The 1965 Melbourne Cup was a two-mile handicap horse race which took place on Tuesday, 2 November 1965. The race, run over , at Flemington Racecourse.
The race won by Light Fingers, trained by Bart Cummings who won the first of what would end up being a record 12 Melbourne Cups. Ziema ran second also trained by Cummings making it the first of five times he trained the quinella.
This is a list of horses which ran in the 1965 Melbourne Cup.
Jean Shrimpton and her then boyfriend Terence Stamp made a highly publicised visit to the Cup at a time when foreign celebrities were not common in Australia.