Law and Politics
- Bob Hawke, Borne in Bordertown, South Australia 1929. Australian Prime Minister from 1983-1991.
- Michael Bradley, Born in Adelaide, 1955. one of Canada's longest serving City Mayors, he has been mayor of the City of Sarnia, ON, Canada since 1988. ]
- Julia Gillard, (migrated to Adelaide in 1966), Australian Prime Minister and leader of the federal Australian Labor Party. Gillard was born in Barry, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales in 1961. In 1966 her family migrated to Australia, settling in Adelaide.
- John Finnis, Professor of Law at University College, Oxford, exponent of the natural law theory.
- Dame Roma Mitchell (born in Adelaide, 1913) was Australia's first female QC, first female judge and first female Governor.
- Janine Haines (born in Tanunda, 1945) was the first female to lead an Australian political party (the Australian Democrats).
- Natasha Stott Despoja (born in Adelaide, 1969), was the youngest woman to enter Commonwealth Parliament and in 2001, was the youngest person in Australian history to lead an Australian political party (also the Australian Democrats).
- Sir Charles Cameron Kingston (born in Adelaide, 1850), son of the Adelaide surveyor Sir George Strickland Kingston, was the Premier of South Australia from 1893–1899 and went on to be the Minister for Trade and Customs in the first Commonwealth Parliament.
- Catherine Helen Spence (emigrated to South Australia, 1839), was a suffragist, electoral reformer, prohibitionist, feminist and novelist. She pioneered the way for South Australia to become the second place in the world to grant women the right to vote (after New Zealand), and was the first female political candidate in Australia — standing for the Constitutional Conventions of the 1890s.
- Alexander Downer (born in Adelaide, 1951), was the shortest-serving leader of the federal Liberal Party before being replaced by John Howard. Downer was Minister for Foreign Affairs from March 1996 to November 2007, and went on to become the longest serving person in this position.
- Alexander Downer, Sr.
- John Downer
- John Langdon Bonython
- John Lavington Bonython
- Keith Wilson (politician)
- Ian Wilson (politician)
- List of Mayors and Lord Mayors of Adelaide
- List of Premiers of South Australia
- Category:Federal politicians from South Australia
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