Family
James Gobbo was born in Melbourne, Victoria in 1931, to Italian parents who returned to Italy briefly before returning to live permanently in Australia in 1938.
Gobbo attended Xavier College where he won the 1948 APS Head of the River before studying law at the University of Melbourne during which time he lived at Newman College. In 1951 he was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship, with which he attained a Master of Arts degree at Magdalen College, Oxford University.
Gobbo married former librarian Shirley Lewis in 1957, and has five children. His son James Gobbo, Jr. was the Liberal candidate for the district of Bentleigh in the 2006 Victorian state election.
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