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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. Ashby, Sylvia Rose (1908–1978) market researcher
  2. Ashkanasy, Maurice (1901–1971) barrister and Jewish community leader
  3. Ashley, William Patrick (Bill) (1881–1958) politician
  4. Ashton, Havelock Race (1895–1971) newspaper editor
  5. Ashton, James Hay (Jim) (1899–1973) grazier, businessman and polo player
  6. Aston, Ronald Leslie (1901–1969) engineer and academic
  7. Athaldo, Don (1894–1965) strongman
  8. Atkinson, Edwin (Eddy) (1888–1952) carpenter, handyman and fisherman
  9. Atkinson, Ellen (1894–1965) Aboriginal community leader
  10. Atkinson, Richard Ashley (Dick) (1913–1944) air force officer
  11. Aunger, Horace Hooper Murray (1878–1953) overlander and motor engineer
  12. Axon, Sir Albert Edwin (1898–1974) engineer, businessman and university chancellor
  13. Badcoe, Peter John (1934–1967) army officer
  14. Baile, Albert Henry (Bert) (1882–1961) bandmaster
  15. Bailey, Editha Olga (1903–1980) community worker
  16. Bailey, Eric George (1906–1945) policeman
  17. Bailey, Sir Kenneth Hamilton (1898–1972) lawyer and public servant
  18. Bailey, Victor Albert (1895–1964) physicist
  19. Bain, George Keith (1888–1961) company manager
  20. Baker, Ada Winifred Weekes (1866–1949) teacher of singing
  21. Baker, Euphemia Eleanor (Effie) (1880–1968) photographer and Bahá'í
  22. Baker, Sir Henry Seymour (1890–1968) barrister and politician
  23. Baker, Mabel Jewell (1885–1967) headmistress
  24. Baker, Sidney John (Sid) (1912–1976) philologist
  25. Baldessin, George Victor Joseph (1939–1978) painter, sculptor and printmaker
  26. Baldwin, Alec Hutcheson (1891–1971) professor of tropical medicine
  27. Baldwinson, Arthur Norman (1908–1969) architect
  28. Balmer, John Raeburn (1910–1944) air force officer
  29. Balson, Ralph (1890–1964) artist
  30. Band, John Morrell (1902–1943) naval officer
  31. Banks, Donald Oscar (Don) (1923–1980) composer
  32. Bannan, Elizabeth Margaret (1909–1977) educationist
  33. Banning, Arthur Alexander (Lex) (1921–1965) poet
  34. Banvard, Yvonne (Fifi) (1901–1962) actress
  35. Baracchi, Guido Carlo Luigi (1887–1975) Marxist scholar and political activist
  36. Barber, George Calvert (1893–1967) theologian and Methodist Church leader
  37. Barber, Horace Newton (1914–1971) botanist and geneticist
  38. Barclay, Edmund Piers (Teddy) (1898–1961) radio dramatist and writer
  39. Barclay, Nathaniel (1894–1962) soldier settler and politician
  40. Barclay-Harvey, Sir Charles Malcolm (1890–1969) landowner and governor
  41. Bardon, Richard (1886–1969) Presbyterian clergyman
  42. Bardsley, Doris (1895–1968) nurse
  43. Barge, Anthony James (1928–1980) police officer and educationist
  44. Barker, George Herbert (1880–1965) bookseller and naturalist
  45. Barker, Harold James (1913–1969) air force officer
  46. Barker, James (Jimmie) (1900–1972) station hand
  47. Barkman, Frances (1885–1946) teacher and Jewish welfare worker
  48. Barnard, Charles Ashmall (1867–1942) naturalist
  49. Barnard, George (1831–1894) naturalist
  50. Barnard, Henry Greensill (Harry) (1869–1966) zoologist, naturalist and grazier
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