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Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 15

This volume of the Australian Dictionary of Biography is the third of four for the period 1940-1980 and covers names Kem-Pie. [Read More]

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  1. Parry Okeden, Richard Godfrey Christian (1900–1978) businessman
  2. Parnell, Thomas (1881–1948) physicist
  3. Parkes, Edward (1890–1953) public servant
  4. Parkes, Cobden (1892–1978) architect, public servant and soldier
  5. Parker, Kathleen Isabel (Kay) (1906–1979) army nurse
  6. Parish, Augustus Albert (Gus) (1912–1967) metallurgist
  7. Parer, Damien Peter (1912–1944) war photographer and cameraman
  8. Pardey, Minnie Laurel (1897–1974) pianola-roll pianist
  9. Pardey, Edith Emma (1896–1963) pianola-roll pianist
  10. Paramor, Wendy (1938–1975) artist
  11. Papathanasopoulos, Theophylactos (1891–1958) Greek Orthodox bishop
  12. Paltridge, Sir Shane Dunne (1910–1966) politician
  13. Palmos, Angelos (1903–1976) forester
  14. Palmer, Helen Gwynneth (1917–1979) educationist
  15. Paine, Sir Herbert Kingsley (1883–1972) judge
  16. Paine, Duke Douglas (1892–1960) public servant and army officer
  17. Paine, Arnold Gerald Stewart (1897–1979) soapbox orator
  18. Page, Walter (1904–1956) Aboriginal activist
  19. Page, Robert Charles (1920–1945) soldier
  20. Packer, Gerald (1900–1962) army and air force officer, businessman and government adviser
  21. Packer, Sir Douglas Frank (1906–1974) media proprietor
  22. Packard, Guy Spencer (1884–1963) shipping company manager
  23. Owen, Sir William Francis (1899–1972) judge
  24. Owen, John Evan Eric (1901–1965) Presbyterian minister
  25. Owen, Evelyn Ernest (1915–1949) inventor of the Owen gun
  26. O'Toole, Thomas William (1885–1957) coalminer
  27. O'Sullivan, Sir Michael Neil (1900–1968) politician and solicitor
  28. O'Sullivan, Michael (1866–1950) policeman
  29. Osman, Neile (1920–1972) educationist
  30. O'Shea, Maurice George (1897–1956) winemaker
  31. O'Shane, Gladys Dorothy (1919–1965) Aboriginal political activist
  32. Osborne, Doris Margaret (1906–1977) schoolteacher and campaigner for equal rights for women
  33. Orr, Sydney Sparkes (1914–1966) philosopher
  34. Orr, John (1885–1966) professor of linguistics
  35. Ord, Charles Andrew (1905–1977) banker and stockbroker
  36. Oppen, Margaret (1890–1975) artist and embroiderer
  37. Opas, David Louis (1936–1980) judge
  38. Oom, Karl Erik (1904–1972) naval officer
  39. Onus, William Townsend (Bill) (1906–1968) Aboriginal political activist and entrepreneur
  40. O'Neill, Patrick (1886–1968) Christian Brother and schoolteacher
  41. O'Neill, Martha Mary (1878–1972) Sister of Mercy and schoolteacher
  42. O'Neill, Josephine (1905–1968) journalist and film critic
  43. O'May, Henry (Harry) (1872–1962) ferrymaster
  44. O'May, George Elwin (1876–1956) ferrymaster
  45. O'Malley, Louis James (Jim) (1912–1975) public servant and explorer
  46. Olsen, Olav Trygve (1890–1966) civil engineer
  47. O'Loghlen, John Henry Patrick Francis (Frank) (1892–1964) rural and sporting writer
  48. Oliphant, Kenneth Henry Bell (1894–1975) architect
  49. O'Leary, Cornelius (1897–1971) director of native affairs
  50. Oldham, Wilfrid (1890–1959) university lecturer and historian
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