- 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.
- 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.
- Nathan Ablett
Nathan Ablett (born 13 December 1985) is an Australian rules football player currently with the Geelong Football Club in the Australian Football League. He is the son of former Geelong player Gary Ablett, and his older brother Gary Ablett, Jr. also plays for the Cats. He was selected in the 2004 AFL National Draft with the 49th pick under the league's father-son rule.
- Cameron Ling
Cameron Ling (born February 27, 1981) is an Australian rules football player for the Geelong Football Club of the Australian Football League. Noted as a tagger, Ling is noted for his red hair (which he has frequently changed to blonde/white), and regularly makes appearances on television shows such as "The Footy Show" and "Before the Game".
- Tom Harley
Tom Harley (born July 18, 1978) is an Australian rules footballer in the Australian Football League. Harley, a defender, played just 1 game and booted 1 goal in 1998 for the Port Adelaide Football Club in the AFL, before moving to Geelong. He has played 128 games for the Cats and booted 8 goals. This is due to him playing as a key position defender, and along with Matthew Scarlett he forms one of the best defensive combinations in the AFL.
- 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.
- Cameron Mooney
Cameron Mooney (born September 26, 1979) is an Australian rules football player, currently playing for Geelong Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). Mooney grew up in suburban Wagga Wagga and began playing football with Turvey Park Football Club, later representing the NSW/ACT Rams in the TAC Cup before being taken by the Kangaroos Football Club in the 1999 AFL Draft.
- Paul Chapman
Paul Chapman (born November 5, 1981) is an Australian rules footballer in the Australian Football League. Debuting in 2000, Chapman was recruited to the Geelong Football Club, where he has made a name for himself as one of the most dangerous small forwards in the AFL. In late 2005 he suffered a setback with a hamstring injury and missed the finals series. In 2006, Chapman was the proud recipient of the Carji Greeves Medal, polling 462 votes, …
- 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.
- Joel Corey
Joel Corey (born February 17, 1982) is an Australian rules football player for the Geelong Football Club in the Australian Football League. He graduated from John Septimus Roe Anglican Community School in 1999. Highlights of his career include the 2005 Carji Greeves Medal victory and his selection in the Australian International Rules team of 2004. In 2006, he sported a large beard described as "Grizzly Adams-style"
- Brian Cook
Brian Cook (born November 14, 1955) is a former Australian rules football player and now administrator, currently CEO of the Geelong Football Club. He is widely considered one of the pre-eminent administrators of recent times.
- Darren Milburn
Darren Milburn (born April 15, 1977), is a professional Australian Rules Football player who plays for the Geelong Football Club in the Australian Football League. Darren Milburn is a Defender, and is one of Geelong's best players. Milburn was drafted by the Geelong Cats in the 1995 National Draft with pick 48. He was drafted from the TAC Cup team Calder Cannons. After a few years on Geelong's list, Milburn made his debut in Round 1, 1997 against the Richmond Football Club.
- James Kelly
James Kelly (born 29 December 1983) is an Australian rules football player. Since 2001, Kelly has played with the Geelong Football Club.
- Max Rooke
Max Rooke (born Jarad Maxwell Rooke on December 19, 1981) is a defender and midfielder with the Geelong Football Club. Although not considered a naturally brilliant or 'flashy' player, he is respected for his strength and endurance. He plays mainly as a defender but has had success as a tagging midfielder. Rooke was recruited from Casterton in 2001, and made his debut in the second round of 2002.
- Corey Enright
Corey Enright (born 14 September, 1981) is an Australian Rules footballer for Geelong Football Club. A Ruck rover, Enright was recruited from the Port Adelaide Magpies and debuted for Geelong in 2001. He has since played over 100 games for the Cats.
- 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.
- Tom Lonergan
Tom Lonergan (born May 17 1984) is an Australian rules footballer for the Geelong Football Club of the Australian Football League. Geelong acquired the tall forward from Calder Cannons in the second round of the 2002 AFL Draft. After spending two years in the club's VFL side, Lonergan made his AFL debut in Round 9 of the 2005 season. On August 26, 2006, playing in his seventh senior game, Lonergan suffered a serious internal injury in Round 21 of the 2006 season, …
- Doug Wade
Douglas Graeme Wade (born 16 October 1941) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the Geelong Football Club and North Melbourne Football Club. After trying out with the Melbourne Football Club in a number of practice games in 1960, he returned home to Horsham before being lured back by the Geelong Football Club. He made his VFL debut in 1959 with Geelong, recruited from Horsham.
- Josh Hunt
Josh Hunt (born 14 March, 1982) is a defender for the Geelong Football Club. He is an effective kick-in specialist, with his left foot kicks often travelling 70 metres or further. Renowned for his courage, he is often seen flying back into packs and defences and has been likened to player such as Ryan Houlihan and Adem Yze for sheer presence on the field. The stockily built Hunt was recruited at the end of 2000 from the Bendigo under 18s team, …
- David Johnson
David Johnson (born 28 October 1981) is an Australian rules footballer who plays for the Geelong Football Club. Recruited from Calder Cannons, Johnson is renowned for his hard work ethic and aggressive play. Johnson is the brother of Essendon footballer Mark Johnson.
- 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.
- Fred Flanagan
FRED Flanagan captained the most celebrated side in the history of the Geelong Football Club, but that is not the first matter I raise with him. My first question is to ask him where his branch of the Flanagans come from in Ireland. Eighty-three-year-old Fred is engaged by the question, but can't answer it. He was an only child. His father left home when he was four months old. The history of his branch of the clan went with him.
- Mathew Stokes
Mathew Stokes (born November 22, 1984) who stands 178 cm tall, (5'8" ft), is a new, young and exciting professional footballer currently playing for the Geelong Football Club in the Australian Football League. He made the Australian under-17's team, but still played three years with Woodville-West Torrens in the SANFL. He is not huge in height, but still has great talent, an excellent kick, blistering pace and great tackling strength.
- 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.
- Charlie Gardiner
Charles "Charlie" Gardiner (born March 1, 1983) is a forward for the Australian rules football club The Geelong Cats. Gardiner was recruited from the Sandringham Football Club and was pick no. 23 by Geelong in the 2001 National Draft draft. Gardiner was in the TAC Cup Team of the Year and Under-18 All-Australian Team in 2001. Gardiner was also runners up in Sandringham's best & fairest and Under-18 Victoria Metro representative in 2001.
- Ryan Gamble
Ryan "Fryrye" Gamble (born September 23, 1987 in Millicent, South Australia) is a current Australian rules football player with the Geelong Football Club in the Australian Football League. Gamble played his junior football at the Mt Burr United Football Club, from the Mid South Eastern Football League (MSEFL) in South Australia, and at the Glenelg Football Club in the SANFL from the age of 17, predominately in the reserves, …
- Peter Riccardi
Peter Riccardi (born December 17, 1972) is a former Australian rules footballer who spent his entire professional career in the Australian Football League's Geelong Football Club.
- Kent Kingsley
Kent Kingsley (born September 26, 1978) is an Australian rules football player, currently playing for the Richmond Football Club in the Australian Football League. A full-forward, Kingsley was recruited from the Woodville-West Torrens Football Club along with his twin brother Wade by Port Adelaide, but the brothers were quickly traded to the Kangaroos for Paul Geister in 1996. Elevated as a rookie in 1999, Kingsley was traded to Geelong two seasons later.
- 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, …
- Reg Hickey
Reg Hickey (March 27, 1906 - December 13, 1973) was, as a player and coach, arguably one of the most significant and influential figures for the Geelong Football Club in its 147 year history. As a strong, fast and intelligent player with exquisite footskills, Hickey donned the famous Geelong hoops for 245 games in a career spanning fifteen years, including a part in two premierships, two club best-and-fairest awards and nine seasons as club captain.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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, …
- Peter Pianto
Peter Pianto (Born 25th November 1929) is a former Australian rules footballer and a coach in VFL. One of the finest rovers of the 1950s, Peter Pianto stepped straight into Geelong's senior side from Bendigo League team Eaglehawk. Combining with Neil Trezise he gave the Cats the greatest roving combination in the league. Pacy, slick, clever and courageous, he was a four quarter player who used the ball impeccably.
- 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.
- Nick dal Santo
Nick Dal Santo (born February 14, 1981) is an Australian rules footballer in the AFL with the Geelong Football Club.
- Matt Egan
Matthew "Ego" Egan (born July 10, 1983) is an Australian rules footballer for the Geelong Football Club in the Australian Football League. Egan took up the sport in his late teens after having been a promising junior tennis player, having once been ranked fifth for juniors in Victoria. Geelong drafted Egan with their final pick in the 2004 National Draft, after he had played in the Victorian Football League with the club.
- Greg Williams
Greg "Diesel" Williams (born September 30, 1963) was a former champion Australian rules footballer with the Sydney Swans, Geelong Football Club and the Carlton Football Club in the Victorian/Australian football League. Nicknamed "Diesel" for his hard working, slow but effective playing, Williams holds the record for disposals in an AFL match with 51 (23 kicks and 28 handballs).
- Bill Goggin
Bill Goggin, born January 4, 1941, is a former Australian rules football player in the Victorian Football League for Geelong Football Club and later coached Footscray and Geelong football clubs.
- Ken Hinkley
Ken Hinkley (born September 30 1966) is a former Australian rules footballer with the Geelong Football Club and Fitzroy Football club, an assistant coach of the St Kilda Football Club, and now an assistant coach of the Geelong Football Club. Hinkley was a member of Geelong's 1992, 1994 and 1995 Grand Final losing teams. He is a member of Geelong's Hall of Fame.