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Australian Dictionary of Biography, Supplement

This volume of the Australian Dictionary of Biography is a supplement to the first sixteen volumes and covers the period 1580-1980. [Read More]

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  1. Stevenson, Margaret (1807–1874) poet and satirist
  2. St Leon, Matthew (1826–1903) acrobat, equestrian and circus proprietor
  3. Street, Edwin (Ted) (1891–1975) ice-cream manufacturer
  4. Sullivan, Patrick Peter (Pat) (1885–1933) cartoonist and animated film producer
  5. Summerfield, Rose Anna (1864–1922) feminist and labour leader
  6. Sutton, Samuel John (1836–1906) businessman and politician
  7. Sweetapple, Theodora Maude (Dora) (1872–1972) nurse
  8. Tarenorerer (1800–1831) Aboriginal leader
  9. Tedbury (?–1810)
  10. Teichelmann, Christian Gottlieb (1807–1888) Lutheran missionary and pastor
  11. Tennyson, Audrey Georgiana Florence (1854–1916) letter-writer, hospital founder and vice-regal wife
  12. Tepper, Johann Gottlieb Otto (1841–1923) botanist, schoolteacher and entomologist
  13. Thomas, Mary (1787–1875) diarist and poet
  14. Thompson, Joseph (1784–1839) mariner, pearler and pastoralist
  15. Timbery, Emma (1842–1916) Aboriginal shellworker
  16. Tjalkabota, Moses (1869–1954) Aboriginal evangelist
  17. Tonga, Antonius Tui (1850–1905) Pacific Islander community leader and farmer
  18. Torres, Fulgentius (1861–1914) Benedictine abbot
  19. Tost, Jane Catharine (1817–1889) taxidermist and shopkeeper
  20. Tripp, Edward Clavell (Ted) (1900–1979) political organizer
  21. Trouette, Jean-Pierre (1833–1885) vigneron
  22. Troup, Gilbert Reynolds (1896–1962) anaesthetist
  23. Tulaba (1832–1886) Aboriginal leader and anthropological informant
  24. Unaipon, James (1835–1907) Aboriginal leader
  25. Virtue, William Wright (1863–1926) engineer and Christian Scientist
  26. von Stieglitz, Karl Rawdon (1893–1967) pastoralist and antiquarian
  27. Wade, Abdul (1866–1928) Afghan camel merchant and businessman
  28. Waite, George (1860–1941) trade union leader
  29. Walcott, Richard Henry (1870–1936) mineralogist and museum curator
  30. Walker, Janet (1850–1940) costumier and teacher
  31. Wallace, Theodosia Ada (1872–1953) journalist
  32. Wallis, Alexander Robert (1848–1928) agricultural expert
  33. Warner, James (1814–1891) surveyor
  34. Watson, Andrew Dougald (1885–1962) Antarctic explorer and headmaster
  35. Watson, James Thomas (1872–1938) mining engineer
  36. Waugh, Julian Barbara (1857–1938) political and community worker
  37. Way Kee (1824–1892) storekeeper
  38. Webster, Edward (1866–1928) schoolteacher and co-founder of the Gould League of Bird Lovers
  39. Weigel, Johanna Wilhelmine (1847–1940) paper-pattern manufacturer
  40. Wells, Charles Frederick (Fred) (1918–1975) seaman and journalist
  41. Wertheim, Hugo (1854–1919) merchant and manufacturer
  42. West, Obed (1807–1891)
  43. West, Thomas (1773–1858) convict and landowner
  44. Westwood, William (1820–1846) convict and bushranger
  45. Wicken, Harriett Frances (1847–1937) cookery writer
  46. Wicken, Percy George (1866–1952)
  47. Willason, Thomas Parking (Tom) (1882–1939) Methodist minister
  48. Wills, Frederick Charles (1870–1955) artist and photographer
  49. Wilson, John (1882–1967) consulting engineer
  50. Wimble, Frederick Thomas (1846–1936) ink-maker, type-founder, printers’ furnisher and politician
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