List of people from Ballarat

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

• Reginald Ansett, Businessman and founder of Ansett Airways
• Henry Bailey, Victorian Minister of Lands and Water Supply 1924-1932 (born and educated there)^[1]
• Peter Blackburn, Dual Olympian, Four Times Commonwealth Games Bronze Medallist
• 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
• Ray Borner, Australian Boomers basketball player and four time Olympian
• Steve Bracks, Premier of Victoria
• John Button, Federal Labor politician
• Raffaello Carboni, Author of an eye witness account of the uprising at the Eureka Stockade
• Sir Albert Ernest Coates, Surgeon and Soldier (Prisoner of War Surgeon)
• John Curtin, Prime Minister of Australia
• Lionel Curtis, International artist design music theatre opera reviewer The Opera Boys
• Henry Daglish, Premier of Western Australia
• Jacqueline Dark, Opera Singer^[2]
• 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
• Harold Edward 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 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
• David Fleay, naturalist, and first breeder of the Platypus
• Duncan Gillies, Premier of Victoria
• Edward Hardy, was one of Ballarat's foremost mining experts. He was born at Hartlepool, England in 1852, and arrived in Australia with his parents in 1856. He was educated at Mt Egerton State School and worked in mining from 1869. He managed the Ballarat mines of Dalzell-Buchanan, Woah Hawp Canton, Llanberris No. 2, New Normanby and Britannia United; as well as mines in Bendigo, Tasmania. Queensland, and South Australia, and was president of the Ballarat Mine Managers' Association 1907-14. He died at his family home at 5 Cobden Street, Ballarat on 15 July 1941.^[3]
• David Hirschfelder, Film score composer, performer
• David Hobson, Opera Singer
• Thomas Hollway, Premier of Victoria
• Craig Revel Horwood, Australian-British dancer, choreographer, and theatre director in the United Kingdom and judge on Strictly Come Dancing.
• William G. James, the ABC's first Director of Music.
• Peter Lalor, Leader of the Eureka Rebellion(1854)and colonial Parliamentarian and 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
• 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, Former coach of Collingwood Football Club. Previous coach of Footscray Football Club and West Coast Football Club (AFL Premiership coach in 1992, 1994 and 2010)
• Russell Mark - Olympic shooting gold medallist, raised at a property in Boundary Road, Brown Hill.
• Jamie McDonald, Big Brother housemate and Australian media personality
• 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
• Hilda Rix Nicholas, painter^[4]
• Alfred Arthur O'Connor, miner and politician
• Cardinal George Pell, Catholic Archbishop of Sydney
• Drew Petrie, professional Australian rules footballer
• Rosina Raisbeck, opera singer^[5]
• James Scullin, Prime Minister of Australia, 1930–31
• Henry Sutton, Inventor^[6]
• William Tibbits (Australian painter) - lived there between 1870-1875.^[7]
• Luke Tonkin, Actor
• Hugh D.T. Williamson (1901-1985), an Australian banking executive and philanthropist

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