List of people from Ballarat

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.

Contents

• A
• B
• C
• D
• E
• F
• G
• H
• I
• J
• K
• L
• M
• N
• O
• P
• Q
• R
• S
• T
• U
• V
• W
• X
• Y
• Z

A

• Georgia Amoore, basketball player
• Reginald Ansett, businessman and founder of Ansett Airways^[1]
• Leslie "Bull" Allen, Australian soldier and a recipient of the United States' Silver Star

B

• Henry Bailey, Victorian Minister of Lands and Water Supply 1924–1932; born and educated in Ballarat^[2]
• 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

• David Davies, artist^[11]
• Henry Daglish, Premier of Western Australia^[12][13]
• Jacqueline Dark, opera singer^[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.
• Edward Hardy, one of Ballarat's foremost mining experts; educated at Mt Egerton State School and worked in mining from 1869; managed many mines; president of the Ballarat Mine Managers' Association 1907–14; died in Ballarat in 1941^[15]
• Eileen Healy, an Australian Sister of Mercy^[16]
• Gertrude Healy, Australian 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
• Bridget Hustwaite (born 1991), radio and television presenter, journalist and Endometriosis Australia ambassador^[17]
• Bill Hunter, actor^[9]

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.^[18][19]
• 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^[20]

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)^[21]
• Russell Mark, Olympic shooting gold medallist^[22]
• Norm McLeod, Australian Footballer for Melbourne Football Club, 1897-1898^[23]
• 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^[24]
• Elsie Morison, opera singer^{[citation needed]}
• Leslie Morshead, General in the Australian Army;^[25] Morshead Park is named after him^{[citation needed]}

N

• Hilda Rix Nicholas, painter^[26]
• David Noonan, artist. Lives and works in London.^[27]
• Benjamin Northey, Chief Conductor of the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra^[9]

O

• James Oddie, (1824–1911), Ballarat pioneer, Responsible for the founding of; the Ballarat Fine at gallery and many of the works exhibited within, also principal founder of the Ballarat botanical gardens, first chairman of the Ballarat Municipal Council in 1856–58. built and equipped the Mount Pleasant Observatory. erected the Peter Lalor statue at the cost of £2200 in the main street of Ballarat. are amongst some of his achievements.
• 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^[28]
• Drew Petrie, professional Australian rules footballer^{[citation needed]}

R

• Rosina Raisbeck, opera singer^[29]
• Shayne Reese, Olympic swimmer^[9]
• Gwen Richardson, travel writer^[30]
• Sir Macpherson Robertson, founder of confectionery company MacRobertson's (Freddo, Old Gold, Cherry Ripe)
• Alfred Ronalds, fly fishing author and artisan^[31]

S

• Cyril Staples, cricketer
• Henry Sutton, inventor^[32]
• Nathan Spielvogel, author
• Matthew Short, cricketer

T

• Jared Tallent, Olympian race walker^[33]
• Luke Tonkin, actor^[34]

V

• James Valentine, journalist^[9]

W

• Hugh D.T. Williamson (1901–1985), banking executive and philanthropist
• Paul Wiltshire, Record Producer, Songwriter and Entrepreneur

Y

• Ellen Young (1810–1872), poet

See also

• Biography portal
• Australia portal

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• List of people from Brisbane
• List of people from Darwin
• List of people from Frankston
• List of people from Fremantle
• List of people from Melbourne
• List of people from Rockhampton
• List of residents of Sydney
• List of people from Toowoomba
• List of people from Wagga Wagga
• List of people from Wollongong