Warragul - Notable People

Notable People

  • Gary Ayres - Former coach of the Adelaide Crows Football Club and former Hawthorn premiership player
  • Jason Bargwanna - Current V8 Supercar driver and Bathurst 1000 winner in 2000
  • Andrew Dent AM - Doctor and Humanitarian Worker
  • Gerard Donnelly - Former Australian Triathlon Ironman Champion and Commonwealth Games representative in Auckland 1990.
  • Chris Godsil - Professor of Mathematics at the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
  • Edward 'Carjie' Greeves - First Brownlow Medallist and Geelong Footballer
  • John Guy - A leading British historian and biographer
  • Craig Hutchison - TV personality on the Nine Network and Triple M radio personality
  • Margaret Jackson AC - Australian corporate executive (former Chairman of QANTAS)
  • Robert Murphy - Currently plays for the Western Bulldogs in the AFL
  • Alan Noonan - Former VFL footballer for the Essendon Football Club and the Richmond Football Club
  • Andrew T. O'Connor - An Australian novelist
  • Mark Ridgway - Former Tasmanian Tigers cricket player
  • Barry Round - Footscray (Western Bulldogs) and Sydney Swans Brownlow Medallist
  • Geoff Watt - Former long-distance runner and namesake of the local athletics track.
  • Kathy Watt - Australia's first cycling gold medalist at the 1992 Barcelona Summer Olympics in the women's road race. She also won a silver medal in the 3000m individual pursuit event at these Olympic games

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