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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. Shand, John Wentworth (1897–1959) barrister
  2. Sharkey, Lance (1898–1967) communist leader
  3. Shaw, Charles Herbert (1900–1955) journalist and author
  4. Shaw, John Henry (1927–1977) town planner
  5. Shaw, Sir Patrick (1913–1975) diplomat
  6. Shea, Frederick James (1891–1970) railway engineer and public servant
  7. Sheahan, William Francis (1895–1975) barrister and politician
  8. Shedden, Sir Frederick Geoffrey (1893–1971) public servant
  9. Sheean, Edward (Teddy) (1923–1942) sailor
  10. Sheehan, James Michael (Jim) (1885–1967) trade unionist and politician
  11. Sheldon, Edwin Arthur Vincent (1895–1945) artist
  12. Sheldon, Eliza Jeanettie (1885–1974) art-dealer
  13. Shellshear, Joseph Lexden (Joe) (1885–1958) army officer and professor of anatomy
  14. Shephard, John (1852–1940) manufacturing engineer and microscopist
  15. Shepherd, Alfred Ernest (Ernie) (1901–1958) community leader and politician
  16. Shepherd, Catherine (1901–1976) playwright
  17. Shepherd, George Frederick (1886–1971) engineer, inventor and benefactor
  18. Sher, William Peter (1902–1977) engineer and businessman
  19. Sherlock, Wilfred Holden (Bill) (1908–1943) grazier and soldier
  20. Sherrard, Kathleen Margaret Maria (1898–1975) geologist
  21. Sherriff, Ronald (1931–1968) bushman and axeman
  22. Shillito, Phyllis Sykes (1895–1980) designer
  23. Shipp, George Pelham (1900–1980) classical scholar and philologist
  24. Shirley, Arthur (1886–1967) actor and film producer
  25. Shoebridge, Alfred Arthur (1894–1970) public servant
  26. Short, Gordon Herbert (1912–1959) press photographer
  27. Shumack, Clara Jane (1899–1974) army matron
  28. Siddons, Royston (1899–1976) manufacturer
  29. Simmonds, Kevin John (1935–1966) gaol escapee
  30. Simmonds, Rose (1877–1960) photographer
  31. Simmons, Roy Thomas (1906–1975) medical scientist
  32. Simonds, Justin Daniel (1890–1967) Catholic archbishop
  33. Simpson, Colin Hall (1894–1964) pharmacist and army officer
  34. Simpson, Edward Telford (1889–1965) solicitor and company director
  35. Simpson, George (1899–1960) obstetrician and gynaecologist
  36. Simpson, Hugh Leslie (1894–1968) farmer and soldier-settlement administrator
  37. Simpson, Noel William (1907–1971) bank inspector and army officer
  38. Simpson, Rayene Stewart (1926–1978) soldier
  39. Simpson, William Ballantyne (1894–1966) army officer, director-general of security and judge
  40. Sinclair, Frank Roy (1892–1965) public servant
  41. Singh, Dayal (1901–1962) engineering contractor
  42. Sissons, Alfred Thomas Stanley (1888–1975) chemist and college dean
  43. Skelton, Walter Peden Joyce (1883–1979) railway officer and politician
  44. Skemp, John Rowland (1900–1966) naturalist and social historian
  45. Skene, Lillias Margaret (1867–1957) women's activist and welfare worker
  46. Skinner, Rose (1900–1979) art-dealer
  47. Skipper, Herbert Stanley (1880–1962) solicitor and promoter of libraries
  48. Slater, William (Bill) (1890–1960) solicitor and politician
  49. Sleep, Alfred Reginald (1893–1959) home missionary and private detective
  50. Sleigh, Sir Hamilton Morton Howard (1896–1979) company director
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