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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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John Eccles (neurophysiologist)
1903 - 1997
Bill Ponsford
1900 - 1991
Alan Villiers
1903 - 1982
Elisabeth Murdoch (philanthropist)
1909 - 2012
Donald Thomson
1901 - 1970
Jack Lindsay
1900 - 1990
Alec Coppel
1907 - 1972
Alfred Winslow Jones
1900 - 1989
Harry Bridges
1901 - 1990
Ian Smith (Scottish rugby player born 1903)
1903 - 1972
Dick Bentley
1907 - 1995
Godfrey Blunden
1906 - 1996
Ted à Beckett
1907 - 1989
Philip Crosbie Morrison
1900 - 1958
Carl Winter
1906 - 1966
Patrick Lyons
1903 - 1967
Richard Schlesinger (tennis)
Born 1900
Richard Lamb
1907 - 1974
Joss Ambler
1900 - 1959
Lum Pao-Hua
1906 - 1965
Roy Grounds
1905 - 1981
Norma Bull
1906 - 1980
Charlie Booth
1903 - 2008
Sydney James Van Pelt
1908 - 1976
Neva Carr Glyn
1908 - 1975
Marguerite Mahood
1901 - 1989
Alex Hillhouse
1907 - 1983
Gil Perkins
1907 - 1999
Cyril Pearl
1906 - 1987
Len Fox
1905 - 2004
William Whyte (athlete)
1903 - 1964
A. A. Phillips
1900 - 1985
Robert Broadbent
1904 - 1986
Frank Kitto
1903 - 1994
Arthur Robert Hogg
1903 - 1966
Édouard Vanzeveren
1905 - 1948
David Ross (aviator)
1902 - 1984
Hugh Syme (GC)
1903 - 1965
Alfred Stirling
1902 - 1981
John Aloysius Morgan
1909 - 2008
Melbourne Brindle
1904 - 1995
Jerry Skinner
1900 - 1962
Ronald McNicoll
1906 - 1996
Mavis Thorpe Clark
1909 - 1999
Sidney Ramsden
1901 - 1975
Noel Monks
1907 - 1960
J. M. Harcourt
1902 - 1971
Mildred Barnard
1908 - 2000
Audrey Cahn
1905 - 2008
Dan Mackinnon
1903 - 1983
Hector McIvor
1900 - 1992
Horrie Riley
1902 - 1970
Alex Buchanan (politician)
1905 - 1985
Frank Davis (Australian politician)
1900 - 1980
Robert Percival Cook
1906 - 1989
Bert Lawrence (footballer)
1902 - 1975
Lawrence Patrick Moran
1907 - 1970
Alfred White (politician)
1902 - 1987
Vin Batchelor
1900 - 1981
Lucille Lisle
1908 - 2004
Jack Robertson (footballer, born 1902)
1902 - 1972
Billy McAllister
1907 - 1984
Benjamin Salmon
1906 - 1979
Alfred Smith (Australian cricketer)
1908 - 1989
Ernest Austen
1900 - 1983
Hugh McClure Smith
1902 - 1961
Leonard Kemp
1909 - 2009
Arthur Dummett
1900 - 1968
Hugh Baring
1906 - 1968
Edwin Healy
1909 - 1995
James Makin
1904 - 1973
Arthur William Turner
1900 - 1989
Frank Courtnay
1903 - 1980
Robert Lawson (cricketer)
1901 - 1974
William Muir (cricketer)
1907 - 1964
Fred Jinks (cricketer)
1909 - 1996
Wilfred Deakin Brookes
1906 - 1997
Lester Wynne
1908 - 1980
Stuart Taylor (cricketer)
1900 - 1978
Alan McInnes
1907 - 1991
Jack Perraton
1909 - 1950
John Ledward
1909 - 1997
Clive Sindrey
1903 - 1981
Henry Kroger
1906 - 1987
Hec Oakley
1909 - 1998
Robert Nettleton
1909 - 1972
Charles Gardner (cricketer)
1908 - 2001
Harold Lansdown
1900 - 1957
Charles Morgan (Victoria cricketer)
1900 - 1965
Jack Cremean
1907 - 1982
Dennis Duigan
1902 - 1962
Frank Timson
1909 - 1960
Albert Ceen
1903 - 1976
Roo Dorr
1909 - 1961
Gordon Dickinson
1901 - 1991
Peggie Crombie
1901 - 1984