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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. Munro, James (1779–1845) convict, seaman and storekeeper
  2. Muskett, Philip Edward (1857–1909) medical practitioner and health reformer
  3. Musquito (1780–1825) Aboriginal resistance leader and tracker
  4. Nagle, Jacob (1761–1841) sailor
  5. Narelle, Marie (Molly) (1870–1941) singer
  6. Newcomb, Harriet Christina (1854–1942) feminist and educator
  7. Ngabidj, Grant (1904–1977) Aboriginal stockman
  8. Nicholls, Worthy Worthington (Pise) (1808–1849) workman, carrier and socialist
  9. Nicolay, Mary Ann (1850–1939) Nightingale nurse and hospital matron
  10. Nimmo, Robert Harold (1893–1966) soldier and peacekeeper
  11. Nisbet, Alwyn Tom Hays (1892–1953) radiologist
  12. Niven, Francis Wilson (1831–1905) lithographic printer and mariner
  13. North, Francis Roger (1894–1978) solicitor and soldier
  14. Nott, Leslie Cecil Joshua (1895–1963) comptroller-general of prisons
  15. Nowland, Evelyn Grace Ione (1887–1974) nurse and trade unionist
  16. Nunan, Joseph Denis (1842–1885) patriot, convict and architect
  17. Nuttall, James Charles (1872–1934) artist and journalist
  18. Nuyts, Pieter (1598–1655) company official and mariner
  19. Nyhan, Carmel (1893–1962) trade union organizer
  20. O'Neill, Eugene Patrick (Paddy) (1874–1953) sanitary-carter and trade unionist
  21. Orr, Elizabeth (Lizzie) (1860–1945) hospital and army matron
  22. Packham, Charles Henry (1842–1909) orchardist and pear breeder
  23. Parker, Katharine (Kitty) (1886–1971) pianist and composer
  24. Parnell, Melina Florence (1870–1944) teacher and school proprietor
  25. Parry, Henry Griffith (1886–1971) nurseryman, orchardist and quarry manager
  26. Parry, Percy Joseph (1901–1986) nurseryman
  27. Parry, William Henry (1855–1936) wheelwright
  28. Pearson, James Kerr (1881–1950)
  29. Pelzer, August William (1862–1934) landscape gardener
  30. Pemulwuy (1750–1802) Aboriginal warrior
  31. Pepper, Nathaniel (1841–1877) Aboriginal evangelist and teacher
  32. Perkins, Charles Collier (1906–1961) farmer and politician
  33. Perry, Frances (Fanny) (1814–1892) community worker
  34. Petersen, Alicia Teresa Jane O’Shea (1862–1923) social activist and political candidate
  35. Pettigrew, William (1825–1906) sawmiller, politician and diarist
  36. Peyser, Dora (1904–1970) social worker and nurse
  37. Poltpalingada Booboorowie (1830–1901) Aboriginal fringe-dweller
  38. Pottie, Eliza (1837–1907) evangelist, pacifist and reformer
  39. Pound, Charles Joseph (1866–1946) microscopist
  40. Primrose, Maud Violet Florinda (1872–1954) nurse
  41. Probert, John William (1893–1945) soldier and farmer
  42. Proeschel, Frederick (1809–1870) map-maker and publisher
  43. Pugliese, Caroline Frances (1865–1940) theatre proprietor
  44. Pugliese, Humbert James (1884–1955) film producer and shop proprietor
  45. Pyke, Lillian Maxwell (1881–1927) author
  46. Quong, Rose Maud (1879–1972) performer and writer
  47. Radcliffe, Philip Walker (1884–1956) teacher and lecturer
  48. Radecki, John (1865–1955) stained-glass designer
  49. Raine, Tom Raine (1858–1929) real-estate agent
  50. Randall, George (1843–1930) confectionery manufacturer, migration officer and orchardist
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