Notable People
The Euroa district holds the rare honour of being the home of three Victoria Cross awardees.
- Lieutenant Leslie Cecil Maygar – 5th Victorian Mounted Rifles, A.F. – Boer War
- Corporal Alexander Stewart Burton - 7th Battalion, A.I.F. - World War I
- Lieutenant Frederick Harold Tubb – 7th Battalion, A.I.F. – World War I
- Euroa is the birthplace of cricketer, Merv Hughes.
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