 Darren Milburn grew up in the country town of Kilmore, Victoria, where he attended school and played for the Kilmore Football Club.Milburn met his future wife, Tania, in his teenage years whilst still at school, and also was school friends with another future AFL footballer, Barry Hall, whom he met at a high school he attended in Broadford, Victoria.In season 2007 he received his first All-Australian guernsey in the back-pocket.