- Kevin Sheedy
Kevin John Sheedy AM (born December 24, 1947) is the current coach of AFL club Essendon, and a former player for Richmond. Sheedy was the quintessential self-made player. Not blessed with great skills, he was able to carve out a brilliant career with dedication, perseverance and thoughtfulness. At his peak, he was a supreme big-game performer who epitomised the "kill or be killed" attitude of the Richmond club.
- Matthew Lloyd
Matthew James Lloyd (born April 16 1978) is an Australian rules footballer who plays for and is captain of the Essendon Bombers Australian Football League. Widely regarded as the best full-forward currently playing, he is the leading goal scorer of all time for Essendon and the tenth highest in VFL/AFL history.
- 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.
- Scott Lucas
Scott Lucas (born 30 December 1977) is an Australian rules footballer for the Essendon Football Club in the Australian Football League.
- 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.
- John Daly
John "Bunny" Daly was a former Australian rules footballer prominent in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL) during it's developmental years between 1887 and 1903. Daly played his first match for Norwood as a 17 year old in 1887, in a holiday exhibition match against Port Adelaide. In front of 15,000 spectators the debutant displayed an exciting running, dodging type of game for which he would become famous.
- Gary Ablett
Gary Robert Ablett, Sr (born October 1 1961) is a retired Australian rules football player.
- Dustin Fletcher
Dustin Fletcher (born May 7, 1975) is an Australian rules footballer with the Essendon Football Club. He is renowned as one of the finest defenders in the AFL, and has held down a spot at full-back for his team for many years. He is the son of former Bombers player Ken Fletcher. As part of the "Baby Bombers" premiership team of 1993, Fletcher is one of the only surviving members of that side, which included players such as James Hird, Joe Misiti, and Mark Mercuri.
- 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, …
- 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, …
- 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.
- 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.
- Mark Johnson
Mark Johnson (born May 23, 1978) is an Australian rules footballer. Known for his toughness, he is part of the midfield duo known as the "Johnson Boys" at the Essendon Football Club, the other member being Jason Johnson. The two are not related, however Mark does have a brother who plays in the AFL for Geelong, David Johnson. Johnson is commonly known as "Mr. Sunbury", referring to the body building award he won as a teenager in his home town of Sunbury, Victoria.
- Adam McPhee
Adam McPhee (born October 6 1982) is an Australian rules football football player, who currently wears the number 33 jumper for the Essendon Bombers. He is a versatile player who has played in both attack and defence, and is much admired for his aggressive approach at the football. He is a very talented player and is thought to be one of the best traded players in the AFL. McPhee was originally recruited by the Fremantle Dockers, with whom he made his debut in 2001.
- 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, …
- Norm Smith
Norman Walter "Norm" Smith (born 21 November 1915 at Clifton Hill, Victoria; died 29 July 1973 at Pascoe Vale, Victoria) was an Australian rules footballer and coach in the Victorian Football League during a remarkably successful and influential career that spanned four decades. After a brilliant playing stint with Melbourne, Smith began a coaching career that eclipsed anything that he achieved on the playing field.
- Gavin Brown
Gavin Brown (born September 25, 1967) was an Australian rules footballer who played in the Australian Football League. Brown was recruited into Collingwood from Templestowe where he would contribute to the side for longer than a decade. Brown was part of the Magpies under-19 premiership side in 1986 with team-mates Damian Monkhorst, Mick McGuane and Gavin Crosisca, who would all make their debuts with the senior side in 1987.
- Mark McVeigh
Mark McVeigh (born January 26, 1981) is an Australian rules footballer. He made his debut for Essendon Football Club in 1999 after representing NSW/ACT at Under 18 level. He is also the older brother of Jarrad McVeigh. At the beginning of his career McVeigh gained the nickname Spike, due his hairdo, or Becks (after English soccer player David Beckham) for the same reason. Earlier in his career McVeigh appeared in the Men For All Seasons calendar, …
- Jason Taylor
Jason Taylor (born 23 September, 1968) is a former Australian rules footballer in the Australian Football League. Taylor played 91 games for Fitzroy, Hawthorn, and Collingwood from 1990 to 1997.
- 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.
- Brendan Fevola
Brendan 'Fev' Fevola (born January 20, 1981) is an Australian rules footballer, currently playing with the Carlton Football Club in the Australian Football League. He plays the position of full-forward and has apart from his sporadic footballing ability, is notable for his appearances on the Channel Nine's "The Footy Show" on Thursday nights during the season.
- Andrew McLeod
Andrew McLeod (born August 4, 1976) is an Australian rules football player in the Australian Football League of Aboriginal descent, and is number 23 of the Adelaide Crows Football Club. One of the game's elite players, his blistering pace and smooth skills have made him one of the most damaging players in the league.
- Brad Johnson
Brad Johnson (born July 18, 1976 in Hoppers Crossing, Victoria) is an Australian rules footballer with, and Captain of, the Western Bulldogs Football Club.
- Wayne Carey
Wayne Carey (born May 27, 1971), is regarded as one of the greatest Australian rules football players of all time. His nicknames include "The King", or "Duck" due to his walking style, caused by one leg being longer than the other. Carey grew up in Wagga Wagga, a city in southern New South Wales regarded as the frontier dividing "Aussie rules" territory with that of rugby league. Carey played for North Adelaide in the SANFL, …
- 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, …
- Ron Barassi
Ronald Dale Barassi, Jr (born 27 February 1936) was an Australian rules football player and coach. During a long and brilliant career, Barassi has been one of the most important figures in the history of Australian football. His father, Ron Barassi Senior, was the first Australian footballer killed at Tobruk in World War II. The young Barassi spent his latter teenage years living with Norm Smith, coach of the Melbourne Football Club and a former teammate of his father.
- Dean Solomon
Dean Solomon (born January 9, 1980) is an Australian rules footballer. He currently plays for the Fremantle Dockers following a trade from the Essendon Football Club. Known for his toughness, he made his AFL debut in 1998 for Essendon and was part of their 2000 premiership team. On numerous occasions, however, Solomon has shown his lack of discipline to be detrimental to his game, one example being the 2005 clash with Adelaide at AAMI Stadium, …
- Adam Ramanauskas
Adam Ramanauskas (born November 19, 1980) is an Australian rules footballer in the Australian Football League. Of Baltic descent, Ramanauskas was selected at no. 12 in the 1998 AFL Draft and was mainly a defender or midfielder. In 2000 he proved a handy player on the wing in Essendon's 2000 premiership season in which they lost just 1 game for the entire year.
- Jason Johnson
Jason Johnson (born January 25, 1978) is an Australian rules footballer with the Essendon Football Club. Known as a tireless running midfielder, Johnson's career honours include All-Australian selection in 2001, the same year he won the W.S. Crichton Medal for Essendon's Best and Fairest player. His namesake Mark Johnson is part of a midfield duo known at Essendon as the "Johnson boys", however Mark and Jason are actually not related in any way.
- 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.
- Paul Roos
Paul Roos (born 27 June, 1963) is a former Australian rules football player in the VFL/AFL and now a coach in the Australian Football League.
- Mal Michael
Malcolm Roberto "Mal" Michael (born June 24, 1977 in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea) is an Australian rules footballer who usually plays at full-back and currently plays for the Essendon Bombers in the Australian Football League. He is best known as a triple premiership full-back player with the Brisbane Lions.
- Andrew Demetriou
Andrew Demetriou (born April 14, 1961) is the CEO of the Australian Football League and a former Australian rules footballer of Greek-Cypriot heritage.
- Doug Hawkins
Doug Hawkins (born May 5, 1960) is a former Australian rules footballer in the VFL/AFL who made a name for himself in the media in his post-football career.
- Daniel Kerr
Daniel Kerr (born May 16, 1983) is an Australian rules footballer. Kerr was recruited from East Fremantle Football Club and made his AFL debut in 2001 with the West Coast Eagles. He is a hard-running midfielder that is a vital part of the powerful midfield brigade at the Eagles, including Dean Cox, Chad Fletcher, Michael Braun, Ben Cousins and Chris Judd. Kerr is of Anglo-Indian descent. His father, Roger, played for East Fremantle in the WAFL.
- Tom Wills
Thomas Wentworth "Tom" Wills was an Australian sportsman who is credited along with his cousin Henry Colden Harrison as one of the inventors of Australian rules football.
- 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.
- Anthony Rocca
Anthony Rocca (born August 15, 1977) is an Australian rules footballer who has played with the Sydney Swans and Collingwood in the AFL. Of Italian descent, Rocca is the younger brother of fellow Australian rules footballer and former teammate Saverio Rocca. Known as a family man, Anthony was rated highly as a youngster and was selected with pick no.2 by the Sydney Swans in the 1994 AFL Draft. A lifelong Collingwood supporter (hailing from the Reservoir area, …
- Matthew Pavlich
Matthew Pavlich (b. December 31, 1981) is a South Australian-born Australian rules footballer. He plays for the Fremantle Football Club, wears guernsey number 29 and made his AFL debut in 2000. Pavlich was recruited by Fremantle (the Dockers), from Woodville-West Torrens with the fourth selection in the 1999 AFL national draft.
- 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.