List of people from Adelaide
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People from Adelaide are known as Adelaideans, and many have achieved renown.
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[edit] Arts and Music
Prominent artists, bands, and musicians to hail from Adelaide include:
[edit] Actors/Actress
- Roy Rene "Mo"
- Anthony LaPaglia
- Jonathan LaPaglia.
- Sir Robert Helpmann (1909-1986), while born in Mount Gambier, is rumoured to have resided in the eastern suburb of Rose Park during his career in Adelaide
- Dame Judith Anderson world-renowned opera singer; appeared on the cover of Time magazine in 1943
- Shaun Micallef (Comedian and Actor)
- Nicholas Hope - Bad Boy Bubby
- Holly Brisley- Home and Away [Amanda Vale]
- Glenn McMillan
- Adam Tuominen
- Greig Pickhaver - also known as H.G. Nelson (Comedian and Actor).
[edit] Artists
- Sir Hans Heysen lived in Cedars at Hahndorf in the Adelaide Hills, painting spectacular South Australian landscapes.
- Nora Heysen was the first woman to win the prestigious Archibald Prize for portraiture, and the first Australian women appointed as an official war artist.
[edit] Film Directors
[edit] Writers
- Gillian Rubinstein - children's author, (also known as best-selling adult author Lian Hearn)
- Andrew Bovell - playwright and screenwriter; Lantana, The Book of Revelation
- Tony Shillitoe
- James Houston Turner
- Sean Williams
- J M Coetzee - Nobel Prize for Literature 2003
[edit] Musicians
- Ben Folds, North Carolina pop pianist, has been living in Adelaide since 1999.
- Benjamin Speed
- Bon Scott was working in Adelaide when he first met the other members of AC/DC
- Fry-Z
- Guy Sebastian
- Glenn Shorrock
- Hilltop Hoods
- I Killed the Prom Queen
- It Came From Within
- Jimmy Barnes
- Jungle Fever
- Mario Spate Lead singer of Adelaide band The Black Doves. Was lead vocalist of sydney group Jerk for a short period.
- xMichael Crafterx
- Sia Furler
- The Hot Lies
- The Mark of Cain
- The Superjesus
- Testeagles
- Undertone
- Beccy Cole Australia's #1 Chart topping Country & Western artist
- <30KG e-THUG band
[edit] Business and media
- Media mogul Rupert Murdoch ran his first newspaper in Adelaide. In 1952 he took over management from his father of the afternoon paper "The News", turned it into a success and went on to build his now far-reaching media empire News Corporation, which was, up until the end of 2004, headquartered in Adelaide. According to Murdoch, a recipient of the City Keys, Adelaide remains News Corporation's "spiritual home".
[edit] Law and politics
- Dame Roma Mitchell was Australia's first female judge and first female Governor.
- Janine Haines, born in Tanunda in 1945 was the first female to lead an Australian political party (the Australian Democrats).
- Natasha Stott Despoja (born in Adelaide, 1969), was the youngest woman to enter Commonwealth Parliament and in 2001, was the youngest person in Australian history to lead an Australian political party (also the Australian Democrats).
- Sir Charles Cameron Kingston, son of the Adelaide surveyor Sir George Strickland Kingston, was the Premier of South Australia from 1893-99 and went on to be the Minister for Trade and Customs in the first Commonwealth Parliament.
- Catherine Helen Spence, (1825-1910), was a suffragist, electoral reformer, prohibitionist, feminist and novelist. She pioneered the way for South Australia to become the second place in the world to grant women the right to vote (after New Zealand), and was the first female political candidate in Australia — standing for the Constitutional Conventions of the 1890s.
[edit] Science
World-renowned Adelaide scientists include:
- Sir Mark Oliphant, physicist and Governor of South Australia.
- Nobel Prize winners
- William Henry Bragg
- William Lawrence Bragg
- Robin Warren
- Howard Florey, honoured for his role in making penicillin readily available
- Andy Thomas, astronaut
- Pioneer Antarctic explorers Sir Douglas Mawson and Sir Hubert Wilkins.
- James Unaipon (1834-1908) and his son, the remarkable David Unaipon (1872-1967), commemorated on the Fifty Dollar banknote, were both highly intellectual and spiritual men. David Unaipon, a scientist, writer, preacher and prolific inventor, became known as the "Australian Leonardo"; one of his best ideas improved the efficiency of the mechanical sheep-shears.
- Dr Christopher Rawson Penfold and his wife Mary Penfold established Penfolds Winery in 1845 which now produces the prestigious Penfolds Grange Hermitage.
- Terence Tao, mathematician
[edit] Sport
World-recognised sportspeople from Adelaide include:
[edit] Golf
- Geoff Ogilvy, 2006 U.S. Open and WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship winner.
[edit] Tennis
- Lleyton Hewitt, former world number one tennis player
- Alicia Molik, reached top ten on WTA Tour in 2005
- Mark Woodforde, former Nº1 doubles player
- Darren Cahill, former top ten doubles player
[edit] Sport Aerobics
- Kylie Halliday, 2003 Australian FISAF Sport Aerobic Championships winner and 2004 world rank 2.
[edit] Cricket
- Ian Chappell
- Greg Chappell
- Trevor Chappell
- David Hookes
- Wayne Phillips
- Darren Lehmann
- Jason Gillespie
- Greg Blewett
[edit] Soccer
- John Aloisi, kicked the winning penalty kick to take Australia to the 2006 Fifa World Cup, their first appearance since 1974.
[edit] Australian Rules Football
- Adelaide Football Club players
- Port Adelaide Football Club players
[edit] Professional Wrestlers
- Hartley Jackson
- Damian Slater
- Bruce "Havok" Mills
- John E. Radic
[edit] Motor Sports
- Vern Schuppan, ex Formula One driver & Australia's only 24 Hours of Le Mans race winner.
- Jeremy Burgess, MotoGP engineer, helped Wayne Gardner, Mick Doohan and Valentino Rossi to World Championships.
