This is a list of people from Ballarat. Those included are notable past or present inhabitants originating from, or associated with, the Australian regional city of Ballarat, Victoria.
A Leslie "Bull" Allen, soldier, recipient of the United States' Silver Star Georgia Amoore, basketball player Reg Ansett, businessman and founder of Ansett Transport Industries
B Henry Bailey, Victorian Minister of Lands and Water Supply 1924–1932; born and educated in Ballarat Robert Bath, Ballarat's first Olympian, competed in boxing Geoffrey Blainey, former professor at the University of Melbourne; former chair in Australian studies at Harvard University Sir Henry Bolte, 38th premier of Victoria Ray Borner, Australian Boomers basketball player and four-time Olympian Steve Bracks, premier of Victoria John Button, Federal Labor politician
C Raffaello Carboni, author of an eyewitness account of the uprising at the Eureka Stockade Marie Collier, operatic soprano F. W. Commons, monumental mason Susan Crennan, former justice of the High Court of Australia Thomas Curnow, schoolteacher who prevented Ned Kelly's gang from derailing a police train
D Henry Daglish, premier of Western Australia Jacqueline Dark, opera singer David Davies, artistCandice Bruce, 'Davies, David (1864–1939)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, Vol. 8, MUP, 1981, p. 232. Kimberley Davies, actress Bob Davis, Geelong Football Club champion Alfred Deakin, inaugural Federal member of Parliament for Ballarat; second prime minister of Australia Roger Donaldson, film producer, director, writer William Dunstan, Australian recipient of the Victoria Cross Will Dyson, illustrator and political cartoonist
E Harold 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; composed music for several movies, including The Proposition and The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford Harriet Elphinstone-Dick, who along with her partner Alice Moon, taught gymnastics to women and girls in Ballarat Edward de Lacy Evans, Bendigo-based trans man, married his third wife Julia Mary Marquan in St Andrew's Presbyterian in Ballarat
F Frank Fenner, virologist David Fleay, naturalist, first breeder of the platypus
G Duncan Gillies, 14th premier of Victoria
H Clarice Halligan, nurse, and prisoner of war Lesbia Harford, bisexual poet, was educated in Ballarat Eileen Healy, Sister of Mercy Gertrude Healy, violinist, teacher, conductor David Hirschfelder, film score composer, performer David Hobson, opera singer Thomas Hollway, 36th premier of Victoria Keith Holman, rugby league player and coach Craig Revel Horwood, Australian-British dancer, choreographer, and theatre director in the United Kingdom; judge on Strictly Come Dancing Bill Hunter, actor Bridget Hustwaite (born 1991), radio and television presenter, journalist and Endometriosis Australia ambassador
I Bryce Ives, theatre maker, commentator, media producer, former Ballarat Young Person of the Year, director of the Federation University Arts Academy and Gippsland Centre of Art & Design
J William G. James, the ABC's first director of music
L Peter Lalor, leader of the Eureka Rebellion (1854); colonial Parliamentarian; 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.Pat Nolan, The Courier, http://www.thecourier.com.au/story/62481/honours-for-four-ballarat-sporting-greats/ retrieved 14 February 2016Pat Nolan, The Courier, http://www.thecourier.com.au/story/3129162/magical-night-for-ballarats-plugger/ retrieved 14 February 2016 Ted Lovett, Australian rules footballer Arthur Alfred Lynch (1861–1934), son of John Lynch; engineer and journalist; a Boer colonel in the Boer War who fought with the Boers (1899–1900); sentenced to death for treason against the British in 1903, pardoned in 1907; elected in House of Commons in absentia by Irish in 1901 and 1909–1918; later became a medical doctorCf. R. L. Wallace, Australians at Boer War (1976) Cf. O'Brien, Bye-bye Dolly Gray (2006)
M Robyn Maher, basketball player Michael Malthouse, former coach of Collingwood Football Club, Footscray Football Club and West Coast Football Club (AFL Premiership coach in 1992, 1994 and 2010) Russell Mark, Olympic shooting gold medallist Norm McLeod, footballer for Melbourne Football Club, 1897-1898 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; Morshead Park is named after him
N Hilda Rix Nicholas, painter David Noonan, artist; lives and works in London Benjamin Northey, chief conductor of the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra
O Alfred Arthur O'Connor, miner and politician Adela Dora Ohlfsen-Bagge, artist, was born and raised in Ballarat
P Aileen Palmer, the British Australian diarist and poet, lived her last years in a psychiatric facility in Ballarat and was buried in the Ballarat cemetery Michelle Payne, 2015 Melbourne Cup winner Cardinal George Pell, Catholic archbishop emeritus of Sydney Drew Petrie, professional Australian rules footballer Ethel May (Monte) Punshon, artist, teacher, recipient of the Japanese Order of the Sacred Tresure and lesbian was born and educated in Ballarat.
R Rosina Raisbeck, opera singer Shayne Reese, Olympic swimmer Gwen Richardson, travel writer Sir Macpherson Robertson, founder of confectionery company MacRobertson's (Freddo, Old Gold, Cherry Ripe) Alfred Ronalds, fly fishing author and artisan
S Andrew George Scott, also known as Captain Moonlite, was held and escaped from the Ballarat Gaol. Matthew Short, cricketer Nathan Spielvogel, author Cyril Staples, cricketer Henry Sutton, inventor
T Jared Tallent, Olympian race walker Luke Tonkin, actor
V James Valentine, journalist
W Hugh D.T. Williamson (1901–1985), banking executive and philanthropist Paul Wiltshire, record producer, songwriter and entrepreneur
Y Ellen Young (1810–1872), poet
See also
List of people from Adelaide List of people from Brisbane List of people from Darwin List of people from Frankston List of people from Fremantle List of people from Melbourne List of people from Rockhampton List of residents of Sydney List of people from Toowoomba List of people from Wagga Wagga List of people from Wollongong
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