Prahran, Victoria
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Prahran (pronounced "pran" or "puh-ran") is a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It is in the Local Government Area of the City of Stonnington.
It is an eminently livable part of Melbourne with many shops, restaurants and cafes. Chapel Street, for example, is an interesting mix of fashion shops, cafes and two-dollar shops. Greville Street, once the centre of the Melbourne's hippie community, is still very trendy with cafes, bars, bookstores and music shops.
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Notable citizens
- Graham Berry - colonial politician, and 11th Premier of Victoria was a grocer in Prahran in the 1850s.
- Maurice Blackburn - Australian lawyer and Labor Party politician who died in Prahran in 1944.
- Raelene Boyle - Australian athlete who worked for the Prahran City Council as a landscape gardener.
- Barlow Carkeek - Victorian and Australian cricketer died at Prahran in 1937.
- Lisa Gerrard - Australian musician and singer, part of the music group Dead Can Dance, lived in Prahran.
- Arthur Henry Cobby - leading air ace in the Australian Flying Corps during World War I was born in Prahran.
- George Hodges Knox - Australian politician, after whom the City of Knox is named, was born in Prahran in 1885.
- Herbert Hyland - investor and Country Party politician, was born on 15 March 1884 in Prahran.
- Brian Taylor - former Australian rules footballer and coach of Prahran Football Club in the VFA
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