This is a list of people from Ballarat. Those included are notable past or present inhabitants originating from, or associated with, the Australian regional city of Ballarat, Victoria.
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- Henry Daglish, premier of Western Australia
- Jacqueline Dark, opera singer
- David Davies, artist
- Kimberley Davies, actress
- Bob Davis, Geelong Football Club champion
- Alfred Deakin, inaugural Federal member of Parliament for Ballarat; second prime minister of Australia
- Roger Donaldson, film producer, director, writer
- William Dunstan, Australian recipient of the Victoria Cross
- Will Dyson, illustrator and political cartoonist
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- Clarice Halligan, nurse, and prisoner of war
- Eileen Healy, Sister of Mercy
- Gertrude Healy, violinist, teacher, conductor
- David Hirschfelder, film score composer, performer
- David Hobson, opera singer
- Thomas Hollway, 36th premier of Victoria
- Keith Holman, rugby league player and coach
- Craig Revel Horwood, Australian-British dancer, choreographer, and theatre director in the United Kingdom; judge on Strictly Come Dancing
- Bill Hunter, actor
- Bridget Hustwaite (born 1991), radio and television presenter, journalist and Endometriosis Australia ambassador
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- Bryce Ives, theatre maker, commentator, media producer, former Ballarat Young Person of the Year, director of the Federation University Arts Academy and Gippsland Centre of Art & Design
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- Peter Lalor, leader of the Eureka Rebellion (1854); colonial Parliamentarian; author of The Story of the Eureka Stockade
- Frank Little, Catholic archbishop of Melbourne
- Tony Lockett, Australian Football League footballer, Brownlow Medallist and holder of the all-time goalkicking record.
- Ted Lovett, Australian rules footballer
- Arthur Alfred Lynch (1861âÂÂ1934), son of John Lynch; engineer and journalist; a Boer colonel in the Boer War who fought with the Boers (1899âÂÂ1900); sentenced to death for treason against the British in 1903, pardoned in 1907; elected in House of Commons in absentia by Irish in 1901 and 1909âÂÂ1918; later became a medical doctor
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- Robyn Maher, basketball player
- Michael Malthouse, former coach of Collingwood Football Club, Footscray Football Club and West Coast Football Club (AFL Premiership coach in 1992, 1994 and 2010)
- Russell Mark, Olympic shooting gold medallist
- Norm McLeod, footballer for Melbourne Football Club, 1897-1898
- Sir Douglas Menzies, justice of the High Court of Australia
- Sir Robert Menzies, prime minister of Australia
- Steve Moneghetti, Olympic marathon runner
- Elsie Morison, opera singer
- Leslie Morshead, general in the Australian Army; Morshead Park is named after him
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