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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 1890s Clear ×
Mae Busch
1891 - 1946
Gerald Patterson
1895 - 1967
Frank Beaurepaire
1891 - 1956
Charles Ulm
1898 - 1934
Pat O'Hara Wood
1891 - 1961
Arthur Jeffery
1892 - 1959
Henry Wrigley
1892 - 1987
Florence Austral
1892 - 1968
Daniel Carroll (rugby union)
1892 - 1956
Mary Cecil Allen
1893 - 1962
Percy Cerutty
1895 - 1975
Mabel Brookes
1890 - 1975
Daphne Pollard
1892 - 1978
Lesbia Harford
1891 - 1927
Arthur O'Hara Wood
1890 - 1918
Maie Casey, Baroness Casey
1892 - 1983
Denis Browne (surgeon)
1892 - 1967
Ethel Spowers
1890 - 1947
John Treloar (museum administrator)
1894 - 1952
Percy Joske
1895 - 1981
Madge Garland
1898 - 1990
Arthur Ferdinand Yencken
1894 - 1944
Molly Fink
1894 - 1967
Ian Fairbairn
1896 - 1968
Maurice Buckley
1891 - 1921
Dorothy Brunton
1890 - 1977
Doris Gordon
1890 - 1956
Cyril Seelenmeyer
1892 - 1918
Harry Rigby (aviator)
1896 - 1972
Rupert Wertheim
1893 - 1933
Clarrie Hall
1890 - 1976
Laurie Brady
1895 - 1944
Giles Chippindall
1893 - 1969
Charlie Laxton
1890 - 1964
Adrian Farmer
1895 - 1964
Allan Hepburn
1896 - 1975
Frank Baker (actor)
1892 - 1980
Ted McNamara
1894 - 1928
George Lingham
1898 - 1982
Edwin Corboy
1896 - 1950
Sam Mortimer
1892 - 1967
Dan Keily
1892 - 1967
Billy Mitchell (rugby)
1890 - 1959
Alan William Greenwood
1897 - 1981
George King (Australian footballer)
1892 - 1976
Wally Gant
1890 - 1957
John "Snowy" Cutmore
1895 - 1927
Arthur Smith (public servant)
1893 - 1971
Arthur Liddicut
1891 - 1983
Alan Davidson (cricketer, born 1897)
1897 - 1962
Nina Speight
1890 - 1965
Leslie Ferguson
1892 - 1957
Albert Lansdown
1897 - 1979
Edward Tolhurst
1895 - 1982
Norris Conradi
1890 - 1928
Leslie Keating
1891 - 1962
Walter Delves
1891 - 1955
Albert Shugg
1894 - 1941
John Ellis (Australian cricketer)
1890 - 1974
Albert Brown (Australian cricketer)
1890 - 1954
Raymond Friend
1898 - 1991
Ellen Balaam
1891 - 1985
William Wilkinson (Australian cricketer)
1899 - 1974
Stanley Rimington
1892 - 1991
Peter Gibaud
1892 - 1963
Robert Herring (cricketer)
1898 - 1964
Victor Nicholson
1892 - 1946
Clifford Monohan
1896 - 1974
Jack Hazlitt
1897 - 1993
John Jones (cricketer)
1899 - 1991
Robert Hewson
1893 - 1972
Bill Hegney
1896 - 1982
Maurice Parish
1890 - 1980
Ted Peters (politician)
1897 - 1980
Alexander Dennett
1894 - 1956
Leon Snider
1897 - 1965
Evan Davies (Western Australian politician)
1892 - 1963