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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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David Malet Armstrong
1926 - 2014
Frank Thring
1926 - 1994
George Batchelor
1920 - 2000
Russell Mockridge
1928 - 1958
Leon Mestel
1927 - 2017
June Newton
Born 1923
Laurie Main
1922 - 2012
Don Banks
1923 - 1980
Tony Gaze
1920 - 2013
Don Chipp
1925 - 2006
Noel Mewton-Wood
1922 - 1953
Douglas Gamley
1924 - 1998
Norman Kaye
1927 - 2007
Sid Patterson
1927 - 1999
Clement Meadmore
1929 - 2005
Patricia Shaw (novelist)
Born 1928
Leonie Kramer
1924 - 2016
Judy-Joy Davies
1928 - 2016
Eric D'Arcy
1924 - 2005
Denis Vaughan
1926 - 2017
Joy Hester
1920 - 1960
Edward J. Hannan
1921 - 1994
Patricia Lascelles, Countess of Harewood
1926 - 2018
Moya O'Sullivan
1926 - 2018
Peter Benjamin Graham
1925 - 1987
Paul England
1929 - 2014
Lenton Parr
1924 - 2003
Nancy Millis
1922 - 2012
Betty Wilson
1921 - 2010
Stephen Murray-Smith
1922 - 1988
Frank Armitage
1924 - 2016
John Sangster
1928 - 1995
Anthony Coburn
1927 - 1977
Ken Hannam
1929 - 2004
Norma Redpath
1928 - 2013
Desmond O'Grady
Born 1929
Jocelyn Rickards
1924 - 2005
Ken Kavanagh
1923 - 2019
Michael Parker (courtier)
1920 - 2002
Tony Street
Born 1926
Vern Barberis
1928 - 2005
Norman Greenwood
1925 - 2012
John Ewart
1928 - 1994
Pierre Gorman
1924 - 2006
Alan Stretton
1922 - 2012
Hugh Stretton
1924 - 2015
Patsy King
Born 1929
Thomas R. Kaiser
1924 - 1998
Jeff Carter (photographer)
1928 - 2010
Veronica Brady
1929 - 2015
Ken Inglis
1929 - 2017
Lex Davison
1923 - 1965
Marjorie Pizer
1920 - 2016
Glen Tomasetti
1929 - 2003
Bruce Gyngell
1929 - 2000
Pat McDonald (actress)
1921 - 1990
Peter Ryan (columnist)
1923 - 2015
James Birrell
1928 - 2019
Norman May
1928 - 2016
Frank Gatliff
1927 - 1990
Marie Toomey
1923 - 2014
Randi Fisher
1920 - 1997
Peter McIntyre (architect)
Born 1927
Franz Kempf
Born 1926
James Catanach
1921 - 1944
Basil Hansen
1926 - 2015
Jennie Boddington
1922 - 2015
David Hamer
1923 - 2002
John Molony
1927 - 2018
Ron Casey (Melbourne broadcaster)
1927 - 2000
Joyce Evans (photographer)
1929 - 2019
Devereaux Mytton
1924 - 1989
Alan Missen
1925 - 1986
Francis Peter de Campo
1923 - 1998
Peter Cook (antiques)
1924 - 2003
June Middleton
1926 - 2009
John Fethers
1929 - 2010
Ken Meuleman
1923 - 2004
Deirdre Cash
1925 - 1963
Joe Kirkwood Jr.
1920 - 2006
Geoffrey Yeend
1927 - 1994
George Bedbrook
1921 - 1991
Bryan Fairfax
1925 - 2014
Raymond Martin (academic)
1926 - 2020
Robert Southey (businessman)
1922 - 1998
Ken Scarlett
Born 1927
John Siddons
1927 - 2016
Concetta Benn
1926 - 2011
R. A. Simpson
1929 - 2002
Brian Harrison (Conservative politician)
1921 - 2011
Keith Holman
1927 - 2011
Geoff Heskett
Born 1929
Greg Tegart
Born 1929
Allan Ashbolt
1921 - 2005
Donald Allen (cricketer)
1926 - 2008
Billy "The Texan" Longley
1926 - 2014
Harold Bray
1920 - 1999
Harold Trevor Clifford
1927 - 2019
Jack Blackman
1920 - 1978
Ivan Lund
1929 - 1992
Arthur Mather
1925 - 2017
Ray Garby
1923 - 2009
William Cole (public servant)
1926 - 2019
Harold Shillinglaw
1927 - 2016
John Jess
1922 - 2003
Ron Allan
1924 - 1997
Meir Ronnen
1926 - 2009
Albert Prior
1921 - 1971
Willie Fraser (footballer)
1929 - 1996
Bruce Arthur
1921 - 1998
Norm Oliver (footballer, born 1922)
1922 - 1944
Ken Newton
1924 - 2006
Ivan Hutchinson
1928 - 1995
Alan Olle
1924 - 2004
Alan Jarman
1923 - 1992
Richard A. Reyment
1926 - 2016
David Roderick Curtis
1927 - 2017
Es Downey
1923 - 2011
Mike Woods (Australian footballer)
1926 - 2017
Fay Marles
Born 1926
Walter Driver
1922 - 1994
Jack Grimsley
1925 - 2015
Bib Stillwell
1927 - 1999
Doug Jennings (politician)
1928 - 1987
Mick Sibun
1929 - 2011
Ken Wood (coach)
1929 - 2018
Rupert Myers
1921 - 2019
George Wilson (Australian footballer)
1920 - 2014
John Farrands
1921 - 1996
Frank Wilkes
1922 - 2015
Ken Bryant
1922 - 1990
Neil O'Reilly
1925 - 1985
Dick Bryar
1925 - 1968
Don Day
1924 - 2010
Kevin Sullivan (footballer)
1922 - 1972
Kevin Deagan
1923 - 1999
Phil Ryan (footballer, born 1925)
1925 - 1982
Harry Jenkins Sr.
1925 - 2004
Graham March
1925 - 2016
Paula Stafford
Born 1920
Neville Sayers
1927 - 2018
Vassilie Trunoff
1929 - 1985
Alfred Deakin Brookes
1920 - 2005
Kevin Miles
Born 1929
Len O'Shea
1920 - 2016
Roy Howard
1922 - 2008
Kevin Carmody
1925 - 2009
Lewis Carter
1925 - 2006
Geoffrey Cormack
Born 1929
Keith Kendall
Born 1929
Don Tregonning
Born 1928
Ronald Cecil Gates
1923 - 2018
Neil Smyth
1928 - 2017
Thomas Perrin
Born 1928
Ronald Walker (cricketer)
1926 - 2011
Bruce Tozer
Born 1926
Tom Tuttle
1920 - 1997
John Edwards (cricketer, born 1928)
1928 - 2002
William Gove
1922 - 1943
Jack Green (cricketer)
1921 - 2005
Barry Stevens (cricketer)
Born 1929
John Watters (cricketer)
1924 - 2006
Arthur Lovett
1920 - 1990
Bert Wright (cricketer)
1926 - 1994
Betty Maker
1925 - 2004
David Kerr (cricketer)
1923 - 1989
Bruce Vawser
1929 - 2004
Peter Hamilton Bailey
Born 1927
John Leehane (cricketer, born 1921)
1921 - 1991
Herbert Numa
1925 - 1984
Max Oldmeadow
1924 - 2013
Alan Reiher
1927 - 2003
Andy Thorpe
1929 - 2010
Ted Innes
1925 - 2010
Ian Kennison
1920 - 2000
Noel McLoughlin (Eishockeyspieler)
Born 1929
Rod Oliver
1922 - 2005
Bob Johnston (economist)
Born 1924
Keith Johnson (Australian politician)
1929 - 1995
Pam Hallandal
1929 - 2018
Linda Vogt
1922 - 2013
Tom Austin (politician)
1923 - 2002
Bill Brown (Australian politician)
1920 - 2001
Frank Cottle
1920 - 1992