The Victorian goldfields boasted a community comprising a large number of different nationalities, as well as people holding multifarious political and religious views. It is therefore not surprising to discover the large number of cultures involved at the Eureka uprising.

The following list was compiled from The Eureka Encyclopaedia (Corfield/Wickham/Gervasoni) and Women of the Diggings: Ballarat 1854 (D. Wickham). Information on migration from countries of origin is located after listing of participants, and draws on material from From Many Places (Immigration Museum).

AUSTRALIA
Thomas Dignam (born NSW, tried for treason), Charles Howes (born Tasmania,) William Quinlan (born NSW, killed), Montague Miller (born Tasmania).

CANADA
Robert Julien (died of wounds), Charles Henry Ross (killed), John Robinson, Thomas Budden, Edward Henry Majenty Mount, Edward Macarthur (served in Canada), Charles MacMahon (served in Canada), Robert Nickle (served in Canada), Charles Pasley (served in Canada), Henry Chapman (had lived in Canada), Samuel Douglas Smyth Huyghue.

CORNWALL
Peter Ellis, John Penneluna, Joseph Penrose, James Wearne.

DENMARK
Erick Jorgenole Rasmussen.

ENGLAND
James Ashburner, Alfred Black (Ballarat Reform League), George Black (Ballarat Reform League), William Harvey Boase, William Walton (Baron) Bell, James Beattie (tried for treason), George Clifton (killed), Thomas Cox, Frederick London Coxhead (died of wounds), Samuel Green (killed), John Hanlon Knipe, James Montague Smith, John Wellesley Thomas, James Wiburd (or Wyburd), William Wood.

FINLAND
Isaac Mattson.

FRANCE
Delprat, Antoine Julien Fauchery, Le Pere, Peter Priaulx, Thomas Decueur.

GERMANY/PRUSSIA
Edward Thonen (killed), William Augustus Heise, Thomas Henfield (killed), John Hafele (killed), Adolphus Lessman, John Herman Frederich Spanake, Herman Steinman, Frederick William Tauschke, Frederick Vern.

GREECE
Natale D'Angri (born to Italian parents).

GUERNSEY
Jean (John) Le Maitre.

HOLLAND
Cornelius Peters, Jan Vennick (tried for treason).

IRELAND
Hugh Brady (Ballarat Reform League), James Brown (died of wounds), Michael Canny, John Crowe (killed), Patrick Malone Curtain, Michael Callinan, John Dunlop, John Dynan, Martin Diamond (killed), John Thomas Dalton, George Donaghey (killed), Henry Gittins (killed), John Esmond, Timothy Hayes (tried for treason), Patrick Daniel Howard, John Hynes (killed), Peter Lalor, Morgan Lee, Edward Quinn (killed), Michael Hanrahan, John Lynch, Michael Gleeson, Thaddeus Moore, (killed), Michael Tuohy (tried for treason), John Torpy, Michael O'Neil, E. O'Mahony, Michael O'Brien, Michael Mullins (killed), Edward McGlynn (killed), John Manning (tried for treason), William John Madden, Abbott Lewis, Patrick Sheedy, Luke Sheehan, George Gilmore, Matthew Gavin.

ITALY
Joseph Barberis, Antonio Capuano, Raffaello Carboni (tried for treason), Oravalno, Antonio Polinelli, Francesco Rappacioli, Francis John Romeo (Corsica).

NORWAY
John Forssman.

PORTUGAL
Antonio Francesco Nida.

RUSSIA
William Emmerman (killed).

SCOTLAND
Alfred William Crowe, Thomas Kennedy, Hugh Meikle, John Robertson (killed), Henry Sutherland, Alexander McLaren, Robert Watson.

SPAIN
Pergo.

SWEDEN
Jacob Soranson, Andrew Swanson, Maurice Linquist.

SWITZERLAND
Charles Doudiet, Charles Louis Sublet, Henry Alexander De Brot.

UNITED STATES
James McGill, John Josephs (tried for treason), Charles Kenworthy, George Hartley, Charles Derius Ferguson, Francis Carey, Nealson, Burnete, William Melody, George Francis Train.

WALES
John Basson Humffray (Ballarat Reform League), Llewellyn Rowlands (killed).

WEST INDIA
John McFie Campbell (tried for treason).

MIGRATION PATTERNS

AUSTRALIA
In 1854 the majority of Australian born members of the community were in the minority, and were children of convicts or pre-gold free settlers.

CANADA
The first significant arrival of Canadans to Australia was after the 1837 rebellions in Canada when 150 Canadians were transported as convicts. The goldrushs of the 1850s and 60s attracted significant numbers of Canadians. It is believed Canadian Charles Ross designed the Eureka Flag.

CORNWALL
Many Cornish miners immigrated to South Australia before the discovery of gold where they worked at Burra and other mining towns. The discovery of gold in Victoria in 1851 lured many Cornish miners to Victoria, both from South Australia and Cornwall.

DENMARK
The Schleswig-Holstein wars between Denmark and Prussia resulted in significant numbers of Danes arriving in Australia during the 1850s. The Danes interested in obtaining land and many sought gold on the diggings of Victoria.

ENGLAND
The earliest English residents in Australia were convicts or soldiers. The English brought their system of Government to Australia. Before the discovery of gold assisted passages attracted a number of immigrants. Significant number of English arrived in Victoria lured by gold.

FINLAND
The first Finn to arrive in Australia was a member of Joseph Banks scientific staff aboard The Endeavour. Many Finns of the Victorian goldfields were sailors who jumped ship and went to the goldfields in search of gold.

FRANCE
The first French in Australia were convicts or free settlers who fled France of the French Revolution of 1789. A significant number of French arrived as a result of the Victorian goldrushes. Antoine Fauchery's photography and book "Letters From a Miner in Australia" recorded interesting aspects of life on the goldfields.

GERMANY/PRUSSIA
The Germans were the first organised group of non-English speakers to come to Australia. Before the Unification of Germany in 1871 Germans had lived in a patchwork of provinces. Early German arrivals in Australia, mainly farmers and tradespeople, came from Brandenburg, Silesia and Posen. After the revolution of 1848 a number of middle-class Germans arrived from southern provinces including Bavaria. Large numbers of Germans were present on goldfields such as Ballarat, Bendigo and Talbot.

IRELAND
Famously the Irish left their homeland due to the Potato Famine. Many arrived in Australia as convicts or as part of a scheme of assisted passage.

ITALY
A number of Italian speakers from Northern Italy and the Italian speaking Swiss Canton of Ticino arrived in Australia in search of gold. Many of these immigrants first settled at Jim Crow (Daylesford) where around 10 percent of the population spoke Italian in the late 1950s. Raffaello Carboni was used to translate the message of the Ballarat Reform League to non-English speaking residents of Ballarat. He wrote the only eye-witness account of Eureka.

SWEDEN
Significant numbers of Swedes arrived in Australia during the goldrushes. They sought land, employment and gold.

SWITZERLAND
The first Swiss citizen to set foot in Australia was a painter, John Waeber, who was part of Captain James Cook's third voyage to Australia in 1777. The Australia goldrushes of the 1850s and 1860s led over 2,000 Italian speaking Swiss to leave the Canton of Ticino and Romanisch speaking Canton of Graubunden in search of gold. German speaking Swiss nationals also arrived and were instrumental in establishing Victoria's wine industry.