cash
Born 1965
John Williams (guitarist)
Born 1941
Vance Joy
Born 1987
Kyrie Irving
Born 1992
Mary MacKillop
1842 - 1909
Caitlin Stasey
Born 1990
Nick Vujicic
Born 1982
Brody Dalle
Born 1979
Stanley Bruce
1883 - 1967
Russell Mulcahy
Born 1953
David Helfgott
Born 1947
John Monash
1865 - 1931
Ron Mueck
Born 1958
Sullivan Stapleton
Born 1977
Peter Norman
1942 - 2006
Trudi Canavan
Born 1969
May Robson
1858 - 1942
Daevid Allen
1938 - 2015
Bella Heathcote
Born 1987
Tim Flannery
Born 1956
Nick Murphy (musician)
Born 1988
Ron Clarke
1937 - 2015
Missy Higgins
Born 1983
Alan Jones (racing driver)
Born 1946
John Gorton
1911 - 2002
Garth Nix
Born 1963
Mae Busch
1891 - 1946
Avraam Papadopoulos
Born 1984
David Malet Armstrong
1926 - 2014
Peter Tatchell
Born 1952
David Andersen
Born 1980
Vanessa Amorosi
Born 1981
Georgina Haig
Born 1985
Coral Browne
1913 - 1991
Abbey Lee
Born 1987
Robert Taylor (Australian actor)
Born 1963
Fred Schepisi
Born 1939
Phil Rudd
Born 1954
Gillian Armstrong
Born 1950
Wendy Hughes
1952 - 2014
Mathew Leckie
Born 1991
Marco Leonardi
Born 1971
John Marsden (writer)
Born 1950
David Lyons (actor)
Born 1976
Mark Bresciano
Born 1980
David Bruce (microbiologist)
1855 - 1931
Mark Viduka
Born 1975
Angry Anderson
Born 1947
Gregory David Roberts
Born 1952
Laura Robson
Born 1994
Ben Simmons
Born 1996
Danielle de Niese
Born 1979
Norman Brookes
1877 - 1968
Steve Hooker
Born 1982
Mark "Chopper" Read
1954 - 2013
Rowland S. Howard
1959 - 2009
Luke Hemsworth
Born 1981
Luc Longley
Born 1969
Simon Gerrans
Born 1980
Snub Pollard
1889 - 1962
Frank Thring
1926 - 1994
Andrew Bogut
Born 1984
Robert de Castella
Born 1957
Stuart Beattie
Born 1972
Jason Davidson
Born 1991
Mark Philippoussis
Born 1976
Frederick McCubbin
1855 - 1917
Bridie Carter
Born 1970
Donna Williams
1963 - 2017
Liam Finn
Born 1983
Marny Kennedy
Born 1994
Tash Sultana
Born 1995
Havana Brown (musician)
Born 1985
Daniel Merriweather
Born 1982
Isaac Isaacs
1855 - 1948
Gary Sweet
Born 1957
John Farrar
Born 1946
Christos Tsiolkas
Born 1965
Buddy Murphy
Born 1988
Keith Murdoch
1885 - 1952
Ed Oxenbould
Born 2001
Mark Evans (musician)
Born 1956
Greig Fraser
Born 1975
Andrew Gaze
Born 1965
Cameron Daddo
Born 1965
Scott McDonald
Born 1983
Kerry Armstrong
Born 1958
Erin Phillips
Born 1985
Helen Caldicott
Born 1938
Patrick Hughes (director)
Born 1978
Greg Ham
1953 - 2012
Zoe Caldwell
1933 - 2020
Zelman Cowen
1919 - 2011
Ryan Corr
Born 1989
Mack Horton
Born 1996
Simon Clarke (cyclist)
Born 1986
Dante Exum
Born 1995
Ivan Franjic
Born 1987
Vince Grella
Born 1979
Penelope Mitchell
Born 1991
Jocelyn Moorhouse
Born 1960
Bailey Wright
Born 1992
Louis Mandylor
Born 1966
Joseph Ward
1856 - 1930
Jackson Irvine
Born 1993
Curtis Good
Born 1993
John Peers
Born 1988
Tim Wakefield
Born 1966
Gareth Evans (politician)
Born 1944
Kerry Greenwood
Born 1954
George Batchelor
1920 - 2000
Mirrah Foulkes
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Jason Culina
Born 1980
Neil Robertson
Born 1982
Tamsyn Manou
Born 1978
Barry Tuckwell
1931 - 2020
Pia Miranda
Born 1973
Andrew Nabbout
Born 1992
Eugene Galekovic
Born 1981
Helen Quinn
Born 1943
Bill Henson
Born 1955
Graham Kennedy
1934 - 2005
Fiona Graham
Born 1961
Simon Colosimo
Born 1979
Ashley Cooper (tennis)
1936 - 2020
Sheila Fitzpatrick
Born 1941
Paul Hester
1959 - 2005
Wilfred Burchett
1911 - 1983
Gerald Patterson
1895 - 1967
Johnny Klimek
Born 1962
Bill Ponsford
1900 - 1991
Jeffrey Walker (actor)
Born 1982
Christine Nesbitt
Born 1985
Penny Taylor
Born 1981
Anthony Callea
Born 1982
Lara Robinson
Born 1998
Alan Moorehead
1910 - 1983
Virgil Donati
Born 1958
Damian Walshe-Howling
Born 1971
Paul Brickhill
1916 - 1991
Shanina Shaik
Born 1991
Henry Handel Richardson
1870 - 1946
Richard Franklin (director)
1948 - 2007
Ben Frost (musician)
Born 1980
Kim Brennan
Born 1985
Patrick Kisnorbo
Born 1981
Allan Pease
Born 1952
Kate Ceberano
Born 1966
Leslie Howard (musician)
Born 1948
Paul McNamee
Born 1954
Anna Funder
Born 1966
Ljubo Milicevic
Born 1981
Olivia DeJonge
Born 1998
Catherine McClements
Born 1965
Olivia Rogowska
Born 1991
Nicole Bradtke
Born 1969
James Frecheville
Born 1991
Geoffrey Wright
Born 1959
Peter Nicholls (writer)
1939 - 2018
Raja Ram (musician)
Born 1941
Scotty James
Born 1994
Mallory Jansen
Born 1989
Russell Mockridge
1928 - 1958
Geoffrey Blainey
Born 1930
Mem Fox
Born 1946
Michael Rymer
Born 1963
Damian Mori
Born 1970
Laura Brent
Born 1988
Travis Blackley
Born 1982
David Williamson
Born 1942
Gerald Murnane
Born 1939
Frank Beaurepaire
1891 - 1956
Steph Catley
Born 1994
Nikolai Nikolaeff
Born 1981
Saša Ognenovski
Born 1979
Ben Kiernan
Born 1953
Jamie Maclaren
Born 1993
Anna Galvin
Born 1969
360 (rapper)
Born 1986
Robert Greig
1879 - 1958
Edward Duyker
Born 1955
Ben Franks
Born 1984
Rob Sitch
Born 1962
Alfred Hill (composer)
1869 - 1960
Michele Timms
Born 1965
Mahé Drysdale
Born 1978
Owen Davidson
Born 1943
Danny Allsopp
Born 1978
Tony Dorigo
Born 1965
Brett Tucker
Born 1972
Russell Hitchcock
Born 1949
Leon Mestel
1927 - 2017
Suzanne Cory
Born 1942
George Turner (writer)
1916 - 1997
Andy Rose
Born 1990
Madeleine West
Born 1979
Peter Costello
Born 1957
Deniz Akdeniz
Born 1990
Simon Crean
Born 1949
Chris Guccione (tennis)
Born 1985
Michael Theo
Born 1981
Curtis Stone
Born 1975
JG Thirlwell
Born 1960
Debbie Flintoff-King
Born 1960
Alan Villiers
1903 - 1982
Dan Kelly (fighter)
Born 1977
Lydia Lassila
Born 1982
Manning Clark
1915 - 1991
Merril Bainbridge
Born 1968
Elisabeth Murdoch (philanthropist)
1909 - 2012
John Stillwell
Born 1942
Matthew Lloyd (cyclist)
Born 1983
Paul Hanley (tennis)
Born 1977
Alana Boyd
Born 1984
Trevor Lucas
1943 - 1989
Peter McNamara
1955 - 2019
June Newton
Born 1923
Alisa Camplin
Born 1974
Gulliver McGrath
Born 1998
Ralph Doubell
Born 1945
Manny Muscat
Born 1984
Hugo Race
Born 1961
Andrew Cooper
Born 1964
Sally Peers
Born 1991
David Barlow (basketball)
Born 1983
Kate Alexa
Born 1988
Andrew Peacock
Born 1939
Vince Colosimo
Born 1966
Noel Counihan
1913 - 1986
Andy Griffiths (author)
Born 1961
Daniel Kickert
Born 1983
Charles Birch
1918 - 2009
Lauren Burns
Born 1974
André de Vanny
Born 1984
Alison Goodman
Born 1966
Chris Cheney
Born 1975
Mitchell Docker
Born 1986
Pam Kilborn
Born 1939
Shane Perkins
Born 1986
Colin Edwin
Born 1970
Lachy Hulme
Born 1971
Stan Walker
Born 1990
Charles Ulm
1898 - 1934
Cloves (singer)
Born 1996
Byron Kennedy
1949 - 1983
Tatjana Alexander
Born 1969
Peggy Glanville-Hicks
1912 - 1990
Donald Thomson
1901 - 1970
Bobby Andonov
Born 1994
Pieter Bourke
-
Rod Hardy
Born 1949
Matt Welsh
Born 1976
Richard Lowenstein
Born 1959
Richard P. Brent
Born 1946
Alfred J. Goulding
1885 - 1972
Ryan Broekhoff
Born 1990
Sean Wroe
Born 1985
Pat O'Hara Wood
1891 - 1961
Kristian Sarkies
Born 1986
Clive Palmer
Born 1954
Jeff Kennett
Born 1948
Jack Lindsay
1900 - 1990
Nic Cester
Born 1979
Destanee Aiava
Born 2000
Rocky Elsom
Born 1983
Jason Ellis (radio host)
Born 1971
Bill Granger
Born 1969
Matthew Wilson (cyclist)
Born 1977