Politics
- Joseph Abbott (New South Wales politician) (1843–1903), wool-broker and politician
- Michael Fitzpatrick (Australian politician) (1816–1881), public servant, land agent and politician
- Mark Hammond (1844–1908): gold miner, mayor of Ashfield and member of the NSW Parliament
- Ninian Melville (1843–1897): a well-known Sydney furniture maker and mortician who subsequently became the Mayor of Ashfield, and a parliamentarian
- Richard Murden (1906-1997): Haberfield furniture salesman, twice elected mayor of Ashfield and also elected to the NSW Parliament.
- Sir Henry Parkes (1815–1896): Former NSW Premier, lived in Ashfield during the 1870s
- Herbert Pratten (1865–1928): Jam maker and politician, was mayor of Ashfield and later Federal Minister for Trade and Customs from 1923 to 1928; Pratten Park named in his honour
- Murray Robson (1906-1974): soldier awarded the DSO in WWII and NSW opposition leader from 1954 to 1955. His father, William Robson (1869-1951), was also a member of parliament and mayor of Ashfield.
- Sir Bertram Stevens (1889–1973): premier of New South Wales from 1932 to 1939
- Paul Whelan (born 1943): Mayor of Ashfield from 1972 to 1976 and Minister for Police in the Carr government from 1995 to 2001.
Also see List of mayors at the end of the page.
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“I have come to the conclusion that the closer people are to what may be called the front lines of government ... the easier it is to see the immediate underbrush, the individual tree trunks of the moment, and to forget the nobility the usefulness and the wide extent of the forest itself.... They forget that politics after all is only an instrument through which to achieve Government.”
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—Peggy Noonan (b. 1950)