1. Cameron Ling (1981)

Australian Rules Footballer

Australian rules football player who spent his entire 12-year career with the Geelong Cats. He won three championships with the team, serving as captain for their 2011 title. He worked...

2. Mark Beretta (1966)

Australian Sports Presenter On S

Australian journalist known for his coverage of the Olympic games, for hosting the quiz show The Master and for his work on The Morning Show.

3. Darryn Lyons (1965)

Celebrity Entrepreneur Papparazz

Though known best for founding and heading a paparazzi photo company called Big Pictures, this photographer also worked for the Geelong News and the Daily Mail.

4. Jimmy Bartel (1983)

Australian Rules Footballer

Australian rules footballer played midfield, leading Geelong F.C. to the top of the premiere league in 2007, 2009 and 2011.

5. Sam Newman (1945)

Australian Rules Footballer

Australian rules football player who hosted The Footy Show after retiring in 1980.

6. Graeme Lloyd (1967)

Baseball Player

The fourth native Australian to pitch in the MLB, pitched for 7 teams in his career.

7. Bruce Doull (1950)

Australian Rules Footballer

Australian rules football player nicknamed The Flying Doormat; played in 356 games for the Carlton Blues from 1969 to 1986.

8. Matt Barton (1977)

Video Game Writer

Gaming guru who has gained fame for his self-titled YouTube channel. His original "Matt Chat" web series discussing the world of video games have helped him grow to more than...

9. Daryl Somers (1951)

Australian Singer

An Australian television personality who is best known as the host of the variety show Hey, Hey It's Saturday.

10. George Sotiropoulos (1977)

Actor

Lightweight Brazilian black belt competed on The Ultimate Fighter.

11. Kate Allen (1970)

Triathlete

Triathlete who won a gold medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, while representing Austria.

12. Adam Harvey (1974)

Australian Singer

Country singer who released his self-titled debut album in 1994 and has won several CMMA Awards, including Album of the Year for the record Workin' Overtime.

13. Matthew Špiranović (1988)

Australian Footballer

Center back who joined the Western Sydney Wanderers in 2013 and became a member of the Australian national team in 2008.

14. Travis Boak (1988)

Australian Rules Footballer

Professional Australian rules football midfielder who debuted in 2007 for Port Adelaide.

15. Nick Maxwell (1983)

Australian Rules Footballer

Australian rules football defender who debuted in the AFL for Collingwood F.C. in 2004 and was made the team captain in 2009.

16. Ben Cousins (1978)

Australian Rules Footballer

Former Australian rules football star who played eleven seasons with the West Coast Eagles. During his time with the team, he won the 2006 AFL Grand Final and earned a...

17. Jarrod Kayler-Thomson (1985)

Australian Rules Footballer

Jarrod Kayler-Thomson is an Australian rules footballer. He had played in the Australian Football League with the Hawthorn Football Club. He currently plays for Subiaco in the WAFL. Kayler-Thomson was...

18. Matthew Primus (1975)

Australian Rules Footballer

Matthew Richard Primus is a former coach of the Port Adelaide Football Club and Australian rules footballer captain and All Australian ruckman. He is currently an assistant coach at the...

19. Phoebe Stanley (1985)

Australian Female Rowing Olympia

Phoebe Stanley is an Australian rower. She was selected to represent Australia at the 2012 Summer Olympics in rowing.

20. Leigh Ryswyk (1985)

Australian Rules Footballer

Leigh Ryswyk is an Australian rules footballer who played with the Brisbane Lions in the Australian Football League. Ryswyk a Victorian by birth moved to Queensland as a child and...

21. Mitchell Gourley (1991)

Australian Paralympic Alpine Ski

Mitchell Gourley is an Australian Paralympic alpine skier competed for Australia in the downhill super-G giant slalom slalom and super combined events at the 2010 Winter Paralympics in Vancouver and...

22. Brock James (1981)

Australian Rugby Union Player

Brock James is an Australian rugby union player currently playing for French club ASM Clermont Auvergne. James learnt to play Rugby at Old Collegians in South Australia. He represented South...

23. Esther Anderson (Australian actress) (1979)

Australian Actor

Esther Jackie Anderson is an Australian actress and model. She is best known for her role as Charlie Buckton on the Australian soap opera Home and Away. She was nominated...

24. Hetty Johnston (1958)

Australiana Ctivist

Hetty Margarette Johnston is the Founder and Executive Director of Bravehearts Inc. an organisation advocating for better child protection in Australia. She is a lobbyist who often highlights and promotes...

25. Marisa Siketa (1990)

Australian Actor

Marisa Julia Siketa is an Australian actress and disc jockey who played Summer Hoyland on the Australian soap opera Neighbours from 2002 to 2007 and Melanie Atwood #1 on The...

26. Charles Gray (New Zealand politician) (Unknow)

New Zealand Politician

Charles Mathew Gray was a New Zealand Independent Member of Parliament for Christchurch North and Mayor of Christchurch.

27. Matthew Henry Davies (1850)

Australian Politician

Sir Matthew Henry Davies was an Australian politician ex-Speaker of the Victorian Legislative Assembly. Davies was the son of Ebeneser Davies and Ruth his wife daughter of Mark Bartlett of...

28. George Fairbairn (politician) (1855)

Australian Politician

Sir George Fairbairn was a pastoralist and Australian politician. Fairbairn was born in Geelong Victoria and educated at Geelong Grammar School and Jesus College Cambridge. He rowed for Jesus College...

29. Josh Spence (1988)

Australian Baseball Player

Joshua Patrick William Josh Spence is an Australian professional baseball pitcher for the Miami Marlins organization. Previously he pitched for the San Diego Padres.

30. Helen Garner (1942)

Australian Author

Helen Garner is an Australian novelist short-story writer screenwriter and journalist. Garner's first novel Monkey Grip was published in 1977 and immediately established her as an original voice on the...

31. Samuel Mauger (1857)

Australian Politician

Samuel Mauger was an Australian social reformer hat manufacturing unionist and a Protectionist politician.

32. Ian Nankervis (1948)

Australian Rules Footballer

Ian J. Nankervis is a former Australian rules footballer for the Geelong Football Club in the Victorian Football League. Nankervis played for Geelong for 17 seasons and was captain from...

33. George Ernest Morrison (1862)

Australian Geologist

George Ernest G. E. Morrison also known as Morrison of Peking or Chinese Morrison was an Australian adventurer and The Times Peking correspondent.

34. Bruce Nankervis (1950)

Australian Rules Footballer

Bruce Nankervis is a former Australian rules footballer in the Victorian Football League for Geelong Football Club. He wore the number 33 during his tenure at the club. Nankervis was...

35. Ian Trezise (1959)

Australian Politician; Member Of

Ian Douglas Trezise is an Australian politician. He has been an Australian Labor Party member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly since September 1999 representing the seat of Geelong.

36. Chrissy Amphlett (1959)

Australian Musician

Christine Joy Chrissy Amphlett was an Australian singer who was the frontwoman of the Australian rock band Divinyls. Amphlett grew up in her home town of Geelong in Victoria Australia...

37. Sandy Blythe (1962)

Australian Paralympic Wheelchair

Robert Alexander Sandy Blythe OAM was an Australian wheelchair basketball player. He became a paraplegic due to a car accident in 1981 and went on to participate in the Australia...

38. Denis Napthine (1952)

Australian Politician

Denis Vincent Napthine is an Australian politician for the Liberal Party of Australia and the 47th Premier of Victoria. Napthine is a member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly representing the...

39. Jayden Pitt (1992)

Australian Footballer

Jayden Pitt is an Australian rules footballer who played for the Fremantle Football Club in the Australian Football League. He is a quick agile goalkicking midfielder who is a good...

40. Gary Cowton (1952)

Australian Rules Footballer

Gary Cowton is a former Australian rules footballer who played for North Melbourne in the Victorian Football League as well as having stints with Footscray and South Melbourne. Cowton often...

41. Rod Blake (1952)

Australian Rules Footballer

Rod Blake is a former Australian rules football ruckman whose career spanned a thirteen-year period beginning in 1971. He played a total of 176 games in the Victoria Football League...

42. Andrew Bews (1964)

Australian Rules Footballer

Andrew Bews is a former Australian rules footballer who played 282 VFL/AFL games during the 1980s and 90s. Debuting in 1981 after being recruited from North Geelong Bews played over...

43. Graeme Ross (1955)

Writer

44. Denis Walter (1955)

Australian Radio Announcer

Denis Walter is an Australian radio presenter singer recording artist and media personality who also presented television news for 16 years.

45. Geoff Howard (1955)

Politician

Geoffrey Kemp Geoff Howard is an Australian politician. He has been an Australian Labor Party member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly since 1999 representing Ballarat East. Howard was born at...

46. Bev Francis (1955)

Australian Powerlifter

Beverley Bev Francis is a retired powerlifter and female bodybuilder from Australia where she was a national shot put champion. Her list of athletic achievements includes breaking more than 40...

47. Arthur Coles (1892)

Australian Politician

Sir Arthur William Coles was a prominent Australian businessman and philanthropist a son of St James Victoria shopkeeper George W. Coles. With his brothers George James G. J. Kenneth...

48. Mairead Curran (1968)

Australian Actor

Mairead Curran is an Australian born children's entertainer actress and voice-over artist based in Melbourne.

49. Eddie Krnčević (1960)

Football Player/manager

Edward Eddie Krnčević is a retired Australian footballer who played as a striker and a current manager. The son of Croatian immigrants he played most of his professional career in...

50. Ernest Henshaw (1870)

Politician

Ernest Percival Henshaw was an Australian Labor Party politician who became a Member of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly. Born in Geelong Victoria on 4 September 1870 Henshaw was the...