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
- 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
- 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, 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
- Harriet Elphinstone-Dick, who along with her partner Alice Moon, taught gymnastics to women and girls in Ballarat[15]
- Edward de Lacy Evans, Bendigo-based trans man, married his third wife Julia Mary Marquan in St Andrew's Presbyterian in Ballarat[16]
F
- Frank Fenner, virologist
- David Fleay, naturalist, first breeder of the platypus
G
- Duncan Gillies, 14th premier of Victoria
H
- Clarice Halligan, nurse, and prisoner of war
- Lesbia Harford, bisexual poet, was educated in Ballarat[17]
- Eileen Healy, Sister of Mercy[18]
- 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[19]
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
L
- Peter Lalor, leader of the Eureka Rebellion (1854); colonial Parliamentarian; author of The Story of the Eureka Stockade
- Frank Little, Catholic archbishop of Melbourne
- Tony Lockett, Australian Football League footballer, Brownlow Medallist and holder of the all-time goalkicking record.[20][21]
- 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[22]
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)[23]
- Russell Mark, Olympic shooting gold medallist[24]
- Norm McLeod, footballer for Melbourne Football Club, 1897-1898[25]
- Sir Douglas Menzies, justice of the High Court of Australia
- Sir Robert Menzies, prime minister of Australia
- Steve Moneghetti, Olympic marathon runner[26]
- Elsie Morison, opera singer
- Leslie Morshead, general in the Australian Army;[27] Morshead Park is named after him
N
- Hilda Rix Nicholas, painter[28]
- David Noonan, artist; lives and works in London[29]
- Benjamin Northey, chief conductor of the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra[9]
O
- Alfred Arthur O'Connor, miner and politician
- Adela Dora Ohlfsen-Bagge, artist, was born and raised in Ballarat
P
- Aileen Palmer, the British Australian diarist and poet, lived her last years in a psychiatric facility in Ballarat and was buried in the Ballarat cemetery
- Michelle Payne, 2015 Melbourne Cup winner[9]
- Cardinal George Pell, Catholic archbishop emeritus of Sydney[30]
- Drew Petrie, professional Australian rules footballer
- Ethel May (Monte) Punshon, artist, teacher, recipient of the Japanese Order of the Sacred Tresure and lesbian was born and educated in Ballarat.
R
- Rosina Raisbeck, opera singer[31]
- Shayne Reese, Olympic swimmer[9]
- Gwen Richardson, travel writer[32]
- Sir Macpherson Robertson, founder of confectionery company MacRobertson's (Freddo, Old Gold, Cherry Ripe)
- Alfred Ronalds, fly fishing author and artisan[33]
S
- Andrew George Scott, also known as Captain Moonlite, was held and escaped from the Ballarat Gaol.
- Matthew Short, cricketer
- Nathan Spielvogel, author
- Cyril Staples, cricketer
- Henry Sutton, inventor[34]
T
- Jared Tallent, Olympian race walker[35]
- Luke Tonkin, actor[36]
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
- 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
- ↑ Fahey, Charles. "Ansett, Sir Reginald Myles (Reg) (1909–1981)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. National Centre of Biography, Australian National University – via Australian Dictionary of Biography.
- ↑ Louis, L. J. "Bailey, Henry Stephen (1876–1962)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. National Centre of Biography, Australian National University – via Australian Dictionary of Biography.
- ↑ Limmer, Scott (17 July 2013). "Professor Emeritus Geoffrey BLAINEY (1930-)". federation.edu.au.
- ↑ Dunstan, David. "Bolte, Sir Henry Edward (1908–1990)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. National Centre of Biography, Australian National University – via Australian Dictionary of Biography.
- ↑ "Borner still has that Olympic dream". The Age. 18 September 2002.
- ↑ "Steve Bracks – Biography".
- ↑ "Former federal Labor minister John Button dies". The Sydney Morning Herald. 8 April 2008.
- ↑ Carboni, Raffaello (November 2004). "The Eureka Stockade". Melbourne University Press. Retrieved 1 July 2020.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 "Ballarat's most famous people – who should've been included". 24 March 2016.
- ↑ Tillett, Grant (3 November 2014). "Time taking a toll on cemetery history".
- ↑ Gibbney, H. J. "Henry Daglish (1866–1920)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. Retrieved 7 March 2022.
- ↑ "Henry Daglish". Parliament of Western Australia. Retrieved 7 March 2022.
- ↑ Limmer, Scott. "Jacqueline Lisa DARK". federation.edu.au.
- ↑ Candice Bruce, 'Davies, David (1864–1939)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, Vol. 8, MUP, 1981, p. 232.
- ↑ Scrimshaw, Danielle (6 May 2023). "Harriet the swimmer beat a man and taught women, with her Alice". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 24 June 2026.
- ↑ "Illustrated Australian News". 1 October 1879.
- ↑ Lamb, Lesley, "Lesbia Venner Harford (1891–1927)", Australian Dictionary of Biography, Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, retrieved 24 June 2026
- ↑ Anne Forbes (1996). "Eileen Mary Healy (1888–1966)". Healy, Eileen Mary (1888–1966). Melbourne University Press. Retrieved 21 November 2021.
- ↑ Venosta, Jeremy (8 December 2017). "Bridget Hustwaite, Triple J: Ballarat product takes evening slot". The Courier. Retrieved 24 February 2021.
- ↑ Pat Nolan, The Courier, http://www.thecourier.com.au/story/62481/honours-for-four-ballarat-sporting-greats/ retrieved 14 February 2016
- ↑ Pat Nolan, The Courier, http://www.thecourier.com.au/story/3129162/magical-night-for-ballarats-plugger/ retrieved 14 February 2016
- ↑ Cf. R. L. Wallace, Australians at Boer War (1976) Cf. O'Brien, Bye-bye Dolly Gray (2006)
- ↑ "Michael Malthouse – The Official Website of Mick Malthouse – About Michael". michaelmalthouse.com.au.
- ↑ "Olympic shooting champion Russell Mark calls an end to a stellar career". ABC Ballarat. 4 September 2014.
- ↑ "Norm McLeod".
- ↑ "Australian Olympic Committee: Steve Moneghetti". December 2017.
- ↑ Hill, A. J. "Morshead, Sir Leslie James (1889–1959)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. National Centre of Biography, Australian National University – via Australian Dictionary of Biography.
- ↑ Rix Nicholas, Hilda (Spring 2013). "The Three Sisters, Blue Mountains". National Gallery of Australia. Retrieved 12 December 2013.
- ↑ "David Noonan – Artist's Profile – The Saatchi Gallery".
- ↑ Davis, Rio; Mayers, Laura (12 January 2023). "George Pell's supporters and detractors attend memorial service for the Cardinal in his home town of Ballarat". Australia: ABC News. Retrieved 15 January 2023.
- ↑ Melbourne, National Foundation for Australian Women and The University of. "Raisbeck, Rosina – Woman – The Australian Women's Register". womenaustralia.info.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Ronalds, B.F. (2022). Alfred Ronalds: Angler, Artisan and Australian Pioneer. Medlar Press.
- ↑ McCallum, Austin. "Sutton, Henry (1855–1912)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. National Centre of Biography, Australian National University – via Australian Dictionary of Biography.
- ↑ "IAAF: Jared Tallent – Profile". iaaf.org.
- ↑ Media, Australian Community Media - Fairfax (24 June 2009). "Ballarat's Luke Tonkin to play Big Bopper".