- Mike Rann
Michael David Rann (born 1953), Australian politician, is the 44th Premier of South Australia. He is the parliamentary leader of the South Australian State Labor Party, the member for the seat of Ramsay and the Senior Vice President of the Federal Labor Party. Rann was born in Sidcup, Kent, United Kingdom, to working-class parents who emigrated to New Zealand in 1962, …
- Lleyton Hewitt
Lleyton Glynn Hewitt (born February 24, 1981), is a former World No. 1 tennis player from Australia. In 2001, he became the youngest male ever to be ranked number one. His career best achievements are winning the 2001 US Open and 2002 Wimbledon men's singles titles. Hewitt is known for his competitiveness and wins most of his matches with relentless aggression, fitness, consistent shots, and highly skilled footwork. His serve improved greatly in 2004 and 2005.
- Paul Kelly
Paul Maurice Kelly (born 13 January 1955 in Adelaide, South Australia) is an Australian singer-songwriter and is recognised as an icon of Australian rock music as a member of the ARIA Hall of Fame. He is now based in Melbourne, Australia. His output has ranged from bluegrass to studio-oriented dub reggae, but his core output comfortably straddles folk, rock, and even some country.
- Alexander Downer
Alexander Downer is one of the most influential South Australians of all time. His experience with not only the United Nations, but also with diplomacy and politcs, provides insight and understanding from which all delegates will benefits greatly. Mr Downer was born on 9 September 1951. After commencing his education in South Australia, he obtained a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) in Politics and Economics and is a Doctor of Civil Laws (honoris causa) in the United Kingdom.
- Jimmy Barnes
Jimmy Barnes is a popular Australian rock singer. He was born James Dixon Swan on April 28, 1956 in Glasgow, Scotland. His father Jim Swan was a prizefighter and his older brother John Swan is also a rock singer. His career as both a solo performer and as the lead vocalist with the rock band Cold Chisel has made him one of the most popular and best-selling Australian music artists of all time.
- William Light
Colonel William Light (1786 - October 6 1839) was a distinguished military officer and latterly Surveyor-General of South Australia. He was born in Kuala Kedah, Malaya in 1786, an illegitimate son of Captain Francis Light, the Governor of Penang, and Martina Rozells, of mixed Siamese and Portuguese descent. He died in Adelaide, South Australia, from tuberculosis.
- Guy Sebastian
Guy Theodore Sebastian (born October 26, 1981) is an Australian singer-songwriter and winner of the first "Australian Idol" TV talent competition quest in 2003. Since winning the competition, he has released three top five albums and seven top twenty singles and has sold over a million albums and singles in Australia alone. He has also had substantial success overseas with number one hits in New Zealand, Malaysia, and Singapore.
- Don Dunstan
Donald Allan Dunstan AC QC (21 September 1926 – 6 February 1999) was an Australian politician. He was Labor Premier of South Australia between 1 June 1967, and 17 April 1968, and subsequently between 2 June 1970, and 15 February 1979. A reformist, Dunstan brought profound change to South Australian society: his progressive reign saw Aboriginal land rights recognised, homosexuality decriminalised, …
- Hans Heysen
Sir Hans Heysen (October 8, 1877-July 2, 1968) was a well-known Australian artist. He was particularly recognised for his watercolours of the Australian bush. He won the Wynne Prize for landscape painting a record nine times. Wilhelm Ernst Hans Franz Heysen was born in Hamburg, Germany. He migrated to Adelaide in South Australia with his family in 1884 at the age of 6. As a young boy Heysen showed an early interest in art.
- John Kosmina
Alexander John Kosmina (born August 17, 1956) known as John Kosmina is a former Australian international Football (soccer) player. He is also the former head coach of the Australian A-League football club Adelaide United. He had previously coached the Newcastle Breakers and Brisbane Strikers in the NSL. He is a member of the Football Federation Australia Football Hall of Fame.
- John Aloisi
John Aloisi is an Australian football (soccer) striker who currently plays for Deportivo Alavés in the Spanish Segunda División and for his national team. John is the younger brother of Wellington Phoenix midfielder Ross Aloisi.
- Stuart O'Grady
Stuart O'Grady OAM (born on 6 August, 1973), nicknamed "Stuey", is an Australian professional road bicycle racer, who started his career as a track cyclist. His most prominent victories came when he and Graeme Brown won a gold medal in Men's Madison at the 2004 Summer Olympics, and when he won Paris-Roubaix in 2007. O'Grady has participated in the Tour de France since 1998, …
- Natasha Stott Despoja
Natasha Jessica Stott-Despoja (born 9 September 1969) is an Australian politician and former leader of the Australian Democrats. She has been a Democrat senator for South Australia since November 1995. She is the youngest woman ever elected to the Parliament of Australia.
- Tim Flannery
Professor Timothy Fridtjof Flannery (born 28 January 1956) is an Australian mammologist, palaeontologist and global warming activist. Flannery was named Australian of the Year in 2007 and presently an adjunct professor at Macquarie University. His controversial views on shutting down conventional coal burning for electricity in the medium term are frequently cited in the media.
- Travis Dodd
Travis Dodd is an Indigenous Australian football (soccer) player. He currently plays as a right midfielder for Adelaide United in the newly-formed Hyundai A-League. He played junior soccer at Elizabeth before joining the South Australian Sports Institute in 1996. He was Adelaide City’s fourth youngest National Soccer League (NSL) player of all time (16 years 281 days), and the fifth player in NSL history to score a hat-trick after coming on as a substitute (2003, …
- Ross Aloisi
Ross Aloisi (born April 17, 1973 in Adelaide, South Australia) is an Australian football (soccer) player who was known for being the captain of Adelaide United in the Hyundai A-League - a team he guided to a premiership, a pre-season cup and 2 Asian Champions League campaigns. He has now come out of retirement and is playing for Wellington Phoenix FC in the A-League.
- Anthony Lapaglia
Anthony LaPaglia (born 31 January, 1959) is an Australian actor, best known for his role as FBI agent Jack Malone on the American TV series "Without a Trace", a role which won him a Golden Globe Award. LaPaglia was also heavily considered for the lead role of Tony Soprano on the HBO hit show "The Sopranos". He also appeared as Jimmy Wyler, the lead during the second and final season of the television program "Murder One".
- Ian Chappell
Ian Michael Chappell (born September 26, 1943 in Unley, South Australia) is a former Australian Test cricketer, who captained Australia between 1971 and 1975 before becoming one of the central figures in the breakaway World Series Cricket (WSC) organisation. Born into a cricketing family, Chappell had an inconsistent career in Tests as an aggressive top order batsman until his appointment as captain.
- Catherine Helen Spence
Catherine Helen Spence (31 October 1825 - 3 April 1910) was an Australian author, teacher, journalist, politician and leading suffragette. In 1897 she became Australia's first female political candidate after standing (unsuccessfully) for the Federal Convention held in Adelaide. Known as the "Greatest Australian Woman" and given the epitaph "Grand Old Woman of Australasia", Spence is commemorated on the Australian 5 dollar note issued for the Centenary of Federation.
- Andy Thomas
Andrew "Andy" Sydney Withiel Thomas (born December 18 1951 in Adelaide, South Australia) is an Australian-born US aerospace engineer and a NASA astronaut. He became a U.S. citizen in December 1986. He is married to NASA astronaut Shannon Walker.
- Mark Oliphant
Sir Marcus 'Mark' Laurence Elwin Oliphant AC KBE (October 8 1901 - July 14, 2000) was an Australian physicist and humanitarian who played a fundamental role in the development of the Atomic bomb.
- Allan Scott
Allan Scott (born c. 1928) is an Australian businessman. He is best known for founding the truck organisation Scott's Transport in Mount Gambier, South Australia, which has since grown to be one of the biggest freight companies in Australia, rivalling Linfox. Scott has major control in his company despite his old age and health problems. In 1997 Scott's became a major sponsor of Port Adelaide Football Club upon their entry into the Australian Football League.
- Cheong Liew
Cheong Liew (b. Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia), one of South Australia's most well-known chefs, first moved from Malaysia to Melbourne in 1969 to become an electrical engineer. However he became a chef instead! He then was the owner of the popular restaurant "Neddys" in Adelaide, where the menu consisted of mostly Malaysian and Chinese dishes. He dared to use items in his cooking not many other chefs dared to use at that time; such as pigs feet, whole ducks, and pigs heads.
- Chad Cornes
Chad Studley Cornes (born 12 November, 1979) is an Australian rules footballer who made his debut in 1999. He plays for Port Adelaide in the AFL, and was part of his side's 2004 premiership, captained by Warren Tredrea. He is the son of former Adelaide coach Graham Cornes and the older brother of Port Adelaide footballer Kane Cornes. He plays as a utility but mainly as a Centre Half Back. He has developed into one of the top players playing AFL.
- Geoff Ogilvy
Geoff Ogilvy (born June 11 1977) is an Australian golfer who now resides in Scottsdale, Arizona, in the United States. Ogilvy was born in Adelaide, South Australia. He turned professional in May of 1998 and he won a European Tour card at that year's Qualifying school. He played on the European Tour in 1999 and 2000, finishing 65th in his first season and improving to 48th in his second. He joined the U.S. based PGA Tour in 2001, …
- Roma Mitchell
Dame Roma Flinders Mitchell, AC, DBE, CVO, QC, (October 2 1913 - March 5 2000) was an Australian lawyer and judge; she was the first Australian woman Queen’s Counsel, the first woman Chancellor of a university in Australia, and the first woman Governor of an Australian State. Mitchell was born in Adelaide in 1913 and was the second daughter of Harold and Maude Mitchell. A graduate of St. Aloysius Convent College, Adelaide, Roma Mitchell was Australia's first female QC, …
- Alicia Molik
Alicia Molik (born January 27, 1981) is a professional female tennis player from Australia. Molik was born in Adelaide, Australia, and currently lives in Melbourne. She attended Our Lady of Perpetual Succour West Pymble, before completing her schooling in Adelaide.
- Richie Alagich
Richie' Alagich (born October 30, 1973 in Adelaide, South Australia, Australia) is an Australian football (soccer) player. He is a right full back who currently plays for Adelaide United in the Hyundai A-League.
- Greg Chappell
Gregory Stephen Chappell (born 7 August 1948 in Unley, South Australia) is a former cricketer who captained Australia between 1975 and 1977 and then joined the breakaway World Series Cricket (WSC) organisation, before returning to the Australian captaincy in 1979, which he held until 1983. The second of three brothers to play Test cricket, Chappell was the preeminant Australian batsman of his time who allied elegant stroke making to fierce concentration.
- Scott Hicks
Robert Scott Hicks (b. 4 March 1953 in Uganda) is an Academy Award nominated film director from South Australia. Hicks graduated from Flinders University of South Australia (BA Honors) in 1975 and was awarded an honorary doctorate in 1997. Born and raised in East Africa, Scott lives with his wife, producer Kerry Heysen and their two sons, Scott and Jethro in Adelaide, South Australia.
- Sam Harris
Samuel Harris is an Australian actor. He made his film debut as Luke in 2:37, which was released on August 17 2006. He was born in Adelaide, Australia, and currently resides in Sydney.
- Lucas Pantelis
Lucas Pantelis (born March 12, 1982 in Adelaide, South Australia, Australia) is an Australian football player. He currently plays for Adelaide United in the Hyundai A-League. Pantelis missed almost the entire 2006-7 season with a serious knee injury. He plays on the left wing. He returned to competitive action for United during their 2007 Asian Champions League campaign.
- Colin Thiele
Colin Milton Thiele AC (16 November 1920 - 4 September 2006) was an Australian author and educator. He was renowned for his award-winning children's fiction, most notably for the novel "Storm Boy".
- George Fife Angas
George Fife Angas (1 May 1789-15 May 1879), played a significant part in the formation of South Australia. He was born at Newcastle upon Tyne, England, the seventh son of Caleb Angas, a successful coach builder and ship owner. He received his education at a boarding school and at age 15 became an apprentice coachbuilder under his father's direction.
- Greg Champion
Greg Champion is an Australian songwriter, guitarist and radio personality. Born in Adelaide, South Australia, Champion is most recognised for his work as part of the Coodabeen Champions as a songwriter. He is an avid Australian rules football fan, supporting the Adelaide Crows and since the 1980s has penned many tunes on the Australian game. Of these, the most famous is "That's the Thing about Football", which has gone down as a classic Australian rules song, …
- Simon Hackett
Simon Hackett Simon Hackett is the founder and CEO of national broadband ISP Internode and broadband infrastructure builder Agile . Simon graduated from, and then worked at, the University of Adelaide in the 80's. He was one of the folk who helped to build version 1 of AARNet while at the University. He contributed to the development of IETF standards in the areas of audio and video transport, and built one of the world's first SNMP controlled Internet toasters.
- Leigh Warren
Leigh Warren (born 1952) is an Australian contemporary dance choreographer and is Artistic Director of Leigh Warren & Dancers (LWD) having previously been at the Australian Dance Theatre. He has recently choreographed and directed the "Portrait Trilogy" of operas by Philip Glass ("Akhnaten", Einstein on the Beach and Satyagraha) performed by LWD, the Adelaide Vocal Project and the State Opera of South Australia.
- Peter Lewis
Peter Lewis, is an Australian politician. Lewis was the Liberal member for the South Australian House of Assembly electorate of Hammond from 1979 until 2000, then the Independent member for Hammond until 2006. His decision in 2002 to support the Australian Labor Party resulted in a Labor State Government led by Mike Rann. Lewis was first elected in 1979, as a Liberal candidate. He quickly gained a reputation as a maverick, defying the party authorities on many an occasion.
- Tony Vidmar
Tony Vidmar (born July 4, 1970 in Adelaide) is an Australian football (soccer) player of Slovenian-Italian origin, currently playing with the Central Coast Mariners in the Australian A-League. He was a member of the Australian national team, competed at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona for his native country, and is currently Australia's third highest capped player. His brother Aurelio Vidmar was also an Australian football player.
- Paul Agostino
Paul Agostino (born 9 June 1975 in Adelaide, Australia) is an Australian football (soccer) striker. Agostino is part of the Adelaide United squad in the Australian A-League.