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.

• Georgia Amoore, basketball player
• Reginald Ansett, businessman and founder of Ansett Airways^[1]

• 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]

• 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]

• 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

• 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]}

• Frank Fenner, virologist^{[citation needed]}
• David Fleay, naturalist, first breeder of the platypus^{[citation needed]}

• Duncan Gillies, Premier of Victoria^{[citation needed]}

• 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]

• 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

• William G. James, the ABC's first Director of Music^{[citation needed]}

• 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]

• 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]
• Jamie McDonald, Big Brother housemate and media personality^{[citation needed]}
• 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]}

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

• 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]}

• Michelle Payne, 2015 Melbourne Cup winner^[9]
• Cardinal George Pell, Catholic Archbishop Emeritus of Sydney^[28]
• Drew Petrie, professional Australian rules footballer^{[citation needed]}

• Rosina Raisbeck, opera singer^[29]
• Shayne Reese, Olympic swimmer^[9]
• Gwen Richardson, travel writer^[30]
• Alfred Ronalds, fly fishing author and artisan^[31]

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

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

• James Valentine, journalist^[9]

• Hugh D.T. Williamson (1901-1985), banking executive and philanthropist

• Ellen Young (1810–1872), poet

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