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Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 16

This volume of the Australian Dictionary of Biography is the fourth of four for the period 1940-1980 and covers names Pik-Z. [Read More]

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  1. Duncan, George Bernard (1904–1974) artist
  2. Pike, Douglas Henry (Doug) (1908–1974) historian
  3. Pike, Leonard Henry (1885–1961) public servant and agent-general
  4. Pilpel, Joshua (1891–1978) master printer
  5. Pink, Olive Muriel (1884–1975) artist, Aboriginal-rights activist, anthropologist and gardener
  6. Pinner, John Thomas (1888–1955) accountant and public servant
  7. Piper, Harold Bayard (1894–1953) judge and company director
  8. Pither, Alfred George (1908–1971) air force officer
  9. Pitt, George Henry (1891–1972) librarian, archivist and historian
  10. Pizzey, Jack Charles (1911–1968) schoolteacher and premier
  11. Plant, Eric Clive Pegus (1890–1950) army officer
  12. Playford, Maxwell Ernest (1902–1943) metallurgical engineer
  13. Plowman, Sir Claude (1895–1954) businessman and yachtsman
  14. Plowman, Elsie May (1905–1978) hotelier
  15. Plunkett, Thomas (1840–1913) grazier and politician
  16. Plunkett, Thomas Flood (1877–1957) dairy-farmer and politician
  17. Plunkett, William George (1910–1975) printer and aphorist
  18. Polglaze, Muriel Jean (1911–1978) economist
  19. Pollak, Hans (1885–1976) philologist
  20. Pollard, Sir Reginald George (1903–1978) army officer
  21. Poninski, Alfred Emeryk (1896–1968) diplomat and journalist
  22. Port, Leo Weiser (1922–1978) businessman and lord mayor
  23. Porteous, Richard Sydney (1896–1963) author
  24. Porter, Selwyn Havelock Watson Craig (1905–1963) army officer and commissioner of police
  25. Post, Joseph Mozart (1906–1972) musician
  26. Potts, Arnold William (1896–1968) army officer and farmer
  27. Poulson, Cristian (1890–1947) fisherman and resort operator
  28. Power, Stella (1896–1977) soprano
  29. Pratt, Sydney Ernest (1887–1973) journalist and trade union leader
  30. Preece, Colin Thomas (1903–1979) winemaker
  31. Prendiville, Redmond (1900–1968) Catholic archbishop
  32. Prentice, John Murdoch (1886–1964) army officer and broadcaster
  33. Prerauer, Kurt (Curt) (1901–1967) pianist, conductor and music critic
  34. Prescott, Sir Stanley Lewis (1910–1978) university vice-chancellor
  35. Prevost, Maria Caroline (Ronnie) (1895–1976) 'flapper'
  36. Price, Sir Archibald Grenfell (Archie) (1892–1977) geographer, historian and educationist
  37. Priddle, Raymond Arthur (1913–1971) consulting engineer
  38. Priestley, Henry Thomas (1912–1979) engineer and university deputy-chancellor
  39. Priestley, John (1903–1964) Presbyterian minister
  40. Prior, Henry Kenneth (1893–1967) newspaper publisher
  41. Proby, Lawrence Sherlock (1919–1969) soldier and businessman
  42. Propsting, Marjorie Gertrude Eleanor (1905–1972) librarian and mayor
  43. Provan, Frances Betty (1911–1963) naval officer and businesswoman
  44. Purdy, Cecil John Seddon (1906–1979) chess master and author
  45. Purves, James Richard William (Bill) (1903–1979) philatelist and lawyer
  46. Putilin, Sergij Vasilevich (Theodosy) (1897–1980) Russian Orthodox archbishop
  47. Queale, William (1889–1951) manufacturer
  48. Quentin, Cecil Robert (1917–1979) professor of drama and theatre director
  49. Quilty, Thomas John (1887–1979) pastoralist and bush poet
  50. Quinn, John Paul (1919–1961) diplomat
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