Fictional People and Places
- Actor Sir Michael Caine played Victor Melling in the film Miss Congeniality
- Margaret Biggs is the author of the Melling School series of books for girls, published in the 1950s and 1960s, and reprinted and extended in the 2000s.
- Robin Klein is the author of All in the Blue Unclouded Weather. This is a collection of interlinked nostalgic stories set in a late 1940s Australian country town, which focus on the four young Melling sisters: Vivienne, Cathy, Heather, and Grace.
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