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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 1880s Clear ×
Percy Grainger
1882 - 1961
Stanley Bruce
1883 - 1967
Snub Pollard
1889 - 1962
Keith Murdoch
1885 - 1952
Alfred J. Goulding
1885 - 1972
Ian Fleming (actor)
1888 - 1969
Ida Rentoul Outhwaite
1888 - 1960
Rodney Heath
1884 - 1936
Walter J. Turner
1884 - 1946
I. A. R. Wylie
1885 - 1959
Richard Hodgson (parapsychologist)
1885 - 1905
Alexander McCulloch
1887 - 1951
Horace Brodzky
1885 - 1969
Marion Phillips
1881 - 1932
Aylmer Buesst
1883 - 1970
Roy Burston
1888 - 1960
Alexander Mair
1889 - 1969
Madge Titheradge
1887 - 1961
Charles Kellaway
1889 - 1952
George Eric Fairbairn
1888 - 1915
Bill Lang
1882 - 1952
Malcolm McArthur
1882 - 1961
Andrew Keith Jack
1885 - 1966
Doris Blackburn
1889 - 1970
Harry Allen (actor)
1883 - 1951
Clive Baillieu, 1st Baron Baillieu
1889 - 1967
Derwent Lees
1885 - 1931
Louise Hanson-Dyer
1884 - 1962
Jackie Clark
1887 - 1958
Fred Parkinson Holliday
1888 - 1980
Sam Gravenall
1885 - 1948
Percy Code
1888 - 1953
Marnie Bassett
1889 - 1980
Frederick Collins
1881 - 1917
Dallas Cairns
1881 - 1941
Alexander Wigram Allen Leeper
1887 - 1935
Bill Thomas (Australian footballer)
1886 - 1974
Harry Kortlang
1880 - 1961
George Courtney Benson
1886 - 1960
Wally Koochew
1887 - 1932
Letitia Fairfield
1885 - 1978
Dion Titheradge
1889 - 1934
Harry Ross-Soden
1886 - 1944
Amy Eliza Castles
1880 - 1951
George Hodges Knox
1885 - 1960
Rupert Ryan
1884 - 1952
Sydney Dalrymple
Born 1885
Les Vernon
1880 - 1957
Victor Van Someren
1886 - 1976
Belle Bruce Reid
1883 - 1945
Joe Crowl
1883 - 1915
Andy Dougall
1884 - 1941
Ian Macfarlan
1881 - 1964
John T. Murray
1886 - 1957
Muriel Stott
1889 - 1985
Hastings Woolley
1884 - 1946
Oliver John Nilsen
1884 - 1977
Chris Richards (footballer)
1882 - 1971
Harold de Gruchy
1881 - 1901
Arnold Seitz
1883 - 1963
Billy Moxham
1886 - 1959
George Anderson (Australian footballer)
1886 - 1976
Hubert Garrett
1885 - 1915
Alexander Moncur
1888 - 1976
Allie Lampard
1885 - 1984
Edmund Johnson
1883 - 1955
Tim Collins (footballer)
1889 - 1971
Bertie Tuckwell
1882 - 1943
James Gatehouse
1883 - 1949
John Catarinich
1882 - 1974
Alex Holland (footballer)
1884 - 1933
Sonny Douglas
1884 - 1964
Ernie McDougall
1885 - 1963
Sydney Patterson
1882 - 1960
Harry Farnsworth
1885 - 1960
Billy Miller (Australian footballer)
1884 - 1970
Herbert Moore
1888 - 1972
Bob Strachan (footballer, born 1886)
1886 - 1927
Bill Gillespie (footballer)
1887 - 1927
Percy King
1889 - 1967
Jim McKean (footballer)
1884 - 1936
Arthur Legge (footballer)
1881 - 1941
Eddie Prescott
1880 - 1919
Jack Julian
1885 - 1933
Arthur Ferguson (footballer)
1887 - 1969
Charlie Cameron (footballer, born 1886)
1886 - 1957
Lon Smith
1886 - 1959
Mick English
1882 - 1937
Ray Whitford
1889 - 1970
Jack Cockbill
1880 - 1944
Percy Smith (Australian footballer)
1887 - 1974
Tom Moloughney (footballer)
1888 - 1977
Alby Sheehan
1887 - 1954
Percival Heather
1882 - 1956
Thomas Horan (cricketer, born 1886)
1886 - 1952
Jack Borthwick (Australian footballer)
1884 - 1948
Claude Massey
1889 - 1968
Jack Richardson (footballer, born 1886)
Born 1886
Mick Mornane
1886 - 1939
Alby Hosking
1885 - 1953
Vin Hannaford
1885 - 1919
James Jakins
1886 - 1948
Tom Handley (Australian footballer)
1885 - 1948
Stanley Walpole
1886 - 1968
Charles Barber (brigadier)
1888 - 1965
Ted Edwards (footballer)
1883 - 1970
Robert Junor
1888 - 1957
Dave Garlick
1887 - 1964
George Truman
1886 - 1955
Gerald Healy
1885 - 1946
James Ainslie (cricketer)
1880 - 1953
Walter McDonald (cricketer)
1884 - 1955
Pitre Desmazeures
1880 - 1942
Harold Hart (cricketer)
1889 - 1953
Tex Richards
1889 - 1918
Stella Marks
1887 - 1985
William Reeves (cricketer)
1881 - 1962
Gordon Johnstone (cricketer)
1885 - 1961
Edward Boulter
1886 - 1968
Llewellyn Thomas (Australian cricketer)
1883 - 1962
Edmund Carroll
1886 - 1959
Herbert Bracher
1886 - 1974
Norman Brown (cricketer)
1889 - 1962
Leslie Miller (cricketer)
1880 - 1963
Lee Braid
1888 - 1963
Ernest Spencer (cricketer)
1888 - 1953
Stanley Stephens (cricketer)
1883 - 1965
Robert Osborne (Victoria cricketer)
1881 - 1927
James Horan (cricketer)
1880 - 1945
Timothy Scannell
1882 - 1939
William Macrow
1889 - 1970
John Woodford (Australian cricketer)
1881 - 1949
Archibald Dean
1886 - 1939
William Rayson
1889 - 1957
Frederick Yeomans
1888 - 1965
Alfred Watson (cricketer)
1888 - 1957
George Reardon (cricketer)
1880 - 1932
Leonard McNaughton
1884 - 1970
Norman Speirs
1886 - 1960
Mortimer Hotchin
1889 - 1958
Charles Hendrie
Born 1886
Thomas Armstrong (Australian cricketer)
1889 - 1963
Arthur Lewis (Australian politician)
1882 - 1975
William McPetrie
1880 - 1951
Alex Finlay
1887 - 1963
Harry Massey
Born 1889
Bill Cody (rugby union)
1889 - 1968
Harvie Picken
Born 1888
Albert Charles Joyce
1886 - 1973
Frederick Francis (Australian politician)
1881 - 1949
George R. Barker
1881 - 1958