List of Famous people born in South Australia, Australia

Damien Howson is an Australian cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Team BikeExchange.

Peter Best is an Australian film composer who has contributed to such films as The Adventures of Barry McKenzie (1972), Barry McKenzie Holds His Own (1974), End Play (1976), The Picture Show Man (1977), We of the Never Never (1982), Goodbye Paradise (1983), Bliss (1985), Crocodile Dundee (1986), Crocodile Dundee II (1988), Muriel's Wedding (1994), Doing Time for Patsy Cline (1997) and My Mother Frank (2000). His career started in 1967.

John Aloisi is an Australian former association football player and current head coach of A-League club Western United. In a professional career that spanned 20 seasons, with league totals of 459 games and 127 goals, he was the first Australian ever to play and score in La Liga, the Premier League and Serie A.

Ross Aloisi is a former Australian footballer who was the captain of Adelaide United in the Hyundai A-League – a team he guided to a minor premiership, a pre-season cup and two Asian Champions League campaigns. After leaving Adelaide United in controversial circumstances, he played for Wellington Phoenix in the A-League where he was appointed their inaugural captain. He is the current assistant coach for Adelaide United.

Geoffrey Simpson is an Australian cinematographer. He has received critical praise for his work on films including Shine, Oscar and Lucinda (1997) and Romulus, My Father (2007). He has won Australian Film Institute awards for Best Cinematography for The Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey (1988), Shine and Oscar and Lucinda.

Brian May was an Australian film composer and conductor who was a prominent figure during the Australian New Wave. He is perhaps best known for his scores to Mad Max and Mad Max 2.

Talia Jay Saunders is an Australian badminton player. Saunders won the mixed doubles title at the Australian National Badminton Championships with three different partners in 2011, 2013, 2014 and 2015. At the Oceania Championships, she reach the semi final round in the women's doubles event in 2012 and 2015; mixed doubles in 2014 and 2015; and in the women's singles in 2015. Her best achievement was when she reach the women's doubles final in 2015 and won a silver with Jennifer Tam.

Amy Elizabeth Gillett was an Australian track cyclist and rower who represented Australia in both sports. She was killed when a driver crashed into the Australian squad of cyclists with whom she was training in Germany. The Amy Gillett Foundation was established in order to fund road safety programs and provide scholarships for young female cyclists.

Lewis Fitz-Gerald is an Australian actor, screenwriter and television director. His academic qualifications include PhD (UNE), MA (Comms) UNE, BDA (Acting) NIDA. Fitz-Gerald lectures in Screen and Media Studies at Australia's University of New England.