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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
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Arthur Christian (cricketer)
1877 - 1950
Leslie Miller (cricketer)
1880 - 1963
Lee Braid
1888 - 1963
Ernest Spencer (cricketer)
1888 - 1953
William Parker (New Zealand cricketer)
1862 - 1930
John Ellis (Australian cricketer)
1890 - 1974
Vincent Trapp
1861 - 1929
Stanley Stephens (cricketer)
1883 - 1965
Robert Osborne (Victoria cricketer)
1881 - 1927
George Meikle
1916 - 1991
Stuart Taylor (cricketer)
1900 - 1978
Albert Brown (Australian cricketer)
1890 - 1954
James Horan (cricketer)
1880 - 1945
Alan McInnes
1907 - 1991
Kenneth Walker (Australian cricketer)
Born 1941
Jack Perraton
1909 - 1950
Timothy Scannell
1882 - 1939
Neville West
1933 - 1987
Raymond Friend
1898 - 1991
Bert Wright (cricketer)
1926 - 1994
Walter Ingleton
1867 - 1923
Charles Letcher
1868 - 1916
Louis Goldsmith
1846 - 1911
William Macrow
1889 - 1970
John Ledward
1909 - 1997
John Woodford (Australian cricketer)
1881 - 1949
Ron Nicholls (cricketer, born 1951)
Born 1951
John Garland (cricketer)
1875 - 1938
Edward Goss (cricketer)
1875 - 1955
Robert Hosie (cricketer)
1858 - 1932
William Wilkinson (Australian cricketer)
1899 - 1974
William Perraton
1867 - 1952
Archibald Dean
1886 - 1939
Clive Sindrey
1903 - 1981
Harold Britt
1911 - 1988
Betty Maker
1925 - 2004
Richard Wallace (cricketer)
Born 1934
Stanley Rimington
1892 - 1991
Desmond Fitzmaurice
1917 - 1981
David Kerr (cricketer)
1923 - 1989
Bruce Vawser
1929 - 2004
Edward Vernon (Australian cricketer)
1911 - 1968
Henry Kroger
1906 - 1987
Keith Sarovich
1915 - 1987
Thomas Grant (cricketer)
1879 - 1934
Peter Gibaud
1892 - 1963
Francis Barnard (Australian cricketer)
1857 - 1932
Frank Deveney
1910 - 1998
William Rayson
1889 - 1957
Bryan McGan
1848 - 1894
Bartholomew Grant
Born 1876
Hec Oakley
1909 - 1998
Maxwell Rayson
1912 - 1993
Robert Nettleton
1909 - 1972
Thomas Rush (cricketer)
1874 - 1926
John Frederick (Australian cricketer)
Born 1910
Dudley Fitzmaurice
1913 - 2001
John Leehane (cricketer, born 1921)
1921 - 1991
Edward Gunston
1913 - 1991
Frederick Yeomans
1888 - 1965
Charles Gardner (cricketer)
1908 - 2001
Herbert Numa
1925 - 1984
Herbie Smith (cricketer)
1914 - 1997
Alfred Watson (cricketer)
1888 - 1957
George Reardon (cricketer)
1880 - 1932
Harold Lansdown
1900 - 1957
Leonard McNaughton
1884 - 1970
Robert Herring (cricketer)
1898 - 1964
Norman Speirs
1886 - 1960
Archibald Cargill
1853 - 1926
Charles Morgan (Victoria cricketer)
1900 - 1965
Mortimer Hotchin
1889 - 1958
Charles Hendrie
Born 1886
Walter Wedgwood
1912 - 1977
William McGirr
1859 - 1934
Thomas Armstrong (Australian cricketer)
1889 - 1963
Victor Nicholson
1892 - 1946
William McPetrie
1880 - 1951
Clifford Monohan
1896 - 1974
Nicola Puccio
Born 1971
John Jones (cricketer)
1899 - 1991
Robert Hewson
1893 - 1972
John Ramsden (cricketer)
1878 - 1973
Ernest Keogh
1869 - 1951
William Stokes (Victoria cricketer)
1857 - 1929
Charles Ross (Australian cricketer)
1863 - 1935
Peter Hosking (cricketer)
Born 1932
John Bridson
1863 - 1898