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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.

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• D
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• F
• G
• H
• I
• J
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• M
• N
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• P
• Q
• R
• S
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A

• Georgia Amoore, basketball player
• Reginald Ansett, businessman and founder of Ansett Airways

B

• Henry Bailey, Victorian Minister of Lands and Water Supply 1924-1932; born and educated in Ballarat
• 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

• David Davies, artist
• Henry Daglish, Premier of Western Australia
• Jacqueline Dark, opera singer
• 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 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; composed music for movies including The Proposition and The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

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.
• Edward Hardy, one of Ballarat's foremost mining experts; educated at Mt Egerton State School and worked in mining from 1869; managed many mines; president of the Ballarat Mine Managers' Association 1907-14; died in Ballarat in 1941
• Eileen Healy, an Australian Sister of Mercy
• Gertrude Healy, Australian 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
• Bridget Hustwaite (born 1991), radio and television presenter, journalist and Endometriosis Australia ambassador
• Bill Hunter, actor

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.
• 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 doctor

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
• Jamie McDonald, Big Brother housemate and media personality
• Norm McLeod, Australian 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

• James Oddie, (1824-1911), Ballarat pioneer, Responsible for the founding of; the Ballarat Fine At gallery and many of the works exhibited within, also principal founder of the Ballarat botanical gardens, first chairman of the Ballarat Municipal Council in 1856-58. built and equipped the Mount Pleasant Observatory. erected the Peter Lalor statue at the cost of £2200 in the main street of Ballarat. are amongst some of his achievements.
• Alfred Arthur O'Connor, miner and politician

P

• Michelle Payne, 2015 Melbourne Cup winner
• Cardinal George Pell, Catholic Archbishop Emeritus of Sydney
• Drew Petrie, professional Australian rules footballer

R

• Rosina Raisbeck, opera singer
• Shayne Reese, Olympic swimmer
• Gwen Richardson, travel writer
• Alfred Ronalds, fly fishing author and artisan

S

• Cyril Staples, cricketer
• Henry Sutton, inventor
• Nathan Spielvogel, author
• Matthew Short, cricketer

T

• Jared Tallent, Olympian race walker
• Luke Tonkin, actor

V

• James Valentine, journalist

W

• Hugh D.T. Williamson (1901-1985), banking executive and philanthropist

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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27. "David Noonan - Artist's Profile - The Saatchi Gallery".
28. Davis, Rio; Mayers, Laura (12 January 2023). "George Pell's supporters and detractors attend memorial service for the Cardinal in his home town of Ballarat". ABC News. Retrieved 15 January 2023.
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30. Church, Hayden (17 December 1922). "Girl is Going Diamond Hunting in Wilds of British Guiana". Asheville Citizen-Times. p. 12. Retrieved 24 March 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
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33. "IAAF: Jared Tallent - Profile". iaaf.org.
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