- Scott Burns
Scott Burns is an Australian rules footballer in the Australian Football League. The boy from Norwood was picked up by the Magpies at ninety overall in the 1992 National Draft. He made his début in 1995, two years after being drafted, because he had to move from South Australia. He played every game except one for the season. In 1996 when he came second in the best and fairest and also represented South Australia in State of Origin.
- Michael O'Loughlin
Michael K. O'Loughlin (born 20 February 1977) is an Indigenous Australian rules football player with the Sydney Swans of the AFL. Selected in the 3rd round of the 1994 National Draft, O'Loughlin played 11 senior games for the Swans in 1995 and earned a Rising Star award nomination. The following year, he was a key player in the team that won the minor premiership and then lost to North Melbourne in the Grand Final.
- 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.
- 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.
- Heath Black
Heath Black (born May 28, 1979) is an Australian rules footballer. The 177cm wingman is noted for his speed and long left foot kicking. Beginning his career in 1997 he was seen as a bright prospect and several years down the track that has been proven correct. Black was recruited at no. 12 in the 1996 AFL Draft and began his career with Fremantle in 1997. After spending 4 seasons at the Dockers, and after finishing 2nd in the Doig Medal (best and fairest) in 2000, …
- John Cahill
John Cahill (born 27 April, 1940) is an Australian rules football player and coach. During his illustrious career he played football for the Port Adelaide Football Club and then coached Port Adelaide, West Adelaide and Collingwood. The Port Adelaide Football Club honoured Cahill by naming the award for the club's best and fairest player the John Cahill Medal.
- Simon Goodwin
Simon Goodwin (born 26 December, 1976) is an Australian rules footballer with the Adelaide Football Club.
- Matthew Primus
Matthew Richard Primus (born January 12, 1975) is a former Australian rules footballer and dual All-Australian ruckman.
- Luke Ball
Luke Patrick Ball (born 25 May, 1984) is an Australian rules footballer. The younger brother of Hawthorn player Matthew Ball, who, along with his brother, played for Ashburton in junior years. Luke was drafted to the St Kilda Football Club in 2001 with the priority pick (no 2 overall) in the AFL Draft. The draft that season was known as the "super draft", and Ball was taken behind Luke Hodge and ahead of Chris Judd.
- Matthew Scarlett
Matthew "Scarlo" Scarlett (born June 5, 1979) is an Australian rules footballer. He is the son of former player John Scarlett. Renowned as one of the best full-backs in the AFL, with his combination of strength, speed, and size a real asset. Scarlett has won his club's Best and Fairest award, the Carji Greeves Medal in 2003, as well as winning All-Australian honours in 2003 and 2004. Matthew Scarlett is one of the Geelong Football Club key defenders.
- James McDonald
James I. McDonald (born October 5, 1976) is an Australian rules footballer in the Australian Football League. Nicknamed "Junior", James is the brother of former AFL players Anthony McDonald and Alex McDonald. He is noted as a hard-working in and under midfielder. In addition to this, he is also used as a tagger. In 1995 McDonald suffered from chronic fatigue syndrome with his VAFA side Old Xaverians.
- Lenny Hayes
Lenny Hayes (born 14 January, 1980) is an Australian rules footballer. Originally from Sydney in New South Wales, Hayes was recruited from the Pennant Hills Demons AFC by St Kilda in the 1998 AFL Draft. He is a highly-skilled, classy midfielder. Coach Grant Thomas named Hayes as captain for the 2004 season, as part of St Kilda's policy of rotating the captaincy to a different player each season.
- Nathan Bassett
Nathan Bassett (born December 7, 1976) is an Australian rules footballer for the Adelaide Football Club of the Australian Football League. Picked up as a rookie by Melbourne in 1997, Bassett was elevated to the senior list during the season but was unable to make his AFL debut for the Demons due to a chest injury. At the end of the season he was traded to Adelaide, and has since become one of the Crow's best defenders.
- Shane Tuck
Shane Tuck (born 24 December, 1981) is an Australian rules footballer, and the son of former Hawthorn footballer and VFL/AFL games record holder Michael Tuck and the nephew of Geelong Football Club legend Gary Ablett and former Hawthorn players Kevin and Geoff Ablett. Tuck finally made his AFL debut in 2004 for the Richmond Tigers two unsuccessful seasons with Hawthorn and a season with South Australian National Football League club West Adelaide Football Club.
- Gary Dempsey
Gary Dempsey (born November 22 1948) played in the ruck for the Australian rules football Footscray Football Club from 1967 to 1978, playing 206 games and winning the 1975 Brownlow Medal. He captained Footscray in 1971-2, and again in 1977-8. Dempsey won the Footscray Best and Fairest in 1970, then consecutively from 1973 to 1977. He was named as ruck in the Footscray Team of the (20th) Century. He shifted to the North Melbourne Football Club in 1979, …
- 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.
- Scott Camporeale
Scott Camporeale (born August 11, 1975) is an Australian rules footballer. Picked up by the Carlton Football Club at pick No. 15 in the 1994 AFL Draft, Camporeale quickly established himself as a quality running midfielder for the Blues. As an outside player his dash was an important part of Carlton's 1995 premiership winning side, and he was very impressive in his debut season.
- Paul Licuria
Paul Licuria (born January 4, 1978) is an Australian rules footballer in the Australian Football League. His father is Italian and his mother is Spanish. Licuria was drafted to Sydney in the 1995 National Draft as a second round selection, after having two knee reconstructions at ages 16 and 17. He was recruited as a hard-working midfielder but also was rumoured as a recruit to keep Anthony Rocca at the club as they were good friends.
- David Rodan
David Rodan (born October 8, 1983 in Fiji) is an Australian rules footballer. Rodan was recruited by AFL club Richmond Tigers at the end of 2001 at pick 33, on the back of back-to-back Morrish Medals in 2000 and 2001. Rodan played every game for two years (from his debut in 2002), and was nominated for the AFL Rising Star award in his debut season. The Fijian born star was mainly played as a small crumbing forward along with Andrew Krakouer in the early part of his career, …
- Ross Glendinning
Ross Glendinning (born 17 September 1956) was an Australian rules footballer for the North Melbourne Kangaroos and West Coast Eagles in the Victorian Football League/Australian Football League. Glendinning started his senior football career with East Perth in the WAFL. He joined under the father-son rule, father Angus played 69 games from 1941 to 1951. Ross played 56 games for East Perth from 1974-77.
- Trevor Barker
Trevor Barker (born October 7, 1956, died April 1996) was a former Australian rules footballer with St Kilda Football Club. Recruited From Cheltenham Football Club in 1975. He was also a handy cricketer, winning an under 16 premiership with his Father Jack coaching. Cheltenham Cricket Club, Cheltenham Football Club He had a distinguished career and was considered the Saints' best player throughout the 1980s, in a decade where the team had very little success.
- Ben Johnson
Ben Johnson (born April 5, 1981) is an Australian rules footballer. Originally from St Marys, Johnson was snapped up late in the 1999 AFL Draft, no.62 overall. He started his career with a bang, kicking 3 goals on debut for the Magpies, however, he settled as most first-year players and struggled to play-out in consistent fashion, being dropped mid-season. He established himself as a tough running half-back who could play a key tagging role on the last line of defence.
- David Dench
David Dench (born 23 August 1951) is a former Australian rules footballer in the (then) Victorian Football League. He played his whole career with North Melbourne Football Club (later to change its name to Kangaroos) at one of its most successful periods. Dench was a dashing full-back who would turn defence into attack in an instant. Dench won the North Melbourne club's best and fairest award, the Syd Barker Medal, on four occasions - 1971, 1976, 1977, 1981.
- 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.
- 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, …
- Maurice Rioli
Maurice Rioli (born 1 September 1957 at Melville Island, Northern Territory) was an Australian rules football player for the Richmond Tigers in the Australian Football League and politician in the Northern Territory. Regarded as one of the great players of his era, Rioli was one of the first aboriginal footballers to have a significant impact on Victorian football and was named in the centre for the Indigenous Team of the Century.
- 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.
- Steven Baker
Steven / Stephen Baker is an extremely common name. Steven 'Bakes' Paul Baker (born May 22, 1980) was drafted in the 1998 AFL Draft in a second round priorty pick to the St Kilda Football Club at pick 27. The athletic Baker has caused a bit of controversy during his career, playing as a tagger/run-with player, rather than a set-position player. Some football purists have criticised this style of play, while others have praised it.
- Adem Yze
Adem Yze (born September 21, 1977) is an Australian rules footballer of Albanian descent. Taken at #16 in the 1994 National AFL Draft, and debuting in 1995 with the Melbourne Demons, he has been an almost permanent fixture with the club throughout his career. He has remained remarkably consistent in this time, moving from half back to the midfield and in recent years has moved between half forward and half back. Yze led the league in kicks in 2001, 2002 and 2004, …
- Nicky Winmar
Neil Elvis "Nicky" Winmar (born 25 September, 1965 in Pingelly, Western Australia) is a former Australian rules footballer of indigenous background.
- Brett Montgomery
Brett Montgomery (born June 1, 1973) is a retired Australian rules football player. Montgomery, known as "Monty", was originally recruited from South Croydon, and was recruited by Geelong reserves, but was dropped from their list in 1993. Montgomery was also a talented cricketer, and had captained the under-19s Victorian team. In 1992 and 1993 he played club cricket in the Durham League and Middlesex League in England, …
- Andrew Thompson
Andrew Laurence Scott Thompson (born October 21, 1972) is an Australian rules footballer in the Australian Football League. Thompson was recruited in the 1996 AFL Draft at pick no 62, and had been picked up from the VAFA club Old Melburnians. At the time of his recruitment he was 24 years of age, relatively old for an AFL footballer to begin his career.
- Simon Prestigiacomo
Simon 'Presti' Prestigiacomo (born January 31, 1978) is an Australian rules footballer in the Australian Football League. 'Presti' was picked up as a first-round draft pick in the 1995 AFL Draft by Collingwood as a tall youngster who was capable as a strong forward who could play in the midfield, but the Magpies developed him into a key defender, and his form was good enough for him to play the final 12 games in his debut year of '96.
- Peter Jones
Peter 'Percy' Jones (born October 20, 1946) is a former Australian rules footballer who played 249 games for the Carlton Blues in the VFL. He played as a forward and ruckman. Jones was recruited to Carlton from North Hobart Football Club and made his VFL debut in Round 16 of 1966. He would have played earlier had he not suffered serious injuries in a car crash.
- Shannon Byrnes
Shannon Byrnes is a professional Australian rules football player playing in the Australian Football League. Byrnes was recruited from the Murray Bushrangers and was the last draftee selected by the Geelong Football Club in the AFL rookie draft in 2002. He was given the guernsey number 46, but changed it to 17 at the start of the 2005 season. Byrnes also wore the #10 guernsey when he co-captained the Murray Bushrangers.
- Andrew Kellaway
Andrew Kellaway (born 23 November, 1975) is a former Australian rules football player who played for the Richmond Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). Educated at Caulfield Grammar School, Kellaway joined his brother Duncan at Richmond in 1997. He is a defender, and in his best AFL season (2000) - he won the club's best and fairest award and was a member of the All-Australian Team.
- Fraser Brown
Fraser Brown (born August 18, 1970) is a former Australian rules footballer in the Australian Football League. Affectionately known as "Dog" by the Carlton faithful for his fierce style of play, Brown's highest achievements in football were playing in the 1995 premiership and winning the 1998 Carlton best and fairest Brown will long be remembered for his gripping tackle on Dean Wallis in the 1999 Preliminary Final against Essendon.
- Daniel Ward
Daniel Ward (born July 9, 1977) is an Australian Rules footballer for the Melbourne Demons. Playing his first game in 1998, Ward is a defender and was named as the club's 'Most Improved Player' for 1999. Two years later he was fifth in the Best and Fairest. Ward is a 'run and carry' type player, known for his dashing runs and rebound attacks from defence and his ability to evade opposition players. However his decision making and disposal skills sometimes let him down, …
- Dean Kemp
Dean Kemp (born February 17, 1969) is an Australian rules footballer who played for the West Coast Eagles in the Australian Football League. He made his debut in 1990 and won Rookie of the year for West Coast. In 1992 he played in West Coast's Premiership team and earned All-Australian selection as well as West Coast's best and fairest award. In 1994 he played in the sides second premiership team and won the Norm Smith Medal for best on ground.
- Jim Buckley
Jim Buckley (born November 27, 1959) is a former Australian rules footballer in the VFL/AFL. Debuting with the Carlton Football Club in 1976, the 175cm man from Kyneton, Victoria went on to win the Robert Reynolds Trophy best and fairest award in 1982, and was a premiership player in 1979, 1981 and 1982. In total he played 164 games for 146 goals between 1976 and 1990.