List of people from Ballarat

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

 * 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

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, 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, Premier of Victoria
 * 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
 * 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