Narrogin

Distinguished and Famous people from Narrogin

🏑 Bevan George

Bevan George attended Narrogin Senior High School and Narrogin Agricultural College while developing as a hockey player. His school years included selection for state and national schoolboys teams. He later represented the Kookaburras at two Olympics, winning gold in Athens in 2004 and captaining the team to bronze in Beijing in 2008. The Bevan George Shield honours that pathway through school sport. His Narrogin education and sporting development preceded international competition and national team leadership.

🏏 Shaun Marsh

Shaun Marsh was born at Narrogin in 1983 and went on to represent Australia across cricket’s international formats. A left-handed batter, he made an immediate impression on Test debut with 141 against Sri Lanka in 2011. Earlier, his scoring in the inaugural Indian Premier League season had brought wider attention to his limited-overs game. His career contained impressive innings as well as periods of inconsistent form and competition for selection.

⚙️ Viv Ebsary

Viv Ebsary was born at Narrogin in 1905 and became a largely self-trained fitter and turner. Industrial pump-making supported a remarkable second line of work: collaborating with doctors to construct equipment that hospitals struggled to obtain. His company built anaesthetic apparatus, cooling equipment and heart-lung machines, while he also volunteered his time operating equipment during surgery. Narrogin is his birthplace, before the Sydney factory and hospital work. His contribution grew from practical engineering and generosity, showing how a workshop’s ability to solve a mechanical problem could become useful in an entirely different professional world.