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