List of people from Adelaide

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See also: Category:People from Adelaide

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/Actresses

[edit] Animators

[edit] Film Directors

[edit] Musicians/Bands

[edit] Visual Artists

[edit] Writers

[edit] Business and media

  • Rupert Murdoch (media mogul) 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".
  • Robert Stigwood, the theatrical impresario, movie and record producer. Stigwood was the producer of the movies Saturday Night Fever and Grease.

[edit] Law and politics

  • Dame Roma Mitchell (born in Adelaide, 1913) was Australia's first female QC, first female judge and first female Governor.
  • Janine Haines (born in Tanunda, 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 (born in Adelaide, 1850), 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 (emigrated to South Australia, 1839), 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.
  • Alexander Downer (born in Adelaide, 1951), was the shortest-serving leader of the federal Liberal Party before being replaced by John Howard. Downer was Minister for Foreign Affairs from March 1996 to November 2007, and went on to become the longest serving person in this position as of 2004.

[edit] Science

World-renowned Adelaide scientists include:

[edit] Sport

World and nationally recognised sports people from Adelaide include:

[edit] Australian Rules Football

[edit] Cricket

[edit] Golf

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[edit] Soccer

[edit] Sport Aerobics

  • Kylie Halliday, 2003 Australian FISAF Sport Aerobic Championships winner and 2004 world rank 2.

[edit] Tennis

[edit] Cycling

[edit] See also