Baddaginnie is a town in Victoria, Australia. It is located on the North East railway line, in the Rural City of Benalla, 12 kilometres south-west of Benalla itself on the old Hume Highway.
It is situated in mainly flat unforested country, one kilometre west of Baddaginnie Creek. At the , Baddaginnie had a population of 347.
This name was related to Sri Lankan labourers who worked in a railway line project in early 1900. Labourers didn't know English and they only used word "Baddaginnie" during the time of working. "Baddaginnie" meaning hungry (à ¶¶à ¶©à ¶Âà ·Âà ¶±à ·Â) in Sinhala.
The town was surveyed in 1857, named after the nearby Baddaginnie Creek, but settlement was slow, a Post Office finally opening on 16 September 1879. A railway station was open and served passengers until July 1978.
Although often mistaken for an Aboriginal word, Baddaginnie may have been named by a surveyor, J.G.W. Wilmot, who had spent some time in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), from baddaginnie (bada-gini - literally 'stomach on fireâÂÂ), meaning "hungry" () in the Sinhala language.
George "Joey" Palmer, the 1880s Australian test cricketer, died there on 22 August 1910.