- 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.
- Joel Selwood
Joel Selwood (born May 26, 1988 in Bendigo) is an Australian rules footballer who plays with Geelong in the AFL. His older twin brothers, Adam and Troy, both play AFL for West Coast and Brisbane respectively. Selwood was recruited from Bendigo by Geelong at pick 7 in the 2006 draft. A midfielder, he was an Under 18's All Australian in 2005. He has already received an AFL Rising Star Nomination.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Mitch Morton
Mitch Morton (born January 28, 1987) is an Australian rules footballer for the West Coast Eagles. Drafted by the Eagles under the father-son rule; Mitch is the son of Noel Morton, who played 171 WAFL games for Claremont. Played his first game at AFL level in West Coast's loss to the Western Bulldogs in Round 19, 2005. Mitch played the following two games against Fremantle and Geelong, and did not return for the rest of the season.
- Andrew Carrazzo
Andrew Carrazzo (born December 15, 1983) is an Australian rules footballer in the Australian Football League. Carrazzo was initially selected as a rookie by Geelong in 2002. He spent two seasons on the rookie list at Geelong, winning the Geelong VFL team's best and fairest award in 2003, but never breaking into the Geelong senior list. He was again rookie listed in 2004, this time by Carlton. After another strong season in the VFL, he was elevated to the senior list, …
- Luke Ablett
Luke Ablett (born 22 November 1982) is an Australian rules football player with the Sydney Swans of the AFL. He is the son of former Hawthorn player Kevin Ablett, who was less well known than his older brother and fellow Hawthorn player Geoff Ablett and younger brother, the legendary Geelong player Gary Ablett. Having played for local club Drouin and the Gippsland Under 18s side, Luke was drafted by Sydney in the 2nd round of the 2000 National Draft, …
- Steven Dodd
Steven Dodd (born June 20, 1983) is a defensive midfielder for the Fremantle Dockers. He made his debut, after being elevated from the rookie list, against Geelong in Round 20 of 2004, when Fremantle were defeated by Geelong by 50 points on one of the coldest days of football in recent times. Due to strong performances in the WAFL, at the end of 2005 he signed a two-year contract for Fremantle. Dodd weighs in at 84kg and stands 190cm tall.
- 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, …
- 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.
- Tom Hafey
Thomas Stanley Raymond Hafey (born August 5, 1931) was an Australian rules football player and coach in the VFL/AFL, playing for Richmond between 1953 and 1958, and coaching four clubs (Richmond, Collingwood, Geelong and Sydney) between 1966 and 1988.
- 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.
- Jeff White
Jeffrey Newman White (born February 19, 1977) is an Australian rules footballer. Making his debut in 1995 with the Fremantle Dockers, he was drafted with the number 1 pick in the 1994 AFL Draft. He went on to play 32 games and kick 18 goals with the Dockers between 1995 and 1997, before being traded back to his home state of Victoria and playing for the Melbourne Demons. To the end of 2005, he has played 175 games with the Demons, for a career total of 207 games.
- Tom Hawkins
Thomas "Tomahawk" Hawkins (born July 27 1988 in Finley, New South Wales), the son of former Geelong player Jack Hawkins, is an Australian rules footballer drafted by the Geelong Cats under the father-son draft rule.
- Peter Lalor
Peter Fintan Lalor (Pronunced "LAW-la") (5 February 1827 - 9 February 1889) was the leader of the Eureka Stockade rebellion, one of Australia's few armed uprisings and often characterised controversially as the "birth of democracy" in Australia. He was described in a reward notice issued in 1854 as being: :"hair dark brown, whiskers dark brown and shaved under the chin, no moustache, long face, rather good looking, …
- Luke Darcy
Luke Darcy (born July 12, 1975) is an Australian rules footballer with the Western Bulldogs. Debuting in 1994, Darcy is regarded as one of the Bulldogs' most successful ruckmen/forwards. In 2001 he took out the Charles Sutton Medal, and continued to stamp his name on the game in the following seasons. The following season, he and Michael Voss were the first players to be awarded the Leigh Matthews Trophy as AFL Players Association MVP<sup>1</sup>.
- 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.
- 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.
- Marcus Drum
Marcus Drum (born May 1, 1987) is an Australian rules footballer. Recruited from the Murray Bushrangers, Drum is the nephew of former Geelong player, Fremantle coach and current Victorian Nationals MLC Damian Drum. In the 2005 AFL National Draft, Drum was selected at number 10, and stands at 190cm and 90kg, and is a solid key-position prospect for the Dockers in the years to come.
- Leigh Colbert
Leigh Colbert (born June 7, 1975) is a former Australian rules footballer in the Australian Football League. He made his debut with Geelong in 1993 and became a fearless player, usually playing off half-back, but then found his way as a key position player. He was awarded Geelong's captaincy in 1999, but did not play a game that season due to injury. The falling out between the club and Colbert caused great controversy.
- Robert Doyle
Robert Doyle (born 20 May 1953) is an Australian former politician. He was the Opposition Leader of Victoria from 2002 to 2006, representing the Liberal Party of Australia. On 4 May 2006 Doyle announced his resignation as Leader and from State Parliament. He is now the chairman of Melbourne Health and a director of management consultancy firm The Nous Group. Born in Melbourne, Doyle attended secondary school in Geelong.
- 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, …
- Neil Balme
Neil Allen Balme (born January 15, 1952 in Perth, Western Australia) is a former Australian rules football player who played in the VFL between 1969 and 1979 for the Richmond Football Club.
- Shaun Higgins
Shaun Higgins (born March 4, 1988) is an Australian rules footballer with the Western Bulldogs in the Australian Football League. He was picked with the Western Bulldogs first pick in the 2005 AFL Draft, 11th overall. He grew up in Geelong and was drafted from the Geelong Falcons. Played juniors with Bell Park but then moved to Newtown for his intermedient football, progressing to the Geelong Falcons TAC Cup team.
- John Will
John Will is a notable martial artist from Australia. Will won gold in the first World Silat Championships held in Jakarta in 1982, the only non Indonesian to have won the championship at that time. Will also completed his black belt in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu under Jean Jacques Machado in 1998; making him one of the first twelve foreign nationals to have won a black belt in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. John Will's background includes training in amateur wrestling, …
- Barry Jones
Barry Owen Jones AO (born October 11, 1932, Geelong, Victoria) is an Australian polymath, writer, lawyer, social activist, and former politician. In 1998 he was named as one of Australia's "National Living Treasures". He was educated at Melbourne High School and Melbourne University where he studied arts and law. Jones began his career as a schoolteacher at Dandenong High School, where he taught for nine years, …
- Philip Davis
Philip Rivers Davis (born December 7, 1952) is an Australian politician. He has been a Liberal member of the Victorian Legislative Council since October 1992, representing Gippsland Province. He is the current Leader of the Opposition in the Legislative Council, Shadow Minister for Agriculture and Shadow Minister for Country Victoria. Davis was born in the rural town of Maffra, …
- Justin Murphy
Justin Murphy (born April 24, 1976) is an Australian rules footballer who has played with 4 clubs during his career. Began his junior footy with the Central Dragons. Murphy is a true journeyman of the AFL, beginning his career at Richmond, before moving to Carlton, then to Geelong, back to Carlton, and finally, moving to Essendon, a team he said during his days with Carlton, that he despised. Murphy is a midfielder who is deadly around goals, …
- 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.
- 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.
- Helen Garner
Helen Garner (born 1942 in Geelong, Australia) is a novelist and journalist. Before becoming a writer, she worked as a high-school teacher. Her daughter Alice Garner is an actress, historian and musician.
- David Spriggs
David Spriggs (born January 25, 1981) is an Australian rules footballer with the Port Melbourne Football Club in the Victorian Football League, formerly played for the AFL's Geelong Football Club and Sydney Swans. He was recruited as the number 15 draft pick in the 1999 AFL Draft from Beaumaris. He made his debut for Geelong in Round 1, 2000 against Fremantle.
- Dwayne Russell
Dwayne Russell (born March 4, 1965) is a very ordinary former Australian rules footballer and currently an even more ordinary commentator of the sport. He played for the Port Adelaide Football Club in the SANFL, before crossing over to VFL club Geelong in 1987. He played 50 games for 51 goals until he was removed from the club in 1991 for trying to pass himself off as Gary Ablett's younger, better looking, but less talented brother at Geelong Nightclubs.
- John Eren
John Hamdi Eren is an Australian politician. He has been an Australian Labor Party member of the Victorian Legislative Council since November 2002, representing Geelong Province. Eren was born in İzmir, Turkey. He came to Australia in 1970 and studied at a high school in the northern suburbs of Melbourne. He has worked in a number of different fields, including on an assembly line in a car factory, as a security officer, small business owner and administrative assistant.
- Mark Wilson
Mark Wilson (born August 1980) is an Australian bass guitarist from Geelong, Victoria. Mark Wilson is widely known as the bass guitarist for Melbourne-based rock band, Jet. He was asked to join the group in 2002 by the other three members, Nic Cester, Chris Cester and Cameron Muncey, but initially refused perhaps out of loyalty to The Ca$inos since he was that band's original bassist. Later he rang up Muncey and the Cesters and agreed to join them instead.
- Graham Farmer
Graham "Polly" Farmer (born March 10, 1935) is a retired Indigenous Australian rules football player and coach. He began his career with East Perth in the WAFL where he played 176 games from 1953 to 1961. During this time he won the club's Fairest and Best award 7 times and was a member of their 1956, 1958 and 1959 Premiership teams. In 1959 he was awarded the Simpson Medal for being best on ground in the Grand Final. He was awarded the WAFL's highest individual honour, …
- Robert Scott
Rob Scott (born March 1, 1969) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Geelong and North Melbourne in the AFL.
- 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.
- Paul Chambers
Paul Chambers (born July 23, 1982) is an Australian rules footballer with the Werribee Football Club in the Victorian Football League, formerly played for the AFL's Geelong Football Club and Sydney Swans. He was promoted off Geelong's rookie list in 2002 before making his debut in Round 4 of that year against St. Kilda.