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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. Boas, Harold (1883–1980) architect, town planner and Jewish community leader
  2. Boase, Allan Joseph (1894–1964) army officer
  3. Boase, Leonard Charles (1888–1975) army officer
  4. Bodenwieser, Gertrud (1890–1959) dancer, choreographer and teacher
  5. Boelke, Grace Fairley (1870–1948) medical practitioner
  6. Bogle, Gilbert Stanley (1924–1963) physicist
  7. Boland, Harold (Harry) (1891–1956) shearer and trade unionist
  8. Bolliger, Adolph (1897–1962) biochemist
  9. Boniwell, Martin Charles (1883–1967) public servant
  10. Bonney, Edmund Garnet (1883–1959) journalist and public servant
  11. Bonython, Lady Constance Jean (1891–1977) charity worker
  12. Booth, Angela Elizabeth Josephine (1869–1954) eugenicist
  13. Booth, Sir Charles Sylvester (1897–1970) businessman
  14. Booth, Edgar Harold (1893–1963) soldier, university lecturer and administrator
  15. Booth, James (1861–1944) medical practitioner
  16. Booth, Joseph John (1886–1965) Anglican archbishop
  17. Borovansky, Edouard (1902–1959) ballet director
  18. Borrie, Edwin Fullarton (1894–1968) civil engineer and town planner
  19. Bostock, William Dowling (1892–1968) sailor, soldier, airman, grazier and politician
  20. Boswell, Robert William McGregor (1911–1976) scientist and public servant
  21. Bosworth, Richard Charles Leslie (1907–1964) chemist and academic
  22. Bourke, Joseph Ormond Aloysius (1908–1965) public servant and university administrator
  23. Bowden, Frank Philip (1903–1968) physicist and physical chemist
  24. Bowden, George James (1888–1962) farmer, soldier and Chairman of Committees of the House of Representatives
  25. Bowden, Vivian Gordon (1884–1942) trade commissioner and diplomat
  26. Bowe, Ethel Jessie (1906–1961) army matron-in-chief
  27. Bower, Helen Rosalie (Ros) (1923–1980) community arts director
  28. Bowhay, Claude (1907–1970) sheep-breeder
  29. Bowmaker, Alfred Ernest (1895–1968) soldier and rice farmer
  30. Boyd, Douglas Thornley (1896–1964) grazier and wool industry leader
  31. Boyd, Eileen Alberta (1890–1975) singer
  32. Boyd, Martin à Beckett (1893–1972) author
  33. Boyd, Robin Gerard (1919–1971) architect and critic
  34. Boyd, Walter Hubert (1900–1970) solicitor
  35. Boyer, Sir Richard James Fildes (1891–1961) grazier, publicist and broadcasting chief
  36. Boyle, John (1904–1979) surveyor and public servant
  37. Bradford, Leslie (Les) (1878–1943) metallurgist
  38. Bradley, Claudia Portia Burton- (1909–1967) orthopaedist
  39. Bradley, Eileen Burton (1911–1976) bush regenerator
  40. Bradley, Joan Burton (1916–1982) bush regenerator
  41. Bradley, Stephen Leslie (1926–1968) kidnapper and murderer
  42. Brain, Sir Hugh Gerner (1890–1976) businessman and public benefactor
  43. Brain, Lester Joseph (1903–1980) aviator and aviation administrator
  44. Brake, John (1890–1970) agriculturist, sportsman and soldier
  45. Brand, Sir David (1912–1979) storekeeper and premier
  46. Brand, Walter Levi (1893–1964) Jewish welfare worker
  47. Brand, Sir William Alfred (1888–1979) cane-grower and politician
  48. Breen, Harold Patrick (1893–1966) public servant
  49. Brennan, Virgil Paul (1920–1943) air force officer
  50. Brett, James Fairlie (1884–1966) timber merchant and industrialist
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