# 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.
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* N
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## A

* Georgia Amoore, basketball player
* Reginald Ansett, businessman and founder of Ansett Airways

## B

* Henry Bailey, Victorian Minister of Lands and Water Supply 1924-1932; born and educated in Ballarat
* Geoffrey Blainey, former professor at the University of Melbourne; former Chair in Australian Studies at Harvard University
* Sir Henry Bolte, 38th Premier of Victoria
* Ray Borner, Australian Boomers basketball player and four time Olympian
* Steve Bracks, Premier of Victoria
* John Button, Federal Labor politician

## C

* Raffaello Carboni, author of an eyewitness account of the uprising at the Eureka Stockade.
* Marie Collier, operatic soprano
* F. W. Commons, monumental mason
* Susan Crennan, former Justice of the High Court of Australia
* Thomas Curnow, schoolteacher who prevented Ned Kelly's gang from derailing a police train

## D

* David Davies, artist
* Henry Daglish, Premier of Western Australia
* Jacqueline Dark, opera singer
* 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
* 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 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, 14th Premier of Victoria

## 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
* Eileen Healy, an Australian Sister of Mercy
* Gertrude Healy, Australian 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
* Bridget Hustwaite (born 1991), radio and television presenter, journalist and Endometriosis Australia ambassador
* Bill Hunter, actor

## 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.
* Ted Lovett, Australian rules footballer
* 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

## M

* Robyn Maher, basketball player
* 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
* Jamie McDonald, Big Brother housemate and media personality
* Norm McLeod, Australian Footballer for Melbourne Football Club, 1897-1898
* 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; Morshead Park is named after him

## N

* Hilda Rix Nicholas, painter
* David Noonan, artist. Lives and works in London.
* Benjamin Northey, Chief Conductor of the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra

## 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

## P

* Michelle Payne, 2015 Melbourne Cup winner
* Cardinal George Pell, Catholic Archbishop Emeritus of Sydney
* Drew Petrie, professional Australian rules footballer

## R

* Rosina Raisbeck, opera singer
* Shayne Reese, Olympic swimmer
* Gwen Richardson, travel writer
* Sir Macpherson Robertson, founder of confectionery company MacRobertson's (Freddo, Old Gold, Cherry Ripe)
* Alfred Ronalds, fly fishing author and artisan

## S

* Cyril Staples, cricketer
* Henry Sutton, inventor
* Nathan Spielvogel, author
* Matthew Short, cricketer

## T

* Jared Tallent, Olympian race walker
* Luke Tonkin, actor

## V

* James Valentine, journalist

## W

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

## Y

* Ellen Young (1810–1872), poet