- Chris Judd
Christopher Dylan Judd (born 8 September, 1983) is the premiership captain of the West Coast Eagles in the Australian Football League.
- Adam Goodes
Adam Goodes (born January 8, 1980) is an Australian rules football player and dual Brownlow Medal winner.He is regarded as one of the greats of the modern faster game alongside names such as Judd and Akermanis He began with the North Ballarat Rebels in the Victorian Football League, but was drafted into the Australian Football League by the Sydney Swans in 1997, as the No. 43 pick. Goodes spent the 1998 season in the reserves competition, …
- Ben Cousins
Benjamin Luke Cousins (born 30 June 1978) is an Australian rules footballer for the West Coast Eagles in the Australian Football League from 1996 to present. He has played over 200 games for West Coast as one of their key midfielders, and is one of the highest rated midfielders in the competition, gaining a spot in the All Australian Midfield.
- James Hird
James Albert Hird (born February 4, 1973) is an Australian rules footballer, formerly the captain of the Essendon Football Club. A versatile player who can play in a key forward position, a midfielder or as a sweeper in defence, he is generally considered to be one of the best and most fearless modern player in the game of Australian rules football, and one of the greatest players of all time.
- Jim Stynes
Jim Stynes OAM (born April 23, 1966) is a former Australian rules football player. Though he had no contact with the sport until the age of eighteen he went on to become one of its most successful players with a Brownlow Medal and the current record for the most consecutive games. Stynes' 12-year VFL/AFL career from 1987 to 1998 was played with the Melbourne Football Club.
- Nathan Buckley
Nathan Buckley (born July 26, 1972) is an Australian rules football player and captain of the Collingwood Football Club. He is one of the most notable players of the game in the last 10 years alongside the likes of Michael Voss, James Hird, Robert Harvey and Wayne Carey.
- Michael Voss
Michael Voss (born July 7, 1975) is a former Australian rules footballer, usually playing midfield or in the forward line for Australian Football League team the Brisbane Lions. At 183cm, Voss was renowned for his hardness at the ball, inspirational leadership and the ability to turn a game by his presence at the contest. Voss is considered one of the finest players of his generation, <sup></sup> along with James Hird, Chris Grant, Shane Crawford, Scott West, Robert Harvey, …
- Jason Akermanis
Jason "Aka" Akermanis (born February 24, 1977) is an Australian rules footballer for the Western Bulldogs. Outspoken Akermanis made a name for himself as a Brownlow medal winning and triple premiership player with the Brisbane Lions and left the club in highly controversial circumstances.
- Robert Harvey
Robert Jeffrey Harvey (born August 21, 1971) is an Australian Rules Football Player in the Australian Football League recognised as one of the League's best midfielders and noted for his supreme endurance. He is known as one of the great players of his generation, along with Michael Voss, Shane Crawford, Scott West, Nathan Buckley, Mark Ricciuto and James Hird. He is the grandson of former Australian Test cricketer Merv Harvey and grandnephew of Neil Harvey, …
- Simon Black
Simon Black (born April 3 1979) is an Australian rules footballer playing for the Brisbane Lions in the Australian Football League. Black is a midfielder with a reputation for hard work and skill. He has the ability to get under the pack to retrieve the ball as well as deliver it with precision to teammates and rarely wastes a possession. Born in Mount Isa, Queensland, he relocated to Western Australia with his family at a very young age.
- Mark Ricciuto
Mark Anthony Ricciuto (born June 8, 1975) is a prominent Australian rules football player, representing the Adelaide Crows in the Australian Football League. Ricciuto was born in Waikerie, South Australia. After some success in local leagues, he was recruited by SANFL team West Adelaide and soon after, was recruited by the Adelaide Crows as a rookie. He debuted in the AFL in 1993. Ricciuto quickly rose to prominence in the national competition.
- Paul Kelly
Paul Kelly (born July 28 1969) is a champion Australian rules footballer, winning the Brownlow Medal and serving as captain of the Sydney Swans for ten seasons. Born in Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Kelly initially played rugby league for Wagga Brothers but turned to Australian rules football at age 15. Recruited to the AFL by the Swans, Kelly made his debut in 1990, was appointed captain in 1993, won the Brownlow Medal (the AFL's highest individual honour) in 1995, …
- Shane Woewodin
Shane Woewodin (born July 12, 1976) is an Australian rules football player who played 200 games with Collingwood and Melbourne. He was the recipient of the Brownlow Medal in 2000. He attended Kent Street Senior High School when he was a teenager.
- Shane Crawford
Shane Crawford (born September 9, 1974 in Mount Barker, South Australia) is an Australian rules football player for the Hawthorn Football Club in the Australian Football League. Shane spent much of his childhood in Finley, New South Wales and Myrtleford, Victoria.
- Bob Skilton
Robert John (Bob) Skilton (born November 8, 1938) was an Australian rules football player who played as a rover for South Melbourne and Victoria between 1956 and 1971. He was one of only 4 players to have won the Brownlow Medal three times - in 1959 (tied with Verdun Howell), 1963 and 1968 - and was rated by Jack Dyer as better than Haydn Bunton and equal to Dick Reynolds, making him one of the best players in the history of the game.
- Greg Williams
Greg "Diesel" Williams (born September 30, 1963) was a former champion Australian rules footballer with the Sydney Swans, Geelong Football Club and the Carlton Football Club in the Victorian/Australian football League. Nicknamed "Diesel" for his hard working, slow but effective playing, Williams holds the record for disposals in an AFL match with 51 (23 kicks and 28 handballs).
- Tony Lockett
Anthony Howard "Tony" Lockett (born in Ballarat on March 9, 1966) is a former Australian rules football player. Lockett is the highest goal scorer in the history of the VFL/AFL with 1,360 goals in a career of 281 games that commenced in 1983 with St Kilda Football Club. Lockett is the only full-forward ever to win the coveted Brownlow Medal, in 1987, a season in which he was decorated with several honours.
- Gavin Wanganeen
Gavin Wanganeen (born 18 June 1973) is a former Australian rules footballer. He has played in two Australian Football League premierships with Essendon and Port Adelaide. Wanganeen began his career aged 16 with Port Adelaide in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL) (prior to that club joining the AFL), winning the SANFL Rookie of the Year award and gaining the attention of AFL side Essendon.
- Dick Reynolds
Richard Sylvannus Reynolds (June 20, 1915 - September 2, 2002), known as Dick Reynolds, was an Australian rules football player and coach. He played for, captained and coached the Essendon Bombers in the VFL/AFL competition for nearly three decades. He played from 1933 until 1951, captain coaching the side from 1939 until 1950, and coaching after his retirement from 1951 until 1960.
- Gerard Healy
Gerard Healy, (born 1 March, 1961) is a former Australian rules footballer and commentator. Gerard Healy attended St Bede's College in Mentone, where he was the Senior Football Captai
- Malcolm Blight
Malcolm Jack Blight AM (born 16 February, 1950) is a former Australian rules football player who had a Hall of Fame career with the Woodville Football Club and the North Melbourne Football Club and coached the Adelaide Crows to two Premierships in 1997 & 1998.
- Paul Couch
Paul Couch (born July 19, 1964) is a retired Australian rules football player. He is the most recent Brownlow Medallist for the Geelong Football Club, playing 259 games and kicking 203 goals from 1985 to 1997 and winning the coveted Brownlow in 1989. Paul was recruited from Warrnambool and, though never blessed with pace and very "one-sided" on his trusty left boot, …
- Barry Round
Barry Round (born January 26, 1950) played for Footscray and South Melbourne/Sydney in the Victorian Football League between 1969 and 1985. Along the way, he played 328 games (135 for Footscray and 193 for South Melbourne/Sydney), won a Brownlow Medal in 1981 (tying with his former teammate Bernie Quinlan) and was the Swans' first captain during the Sydney era.
- Tony Liberatore
Anthony (Tony) Liberatore (born February 11, 1966) is a former Australian rules footballer. As one of the shortest players in the history of the game, standing at 163cm, "Libba", of Italian descent, was told he didn't have what it takes to make it at the elite level by ex footscray coach Michael Malthouse. But his guts and sheer determination marked him down as one of the Western Bulldogs greats. The rover won the Brownlow Medal in 1990, …
- Len Thompson
Len Thompson born August 27, 1947, is a former Australian rules footballer. Combining great physical size (200cm, 95.5kg) with tremendous athleticism, Thompson often ruled the ruck contests as though he owned them, whilst simultaneously providing Collingwood with a formidable around the ground presence. The Magpies recruited Thompson from North Reservoir after he had initially been rejected by Essendon, a club which, ironically, …
- Robert Dipierdomenico
Robert "Dipper" DiPierdomenico (born May 5, 1958) is a former Australian rules footballer in the VFL/AFL of Italian descent.
- John Platten
John Patrick "The Rat" Platten (born March 17, 1963 in South Australia) is a former Australian rules footballer. With his unruly tangle of curls he was a distinctive figure on the field with tremendous tenacity and the ability to accumulate possessions week after week. Platten began (and ended) his career with the Central District Bulldogs in the SANFL competition. A junior with Centrals, he commenced in the junior ranks in 1979 and made his league debut in 1981.
- Bill Hutchison
Bill Hutchison was an Australian rules footballer. He played in the VFL from 1942-1957 with the Essendon Football Club, playing 290 games and kicking 496 goals. Considered one of the finest rovers ever to play the game, he was a vital part of the Bombers' premiership sides in 1942, 1946, 1949 and 1950. He won the Brownlow Medal in 1952, tying with Roy Wright, and again in 1953. Over his career Hutchison polled a total of 172 Brownlow votes, …
- Ian Stewart
Ian Harlow Stewart (born July 30, 1943) was an Australian rules football player with Hobart in the Tasmanian Football League (1962), and in the Victorian Football League with St Kilda (1963-1970) and Richmond (1971-1975). He later coached South Melbourne and Carlton, and was an administrator at St Kilda. Stewart is one of only four men to win the game's most coveted award, the Brownlow medal, three times.
- Kevin Murray
Kevin 'Bulldog' Murray (born 18 June 1938) was a champion Australian rules footballer who played for the Fitzroy Football Club in the Victorian Football League in 333 games over 18 seasons. Murray played for Fitzroy from 1955 to 1964, and from 1967 to 1974, winning nine best-and-fairest awards for the club. He was playing coach of Fitzroy in 1963, a job he also filled in 1964, along with representing and captaining his home state of Victoria.
- Brad Hardie
Brad Hardie (born October 10, 1962) is a former Australian rules footballer and commentator. He began his career as an attacking back pocket player, but ended as a dangerous goal kicking forward pocket. He was always easily spotted on the field with bright red hair and his trademark long sleeve jumper, hiding the scars from serious burns that he received as a child.
- John Schultz
John Schultz (born September 28, 1938) is a former Australian rules football player, who played for the Footscray Football Club in the (then) Victorian Football League (VFL) and is one of the club's greatest players. John Schulz was considered a "gentle giant", known as much for his fairness as for his brilliance. An effective knock ruckman, he was acclaimed for good tackling, elegant marking and hard, fair bumping.
- Bernie Quinlan
Bernie Quinlan (born 21 July, 1951), is a former Australian rules footballer and coach, who enjoyed a lengthy career with Footscray and Fitzroy in the VFL. He played 366 league games in total. He was recruited from Traralgon, Victoria as a 17 year old. Debuting for the Bulldogs in 1969, he played 177 games for the club, playing mostly at centre half-forward (also occasionally playing as a centre half-back).
- Brian Wilson
Brian Wilson (born 30 September 1961) was an Australian rules footballer in the VFL. Early in his career, he played in the centre and later became a forward pocket. At Melbourne he developed into an aggressive player, winning possessions in packs and showed great handballing skills. Believed to be the only player to have won a Brownlow Medal at his third club. At 20 years of age, he was also the youngest winner since Bob Skilton in 1959.
- Bernie Smith
Bernie Smith is a former Australian rules footballer in the SANFL and VFL, who is perhaps best remembered as one of the greatest back pockets in the history of the game.
- Kelvin Templeton
Kelvin Templeton (born September 30, 1956) is a former Australian rules footballer. Templeton was recruited from Traralgon in 1974 by the Footscray FC. He led the league's goalkicking on two occasions and was the winner of the Brownlow Medal in 1980, becoming the first player who regularly played at Centre Half-Forward to win the award. Despite Footscray finishing near the bottom of the VFL ladder in 1978, Templeton headed the goalkicking table for the season with 118, …
- Neil Roberts
Neil E. Roberts (born 15 June, 1933) is a former Australian rules footballer in the VFL. Roberts played with St Kilda on the forward line initially but later excelled as a centre half back, winning the Brownlow medal in 1958. Captained the side from 1959 to 1962 before retiring at 29 years of age and commencing a career in sports journalism. Inducted to the Saints inaugural Hall of Fame in 2003.
- Peter Moore
Peter Moore (born 11 January 1957) was an Australian rules footballer who played for Collingwood and Melbourne in the Victorian Football League. A tall, agile ruckman with good ball skills, Moore was one of only three men to have won Brownlow medals at different clubs - Collingwood in 1979 and Melbourne in 1984. Recurring hamstring injuries saw Moore's form drop off in his final seasons with Collingwood and he was traded to Melbourne, where his career took on a resurgence.
- Noel Teasdale
Noel Teasdale (born 2 January 1938) is a former Australian rules footballer in the Victorian Football League. Originally from Daylesford, Victoria, Teasdale made his debut with the North Melbourne Football Club in 1956 playing as a ruckman and for a period, a full-back. Teasdale was noted for his tough, uncompromising play and in 1964 saw this almost cost him his life - as his head clashed with that of North teammate Ken Dean leaving him in a serious condition in St.
- Peter Bedford
Peter Lawrence Anthony "Wheels" Bedford (born April 11, 1947) is a former Australian rules footballer. He is best known for his time at Victorian Football League team South Melbourne, but he also played eight games for Carlton. Peter began his football career at C.B.C. Parade and later at Port Melbourne Football Club. He played for South Melbourne (now the Sydney Swans) between 1968 and 1976, playing 178 games and kicking 325 goals.