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Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 13

This volume of the Australian Dictionary of Biography is the first of four for the period 1940-1980 and covers names A-De. [Read More]

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  1. Agostini, Antonio (1903–1969) waiter
  2. Agaundo, Kondom (1917–1966) tribal leader and politician
  3. Afford, Malcolm (Max) (1906–1954) playwright and novelist
  4. Affleck, Arthur Herbert (1903–1966) aviator
  5. Adermann, Sir Charles Frederick (1896–1979) farmer and Chairman of Committees of the House of Representatives
  6. Addison, Stanley Simpson (1880–1972) administrator and publisher
  7. Adamson, May Mabel (1891–1966) headmistress
  8. Adamson, Sir Kenneth Thomas (1904–1976) orthodontist and academic
  9. Adamson, George Ernest Bartlett (1884–1951) journalist
  10. Adamson, Amy Hannah (1893–1963) headmistress
  11. Adam, Leonhard (1891–1960) anthropologist and lawyer
  12. Adam, Geoffrey William Shedden (1908–1973) obstetrician and gynaecologist
  13. Adair, John Ronald Shafto (1893–1960) aviator and businessman
  14. Ackman, Amy Vera (1886–1966) Sister of Charity and hospital administrator
  15. Ackland, Essie Adele (1896–1975) singer
  16. Abercrombie, Ralph (1881–1957) public servant
  17. Abbott, Joseph Palmer (Joe) (1891–1965) grazier and politician
  18. Abbott, Joan Stevenson (Judy) (1899–1975) nursing sister and army matron
  19. Abbott, Hilda Gertrude (1890–1984) broadcaster, interior designer and community worker
  20. Abbott, Charles Lydiard Aubrey (1886–1975) politician and administrator of the Northern Territory
  21. Abbie, Andrew Arthur (1905–1976) anatomist and anthropologist
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