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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. Zöllner, Simon (1821–1880) manufacturer
  2. Zöllner, Martin Leo (1858–1900)
  3. Zichy-Woinarski, Gertrude Mary (1874–1955) community welfare worker
  4. Yates, Arthur (1861–1926) seedsman
  5. Wroblewski, Charles Adam Marie (1855–1936) editor, chemist, geologist and merchant
  6. Wright, Edmund William (1824–1888) architect, engineer and businessman
  7. Wrench, Edward Thomas Jones (1828–1893)
  8. Wootton, Stanley Thomas (Stan) (1895–1986) horse-trainer
  9. Wootton, Richard Rawson (Dick) (1867–1946) horse-trainer
  10. Wootton, Francis Leonard (Frank) (1893–1940) jockey
  11. Wood, William Henry (1856–1941) surveyor and banker
  12. Wood, Malvina Evalyn (1893–1976) librarian and college warden
  13. Wolff, Sir Albert Asher (1899–1977) chief justice and lieutenant-governor
  14. Wintle, Samuel Henry (1830–1909) scholar, publicist and poet
  15. Windradyne (1800–1829) Aboriginal resistance leader
  16. Wimble, Frederick Thomas (1846–1936) ink-maker, type-founder, printers’ furnisher and politician
  17. Wilson, John (1882–1967) consulting engineer
  18. Wills, Frederick Charles (1870–1955) artist and photographer
  19. Willason, Thomas Parking (Tom) (1882–1939) Methodist minister
  20. Wicken, Percy George (1866–1952)
  21. Wicken, Harriett Frances (1847–1937) cookery writer
  22. Westwood, William (1820–1846) convict and bushranger
  23. West, Thomas (1773–1858) convict and landowner
  24. West, Obed (1807–1891)
  25. Wertheim, Hugo (1854–1919) merchant and manufacturer
  26. Wells, Charles Frederick (Fred) (1918–1975) seaman and journalist
  27. Weigel, Johanna Wilhelmine (1847–1940) paper-pattern manufacturer
  28. Webster, Edward (1866–1928) schoolteacher and co-founder of the Gould League of Bird Lovers
  29. Way Kee (1824–1892) storekeeper
  30. Waugh, Julian Barbara (1857–1938) political and community worker
  31. Watson, James Thomas (1872–1938) mining engineer
  32. Watson, Andrew Dougald (1885–1962) Antarctic explorer and headmaster
  33. Warner, James (1814–1891) surveyor
  34. Wallis, Alexander Robert (1848–1928) agricultural expert
  35. Wallace, Theodosia Ada (1872–1953) journalist
  36. Walker, Janet (1850–1940) costumier and teacher
  37. Walcott, Richard Henry (1870–1936) mineralogist and museum curator
  38. Waite, George (1860–1941) trade union leader
  39. Wade, Abdul (1866–1928) Afghan camel merchant and businessman
  40. von Stieglitz, Karl Rawdon (1893–1967) pastoralist and antiquarian
  41. Virtue, William Wright (1863–1926) engineer and Christian Scientist
  42. Unaipon, James (1835–1907) Aboriginal leader
  43. Tulaba (1832–1886) Aboriginal leader and anthropological informant
  44. Troup, Gilbert Reynolds (1896–1962) anaesthetist
  45. Trouette, Jean-Pierre (1833–1885) vigneron
  46. Tripp, Edward Clavell (Ted) (1900–1979) political organizer
  47. Tost, Jane Catharine (1817–1889) taxidermist and shopkeeper
  48. Torres, Fulgentius (1861–1914) Benedictine abbot
  49. Tonga, Antonius Tui (1850–1905) Pacific Islander community leader and farmer
  50. Tjalkabota, Moses (1869–1954) Aboriginal evangelist
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