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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 1930s Clear ×
Rupert Murdoch
Born 1931
Germaine Greer
Born 1939
Barry Humphries
Born 1934
Daevid Allen
1938 - 2015
Ron Clarke
1937 - 2015
Fred Schepisi
Born 1939
Helen Caldicott
Born 1938
Zoe Caldwell
1933 - 2020
Barry Tuckwell
1931 - 2020
Graham Kennedy
1934 - 2005
Ashley Cooper (tennis)
1936 - 2020
Peter Nicholls (writer)
1939 - 2018
Geoffrey Blainey
Born 1930
Gerald Murnane
Born 1939
Andrew Peacock
Born 1939
Pam Kilborn
Born 1939
Judy Tegart-Dalton
Born 1937
Peter Sykes (director)
1939 - 2006
Ted Ringwood
1930 - 1993
Colin Brumby
1933 - 2018
John Truscott
1936 - 1993
Ian Smith (actor)
Born 1938
Michael Rubbo
Born 1938
Brian Howe (politician)
Born 1936
Philip K. Chapman
Born 1935
James Gobbo
Born 1931
Paul Hawkins (racing driver)
1937 - 1969
Lewis Fiander
1938 - 2016
Max Collie
1931 - 2018
Max Bennett (scientist)
Born 1939
Geoffrey Harcourt
Born 1931
Cliff Green
Born 1934
Robert J. O'Neill
Born 1936
Ian Browne (cyclist)
Born 1931
Ross Terrill
Born 1938
Jenny Staley Hoad
Born 1934
Fay Zwicky
1933 - 2017
Jack Hirsh
Born 1935
Max Coltheart
Born 1939
Brian Naylor (broadcaster)
1931 - 2009
William Delafield Cook
1936 - 2015
John Carmichael (composer)
Born 1930
Gordon Scholes
1931 - 2018
Ron Baensch
1939 - 2017
Gordon Moyes
1938 - 2015
Diane Holland
1930 - 2009
Colin Ridgway
1937 - 1993
Ian Sloan
Born 1938
Keith Campbell (motorcyclist)
1931 - 1958
Clyde Holding
1931 - 2011
Richard Leplastrier
Born 1939
Russell Hagg
Born 1938
Ralph Willis
Born 1938
John Cain (junior)
1931 - 2019
Carmen Callil
Born 1938
Jill Perryman
Born 1933
John-Michael Howson
Born 1936
Barbara Angell
Born 1935
Brian Brown (musician)
1933 - 2013
Adrienne Clarke
Born 1938
Jan Adele
1936 - 2000
John Fraser (tennis)
Born 1935
Ron Walker (Australian businessman)
1939 - 2018
Lindsay Kline
1934 - 2015
Brian Doyle (rower)
1930 - 2008
Robin Ramsay (actor)
Born 1937
Michael Atchison
1933 - 2009
Gareth Sansom
Born 1939
Jim Nevin
1931 - 2017
Joseph Peter O'Connell
1931 - 2013
Dvora Waysman
Born 1931
Peter Cummins
Born 1931
Brian Tobin (tennis)
Born 1930
Marshall Browne
1935 - 2014
Noel Ferrier
1930 - 1997
Jocelyn Newman
1937 - 2018
Terry Norris (actor)
Born 1930
Anne Penfold Street
1932 - 2016
Raymond Apple (rabbi)
Born 1935
John Baker (general)
1936 - 2007
Colin Guest
1937 - 2018
Robert Rooney
1937 - 2017
Hugh Wirth
1939 - 2018
David Smith (public servant)
Born 1933
John Bryson (author)
Born 1935
John Harber Phillips
1933 - 2009
Celia Rosser
Born 1930
Gil Brealey
1932 - 2018
Wayne Reid
Born 1938
Bill Wyatt
Born 1938
Barry Kay
1932 - 1985
Daryl Dawson
Born 1933
Robin Wallace-Crabbe
Born 1938
Goldie Alexander
1936 - 2020
Barry Oakley
Born 1931
Peter Connors
Born 1937
Brian Kavanagh (filmmaker)
Born 1935
Bob Irwin
Born 1939
James Anderson (cricketer, born 1931)
Born 1931
Wendy Paramor
1938 - 1975
Bob Gardiner (racewalker)
Born 1936
Peter Scriven
1930 - 1998
John Abley
1930 - 2011
Graham Wood (field hockey)
Born 1936
Alex Castles
1933 - 2003
Frank Costigan
1931 - 2009
Ray Jordon
1937 - 2012
Jon Finlayson
1938 - 2012
Dale Hickey
Born 1937
Pete Smith (announcer)
Born 1939
Noel Tovey
Born 1934
Padraic McGuinness
1938 - 2008
Rosemary Crowley
Born 1938
Philip Brady (broadcaster)
Born 1939
Beverley Dunn
Born 1934
Barry Gration
Born 1936
Miriam Dixson
Born 1930
Ewen Cameron (Australian politician)
Born 1930
Rosemary Balmford
1933 - 2017
Keith Wiegard
1938 - 1992
Terence James Elkins
Born 1936
John Spencer (boat designer)
1931 - 1996
Tony Staley
Born 1939
Barbara Worley
1934 - 2014
Norman Fisher (public servant)
1936 - 1997
Adrian Swan
1932 - 2006
Donald Laycock (artist)
Born 1931
Graham Harris
Born 1937
Stewart McArthur
Born 1937
Alastair Nicholson
Born 1938
David Bilcock
1937 - 2009
Murray Carter
Born 1931
Ian Cameron (politician)
Born 1938
John Dwyer (medicine)
Born 1939
Nigel Buesst
Born 1938
John Carmody
1938 - 1985
Cliff Ellen
Born 1936
Peter O'Sullivan (Australian footballer)
1932 - 1972
Jack Collins (umpire)
Born 1932
Mick McLaren (footballer)
1936 - 2014
Dawn Lawrie
Born 1938
Margaret Ray (Australian politician)
1933 - 2017
Anthony Kyle Irvine
Born 1937
Jeremy Barrett (artist)
Born 1936
Keith Kirby
Born 1939
Ron Grenda
Born 1938
Neil Street
1931 - 2011
Adrienne Stewart
Born 1936
Ray Isherwood
1938 - 2014
Peter Anderson (cricketer, born 1933)
Born 1933
Trevor Hart
Born 1935
Roger Shipton
1936 - 1998
Gary O'Callaghan
1933 - 2017
Bruce Lloyd
Born 1937
Kevin White (darts player)
1938 - 2015
Irvin Rockman
1938 - 2010
Peter Costigan
1935 - 2002
Ian Huntington
Born 1931
Ian Langford
1936 - 2017
Paul Grundy (engineer)
1935 - 2013
Graham Whitford
Born 1938
Geoffrey Longney
1935 - 2018
Jim Barry (general)
Born 1932
John Salvado
Born 1939
John Taylor (public servant)
1930 - 2011
David Cowper
Born 1939
Tony Messner
Born 1939
Norman Carlyon
Born 1938
Reg Libbis
1933 - 2009
Jim Plowman
1934 - 2007
Noel Shaw
1937 - 2017
Leslie Andersen
Born 1939
Marshall Baillieu
Born 1937
Arthur Dean (cricketer)
Born 1931
Arthur Day (Australian cricketer)
Born 1933
John Haslem
Born 1939
John Power (cricketer)
1932 - 2005
Richard Linton
Born 1935
John Sharpe
Born 1939
Robert Wade (watercolour artist)
Born 1930
Barry Simon (politician)
1936 - 2004
Peter Bailey (cricketer)
Born 1939
John B. Murray (filmmaker)
Born 1931
Bruce Laming
1938 - 2017
James Cosgrave (cricketer)
Born 1932
John Martyr
Born 1932
John Wildsmith (cricketer)
Born 1939
Rex Harry
1936 - 2019
Les Botham
1930 - 1999
Lewis Germaine
1935 - 1992
Thomas Crow (cricketer)
Born 1931
Ainslie Sheil
Born 1933
John Forsberg
Born 1932
Fred Grimwade
1933 - 1989
Neville West
1933 - 1987
Richard Wallace (cricketer)
Born 1934
Roger Johnston
1930 - 2020
Bernard Rooney
Born 1934
Peter Brockhoff
Born 1936
Austin Lewis (politician)
Born 1932
John Nicholas (Eishockeyspieler)
Born 1936
Judy Forras
Born 1932
John Thomas (Eishockeyspieler)
1936 - 1995
Peter Hosking (cricketer)
Born 1932
David McKenzie (Victorian politician)
Born 1933
Roger Sellers
Born 1939