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Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 17

This volume of the Australian Dictionary of Biography is the first of two for the period 1981-1990 and covers names A-K. [Read More]

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  1. Birman, John (1913–1989) adult educationist
  2. Bishop, John Ackland (1908–1985) soldier and businessman
  3. Black, Sir Hermann David (1904–1990) economist, public-affairs commentator and university chancellor
  4. Black, John Russell (1908–1988) patrol officer and explorer
  5. Black, Robert Hughes (1917–1988) professor of tropical medicine
  6. Blackburn, Sir Richard Arthur (Dick) (1918–1987) judge
  7. Blackwood, Dame Margaret (1909–1986) botanist and geneticist
  8. Blackwood, Sir Robert Rutherford (1906–1982) businessman, professor of engineering and university chancellor
  9. Blakeney, Frederick Joseph (1913–1990) diplomat
  10. Bland, Robert Havelock (Bob) (1903–1989) sailor
  11. Blaxland, Dame Helen Frances (1907–1989) conservationist
  12. Blumann, Elise Margot (1897–1990) artist
  13. Blythe, Lindsay Gordon (1908–1986) pastoralist and businessman
  14. Blythe, Sydney Wallace Thomas (1905–1985) architect and town planner
  15. Boas, Walter Moritz (1904–1982) physicist
  16. Bok, Bart Jan (1906–1983) astronomer
  17. Bolte, Sir Henry Edward (1908–1990) farmer and premier
  18. Bolton, Beulah Alice (1888–1982) Bush Book Club secretary
  19. Boney, Lloyd James (1959–1987) labourer and prisoner
  20. Bonnin, Kathleen Patricia (Kath) (1911–1985) army nurse
  21. Booth, Kenneth George (Ken) (1926–1988) schoolteacher, sportsman and politician
  22. Bosisto, Glyn de Villiers (1899–1990) lawn bowler and bank manager
  23. Bostock, John (1892–1987) psychiatrist
  24. Both, Edward Thomas (Ted) (1908–1987) inventor
  25. Bourchier, Murray Goulburn Madden (1925–1981) diplomat
  26. Bourke, John Mountfort (Jack) (1916–1987) public servant
  27. Bourke, Miles (1925–1982) farmer and organiser of primary producers
  28. Bourke, William Meskill (Bill) (1913–1981) lawyer and politician
  29. Bowring, William Bruce (1916–1987) army officer and businessman
  30. Boyd, Guy Martin à Beckett (1923–1988) sculptor and potter
  31. Boyd, John à Beckett Penleigh (Pat) (1915–1981) air force officer and airline pilot
  32. Boye-Jones, Ruby Olive (1891–1990) coastwatcher
  33. Boyer, Richard (1923–1989) pastoralist, public servant and Australian Broadcasting Corporation board-member
  34. Boyle, Alfred Bertram (Paddy) (1914–1988) air force officer and reformatory supervisor
  35. Brack, Thomas James (Tom) (1924–1984) conciliation and arbitration commissioner
  36. Brady, Donald (Don) (1927–1984) Methodist pastor and Aboriginal leader
  37. Brain, Brian Winter (1910–1990) farmer
  38. Brandon, Hugh Earle (1906–1984) musician and educationist
  39. Brazill, Dame Johanna (1895–1988) Sister of Mercy, nurse and hospital administrator
  40. Brearley, Sir Norman (1890–1989) pioneer aviator
  41. Brennan, Gloria Fay (1948–1985) Aboriginal community leader and public servant
  42. Brennan, Keith Gabriel (1915–1985) lawyer, public servant and diplomat
  43. Bridges, Alfred Renton (Harry) (1901–1990) trade union leader
  44. Bright, Sir Charles Hart (1912–1983) judge
  45. Brindle, Kenneth (Ken) (1931–1987) community leader and Aboriginal rights campaigner
  46. Brockhoff, Sir Jack Stuart (1908–1984) manufacturer and philanthropist
  47. Brown, Henry Alexander (Alex) (1900–1986) lay evangelist and Baptist pastor
  48. Brown, John Joseph (Jack) (1912–1989) trade unionist
  49. Browne, Francis Courtney (Frank) (1915–1981) journalist
  50. Buck, Vera Winifred (1903–1986) composer and pianist
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