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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 Gorton
1911 - 2002
Coral Browne
1913 - 1991
Zelman Cowen
1919 - 2011
Wilfred Burchett
1911 - 1983
Alan Moorehead
1910 - 1983
Paul Brickhill
1916 - 1991
George Turner (writer)
1916 - 1997
Manning Clark
1915 - 1991
Noel Counihan
1913 - 1986
Charles Birch
1918 - 2009
Peggy Glanville-Hicks
1912 - 1990
Elyne Mitchell
1913 - 2002
George Johnston (novelist)
1912 - 1970
Nancye Wynne Bolton
1916 - 2001
B. A. Santamaria
1915 - 1998
Bruce Kingsbury
1918 - 1942
Rupert Hamer
1916 - 2004
Eric Smith (artist)
1919 - 2017
Hugh Scanlon
1913 - 2004
Maisie Carr
1912 - 1988
John Burton (diplomat)
1915 - 2010
Lloyd Lamble
1914 - 2008
Colin Long (tennis)
1918 - 2009
Mary Maguire
1919 - 1974
Dorian Le Gallienne
1915 - 1963
Robert Jackson (UN administrator)
1911 - 1991
Grahame King
1915 - 2008
Don Charlwood
1915 - 2012
Lloyd James Austin
1915 - 1994
Wilbur Norman Christiansen
1913 - 2007
Murray Tyrrell
1913 - 1994
John Billings
1918 - 2007
Albert Tucker (artist)
1914 - 1999
Edward Fiennes-Clinton, 18th Earl of Lincoln
1913 - 2001
Athol Shmith
1914 - 1990
Edward Slater
1917 - 2016
John Manifold
1915 - 1985
Hector Crawford
1913 - 1991
Jock Sturrock
1915 - 1997
Wilga Rivers
1919 - 2007
Thelma Scott
1913 - 2006
Bernard Callinan
1913 - 1995
Doris Carter
1912 - 1999
A. G. L. Shaw
1916 - 2012
Keith Smith (writer)
1917 - 2011
Jim McClelland
1915 - 1999
Tom Critchley
1916 - 2009
Michael Keon
1918 - 2006
Glen Cooper
1915 - 1986
Ian Dougald McLachlan
1911 - 1991
Peggy Antonio
1917 - 2002
Gwen Gaze
1915 - 2010
Joan Winfield
1918 - 1978
Charlotte Anderson
1915 - 2002
Klytie Pate
1912 - 2010
Frank Curcio
1912 - 1988
Dymphna Clark
1916 - 2000
Alan Moore (war artist)
1914 - 2015
H. M. Knight
1917 - 2015
L. Scott Pendlebury
1914 - 1986
Sam Calder
1916 - 2008
Gordon Neil Stewart
1912 - 1999
Douglas Buxton
1917 - 1984
Keith Aickin
1916 - 1982
Hugh Ennor
1912 - 1977
Marjorie Tipping
1917 - 2009
Keith Stackpole (footballer)
1916 - 1992
Francis Hamilton Stuart
1912 - 2007
John Young (jurist)
1919 - 2008
George Caddy
1914 - 1983
David Zeidler
1918 - 1998
Jack Harper (tennis)
1914 - 2005
Nancy Weir
1915 - 2008
Ron Barassi Sr.
1913 - 1941
Mervyn Austin
1913 - 1991
Lewis Luxton
1910 - 1969
Alan Jolly
1910 - 1977
Allan Percy Fleming
1912 - 2001
William Wilson (cricketer, born 1912)
Born 1912
Jack Crane
1913 - 1974
Robert Menzies (cricketer)
1916 - 1983
Veronica Seton-Williams
1910 - 1992
Ted Hill (Australian communist)
1915 - 1988
Charles Kennedy Comans
1914 - 2012
Nancy Atkinson
1910 - 1999
Albert Lloyd George Rees
1916 - 1989
Barry Scott (cricketer)
1916 - 1984
Frank Roberts (Australian politician)
1913 - 1992
Madeleine Orr
1914 - 1979
E. W. Tipping
1915 - 1970
William Sambell
1910 - 1974
Jack Bennett (footballer, born 1910)
1910 - 1975
Lorna Volare
1911 - 1998
Tom Re
1913 - 1996
John Rush
1910 - 1982
Tom McMahon (footballer, born 1918)
1918 - 2005
Alan Blair
1915 - 1991
Frances Bult
1913 - 2008
Lindsay McNamara
1918 - 1991
Alan Lavers
1912 - 1995
Ginty Lush
1913 - 1985
Harry Fletcher (politician)
1910 - 1990
Lorna McConchie
1914 - 2001
Ivan Miller
1913 - 1966
Ron Fitch
1910 - 2015
Ernie Crossan
1915 - 2009
William Cornelius (cricketer)
1915 - 2005
Hugh Lambie
1917 - 2012
John Ryland
1911 - 1973
Clive Fairbairn
1919 - 2010
Eddy Williams
1915 - 2008
Norman Blundell
1917 - 2005
Jean Laby
1915 - 2008
Stanley Smith (cricketer)
1910 - 1984
Robert Dempster
1915 - 1974
William Cockburn (Australian cricketer)
1916 - 2004
John Watmuff
1915 - 1972
Everard Baker
1913 - 1987
George Newstead
1910 - 2000
Roy Gardner (cricketer)
1914 - 2004
Frederick Fontaine
1912 - 1982
George Logie-Smith
1914 - 2007
Robert Crichton-Brown
1919 - 2013
Allan Jinks
1913 - 1997
Len Junor
1914 - 2005
John Stanes
1910 - 1997
George Meikle
1916 - 1991
Harold Britt
1911 - 1988
Desmond Fitzmaurice
1917 - 1981
Edward Vernon (Australian cricketer)
1911 - 1968
Keith Sarovich
1915 - 1987
Frank Deveney
1910 - 1998
Maxwell Rayson
1912 - 1993
John Frederick (Australian cricketer)
Born 1910
Dudley Fitzmaurice
1913 - 2001
Edward Gunston
1913 - 1991
Max Fox
1912 - 1988
Herbie Smith (cricketer)
1914 - 1997
Les Norman (politician)
1913 - 1997
Horrie Garrick
1918 - 1982
Kitty Mackay
1915 - 1974
Walter Wedgwood
1912 - 1977
Joan Streeter
1918 - 1993
Keith Dowding (activist)
1911 - 2008
David Brookman (Australian politician)
1917 - 2000
Peter Thonemann (physicist)
1917 - 2018
Kevin Thomas Kelly
1910 - 1994
Phyllis Piddington
1910 - 2001
Ade Monsbourgh
1917 - 2006