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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. Quirk, Mary Lilly (1880–1952) politician
  2. Rabin, Zalmenas (Zell) (1932–1966) journalist and newspaper editor
  3. Rabinovitch, Abraham Isaac (1889–1964) businessman and property investor
  4. Radford, William Cropley (1913–1976) educationist
  5. Raggatt, Sir Harold George (1900–1968) geologist
  6. Raine, Mary Bertha (1877–1960) businesswoman and philanthropist
  7. Raiwala, Ray (1907–1965) Aboriginal leader and soldier
  8. Ralston, Edith Marion (1894–1967) headmistress
  9. Ramsay, Sir Alan Hollick (1895–1973) educationist and soldier
  10. Ramsay, Alexander Maurice (1914–1978) public servant
  11. Ramsay, Edward Lauderdale (1865–1941) grazier and sportsman
  12. Ramsay, Marmaduke Francis (1860–1947) grazier and sportsman
  13. Ramsay, Robert Christian (Bob) (1861–1957) grazier and sportsman
  14. Ramsden, Barbara Mary (1903–1971) editor
  15. Ranford, Robert Frank Gordon (1917–1943) soldier
  16. Rankin, George James (1887–1957) farmer, soldier and politician
  17. Rankin, Robert William (1907–1942) naval officer
  18. Rankine, Annie Isabel (1917–1972) Aboriginal leader
  19. Rapke, Julia Rachel (1886–1959) feminist and civil rights activist
  20. Rapke, Trevor George (1909–1978) judge
  21. Ratcliffe, Francis Noble (1904–1970) ecologist and conservationist
  22. Raw, Alan Rayson (1902–1964) cereal geneticist
  23. Rawling, James Normington (1898–1966) political activist and writer
  24. Raymond, Arthur Wilmot (1892–1954) medical practitioner and air force officer
  25. Read, Thomas Andrew (1886–1972) metallurgist
  26. Reed, Sir Geoffrey Sandford (1892–1970) judge and director-general of the Australian Security Intelligence Organization
  27. Rees, Coralie Clarke (1908–1972) journalist, broadcaster and author
  28. Refshauge, Joan Janet (1906–1979) medical practitioner and medical administrator
  29. Rehfisch, Alison Baily (1900–1975) artist
  30. Reichstein, Lance Eric Harold (1900–1980) businessman and philanthropist
  31. Reid, Sir Alexander James (1889–1968) public servant
  32. Reid, Andrew Thyne (1901–1964) engineer, businessman and benefactor
  33. Reid, Elizabeth Julia (1915–1974) Grail worker and journalist
  34. Reid, Isabelle Bruce (Belle) (1883–1945) veterinary surgeon
  35. Reid, Mary Walker (1911–1963) grazier and benefactor
  36. Reinhold, William James (1889–1966) army officer and civil engineer
  37. Rembert, Edward Henry (1902–1966) architect
  38. Remington, Geoffrey Cochrane (1897–1968) lawyer and public benefactor
  39. Rennie, Beatrice Lilias (1893–1971) headmistress
  40. Repin, Ivan Dmitrievitch (1888–1949) coffee-shop proprietor and coffee importer
  41. Revell, Raymond Stephen Henry (1911–1968) speedcar driver
  42. Reye, Ralph Douglas Kenneth (1912–1977) pathologist
  43. Rhodes, Ian Desmond Laurie (1912–1967) naval officer
  44. Richards, Harry (1903–1971) soldier and labourer
  45. Richards, Jack Christian (1911–1969) engineer
  46. Richardson, Arthur John (1888–1973) cricketer
  47. Richardson, Ernest Biggs (1903–1965) banker
  48. Richardson, Mervyn Victor (1893–1972) inventor
  49. Richardson, Peter Alfred (1933–1973) flautist
  50. Richmond, Robert Oliffe (1919–1977) sculptor
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