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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. Dundalli (1820–1855) Aboriginal leader
  2. Dwyer, Michael (1772–1825) Irish revolutionary and political exile
  3. Easterby, Harry Tinniswood (1867–1932) sugar-chemist and administrator
  4. Eatock, Lucy Harriet (1874–1950) political activist
  5. Eaton, George Burnett (1886–1954) teacher, actor and producer
  6. Edouin, Rose (1844–1925)
  7. Edwards, Agnes (1873–1928) Aboriginal craftworker
  8. Edwards, Marion (Bill) (1874–1956) transsexual barman, pony trainer and bookmaker
  9. Egge, John (1830–1901) Chinese riverboat captain
  10. Ellery, Torrington George (1872–1923) town clerk
  11. Erlikilyika (1865–1930) Aboriginal sculptor, artist and anthropological interpreter
  12. Eumarrah (1798–1832) Aboriginal leader
  13. Evans, William Meirion (1826–1883) Wesleyan minister and editor
  14. Evenden, John Edwin (1819–1890) convict, constable and caretaker
  15. Ewing, Robert Kirkwood (1823–1899) minister of religion and controversialist
  16. Eyre, Joyce Eileen (1909–1950) teacher and academic
  17. Fairthorne, Frederick Kirk (1846–1919) pharmacist and entrepreneur
  18. Fairthorne, Landon (1832–1890)
  19. Falleni, Eugenia (1875–1938) convicted murderer
  20. Fantin, Francesco Giovanni (Frank) (1901–1942) labourer and anti-fascist
  21. Farr, Clinton Coleridge (1866–1943) physicist
  22. Farr, Julia Warren (1824–1914) charity worker
  23. Farrell, James (1803–1869) clergyman
  24. Fell, Helen Wilson (1849–1935) diarist and philanthropist
  25. Fennescey, John (1866–1948) church benefactor
  26. Fennescey, Mary Jane (1878–1946) church benefactor
  27. Fernando, Anthony Martin (1864–1949) Aboriginal activist and toymaker
  28. Flower, Sara Elizabeth (1823–1865) opera singer and teacher of singing
  29. Forde, Florrie (1875–1940) music hall artist
  30. Forlong, Eliza (1784–1859) pastoralist
  31. Forrest, Mabel (1872–1935) writer
  32. Forster, William Frear (1857–1932) newspaper editor
  33. Forsyth, Ida Muriel (1884–1953) nurse and community worker
  34. Fortune, Mary Helena (1833–1911) author
  35. Foy, Harry Sidney (1901–1942) barman and female impersonator
  36. Fraire, Chiaffredo Venerano (1852–1931) merchant and immigration agent
  37. Francis, Susan (1877–1946) midwife and political activist
  38. Fraser, Eliza Anne (1798–1858) shipwreck victim and source of myth and legend
  39. Frost, Lillian Mary (1870–1953) organist
  40. Fryer, Jane (1832–1917) political and religious radical
  41. Furneaux, Tobias (1735–1781) navigator
  42. Gether, Susanne Vilhelmine (1857–1911) woodcarver
  43. Gibson, Sir Frank Ernest (1878–1965) pharmacist and politician
  44. Gibson, Julia (1872–1953) fortune-teller
  45. Ginn, Henry (1818–1892) architect, company secretary and pastoralist
  46. Giorza, Paolo (1832–1914) musician
  47. Girardin, Marie-Louise Victoire (1754–1794) ship’s steward and cross-dresser
  48. Girdlestone, Tharp Mountain (1823–1899) surgeon, politician and sanitary reformer
  49. Gisborne, Frederic Augustus Wingfield (1860–1934) conservative ideologue
  50. Goodlet, Ann Alison (1824–1903) church worker and philanthropist
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