List of people from Ballarat
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This is a list of people from Ballarat. Those included are notable past or present inhabitants originating from, or associated with, the Australian regional city of Ballarat, Victoria.
- Leslie "Bull" Allen, soldier, recipient of the United States' Silver Star
- Georgia Amoore, basketball player
- Reg Ansett, businessman and founder of Ansett Transport Industries[1]
B
- Henry Bailey, Victorian Minister of Lands and Water Supply 1924–1932; born and educated in Ballarat[2]
- Robert Bath, Ballarat's first Olympian, competed in boxing
- Geoffrey Blainey, former professor at the University of Melbourne; former chair in Australian studies at Harvard University[3]
- Sir Henry Bolte, 38th premier of Victoria[4]
- Ray Borner, Australian Boomers basketball player and four-time Olympian[5]
- Steve Bracks, premier of Victoria[6]
- John Button, Federal Labor politician[7]
C
- Raffaello Carboni, author of an eyewitness account of the uprising at the Eureka Stockade[8]
- Marie Collier, operatic soprano[9]
- F. W. Commons, monumental mason[10]
- Susan Crennan, former justice of the High Court of Australia[9]
- Thomas Curnow, schoolteacher who prevented Ned Kelly's gang from derailing a police train
D
- Henry Daglish, premier of Western Australia[11][12]
- Jacqueline Dark, opera singer[13]
- David Davies, artist[14]
- Kimberley Davies, actress[citation needed]
- Bob Davis, Geelong Football Club champion[citation needed]
- Alfred Deakin, inaugural Federal member of Parliament for Ballarat; second prime minister of Australia[citation needed]
- Roger Donaldson, film producer, director, writer[citation needed]
- William Dunstan, Australian recipient of the Victoria Cross[9]
- Will Dyson, illustrator and political cartoonist
E
- Harold Elliott, major general of the Australian army (educated in Ballarat)
- Warren Ellis, musician, composer, member of Dirty Three, Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds, Grinderman; composed music for several movies, including The Proposition and The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford[citation needed]
F
- Frank Fenner, virologist[citation needed]
- David Fleay, naturalist, first breeder of the platypus[citation needed]
G
- Duncan Gillies, 14th premier of Victoria
H
- Clarice Halligan, nurse, and prisoner of war
- Eileen Healy, Sister of Mercy[15]
- Gertrude Healy, violinist, teacher, conductor
- David Hirschfelder, film score composer, performer
- David Hobson, opera singer
- Thomas Hollway, 36th premier of Victoria
- Keith Holman, rugby league player and coach
- Craig Revel Horwood, Australian-British dancer, choreographer, and theatre director in the United Kingdom; judge on Strictly Come Dancing
- Bill Hunter, actor[9]
- Bridget Hustwaite (born 1991), radio and television presenter, journalist and Endometriosis Australia ambassador[16]
I
- Bryce Ives, theatre maker, commentator, media producer, former Ballarat Young Person of the Year, director of the Federation University Arts Academy and Gippsland Centre of Art & Design
J
- William G. James, the ABC's first director of music[citation needed]
L
- Peter Lalor, leader of the Eureka Rebellion (1854); colonial Parliamentarian;[citation needed] author of The Story of the Eureka Stockade[citation needed]
- Frank Little, Catholic archbishop of Melbourne[citation needed]
- Tony Lockett, Australian Football League footballer, Brownlow Medallist and holder of the all-time goalkicking record.[17][18]
- Ted Lovett, Australian rules footballer[9]
- Arthur Alfred Lynch (1861–1934), son of John Lynch; engineer and journalist; a Boer colonel in the Boer War who fought with the Boers (1899–1900); sentenced to death for treason against the British in 1903, pardoned in 1907; elected in House of Commons in absentia by Irish in 1901 and 1909–1918; later became a medical doctor[19]
M
- Robyn Maher, basketball player[9]
- Michael Malthouse, former coach of Collingwood Football Club, Footscray Football Club and West Coast Football Club (AFL Premiership coach in 1992, 1994 and 2010)[20]
- Russell Mark, Olympic shooting gold medallist[21]
- Norm McLeod, footballer for Melbourne Football Club, 1897-1898[22]
- Sir Douglas Menzies, justice of the High Court of Australia[citation needed]
- Sir Robert Menzies, prime minister of Australia[citation needed]
- Steve Moneghetti, Olympic marathon runner[23]
- Elsie Morison, opera singer[citation needed]
- Leslie Morshead, general in the Australian Army;[24] Morshead Park is named after him[citation needed]
N
- Hilda Rix Nicholas, painter[25]
- David Noonan, artist; lives and works in London[26]
- Benjamin Northey, chief conductor of the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra[9]
O
- Alfred Arthur O'Connor, miner and politician[citation needed]
P
- Michelle Payne, 2015 Melbourne Cup winner[9]
- Cardinal George Pell, Catholic archbishop emeritus of Sydney[27]
- Drew Petrie, professional Australian rules footballer[citation needed]
R
- Rosina Raisbeck, opera singer[28]
- Shayne Reese, Olympic swimmer[9]
- Gwen Richardson, travel writer[29]
- Sir Macpherson Robertson, founder of confectionery company MacRobertson's (Freddo, Old Gold, Cherry Ripe)
- Alfred Ronalds, fly fishing author and artisan[30]
S
- Matthew Short, cricketer
- Nathan Spielvogel, author
- Cyril Staples, cricketer
- Henry Sutton, inventor[31]
T
- Jared Tallent, Olympian race walker[32]
- Luke Tonkin, actor[33]
V
- James Valentine, journalist[9]
W
- Hugh D.T. Williamson (1901–1985), banking executive and philanthropist
- Paul Wiltshire, record producer, songwriter and entrepreneur
