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Dean Notting

Australian rules footballer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 23, 2026
Entity authorityQ19663868 ↗
Source-derived summary

Dean Notting (born 14 January 1966) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Richmond in the Victorian Football League (VFL).

Career

Notting, a recruit from Lake Boga, first broke into the Richmond team late in the 1985 VFL season, to make two league appearances. In his first game of the 1986 season, Richmond's round four win over North Melbourne, Notting received a Brownlow Medal vote, then had his best performance a week later with five goals against St Kilda at the MCG. He finished the season with 13 appearances, a tally he matched in 1987, his final season. His 28 career games is a record for a player wearing number 58.

Editorial summary

“Dean Notting” enters the record as australian rules footballer. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Dean, Notting and Australian can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1966, 1985, 1986, 1987—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1966-01-14. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Dean, Notting and Australian.
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Why this record matters

“Dean Notting” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Dean, Notting and Australian provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 23, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q19663868. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1966, 1985, 1986 and 1987.

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This entry incorporates text from “Dean Notting” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.