Ian Stewart (Australian rules footballer)

Ian Stewart
Ian Stewart
Personal information
Full name	Ian Harlow Stewart
Date of birth	14 July 1943 (age 80)
Place of birth	Queenstown, Tasmania
Original team(s)	Macalburn (SSOBFA)
Debut	20 April 1963, St Kilda vs. Melbourne, at Junction Oval
Height	179 cm (5 ft 10 in)
Weight	81 kg (179 lb)
Playing career1
Years	Club
1962	Hobart
1963–1970	St Kilda
1971–1975	Richmond
Total
Representative team honours
Years	Team
	Victoria
Coaching career
Years	Club
1976–1977	South Melbourne
1978	Carlton
1979–1981	South Melbourne
Total
	1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1975.
Career highlights
	2× VFL Premiership player: 1966, 1973; 3× Brownlow Medal: 1965, 1966, 1971; 2× St Kilda Best and Fairest: 1964, 1966; Jack Dyer Medal: 1971; All-Australian team: 1966; St Kilda captain: 1969; Championship of Australia Championship: 1973; Australian Football Hall of Fame, inducted 1996, Legend 1997; St Kilda Team of the Century: (centre); Richmond Team of the Century; St Kilda Hall of Fame Legend; Richmond Hall of Fame; Australian Sports Medal: 2000;
	Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Ian Harlow Stewart (né Cervi; born 14 July 1943) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the St. Kilda Football Club and Richmond Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL). He later coached South Melbourne and Carlton before returning to St. Kilda to serve as general manager.

Stewart is one of only four men to win the Brownlow Medal three times (the others being Haydn Bunton Sr., Dick Reynolds, and Bob Skilton), and the only one to do so at two different clubs; he is also the most recent player to have achieved three Brownlow Medals. He was an inaugural inductee into the Australian Football Hall of Fame in 1996 and was elevated to Legend status the following year.
He will always be remembered as one of the truly great exponents of Australian football, a player with the rare blend of skill, concentration and courage who formed partnerships with two of the greatest forwards the game has produced, Darrel Baldock and Royce Hart. Coincidentally, all three men hailed from Tasmania during a period when the country's smallest state contributed some unforgettable talent to the national game.