List of people from Adelaide

This is a list of notable people from Adelaide, also known as Adelaideans.

Arts and music

Prominent intellectuals, writers, artists, bands, and musicians to hail from Adelaide include:

Business and media

• Rick Allert AO - accountant, company director and chairperson
• Balfours family - bakery founders
• Barr Smith family - businessmen and philanthropists
• Shaun Bonétt - property developer, entrepreneur and philanthropist
• Cooper family - brewery founders
• Thomas Elder GCMG - pastoralist, politician and philanthropist
• Gerard family - founders of Clipsal
• Edward Hayward Kt - owner and manager of John Martins
• Sir Sidney Kidman - pastoralist, entrepreneur and landowner
• Matthew and Zbigniew Michalewicz - entrepreneurs and co-founders of SolveIT Software
• Rupert Murdoch AC - media mogul, chairperson and CEO of News Corporation
• John Spalvins - managing director of Adelaide Steamship Company
• Robert Stigwood - impresario, entertainment entrepreneur and film producer
• Michael Tunn - radio announcer and program director
• Gary Turner - producer, record company owner and founder of LearnToPlayMusic.com

Law and politics

• Julie Bishop - Minister for Foreign Affairs and the Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party of Australia
• Sir John Langdon Bonython KCMG - member of the first Australian parliament
• Sir John Lavington Bonython - Mayor and Lord Mayor of Adelaide
• Michael Bradley - mayor of Sarnia, Ontario, Canada
• James Crawford - Legal academic and Judge of the International Court of Justice (2014)
• Mario Despoja - leader of the Croatian community in Australia
• Natasha Stott Despoja AM - senator and leader of the Australian Democrats
• Alexander Downer AC - Foreign Affairs Minister and Leader of the Opposition
• Alexander Downer, Sr. KBE - member of the House of Representatives and High Commissioner to London
• John Downer KCMG KC - twice Premier of South Australia
• John Finnis - Professor of Law at University College, Oxford
• Julia Gillard - Prime Minister and leader of the Australian Labor Party
• Janine Haines - senator and leader of the Australian Democrats
• Sir Charles Kingston - Premier of South Australia and Minister for Trade and Customs in the first Commonwealth parliament
• Dame Roma Mitchell AC DBE CVO - Australia's first female QC, first female judge, and first female Governor
• Catherine Helen Spence - suffragist, electoral reformer, prohibitionist, and first female political candidate in Australia
• Ian Wilson AM - member of the Australian House of Representatives and Minister for Aboriginal Affairs
• Sir Keith Wilson CBE - senator and member of the Australian House of Representatives
• List of Mayors and Lord Mayors of Adelaide
• List of Premiers of South Australia
• Category: Federal politicians from South Australia

Science

World-renowned Adelaide scientists include:

• Len Beadell OAM BEM - surveyor, roadbuilder and explorer; asteroid 3161 Beadell is named after him
• William Henry Bragg OM KBE PRS - physicist, chemist and mathematician, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics
• William Lawrence Bragg CH OBE MC FRS - physicist and crystallographer, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics and youngest Nobel Laureate
• Rodney Brooks - roboticist, director of the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and founding member of the iRobot corporation
• Brendon Coventry - surgical oncologist and medical researcher, discovered the human immune cycle
• Baron Howard Florey OM FRS FRCP - pharmacologist and pathologist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• Cecil Madigan - geologist and meteorologist, member of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition
• Sir Douglas Mawson OBE FRS FAA - geologist and explorer, leader of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition
• Sir Mark Oliphant AC KBE FRS FAA - nuclear physicist, winner of the Hughes Medal and the Faraday Medal
• Christopher Rawson and Mary Penfold - winemakers
• Reg Sprigg AO - geologist and conservationist
• Terence Tao FRS FAA - mathematician, winner of the Fields Medal
• Andy Thomas AO - aerospace engineer and NASA astronaut
• David Unaipon - inventor and writer, commemorated on the Australian fifty-dollar note
• Robin Warren AC - pathologist and researcher, winner of the Nobel Prize in Medicine
• Sir Hubert Wilkins - Arctic explorer, ornithologist and geographer

Sport

Internationally and nationally recognised sports people from Adelaide include:

Other

• Gladys Elphick - Australian Aboriginal active in Aboriginal affairs
• David Hicks - former Guantanamo Bay inmate, falsely convicted of 'providing material support to terrorism'

See also

• List of University of Adelaide people

References