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
- Georgia Amoore, basketball player
- 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]
- 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]
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 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[citation needed]
F
- Frank Fenner, virologist[citation needed]
- David Fleay, naturalist, first breeder of the platypus[citation needed]
G
- Duncan Gillies, Premier of Victoria[citation needed]
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[citation needed]
- David Hobson, opera singer[citation needed]
- Thomas Hollway, Premier of Victoria[citation needed]
- Craig Revel Horwood, Australian-British dancer, choreographer, and theatre director in the United Kingdom; judge on Strictly Come Dancing[citation needed]
- 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]
- Gabriella Labucci, drag queen and runner up of RuPaul’s Drag Race Down Under Season 3[21]
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)[22]
- Russell Mark, Olympic shooting gold medallist[23]
- Jamie McDonald, Big Brother housemate and media personality[citation needed]
- 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]
- Alfred Ronalds, fly fishing author and artisan[31]
S
- Cyril Staples, cricketer
- Henry Sutton, inventor[32]
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
Y
- Ellen Young (1810–1872), poet
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
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- ^ Gibbney, H. J. "Daglish, Henry (1866–1920)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Retrieved 7 March 2022.
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- ^ Church, Hayden (17 December 1922). "Girl is Going Diamond Hunting in Wilds of British Guiana". Asheville Citizen-Times. p. 12. Retrieved 24 March 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
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- ^ McCallum, Austin. "Sutton, Henry (1855–1912)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. National Centre of Biography, Australian National University – via Australian Dictionary of Biography.
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