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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. Bullen, Alfred Percival (Perce) (1896–1974) circus proprietor
  2. Bullen, Keith Edward (1906–1976) seismologist and professor of applied mathematics
  3. Bullen, Lilian Ethel (1894–1965) circus proprietor
  4. Bunning, Walter Ralston (1912–1977) architect, town planner and writer
  5. Burbidge, Nancy Tyson (1912–1977) botanist and conservationist
  6. Burge, Frank (1894–1958) Rugby League footballer and council cleaner
  7. Burgmann, Ernest Henry (1885–1967) Anglican bishop and social critic
  8. Burhop, Eric Henry Stoneley (1911–1980) physicist
  9. Burke, Eric Keast (1896–1974) photographer and journalist
  10. Burke, James Wallace (1930–1979) cricketer and stockbroker
  11. Burke, Phyllis Le Cappelaine (1900–1969) social reformer and housing commissioner
  12. Burke, Thomas Patrick (Tom) (1910–1973) politician
  13. Burke-Gaffney, Thomas Noel (1893–1958) Jesuit priest, seismologist and astronomer
  14. Burkitt, Arthur Neville (1891–1959) professor of anatomy
  15. Burley, Frank Arthur (1881–1957) corset manufacturer
  16. Burley, Frederick Richard (Fred) (1885–1954) corset manufacturer
  17. Burne, Sir Lewis Charles (1898–1978) master builder and employer representative
  18. Burnell, John Gurner (1885–1967) engineer
  19. Burnett, Sir Charles Stuart (1882–1945) air force officer
  20. Burns, James (1881–1969) businessman
  21. Burrows, Frederick Alexander (1897–1973) army officer and businessman
  22. Burston, Sir Samuel Roy (1888–1960) physician and army officer
  23. Burston, Winifred Charlotte Hillier Crosse (1889–1976) pianist
  24. Burt, Walter Oswald (Ossie) (1893–1969) solicitor and company director
  25. Bushby, Charles Harold (1887–1975) cricket administrator and lawyer
  26. Butler, Athol Patrick (1902–1961) sheepdog handler and grazier
  27. Butler, Cecil Arthur (1902–1980) aviator
  28. Butler, Hildred Mary (1906–1975) microbiologist
  29. Butlin, Sydney James (Syd) (1910–1977) economist and historian
  30. Butt, Charles Sinclair (1900–1973) businessman
  31. Button, Percy Archibald (1892–1954) acrobat and itinerant
  32. Buttrose, Alfred William (1912–1978) army officer and businessman
  33. Butts, Leonard William Henry (1904–1975) solicitor and businessman
  34. Byles, Marie Beuzeville (1900–1979) solicitor and conservationist
  35. Byrne, Ethel (1895–1957) physician and pathologist
  36. Byrne, Samuel Michael (1883–1978) miner and artist
  37. Byrnes, Robert Steel (1899–1979) Presbyterian administrator and writer
  38. Byrnes, Sir Thomas Percy Francis (1893–1973) farmer and politician
  39. Cade, John Frederick Joseph (1912–1980) medical scientist
  40. Cade, William Richard (Bill) (1883–1957) musician
  41. Cahill, John Joseph (Joe) (1891–1959) railway fitter, trade unionist and premier
  42. Cahill, Thomas Vincent (1913–1978) Catholic archbishop
  43. Cain, John (1882–1957) premier
  44. Callaghan, Cecil Arthur (1890–1967) army officer and merchant
  45. Callaghan, Emma Jane (1884–1979) Aboriginal nurse and midwife
  46. Callanan, Ellen (Eileen) (1880–1947) religious Sister and educator
  47. Callaway, Arthur Henry (1906–1941) accountant and naval officer
  48. Callinan, James Clifford (1905–1972) electrical engineer
  49. Calwell, Arthur Augustus (1896–1973) politician
  50. Cameron, Allan Gordon (1909–1960) bank officer and soldier
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