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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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Ian Carnell
Born 1955
Noel Shaw
1937 - 2017
Peter Sacristani
Born 1957
Thomas Hastings (cricketer)
1865 - 1938
Leslie Andersen
Born 1939
Norman Blundell
1917 - 2005
James Ainslie (cricketer)
1880 - 1953
Stephen Hewitt
Born 1958
Eric Boulter
Born 1952
Glenn Simpson (field hockey)
Born 1987
Marshall Baillieu
Born 1937
Albert Lansdown
1897 - 1979
Mitchell Humphries
Born 1993
Jamie Bourke
Born 1991
Siobhan Austen
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Charles Allan Marris
1876 - 1947
David Knight (cricketer)
Born 1956
Edward Tolhurst
1895 - 1982
Norris Conradi
1890 - 1928
Thomas Perrin
Born 1928
Jean Laby
1915 - 2008
Stanley Smith (cricketer)
1910 - 1984
Ronald Walker (cricketer)
1926 - 2011
Rebecca Thoresen
Born 1978
Hugh Doherty (pentathlete)
1940 - 2006
Bruce Tozer
Born 1926
Russell Sincock
Born 1947
Tom Tuttle
1920 - 1997
Leonard Balcam
Born 1957
Robert Dempster
1915 - 1974
Bruce Moir
Born 1960
William Carlton (cricketer)
1876 - 1959
Arthur Dean (cricketer)
Born 1931
John Edwards (cricketer, born 1928)
1928 - 2002
Michael Foster (cricketer, born 1973)
Born 1973
William Cockburn (Australian cricketer)
1916 - 2004
Edwin Healy
1909 - 1995
Glyn Roberts
Born 1982
James Makin
1904 - 1973
William Gove
1922 - 1943
Walter McDonald (cricketer)
1884 - 1955
David Sutherland (cricketer)
1873 - 1971
Geoff Tamblyn
Born 1949
Stacy Christakakis
Born 1964
Arthur Day (Australian cricketer)
Born 1933
John Haslem
Born 1939
Rohan Larkin
Born 1969
Nathan Morton
Born 1978
John Power (cricketer)
1932 - 2005
Alcon Bowman
1862 - 1938
Eric Shade (cricketer)
Born 1943
Bob Blacklock
1865 - 1897
Grant Gardiner
Born 1965
Richard Kelly (Australian cricketer)
1870 - 1941
Pitre Desmazeures
1880 - 1942
Robert Blair (cricketer)
1858 - 1912
Valerio Ciccone
Born 1970
Isaac Hopkins
1870 - 1913
Louise Natoli
Born 1979
Jack Green (cricketer)
1921 - 2005
Richard Linton
Born 1935
Harold Hart (cricketer)
1889 - 1953
James Drew (cricketer)
1872 - 1944
James Brooke (DJ)
Born 1986
John Sharpe
Born 1939
Arthur William Turner
1900 - 1989
John Watmuff
1915 - 1972
Frank Courtnay
1903 - 1980
Robert Wade (watercolour artist)
Born 1930
Barry Simon (politician)
1936 - 2004
Alan Doble
Born 1942
Frane Vladislavić
Born 1994
Ian Upjohn
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Frederick Delves
1876 - 1944
Jaynie Anderson
-
Stoddart Campbell
1846 - 1903
Tex Richards
1889 - 1918
Peter Bailey (cricketer)
Born 1939
John B. Murray (filmmaker)
Born 1931
Steve McCooke
Born 1960
Paul Lake (cyclist)
Born 1970
Stella Marks
1887 - 1985
Bruce Laming
1938 - 2017
James Cosgrave (cricketer)
Born 1932
Barry Stevens (cricketer)
Born 1929
John Watters (cricketer)
1924 - 2006
Tamara Saulwick
Born 1966
Harry Freeman (cricketer)
1860 - 1933
Everard Baker
1913 - 1987
William Reeves (cricketer)
1881 - 1962
Brett Reid
Born 1976
Leslie Keating
1891 - 1962
Patrick Deely
1864 - 1925
John Mallard (cricketer)
1860 - 1935
Matt Viney
Born 1954
Robert Lawson (cricketer)
1901 - 1974
George Newstead
1910 - 2000
Herbert Parsons (cricketer)
1875 - 1937
Brent Lodding
Born 1973
Isaac Isaacs (mayor)
1858 - 1935
William Muir (cricketer)
1907 - 1964
Denis Cotter (cricketer)
1862 - 1905
Fred Jinks (cricketer)
1909 - 1996
Gordon Johnstone (cricketer)
1885 - 1961
John Martyr
Born 1932
William McCormack (cricketer)
1877 - 1946
Daniel Noonan (cricketer)
1873 - 1910
Douglas Rolfe
1953 - 2020
Willie Over
1862 - 1910
Henry Hetherington (cricketer)
1874 - 1950
Walter Delves
1891 - 1955
Sandra Tomlinson
Born 1947
Roy Gardner (cricketer)
1914 - 2004
John Wildsmith (cricketer)
Born 1939
John Leehane (cricketer, born 1950)
Born 1950
Daniel Wilkie
1843 - 1917
Edward Boulter
1886 - 1968
Rex Harry
1936 - 2019
Frederick Fontaine
1912 - 1982
George Logie-Smith
1914 - 2007
Lindsay Davison
Born 1941
Wilfred Deakin Brookes
1906 - 1997
Les Botham
1930 - 1999
Charles Peryman
1872 - 1950
Llewellyn Thomas (Australian cricketer)
1883 - 1962
Arthur Kenny
1878 - 1934
Robert Crichton-Brown
1919 - 2013
Adam Quick
Born 1981
Allan Jinks
1913 - 1997
John Diedrich
Born 1953
Albert Shugg
1894 - 1941
David Harris (Australian cricketer)
Born 1966
Graham Brown (Australian cricketer)
Born 1944
Ashley Robertson (cricketer)
Born 1972
Lester Wynne
1908 - 1980
James Giller
1870 - 1947
Edmund Carroll
1886 - 1959
Lewis Germaine
1935 - 1992
Thomas Crow (cricketer)
Born 1931
Brian Harper (engineer)
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Albert Geddes
1871 - 1935
Arthur Lovett
1920 - 1990
Herbert Bracher
1886 - 1974
Gratton Wilson
1863 - 1948
Len Junor
1914 - 2005
Thomas Austin (cricketer)
1857 - 1941
John Stanes
1910 - 1997
Norman Brown (cricketer)
1889 - 1962
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
Robert Richardson (RAAF officer)
Born 1941
Modesto Della Rosa
Born 1959
Stanley Stephens (cricketer)
1883 - 1965
Robert Osborne (Victoria cricketer)
1881 - 1927
Ainslie Sheil
Born 1933
George Meikle
1916 - 1991
Stuart Taylor (cricketer)
1900 - 1978
Tim Ward (skater)
Born 1978
Albert Brown (Australian cricketer)
1890 - 1954
John Forsberg
Born 1932
James Horan (cricketer)
1880 - 1945
Alan McInnes
1907 - 1991
Samantha Hamilton
Born 1973
Kenneth Walker (Australian cricketer)
Born 1941
Vitori Buatava
Born 1985
Jack Perraton
1909 - 1950
Fred Grimwade
1933 - 1989
Timothy Scannell
1882 - 1939
Patrick Roberts (violinist)
Born 1978
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
Sue McKenzie
Born 1950
John Garland (cricketer)
1875 - 1938
Edward Goss (cricketer)
1875 - 1955
Robert Hosie (cricketer)
1858 - 1932
Ellen Balaam
1891 - 1985
William Wilkinson (Australian cricketer)
1899 - 1974
William Perraton
1867 - 1952
Archibald Dean
1886 - 1939
Bruce Taafe
1944 - 2018
Clive Sindrey
1903 - 1981
Harold Britt
1911 - 1988
Betty Maker
1925 - 2004
Richard Wallace (cricketer)
Born 1934
Stanley Rimington
1892 - 1991
Sean Jones (Eishockeyspieler)
Born 1985
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
Peter Falconer
Born 1943
Peter Hamilton Bailey
Born 1927
Danielle Whalebone
Born 1984
Orfeo Cecconato
Born 1969
Amanda Fosang
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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
Jeremy Rapke
-
Michael Leighton (politician)
1954 - 2014
Todd Finlay
Born 1981
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
Max Fox
1912 - 1988
Gun Arvidssen
Born 1977
Ernest James Stevens
1845 - 1922
Charles Gardner (cricketer)
1908 - 2001
Danielle Matthews
Born 1983
Herbert Numa
1925 - 1984
Herbie Smith (cricketer)
1914 - 1997
Les Norman (politician)
1913 - 1997
Alfred Watson (cricketer)
1888 - 1957
Helena Dix
Born 1979
George Reardon (cricketer)
1880 - 1932
Max Oldmeadow
1924 - 2013
Alan Reiher
1927 - 2003
Harold Lansdown
1900 - 1957
Charles Elliott Perry
1871 - 1937
Andy Thorpe
1929 - 2010
Leonard McNaughton
1884 - 1970
Robert Herring (cricketer)
1898 - 1964
Stuart Ewin
Born 1967
Roger Johnston
1930 - 2020
John Jennings (Australian politician)
1878 - 1968
Ingrid Dick
Born 1972
Horrie Garrick
1918 - 1982
Ted Innes
1925 - 2010
Norman Speirs
1886 - 1960
David Graham (cestista)
Born 1965
Archibald Cargill
1853 - 1926
Ian Kennison
1920 - 2000
Charles Morgan (Victoria cricketer)
1900 - 1965
Mortimer Hotchin
1889 - 1958
Charles Hendrie
Born 1886
Jack Cremean
1907 - 1982
Kitty Mackay
1915 - 1974
Bernard Rooney
Born 1934
Walter Wedgwood
1912 - 1977
William McGirr
1859 - 1934
Anne Lynch (artist)
Born 1956
Noel McLoughlin (Eishockeyspieler)
Born 1929
Steve Gibbons (politician)
Born 1949
Thomas Armstrong (Australian cricketer)
1889 - 1963
Allison Burton
-
Andrew Martin (athlete)
Born 1980
Arthur Lewis (Australian politician)
1882 - 1975
Victor Nicholson
1892 - 1946
William McPetrie
1880 - 1951
Clifford Monohan
1896 - 1974
Antony Guss
Born 1959
Janet Hiller
Born 1953
Joan Streeter
1918 - 1993
Peter Brockhoff
Born 1936
Jack Hazlitt
1897 - 1993
Adrian Hatcher
Born 1970
Austin Lewis (politician)
Born 1932
Nicola Puccio
Born 1971
Alistair Guss
Born 1965
Sheona Urquhart
-
Rod Oliver
1922 - 2005
Nathan Murphy (Australian politician)
Born 1977
John Nicholas (Eishockeyspieler)
Born 1936
John Jones (cricketer)
1899 - 1991
Terry Sargeant
Born 1946
Bob Johnston (economist)
Born 1924
Brendan Gullifer
Born 1959
Noel Pullen
Born 1944
Robert Hewson
1893 - 1972
John Ramsden (cricketer)
1878 - 1973
Alex Finlay
1887 - 1963
Samuel Dennis
1870 - 1945
Aaron Kleinschmidt
Born 1989
Simon Brown (skier)
Born 1942
Ernest Keogh
1869 - 1951