List of people from Adelaide
People from Adelaide are known as Adelaideans, and many have achieved renown.
Arts and Music
Prominent artists, bands, and musicians to hail from Adelaide include:
Actors/Actresses
Film Directors
Musicians/Bands
Visual Artists
- James Ashton, artist and arts educator, a teacher of Sir Hans Heysen
- Robert Hannaford, Australia's pre-eminent portrait artist
- 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 woman appointed as an official war artist
- Ondrej Mares, sculptor, furniture maker.
- Jeffrey Smart, painter, known for his modernist depictions of urban and industrial landscapes.
- Susan Dorothea White, painter, sculptor, printmaker, author
Writers
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.
Law and politics
- Julia Gillard, (migrated to Adelaide in 1966), Australian Prime Minister and leader of the federal Australian Labor Party. Gillard was born in Barry, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales in 1961. In 1966 her family migrated to Australia, settling in Adelaide.
- John Finnis, Professor of Law at University College, Oxford, exponent of the natural law theory.
- 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.
- Alexander Downer, Sr.
- John Downer
- John Langdon Bonython
- John Lavington Bonython
- Keith Wilson (politician)
- Ian Wilson (politician)
- List of Mayors and Lord Mayors of Adelaide
- List of Premiers of South Australia
- Category:Federal politicians from South Australia
Science
World-renowned Adelaide scientists include:
- Mark Oliphant, physicist and Governor of South Australia.
- Nobel Prize winners
- William Henry Bragg, with his son, for their studies, (using the X-ray spectrometer), of X-ray spectra, X-ray diffraction, and of crystal structure
- William Lawrence Bragg, youngest ever winner of a Nobel Prize and the only father and son to have won the prize
- Robin Warren, (with Barry Marshall), credited with the re-discovery of the bacterium Helicobacter pylori
- Howard Florey, honoured for his role in making penicillin readily available. Florey was elected President of the Royal Society in 1943 and received a peerage in 1965 for his monumental work in saving millions of lives.
- Andy Thomas, astronaut
- Pioneer Antarctic explorers
- James Unaipon (1834–1908)
- David Unaipon (1872–1967), commemorated on the Fifty Dollar banknote. 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; winner of the 2006 Fields Medal widely viewed as the highest honour a mathematician can receive
- Rodney Brooks, roboticist; director of the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and founding member of the iRobot Corporation.
Sport
World and nationally recognised sports people from Adelaide include:
Basketball
Cricket
Golf
Motor sports
Soccer
Sport Aerobics
- Kylie Halliday, 2003 Australian FISAF Sport Aerobic Championships winner and 2004 world rank 2.
Tennis
Cycling
Aerobatics
Professional Wrestling
- Damian Slater - 1 time South Australian Lightweight Champion, Current Victorian Heavyweight Champion
Other
See also
References
- ^ Bowman, Matt (1999-11-20). "Veteran pilot still pushing the sky's limits". The Advertiser. pp. 28.