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.
A
- Reginald Ansett, businessman and founder of Ansett Airways[1]
B
- Henry Bailey, Victorian Minister of Lands and Water Supply 1924-1932; born and educated in Ballarat[2]
- Peter Blackburn, dual Olympian, four times Commonwealth Games bronze medallist
- 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
- Sir Albert Ernest Coates, surgeon and soldier; prisoner of war surgeon[8]
- Marie Collier, Australian operatic soprano[9]
- F. W. Commons, monumental mason[10]
- Susan Crennan, former Justice of the High Court of Australia[9]
- John Curtin, Prime Minister of Australia
D
- Henry Daglish, Premier of Western Australia
- Jacqueline Dark, opera singer[11]
- Kimberley Davies, actress
- Bob Davis, Geelong Football Club champion
- Alfred Deakin, inaugural Federal Member of Parliament for Ballarat; second Prime Minister of Australia
- Roger Donaldson, film producer, director, writer
- William Dunstan, an Australian recipient of the Victoria Cross[9]
E
- Harold Edward 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 movies including The Proposition and The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
F
- Frank Fenner, virologist
- David Fleay, naturalist, first breeder of the platypus
G
- Duncan Gillies, Premier of Victoria
H
- 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[12]
- David Hirschfelder, film score composer, performer
- David Hobson, opera singer
- Thomas Hollway, Premier of Victoria
- Craig Revel Horwood, Australian-British dancer, choreographer, and theatre director in the United Kingdom; judge on Strictly Come Dancing
- Bill Hunter, actor[9]
J
- William G. James, the ABC's first Director of Music
L
- Peter Lalor, leader of the Eureka Rebellion (1854); colonial Parliamentarian; author of The Story of the Eureka Stockade
- Ash Lieb, artist, comedian and writer. [13][14]
- Frank Little, Catholic Archbishop of Melbourne
- Tony Lockett, Australian Football League footballer, Brownlow Medallist and holder of the all-time goalkicking record. [15][16]
- 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[17]
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)
- Russell Mark, Olympic shooting gold medallist, raised at a property in Boundary Road, Brown Hill
- Jamie McDonald, Big Brother housemate and media personality
- Michelle McIntosh, researcher in oxytocin at Monash University[18]
- Sir Douglas Menzies, Justice of the High Court of Australia
- Sir Robert Menzies, Prime Minister of Australia
- Steve Moneghetti, Olympic marathon runner
- Elsie Morison, opera singer
- Leslie Morshead, General in the Australian Army
N
- Hilda Rix Nicholas, painter[19]
- Benjamin Northey, Chief Conductor of the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra[9]
O
- Alfred Arthur O'Connor, miner and politician
P
- Michelle Payne, 2015 Melbourne Cup winner[9]
- Cardinal George Pell, Catholic Archbishop of Sydney
- Drew Petrie, professional Australian rules footballer
R
- Rosina Raisbeck, opera singer[20]
- Shayne Reese, Olympic swimmer[9]
S
- James Scullin, Prime Minister of Australia, 1930–31
- Max Sharam, singer-songwriter, artist; ARIA winner
- Henry Sutton, inventor[21]
T
- Jared Tallent, an Olympian race walker[22]
- William Tibbits, painter, lived in Ballarat 1870-1875[23]
- Luke Tonkin, actor
V
- James Valentine, journalist[9]
W
- Hugh D.T. Williamson (1901-1985), banking executive and philanthropist
See also
- List of people from Adelaide
- 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
References
- ↑ http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/ansett-sir-reginald-myles-reg-12142
- ↑ http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/bailey-henry-stephen-5095
- ↑ http://federation.edu.au/about-us/our-university/history/geoffrey-blainey-research-centre/honour-roll/b/professor-emeritus-geoffrey-blainey-1930-
- ↑ http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/bolte-sir-henry-edward-12227
- ↑ http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2002/09/17/1032054817750.html
- ↑ http://www.stevebracks.com.au/biography/
- ↑ http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/former-federal-labor-minister-john-button-dies/2008/04/08/1207420350369.html
- ↑ http://www.awm.gov.au/fiftyaustralians/9.asp
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 http://www.thecourier.com.au/story/3810182/ballarats-most-famous-people-who-shouldve-been-included/?cs=61
- ↑ http://www.thecourier.com.au/story/2669729/time-taking-a-toll-on-cemetery-history/
- ↑ UB Honour Roll
- ↑ McCallum, M. (1916) Ballarat & District Citizens & Sports, Ballarat; The Argus Melbourne, Vic.: Friday 18 July 1941; Australian Electoral Rolls 1903 -
- ↑ Hailey Wood, "It's all about absurdism for Ash" The Courier, Tuesday January 22, 2013 page 17
- ↑ Dellaram Vreeland, The Courier, http://www.thecourier.com.au/story/1608882/local-comedian-ash-lieb-launches-book/ retrieved 23 January 2016
- ↑ Pat Nolan, The Courier, http://www.thecourier.com.au/story/62481/honours-for-four-ballarat-sporting-greats/ retrieved 14 Feb 2016
- ↑ Pat Nolan, The Courier, http://www.thecourier.com.au/story/3129162/magical-night-for-ballarats-plugger/ retrieved 14 Feb 2016
- ↑ Cf. R. L. Wallace, Australians at Boer War, (1976) Cf. O'Brien, Bye-bye Dolly Gray, (2006)
- ↑ http://www.monash.edu.au/pharm/research/researchers/profile.html?sid=1935&pid=3093
- ↑ Rix Nicholas, Hilda (purchased 2013). "The Three Sisters, Blue Mountains". National Gallery of Australia. Retrieved 12 December 2013. Check date values in:
|date=(help) - ↑ Raisbeck, Rosina - Australian Women Biographical entry
- ↑ Sutton, Henry (1856 - 1912) Biographical Entry - Australian Dictionary of Biography Online
- ↑ http://www.iaaf.org/athletes/australia/jared-tallent-183786
- ↑ http://www.artistsfootsteps.com/html/vcctibbits_geelong.htm
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