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Pages in category "People from Adelaide" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 215 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Adelaide (/ ˈ æ d ɪ l eɪ d / AD-il-ayd, [8] [9] locally [ˈædəlæɪd] ⓘ; Kaurna: Tarndanya [ˈd̪̥aɳɖaɲa]) is the capital and most populous city of South Australia, [10] as well as the fifth-most populous city in Australia. The name "Adelaide" may refer to either Greater Adelaide (including the Adelaide Hills) or the Adelaide city ...
This is an incomplete list of notable people from Adelaide Arts and music. Prominent intellectuals, writers, artists, bands, and musicians to hail from Adelaide ...
The extended family groups of the Adelaide Plains, who spoke dialects of a common language, were named according to locality, such as Kawanda Meyunna (North men), Wirra Meyunna (Forest People), Pietta Meyunna (Murray River people), Wito Meyunna (Adelaide clan's former name), Tandanya (South Adelaide people), etc. – but they had no common name ...
This is an incomplete list of University of Adelaide people including notable alumni and staff associated with the University of Adelaide in Australia. Alumni
Daniel Beltrame – former Adelaide United goalkeeper; Matthew Kelly – Former Australian rules footballer for Norwood (SANFL) and the Adelaide Crows (AFL) Jeanette Kieboom – Javelin, represented Australia at both the 1978 and 1986 Commonwealth Games; Nicole Romeo – former Basketball player [citation needed]
The Adelaide plains were inhabited by the Kaurna people before the colonisation of South Australia, their territory extending from what is now Cape Jervis to Port Broughton. The Kaurna lived in family groups called yerta , a word which also referred to the area of land which supported the family group.
Adelaide is a feminine given name from the English form of a Germanic given name, from the Old High German Adalheidis, meaning "noble natured". The modern German form is Adelheid , famously the first name of Queen Adelaide , for whom many places throughout the former British Empire were named.