List of people from Ballarat

This article is a list of notable people from the Australian regional city of Ballarat, Victoria.

• Lionel Curtis, International artist design music theatre opera reviewer The Opera Boys
• Reginald Ansett, Businessman and founder of Ansett Airways
• Geoffrey Blainey, Former Professor of Economic History and Ernest Scott Professor of History at the University of Melbourne, and former Chair in Australian Studies at Harvard University
• Sir Henry Bolte, Premier of Victoria
• Steve Bracks, Premier of Victoria
• John Button, Federal Labor politician
• Sir Albert Ernest Coates, Surgeon and Soldier (Prisoner of War Surgeon)
• Raffaello Carboni, Author of an eye witness account of the uprising at the Eureka Stockade
• John Curtin, Prime Minister of Australia
• Henry Daglish, Premier of Western Australia
• Jacqueline Dark, Opera Singer^[1]
• Kimberley Davies, actress
• Bob Davis, Geelong Football Club champion
• Alfred Deakin, Inaugural Federal Member of Parliament for Ballarat and Second Prime Minister of Australia
• Roger Donaldson, Film Producer, Director, Writer
• Warren Ellis, Musician, Composer, Member of The Dirty Three, Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds, Grinderman Ellis has also composed music for movies such as The Proposition and The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
• Frank Fenner, Virologist
• Edward King, Lawn Bowler
• David Fleay, naturalist, and first breeder of the Platypus
• Duncan Gillies, Premier of Victoria
• David Hirschfelder, Film score composer, performer
• David Hobson, Opera Singer
• Thomas Hollway, Premier of Victoria
• William G. James, the ABC's first Director of Music.
• Peter Lalor, Leader of the Eureka Rebellion and colonial Parliamentarian
• Frank Little, Catholic Archbishop of Melbourne.
• Tony Lockett, Australian Football League footballer, Brownlow Medallist and holder of the all-time goalkicking record
• Peter Lalor, Leader of the Eureka Rebellion(1854)and colonial Parliamentarian
• John Lynch, (1829-1909) Peter Lalor's 21C at Eureka, later a founder of Ballarat School of Mines (1870) and author of The Story of the Eureka Stockade.
• Arthur Alfred Lynch, (1861-1934), son of John Lynch. He was an engineer cum journalist. A Boer Colonel in the Boer War who fought with the Boers(1899-1900) - sentenced to death for treason against British (1903) pardoned in 1907,elected in House of Commons in absentia by Irish in 1901 and 1909-1918; later became a medical doctor. Cf. R. L. Wallace, Australians at Boer War, (1976) Cf. O'Brien, Bye-bye Dolly Gray, (2006)
• Michael Malthouse, Current coach of Collingwood Football Club. Previous coach of Footscray Football Club and West Coast Football Club (AFL Premiership coach in 1992, 1994 and 2010)
• Sir Robert Menzies, Prime Minister of Australia
• Sir Douglas Menzies, Justice of the High Court of Australia
• Elsie Morison, opera singer
• Alfred Arthur O'Connor, Miner and Politician
• Steve Moneghetti, Olympic marathon runner
• Leslie Morshead, General in the Australian Army
• Cardinal George Pell, Catholic Archbishop of Sydney
• Rosina Raisbeck, opera singer^[2]
• James Scullin, Prime Minister of Australia, 1930-31
• Henry Sutton, Inventor^[3][4]
• Harry Zehnwirth, Pioneering paediatrician
• Peter Blackburn, Dual Olympian, Four Times Commonwealth Games Bronze Medallist
• Luke Tonkin, Actor
• Craig Revel Horwood, Australian-British dancer, choreographer, and theatre director in the United Kingdom and judge on Strictly Come Dancing.

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