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]
• Will Dyson, illustrator and political cartoonist

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