- Portia de Rossi
Portia de Rossi, born Amanda Lee Rogers on January 31, 1973, is an Australian actress who is best known for her role as lawyer Nelle Porter on the television series "Ally McBeal", and as Lindsay Bluth Fünke on the television series "Arrested Development".
- Gary Ablett
Gary Robert Ablett, Sr (born October 1 1961) is a retired Australian rules football player.
- Jimmy Bartel
James "Jimmy" Bartel (born December 4, 1983), is a professional Australian rules football player. Bartel was selected with the 8th Pick in the 2001 AFL Draft by the Geelong Football Club, having been recruited from the Geelong Falcons TAC Cup team where he was selected in both the Under-18 All-Australian Team, and the TAC Cup Team of the Year for 2000 and 2001. He helped the team win the 2000 TAC Cup Grand Final, and won the team's Best and Fairest award.
- Lee Troop
Lee Troop (born March 22, 1973) an Olympic marathon runner from Geelong, Victoria, Australia. He became involved in athletics at the age of 11 when he joined his father's weight loss campaign by taking training runs around the Geelong suburb of Whittington. Mentored by one of Australia's greatest ever marathoners Steve Moneghetti, Lee is one of Australia's toughest distance runners who always serves it up to the field.
- Sam Newman
John Noel William "Sam" Newman (born December 22, 1945 in Geelong, Victoria) is a retired Australian rules football player for the Geelong Cats and is now a local celebrity, television personality and part-time specialist ruck coach.
- Frank Costa
Frank Costa OAM (born 1938 in Geelong) is an entrepreneur, 1997 Order of Australia Medal recipient, and philanthropist. The Geelong native has been a prominent figure in the region for more than four decades, after inheriting the family's produce business in the late 1950s. The company has become largest service wholesaler of fruit & vegetables in the country with operations in five major states. In 1998, he became president of the Geelong Football Club.
- Andrew Mackie
Andrew Mackie (born August 7, 1984), is a professional Australian rules football player who plays in the Australian Football League. His father Mark was best known as a field umpire in the 1990 and 1992 SANFL Grand Finals. He is the youngest of 3 sons. Andrew was a keen Adelaide Crows fan throughout the 1990s and early 2000s and was a very talented football and cricket player during his childhood years.
- Travis Varcoe
Travis Varcoe (born April 10, 1988) is a professional Australian rules football player with the Geelong Football Club in the Australian Football League. He was selected with the 15th pick in the 2005 AFL Draft by Geelong. Varcoe debuted in the SANFL for the Central District Bulldogs in 2005, at the age of 17. Rumours are Travis Varcoe is the best young prospect in the last 40 years.
- Nathan Deakes
Nathan Deakes (born August 17, 1977) is an Australian race walker. He won a bronze medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, and is a four-time Commonwealth Games gold medallist. He won gold in the 20km walk and 50km walk events at both the 2002 Manchester Games and the 2006 Melbourne Games, becoming the first man to win both the 20km and 50km walks at two consecutive Commonwealth Games.
- Richard Marles
Richard Marles (born 13 July 1967), Australian trade unionist, is the endorsed Australian Labor Party candidate for the Victorian federal seat of Corio, based on Geelong, for the 2007 federal election. Marles is the son of Donald Marles, a former headmaster of Trinity Grammar School, and Faye Marles, Victoria's first Equal Opportunity Commissioner and later Chancellor of the University of Melbourne.
- Peter McMullin
Peter McMullin is the current Mayor of Geelong as of 2006. Peter McMullin was elected to the Melbourne City Council in 1996. Peter McMullin in 1997 was resigned from the position of Lord Mayor and was unsuccessful in his nomination to be re-elected to the City Council in March 1999. Peter McMullin, supported by State Premier Steve Bracks, stood as a candidate for election as Lord Mayor, he was defeated by incumbent Lord Mayor, John So.
- Kane Tenace
Kane Tenace (born July 4, 1985), is a professional Australian rules football player. He was selected with the 7th Pick in the 2003 Australian Football League Draft by the Geelong Cats, Kane is entering his 4th season for the club. He was recruited from the Murray Bushrangers in the TAC Cup, and won Geelong's Best First Year Player Award in his debut AFL season.
- Darryn Lyons
Darryn Lyons is an Australian paparazzo and media personality, best known for his work in England.
- Billy Brownless
Anthony William "Billy" Brownless (born January 28, 1967 in Jerilderie, New South Wales, Australia) is a former Australian rules footballer with Geelong FC in the Australian Football League. He was also 12th Man for Victoria, in cricket and is a fervent Melbourne Victory supporter.
- James Harrison
James Harrison (April 1816 - September 3 1893 was a Scottish newspaper printer, journalist, politician and pioneer in the field of mechanical refrigeration.
- Guy Pearce
Guy Edward Pearce (born October 5, 1967) is an English-born Australian actor.
- Josip Skoko
Josip Skoko (born December 10 1975 in Mount Gambier, Australia) is an Australian football (soccer) midfielder of Croatian descent who plays for Wigan Athletic in the Premier League. He is an Australian international and made his debut for Australia against Macedonia in 1997. Skoko has been a main-stay of the "Socceroos" side since his debut, participating in two World Cup qualifying campaigns.
- Leigh Harding
Leigh Harding (born 26 April 1981) is an Australian rules footballer in the Australian Football League. Originally from Bannockburn, Victoria, Harding then played under-18 football with the Geelong Falcons before he moved to play with Geelong in the VFL. Selected in the 2000 rookie draft, he was elevated from the Kangaroos' rookie list in 2001, where he made his debut as a 20-year-old. A crumbing forward, Harding has the tendency to miss simple shots at goal on the run, …
- Jeff Lang
Jeff Lang (born Nov 7, 1969) is an Australian songwriter, singer and virtouso slide guitarist. A leading performer in the Australian roots style, which incorporates primarily folk, blues and rock, his music is heavily influenced by the folk music of the southern United States but has distincly Australian lyrical content. He plays various types of guitar, both slide and standard, as well as banjo and drums.
- Alexander Thomson
Dr. Alexander Thomson (c. 1800 - 1 January 1866) was elected as the first mayor of Geelong and held the position on five occasions from 1850 - 1858. Thomson was the first settler in the area known as Belmont, a suburb of Geelong and called his homestead Kardinia, a property now listed on the Register of the National Estate.
- Gary Ablett Jr.
Gary Ablett Junior (born May 14, 1984) is an Aussie rules footballer currently playing for the Geelong Cats in the AFL. He is the eldest son of Gary Ablett, who was a champion Australian rules football player at Geelong and Hawthorn between 1982 - 1997. While Gary Sr. was a powerhouse forward with an exceptionally high leap, Gary Jr. has made his name a midfielder/forward pocket known for his, classy, ability to find space in the tightest pack situations.
- Foster Fyans
Foster Fyans (1790 - 1870), soldier, penal administrator and public servant, was acting commandant of the second convict settlement at Norfolk Island, the first police magistrate at Geelong, and commissioner of crown lands for the Portland Bay pastoral district in the Port Phillip District of New South Wales. Fyans was baptised at Clontarf, Dublin and joined the British Army in 1810, seeing service in the Peninsula War. From 1817 he served in India.
- Daryl Somers
Daryl Paul Somers OAM (born Daryl Schultz August 6,1951 in Geelong, Victoria, Australia), sometimes referred to as Dazza or Dags, is an Australian television personality. The son of a dairy farmer and a cabaret singer, Somers rose to national fame as the host of the long-running comedy-variety program "Hey Hey It's Saturday". Somers' first appearances on television were as a contestant in the program New Faces.
- Garry Hocking
Garry "Buddha" Hocking (born October 8, 1968), is a former Australian rules footballer and coach. Hocking played 274 games for the Geelong Football Club in the AFL between 1987 and 2001. He was renowned as a tough midfielder. He represented Victoria on numerous occasions in the State of Origin series including 1998 and played in a losing Grand Final side. In the late 1990's Hocking was part of a promotion with cat-food company Whiskas, …
- Michael Crutchfield
Michael Crutchfield (born December 12 1961) is an Australian politician. He is currently the member for South Barwon in the Victorian Legislative Assembly. Crutchfield was born in Melbourne, but attended high school in the coastal city of Warrnambool. He studied to become a teacher at the University of Western Australia before returning to Victoria and taking up a position as a teacher at Chanel College in Geelong.
- Barry Crocker
Barry Hugh Crocker OAM (born November 4, 1935, in Geelong, Victoria, Australia) is a popular Australian singer, with a crooning vocal style. He sang the original recording of the theme song for the Australian soap opera "Neighbours". Crocker also has had a semi-successful career as an actor, most notably starring alongside Barry Humphries in the title role of "The Adventures of Barry McKenzie" and its sequel, "Barry McKenzie Hold His Own".
- Denis Walter
Denis Walter (born 1955) is an Australian media personality and singer. Throughout his music career Walter has recorded 14 albums. Walter is the host of the evening news in the regional area of the state of Victoria for "WIN TV" (a regional affiliate of the Nine Network). Walter has also hosted nightly drawings of Keno lotteries. Walter is patron for cystic fibrosis and also does regular work for the Royal Victorian Institute for the Blind, …
- Joey Didulica
Joseph Anthony Didulica is a Croatian Australian football (soccer) goalkeeper, better known as Joey Didulica. Didulica was born in Geelong, Victoria to a Croatian father, Luka, and a Croatian-Australian mother, Mary. His father emigrated to Australia from Poličnik, a village in northern Dalmatia, about 10 kilometres outside of Zadar. He started to play football in the North Geelong Warriors. In 1996, he moved to the Melbourne Knights, …
- Shane Dowling
Shane Dowling (born 16 June 1954) is an Inspector of the Victoria Police, and a councillor of the City of Greater Geelong. He is a former Mayor of Geelong (from December, 2004 until November, 2005), and a former Mayor of South Melbourne (from 1989 to 1991).
- Clinton Peake
Clinton John Peake (born 25 March 1977 in Geelong, Victoria) is a former Australian first-class cricketer. In his early career, Peake, a batsman, was selected as part of the Australian under-19s cricket team, which he captained in the 1994/95 season at 17 years of age. He scored 304 against Indian Youth in a match in Melbourne that season. In the 1995/96 season, Peake made his first-class debut with the Victoria Bushrangers at just 18 years of age.
- Arthur Streeton
Sir Arthur Ernest Streeton (8 April 1867 - 1 September 1943) was an Australian landscapes painter. He was born in Mount Duneed, southwest of Geelong, and his family moved to Richmond in 1874. He commenced study at the National Gallery Schools in 1882. Streeton was influenced by French Impressionism and the works of Turner. During this time he began his association with fellow artists Frederick McCubbin and Tom Roberts - a Melbourne including at Box Hill and Heidelberg.
- Stephen Owen
Stephen Owen (born 19 July, 1987), is a professional Australian rules football player. Selected with the 35th pick in the 2005 AFL National Draft by the Geelong Football Club, Owen is entering his rookie season for the club in the Australian Football League. He played for the North Ballarat Rebels at the beginning of the 2005 TAC Cup Season. He is a 188cm tall.
- Kate Allen
Katherine Jessie Jean Allen (born April 25, 1970, in Geelong, Australia) is an Austrian triathlete. She won gold in the women's triathlon at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. At the end of the swim leg Allen was in 44th place in the field of 51. After the 40 km bicycle leg Allen was in 28th place.
- Russell Mockridge
Russell Mockridge was a racing cyclist from Geelong, Victoria, Australia whose life was tragically ended during a race, in a collision with a bus in 1958. Born in Melbourne, his cycling career started in 1946 by winning his first race of 40km with the Geelong Amateur Cycling Club. His reputation continued to grow and he became widely described as "Australia’s greatest all-round cyclist for all time".
- Elaine Carbines
Elaine Cafferty Carbines (born February 4, 1957) is an Australian politician. She has been an Australian Labor Party member of the Victorian Legislative Council since September 1999, representing Geelong Province. A former teacher and community campaigner, Carbines has been a prominent backbench member of the government, often raising issues of local concern. She is a member of the Labor Right faction. Carbines was born in Manchester in the United Kingdom, …
- Howard Hitchcock
- Lindsay Hassett
Arthur Lindsay Hassett (born August 28, 1913, Geelong, Victoria, died June 16, 1993, Batehaven, New South Wales) was an Australian cricketer who played in 43 Tests from 1938 to 1953.
- Gyan Evans
Gyan Evans is an ARIA award winning singer songwriter from Australia who performs professionally as Gyan (pronounced 'Ghee-ahn'). Originally from Geelong; Gyan began her musical career in the Sydney band Haiku before winning the Grand Final in the Australian version of the TV Show Star Search. This led to a recording contract with Warner. Gyan has often been compared to Tori Amos in vocal style by many music critics.
- Ian Redpath
Ian Ritchie Redpath (born May 11, 1941, Geelong, Victoria) is a former Australian cricketer who played in 66 Tests and 5 ODIs from 1964 to 1976. He also played First-class cricket for Victoria. He is now a member of the Geelong Cricket Club and runs an antique shop. After his retirement from playing, he coached Victoria.
- Douglas Wood
Douglas Wood (born 30th June 1941), Australian construction engineer, was held hostage in Iraq between May and June 2005. Wood was born in Melbourne, but before starting his own company he had worked for the United States Bechtel Corporation, a construction firm, and had lived in California with his wife of 25 years. In May 2005 Wood was working in the reconstruction of Iraq on two contracts: the first, building a military site at Fallujah and the second, …