This is an incomplete list of notable people from Adelaide.
Arts and music
Prominent intellectuals, writers, artists, bands, and musicians to hail from Adelaide include:
Actors
Dame Judith Anderson - Rebecca, And Then There Were None; Tony and Emmy Award winner Elspeth Ballantyne - Prisoner Holly Brisley - Home and Away Sam Clark - Neighbours Kate Fischer - Sirens Sir Robert Helpmann - Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Nicholas Hope - Bad Boy Bubby Dichen Lachman - Neighbours, Dollhouse Anthony LaPaglia - Without a Trace Jonathan LaPaglia - Seven Days, The District Glenn McMillan - Wonderland, Power Rangers Ninja Storm Ben Oxenbould - Hey Dad..! Teresa Palmer - December Boys, I Am Number Four Lois Ramsey - Road to Nhill, Home and Away Xavier Samuel - The Twilight Saga: Eclipse Hugh Sheridan - Packed to the Rafters Sarah Snook - Succession; Golden Globe winner
Sonia Todd - McLeod's Daughters
Melanie Vallejo - Winners and Losers, Power Rangers Mystic Force
Samara Weaving
John Noble - Fringe
Comedians
Anthony "Lehmo" Lehmann - comedian
Richard Marsland
Shaun Micallef
Greig Pickhaver - aka "H.G. Nelson" Roy Rene - aka "Mo McCackie" Frank Woodley
Film directors
Mario Andreacchio
David James Campbell
Alex Frayne
Rolf de Heer
Scott Hicks
Pip Karmel
Anthony Maras
Michael James Rowland
Murali K. Thalluri
Eddie White
Humanities
Graeme Hugo - demographer and Federation Fellow (2002) J. J. C. Smart - philosopher Hugh Stretton - historian and sociologist Peter Sutton - anthropologist Ghil'ad Zuckermann - linguist and revivalist Wesley Wildman - philosopher, theologian, ethicist
Journalists
Annabel Crabb - political writer and commentator
Brady Haran - independent video journalist and Internet personality
Jenni Hogan - TV reporter and host, Emmy Award winner
Christian Kerr - political commentator and journalist
David Koch - financial journalist and former presenter of Sunrise
Bruce McAvaney - sports broadcaster
Hamish McLachlan - television sports commentator for the Seven Network
David Penberthy - editor-in-chief of the Australian newspaper The Daily Telegraph
Musicians and bands
Allday
The Angels
At Sunset
The Beards
Tkay Maidza
Atlas Genius
The Audreys
Jimmy Barnes
Beeb Birtles
Bit By Bats
David Campbell
Wes Carr
Julian Cochran
Cold Chisel
Beccy Cole
Michael Crafter
Delta (hip hop artist) Fraternity Funkoars Peter Furler Dave Graney Angie Hart Hilltop Hoods The Hot Lies I Killed the Prom Queen Jim Keays Paul Kelly Rachael Leahcar Lowrider The Mark of Cain The Masters Apprentices Reece Mastin Sarah McLeod Sia Sister Janet Mead Orianthi Panagaris Redgum Aleesha Rome Guy Sebastian Glenn Shorrock Benjamin Speed The Superjesus Rudy Nikkerud Swanee Michelle Tumes The Twilights Universum Virgin Black Wolf & Cub
Visual artists
James Ashton - painter and arts educator
Dorrit Black - modernist printmaker and painter
Michal Dutkiewicz - comic book artist and illustrator, three-time winner of the Stanley Award Robert Hannaford - portrait artist, three-time winner of the People's Choice Award of the Archibald Prize Barbara Hanrahan - artist, printmaker and writer Sir Hans Heysen - landscape painter, nine-time winner of the Wynne Prize Nora Heysen - portrait artist, first female winner of the Archibald Prize Ondrej Mares - sculptor and furniture maker Joseph Stanislaus Ostoja-Kotkowski - painting, photography, film-making, theatre design, fabric design, murals, kinetic and static sculpture, stained glass, vitreous enamel murals, op-collages, computer graphics, and laser art Geoffrey Proud - portrait and landscape painter, sculptor, winner of the 1990 Archibald Prize, winner of the 1975 Sulman Prize Jeffrey Smart - precisionist landscape painter Susan Dorothea White - painter, sculptor and printmaker