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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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- Filtered to 1870s Clear ×
Norman Brookes
1877 - 1968
Henry Handel Richardson
1870 - 1946
Robert Greig
1879 - 1958
Jeannie Gunn
1870 - 1961
Sidney Bracey
1877 - 1942
Giuseppe Garibaldi II
1879 - 1950
Ernest Hutcheson
1871 - 1951
Paul Scardon
1874 - 1954
Erle Cox
1873 - 1950
Saharet
1879 - 1942
Violet Teague
1872 - 1951
Robert Henry Mathews
1877 - 1970
Emily Pelloe
1878 - 1941
Arthur J. Rees
1872 - 1942
Harry Graham (cricketer)
1870 - 1911
Herbert Haydon Wilson
1875 - 1917
Joseph Singleton
1879 - 1946
Walter Rosenhain
1875 - 1934
Jack Saunders (Australian cricketer)
1876 - 1927
Arthur John Newman Tremearne
1877 - 1915
K. C. Groom
1872 - 1954
Edmund Thiele
1874 - 1971
Alberto Zelman
1874 - 1927
Miles Evergood
1871 - 1939
Godfrey Wilson (politician)
1871 - 1958
Ruth Alsop
1879 - 1976
John Twycross
1871 - 1936
Fred Esmelton
1872 - 1933
Jimmy Smith (Australian footballer)
1877 - 1948
Dora Serle
1875 - 1968
Eddie Sholl
1872 - 1952
Charlie Goding
1876 - 1926
Dick Wardill
1872 - 1929
Bess Norriss
1878 - 1939
Dave Strickland
1877 - 1963
Son Barry
1877 - 1959
Herman Dohrmann
1873 - 1957
Ivo Crapp
1872 - 1924
Michael O'Gorman
1874 - 1937
Lalla Miranda
1874 - 1944
Ethel Bruce
1879 - 1967
Ethel Gray
1876 - 1962
Lou Barker
1876 - 1963
Bill Dalton (footballer)
1876 - 1955
Fred Sheahan
1870 - 1946
Dave Powell
1876 - 1953
Bob Kerr (Australian footballer)
1875 - 1943
Gerald Sheahan
1872 - 1959
Gus Hefter
1873 - 1922
Ted Burke
1877 - 1967
Florence Maude Young
1870 - 1920
Bob Bird (footballer)
1875 - 1946
Jim Warne
1879 - 1958
Bob Armstrong (Australian footballer)
1872 - 1951
Arch Lowe
1875 - 1942
Jack Reekie
1871 - 1963
Charlie Brown (footballer, born 1873)
1873 - 1941
Edgar Maddox
1878 - 1923
George Ashworth Young
1878 - 1920
Arthur Kirk
1878 - 1958
Dan Moriarty (footballer, born 1875)
1875 - 1903
Harry H. Morgan
1871 - 1924
Eddie Byers
1875 - 1949
Jack Denning
1875 - 1949
John Timothee
1870 - 1901
Jack Douglas (footballer, born 1872)
1872 - 1905
Alf Gray (Australian footballer)
1874 - 1931
Jim Blair (Australian footballer)
1874 - 1953
Henry Cohen (politician)
1872 - 1942
Ralph Hatch
1876 - 1944
Fred Stewart (Australian footballer)
1875 - 1941
Tommy Kinman
1875 - 1941
John Young (cricketer, born 1876)
1876 - 1913
Elizabeth (Bessie) Campbell
1870 - 1964
James O'Halloran (cricketer)
1872 - 1943
George Cathie (footballer, born 1876)
1876 - 1958
David Mailer
1874 - 1937
Alfred Ozanne
1877 - 1961
Daniel McLeod
1872 - 1901
Mathew Ellis
1870 - 1940
Robert MacDonald (cricketer)
1870 - 1946
Sydney Donahoo
1871 - 1946
Rowland Bailey
1876 - 1950
Charles Allan Marris
1876 - 1947
William Carlton (cricketer)
1876 - 1959
David Sutherland (cricketer)
1873 - 1971
Richard Kelly (Australian cricketer)
1870 - 1941
Isaac Hopkins
1870 - 1913
James Drew (cricketer)
1872 - 1944
Frederick Delves
1876 - 1944
Herbert Parsons (cricketer)
1875 - 1937
William McCormack (cricketer)
1877 - 1946
Daniel Noonan (cricketer)
1873 - 1910
Henry Hetherington (cricketer)
1874 - 1950
Charles Peryman
1872 - 1950
Arthur Kenny
1878 - 1934
James Giller
1870 - 1947
Albert Geddes
1871 - 1935
Arthur Christian (cricketer)
1877 - 1950
John Garland (cricketer)
1875 - 1938
Edward Goss (cricketer)
1875 - 1955
Thomas Grant (cricketer)
1879 - 1934
Bartholomew Grant
Born 1876
Thomas Rush (cricketer)
1874 - 1926
Charles Elliott Perry
1871 - 1937
John Jennings (Australian politician)
1878 - 1968
John Ramsden (cricketer)
1878 - 1973
Samuel Dennis
1870 - 1945
Frank Groves
1873 - 1959
William Strutt (politician)
1878 - 1948
Elsie Barlow
1876 - 1948