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