- 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.
- Luke Hodge
Luke Hodge (born June 15, 1984) is an Australian rules footballer. He currently plays for the Hawthorn Football Club in the Australian Football League (Australian Rules). He made his debut in 2002. Hodge, recruited from Colac, Victoria through the Geelong Falcons U/18 Football Club, and in 2001 nominated for the 2001 national AFL draft. He was picked by Hawthorn with the Number 1 draft (taken from Fremantle for Trent Croad and Luke McPharlin.
- Trent Croad
Trent Eric Croad (born March 9, 1980 in New Zealand), is an Australian rules footballer in the Australian Football League. Starting with Hawthorn as an 18-year-old after being picked up at number 3 in the 1997 AFL Draft, Croad started out as a defender, playing at either centre half-back or fullback. But he showed his versatility as his career went on, being able to play in any number of key positions.
- Ben Dixon
Ben Dixon was the selected by the Hawthorn at no. 77 as a 5th round selection in the 1994 National Draft. He has proven his worth by providing the team with a reliable and consistent leading forward option who has the ability to step up. He is praised for his solid work ethic and his experience. In 2006 he celebrated his most successful season when he kicked the second most goals for the Hawks with 39, including a bag of 5 against Collingwood Magpies in round 2.
- Sam Mitchell
Sam Mitchell (born October 12, 1982) is an Australian rules footballer, contracted to the Hawthorn Football Club in the Australian Football League.
- Leigh Matthews
Leigh "Lethal" Raymond Matthews AM (born January 3, 1952) is a former champion Australian rules football footballer who played for Hawthorn in the Victorian Football League (now Australian Football League) from 1969 to 1985. He is considered to be one of the greatest players of all time. Since retiring as a player, Matthews has coached at the Collingwood Football Club from 1986 to 1995, and at the Brisbane Lions since 1999, winning premierships at each club.
- Alastair Clarkson
Alastair Clarkson (born April 27, 1968) is a former Australian rules footballer and current coach of the Hawthorn Football Club.
- Jeff Kennett
Jeffrey Gibb Kennett AC (born 25 July, 1948), Australian politician, was the Premier of Victoria (6th October, 1992 to 20th October, 1999). He is also the current Chair of beyondblue (the National Depression Initiative) and President of the Hawthorn Football Club.
- Peter Hudson
Peter John Hudson <small>AM</small> is a former Australian Rules Football player, considered one of the greatest Australian rules football full-forwards in the game's history. Hudson was prolific in his goal scoring in all senior competitions in which he competed. Originally from Tasmania, Hudson played with New Norfolk Football Club, in the Tasmanian Football League kicking 378 goals in 78 games.
- Campbell Brown
Campbell Brown (born August 28, 1983) is an Australian rules footballer currently plays for Hawthorn Football Club in the Australian Football League. Height: 177 centimetres AFL Debut: 2002 (Hawthorn Football Club) Brown wears the No. 30 guernsey and is noted for his overall aggression and toughness.. He debuted for the Hawks in 2002, and received a nomination for the Rising Star award. Campbell was involved in a 2005 racial attack on a shop attendant in Hawthorn.
- Michael Tuck
Michael Tuck (born June 24, 1953) is a former Australian rules footballer in the VFL/AFL with the Hawthorn Football Club. Debuting in 1972, Tuck was appointed captain of the Hawks in 1986. He captained them from that year until his retirement in 1991 at the age of 38. He played in a total of 7 VFL/AFL premierships, captaining Hawthorn for 4. Fittingly, his last game was in Hawthorn's premiership win in the Grand Final over West Coast.
- Jordan Lewis
Jordan Michael Lewis (born April 24, 1986) is an Australian rules footballer, currently playing for the Hawthorn Football Club of the Australian Football League. His nicknames are "Taz" and "Chief." Lewis was voted Hawthorn's best first-year player in 2005. He was a 2005 nominee for the AFL Rising Star award. On June 14, 2006, Lewis was cleared by the AFL of a spitting incident in a June 11 match against Port Adelaide.
- Barry Hall
Barry Hall (born February 8, 1977) is a forward with the Sydney Swans Australian rules football club and a prolific goalkicker. He is nicknamed "Big, Bad, Bustling Barry Hall" (also "Bazza", "Big Bad Barry" or various combinations of these) by media and football fans alike. The nickname dates back to the mid-late 1990s when it is believed Sandy Roberts, part of the Seven Network's AFL coverage, …
- Jason Dunstall
Jason Dunstall (born in Brisbane, Queensland on August 14, 1964), is a former Australian rules football player for the Hawthorn Football Club of the AFL. He was widely regarded as one of the greatest full-forwards and the greatest Queensland born player of all time.
- Richie Vandenberg
Richard "Richie" Vandenberg (born 14 January 1977) is the captain of the Hawthorn Football Club in the Australian Football League. He was selected with pic. 78 in the 1997 AFL Draft. Vandenberg had his best seasons in 2000 and 2001. Vandenberg is of Dutch descent. He was made captain when Shane Crawford stepped down for the 2005 season. He struggled to recapture his best form, but in 2006 fitted into his new role more solidy.
- Peter Everitt
Peter "Spida" Everitt (born May 3, 1974) is an Australian rules footballer who plays for the Sydney Swans. He is known as one of the real larrikins of the AFL. He made his debut for St. Kilda in 1993 and in 2003 began playing for Hawthorn. Everitt was traded to the Sydney Swans at the end of 2006.
- Joel Smith
Joel Smith (born May 3, 1977), is an Australian rules footballer. Beginning his career in 1995 as a bright young prospect for St Kilda, Smith was touted as the future of the club. He provided 3 good years of service before being incurring a serious anterior cruciate ligament injury requiring reconstruction late in the 1997 home and away season, missing the Saints' finals series. A contractual dispute meant he moved to Hawthorn at the end of 1997.
- Grant Birchall
Grant Birchall is an AFL footballer with the team Hawthorn Hawks who made his debut in 2006. Birchall had an exceptional first season in 2006 with the Hawthorn, playing 16 games out of a possible 22. The Tasmanian was chosen at pick 14 in the 2005 AFL Draft and made his debut in the number 35 guernsey in Hawthorn's opening match of the season against Fremantle at, ironically, Aurora Stadium in Tasmania. All year, Birchall excelled across half-back for the Hawks, …
- Michael Osborne
Michael Osborne (born 29 July 1982) is an Australian rules footballer in the Australian Football League. Originally from Labrador, Queensland, Osborne stands at 178cm and 81kg. He debuted in 2001 after being elevated from the rookie list with the Hawthorn Football Club. In 2005 he showed much development as a small defender, midfielder or forward, and managed 19 games for the year. He was awarded as the 'defensive pursuits player of the year' in 2005, …
- Clinton Young
Clinton Young (born February 16, 1986) is an Australian rules footballer currently playing for the Hawthorn Football Club. He was recruited from Minyip-Murtoa and North Ballarat U18 's. Young made his debut at AFL level on Round 16, 2005. Young started the 2005 season on the rookie list, he was promoted to the senior list later that year. He finished the season with seven games of experience where he showed a lot of potential.
- Xavier Ellis
Xavier Ellis (born February 28, 1988) is an Australian rules footballer playing for the AFL's Hawthorn Football Club. Drafted by Hawthorn with 3rd overall pick in the 2005 AFL Draft, he is a medium sized midfielder or defender, and has shown great footy smarts. Many believed Collingwood would take him with their no. 2 pick, but instead they opted for Dale Thomas, prompting the Hawks to declare recruiting him had been a major coup.
- Max Bailey
Max Bailey (born October 23, 1986) is an Australian rules footballer with the Hawthorn Football Club of the Australian Football League. Drafted 18th overall by the Hawks in the 2005 AFL Draft, the ruckman from West Perth made his AFL debut in Round 18 of the 2006 season. However, he would miss the 2007 season after having a knee reconstruction before the season started.
- 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.
- Graham Arthur
Graham Arthur is a former Australian rules footballer who played in the VFL in the 1950's and 1960's. Arthur played primarily as a half forward, debuting while still only 18 years old. He was the captain of the first Hawthorn side to win the Grand Final and made a dozen appearances for the Victorian state team. He was named as captain of Hawthorn's official Team of the Century. Arthur was inducted into the Australian Football Hall of Fame in the initial intake in 1996, …
- Zac Dawson
Zachary "Zac" Dawson is an Australian rules footballer with the Hawthorn Football Club. Dawson debuted in 2005, but in 2006 was one of the most talked about 2nd year players in the AFL. For the first eight games of 2006, Alistair Clarkson played Dawson as fullback, and on more than one occasion was comprehensively beaten. In particular, Collingwood giant Anthony Rocca kicked 8 goals on Dawson as he outmuscled and outplayed him.
- Don Scott
Don Scott (born 20 December 1947) is a former Australian rules footballer in the (then) Victorian Football League. Scott was a fearless ruckman and premiership captain for Hawthorn Football Club. In 2001 Scott was inducted into the Australian Football Hall of Fame.
- Allan Jeans
Allan Jeans (born September 21, 1933) is a legendary Australian rules football coach. He was inducted into the Australian Football Hall of Fame in its inception in 1996.
- Angelo Lekkas
Angelo Lekkas (born June 29, 1976) is a former Australian rules footballer for the Hawthorn Football Club in the Australian Football League who became a soccer player for South Melbourne FC in the Victorian Premier League. Lekkas, of Greek heritage, played soccer until he was a teenager, when he switched to playing Aussie Rules and played with the Northern Knights under 18s.
- Jonathan Hay
Jonathan Hay (born August 13, 1979) is a former Australian rules footballer in the Australian Football League. Born in Kalgoorlie, Western Australia, Hay began his football career at Kalgoorlie Catholic Primary School and John Paul College before moving to Perth, Western Australia in 1991. Hay played reserves football for East Fremantle Football Club in 1996 before being drafted by Hawthorn Football Club at the 1996 national AFL draft.
- Terry Wallace
Terry Wallace (born December 13, 1958) was an Australian rules football centre position player who started at Hawthorn, played briefly at Richmond and finally at Footscray. As coach, he took the Western Bulldogs from 15th in 1996 to 3rd in 1997 and 1998. Wallace employed a number of novel ideas as coach including warming up the side on the field before the match.
- Josh Thurgood
Joshua "Josh" Thurgood (born 5 June 1985) is an Australian rules footballer in the Australian Football League. Drafted onto the Hawthorn Football Club's rookie list for the 2004 season, Thurgood suffered a serious knee injury in Round 2 of the VFL season playing for Box Hill. In 2005, he was elevated from the rookie list by the Hawks for the 2005 season and made his AFL debut in Round 1 of that year. Noted for his exceptional courage and attack on the ball, …
- Brendan Edwards
Brendan Edwards (Born 18th March 1936 is a former Australian rules football footballer who played for Hawthorn in the Victorian Football League VFL from 1956 to 1961 and again in the 1963 season. No one epitomised wholehearted adherence to Hawthorn coach John Kennedy's 'commando ethic' better than Brendan Edwards. A prototype of the modern day 'athlete footballer', Edwards was fanatically devoted to personal fitness, …
- Gary Buckenara
Gary Buckenara (born July 3, 1958) played Australian rules football for the Hawthorn Football Club in the VFL during the 1980s. Buckenara first played senior football for Subiaco in the WAFL from 1979 to 1981. Subiaco agreed to lease him for three years for $210,000 and after a court case began his career at Hawthorn.
- Kelvin Moore
Kelvin D. Moore (born 15 August 1950) is a former Australian rules footballer in the (then) Victorian Football League. Kelvin Moore was one of the best full-backs of his era and played in three Hawthorn Football Club premierships during his 300-game career from 1970-1984. In 2005 Moore was inducted into the Australian Football Hall of Fame.
- Damien Hardwick
Damien Patrick Hardwick (born August 18, 1972) is a former Australian rules footballer. Beginning his career with the Essendon Football Club in 1994, Hardwick was known as a tough, solid defender. His aggressive nature sometimes got him into trouble at the AFL Tribunal. He was a crucial part of Essendon's 2000 premiership side. He moved from Essendon to the Port Adelaide Football Club and played with the side in the twilight of his career, until his retirement in 2004.
- Alan Martello
Alan Martello (born September 14, 1952) is a former Australian rules football player who played in the VFL between 1970 and 1980 for the Hawthorn Football Club and between 1981 and 1983 for the Richmond Football Club.
- Col Austen
Colin 'Col' Austen was an Australian rules footballer who played for the Hawthorn Football Club in the VFL from 1941 to 1943 and then again from 1946 to 1949. He then played for the Richmond Football Club from 1950 to 1952. He tied with South Melbourne's Ron Clegg for the 1949 Brownlow Medal but was not awarded it based on the 'countback' system in place at that time. The League later changed the system for tied results and, in 1989, …
- Andrew Collins
Andrew Collins (born April 25 1965) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the Hawthorn Football Club in the VFL/AFL. He finished equal fifth in the 1990 Brownlow Medal, the same year he was awarded the Peter Crimmins Medal as the club's best and fairest. In 2006 Collins commenced coaching the Coburg Tigers in the Victorian Football League.
- John Peck
John Peck (born 7th August 1937 - died 1993) was an Australian rules footballer, who played in the VFL/AFL. John Peck played for Hawthorn from 1954 to 1968. He topped the leading VFL goalkicking in three successive years in 1963-65. He played in the 1961 and 1963 Grand Finals. In a famous incident in 1963, during the Victoria-South Australia match in Adelaide, John Peck felt a kick in his bottom whilst he was lying on the ground.
- Harry Miller
Harry Miller (born 11 June 1985) is an Australian rules footballer in the Australian Football League. Selected at pick 25 in the 2003 AFL Draft, Miller is a small forward who has had limited game time with Hawthorn, but continued to push for a spot. He is the cousin of Kangaroos star Daniel Wells. Miller was delisted at the end of the 2006 season and is currently back with the Port Adelaide Magpies.