List of people from Adelaide

People from Adelaide are known as Adelaideans, and many have achieved renown.

Arts and Music

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

Actors/Actresses

*Roy Rene "Mo"
*Anthony LaPaglia
*Jonathan LaPaglia.
*Sir Robert Helpmann (1909-1986), while born in Mount Gambier, is rumoured to have resided in the eastern suburb of Rose Park during his career in Adelaide
*Dame Judith Anderson - an Australian Tony award- and Emmy-winning actress
*Richard Marsland (Comedian and Actor)
*Shaun Micallef (Comedian and Actor)
*Nicholas Hope - Bad Boy Bubby
*Holly Brisley- Home and Away [Amanda Vale]
*Glenn McMillan
*Adam Tuominen
*Greig Pickhaver - also known as H.G. Nelson (Comedian and Actor).
*Teresa Palmer - Young Hollywood actress.
*Sam Clark - Neighbours [Ringo "Rick" Brown]
*William Job - Privilege, The House of Cards, Defense of the realm.
*Lois Ramsey - Road to Nhill, Inheritance.
*Linc Highet - Mad Max III, Death Proof.
*Melanie Vallejo

Animators

*Bernard Edlington
*Eddie White, James Calvert & Hugh Nguyen - principals of The People's Republic Of Animation

Film Directors

*Mario Andreacchio
*Scott Hicks
*Rolf de Heer
*Peter Ninos
*James Calvert
*Anthony Maras
*Michael James Rowland
*Murali K. Thalluri
*Alex Frayne

Musicians/Bands

*Angie Hart
*Beccy Cole Australia's #1 Chart topping Country & Western artist
*Benjamin Speed Film composer and indie / hip hop musician
*Bon Scott was working in Adelaide when he first met the other members of AC/DC
*Cold Chisel
*Dave Graney (born Mount Gambier, South Australia)
*Guy Sebastian
*Glenn Shorrock
*Hilltop Hoods
*I Killed the Prom Queen
*Jimmy Barnes
*John Farnham
*Mario Spate Lead singer of Adelaide band The Black Doves. Was lead vocalist of Sydney group Jerk for a short period.
*Michael Crafter
*Mere Theory
*Paul Kelly
*Sia Furler
*Sister Janet Mead
*The Angels
*The Hot Lies
*The Mark of Cain
*The Superjesus
*Aleesha Rome
*Benjamin A. Green
*Testeagles
*Virgin Black
*We Grow Up
*Terminus

Visual Artists

*Sir Hans Heysen lived in Cedars at Hahndorf in the Adelaide Hills, painting spectacular South Australian landscapes.
*Nora Heysen was the first woman to win the prestigious Archibald Prize for portraiture, and the first Australian woman appointed as an official war artist.
*Robert Hannaford, Australia's pre-eminent portrait artist

Writers

*Guy Boothby - novelist, travel writer and author of genre fiction, including the "Doctor Nikola" series
*Andrew Bovell - playwright and screenwriter; "Lantana", "The Book of Revelation"
*J M Coetzee - Nobel Prize for Literature 2003
*Peter Goldsworthy - Award winning author; "Maestro" (1989), "Honk If You are Jesus" (1992) and "Three Dog Night" (2003)
*Christine Harris - children's author
*DBC Pierre - Booker Prize winner 2003, author of "Vernon God Little" and "Ludmilla's Broken English''
*Gillian Rubinstein - children's author, (also known as best-selling adult author Lian Hearn)
*Tony Shillitoe
*James Houston Turner
*Sean Williams
*Caleb Lewis

Business and media

* Rupert Murdoch (media mogul) ran his first newspaper in Adelaide. In 1952 he took over management from his father of the afternoon paper "The News", turned it into a success and went on to build his now far-reaching media empire News Corporation, which was, up until the end of 2004, headquartered in Adelaide. According to Murdoch, a recipient of the City Keys, Adelaide remains News Corporation's "spiritual home".
* Robert Stigwood, the theatrical impresario, movie and record producer. Stigwood was the producer of the movies Saturday Night Fever and Grease.

Law and politics

*Dame Roma Mitchell (born in Adelaide, 1913) was Australia's first female QC, first female judge and first female Governor.
*Janine Haines (born in Tanunda, 1945) was the first female to lead an Australian political party (the Australian Democrats).
*Natasha Stott Despoja (born in Adelaide, 1969), was the youngest woman to enter Commonwealth Parliament and in 2001, was the youngest person in Australian history to lead an Australian political party (also the Australian Democrats).
*Sir Charles Cameron Kingston (born in Adelaide, 1850), son of the Adelaide surveyor Sir George Strickland Kingston, was the Premier of South Australia from 1893-99 and went on to be the Minister for Trade and Customs in the first Commonwealth Parliament.
*Catherine Helen Spence (emigrated to South Australia, 1839), was a suffragist, electoral reformer, prohibitionist, feminist and novelist. She pioneered the way for South Australia to become the second place in the world to grant women the right to vote (after New Zealand), and was the first female political candidate in Australia — standing for the Constitutional Conventions of the 1890s.
*Alexander Downer (born in Adelaide, 1951), was the shortest-serving leader of the federal Liberal Party before being replaced by John Howard. Downer was Minister for Foreign Affairs from March 1996 to November 2007, and went on to become the longest serving person in this position as of 2004.

cience

World-renowned Adelaide scientists include:
*Sir Mark Oliphant, physicist and Governor of South Australia.
*Nobel Prize winners
**William Henry Bragg
**William Lawrence Bragg, youngest ever winner of a Nobel Prize and the only father and son to have won the prize
**Robin Warren
**Howard Florey, honoured for his role in making penicillin readily available
*Andy Thomas, astronaut
*Pioneer Antarctic explorers Sir Douglas Mawson and Sir Hubert Wilkins.
*James Unaipon (1834-1908) and his son, the remarkable David Unaipon (1872-1967), commemorated on the Fifty Dollar banknote, were both highly intellectual and spiritual men. David Unaipon, a scientist, writer, preacher and prolific inventor, became known as the "Australian Leonardo"; one of his best ideas improved the efficiency of the mechanical sheep-shears.
*Dr Christopher Rawson Penfold and his wife Mary Penfold established Penfolds Winery in 1845 which now produces the prestigious Penfolds Grange Hermitage.
*Terence Tao, mathematician; winner of the 2006 Fields Medal widely viewed as the highest honour a mathematician can receive
*Rodney Brooks, roboticist; director of the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and founding member of the iRobot Corporation.

port

World and nationally recognised sports people from Adelaide include:

Australian Rules Football

* players
* players

Cricket

*Ian Chappell
*Greg Chappell
*Trevor Chappell
*David Hookes
*Wayne B. Phillips
*Wayne N. Phillips
*Darren Lehmann
*Jason Gillespie
*Greg Blewett
*Shaun Tait

Golf

*Geoff Ogilvy, 2006 U.S. Open and WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship winner.
* Adam Scott, golfer on the PGA tour

Motor Sports

*Vern Schuppan, ex Formula One driver & Australia's only 24 Hours of Le Mans race winner.
*Jeremy Burgess, MotoGP engineer, helped Wayne Gardner, Mick Doohan and Valentino Rossi to World Championships.

occer

*Adelaide United FC players
*Tony Vidmar
*John Aloisi, scored the winning penalty kick to take Australia to the 2006 Fifa World Cup, their first appearance since 1974.
*Aurelio Vidmar
*Alex Tobin, the most capped Socceroos player with 87 'A' appearances including many as captain.
*Dianne Alagich, currently playing for the Matildas, used to play in the USA for the San Jose CyberRays.

port Aerobics

*Kylie Halliday, 2003 Australian FISAF Sport Aerobic Championships winner and 2004 world rank 2.

Tennis

*Lleyton Hewitt, former world number one tennis player
*Alicia Molik, reached top ten on WTA Tour in 2005
*Mark Woodforde, former Nº1 doubles player
*Darren Cahill, coach and former top ten doubles player

Cycling

*Stuart O'Grady - Gold Medal, 2004 Athens Olympics (Men's Madison), 2nd place in the 1998, 1999, 2001 and 2005 Tour de France
*Michael Turtur - Gold Medal, 1984 Los Angeles Olympics (Men’s 4000m Team Pursuit)

ee also

*List of University of Adelaide people