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Roy ‘Mo’ Rene

Roy Rene, known most prominently for his character of Mo McCackie, has been generally hailed as one of Australia’s best…

1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s
Ruthven Frederic Ruthven-Smith

Ruthven Frederic Ruthven-Smith was an English investor who had more than twenty significant buildings built in Adelaide in the early…
Samuel Thomas Gill

Samuel Thomas Gill was born on 21st May 1818 at Perriton, Somerset, England, the son of Reverend Samuel Gill and…

1840s, 1850s, 1860s, 1870s, 1880s
Sarah Francisco

Sarah Francisco (née Whelan) was one of Port Adelaide’s most notorious residents during the latter half of the nineteenth century.…

1860s, 1870s, 1880s, 1890s, 1900-1910, 1910s
Sarah Young

Sarah Jane (Jeanna) Young (née Foster) (1866–1955), inspired by Catherine Helen Spence, became secretary of the Effective Voting League (1897),…

early twentieth century, late nineteenth century, mid nineteenth century, mid twentieth century
Sir Archibald Grenfell Price, CMG

Archibald Grenfell Price was born at ‘Tutuila’, near Crafers in the Adelaide hills, on 28th January 1892, the son of…

1890s, 1900-1910, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s
Sir Charles Todd

Charles Todd was one of the most notable public servants of Australia in the nineteenth century. Superintendent of Telegraphs, Government…

1850s, 1860s, 1870s, 1880s, 1890s, 1900-1910
Sir Claude Gibb, KBE

Claude Dixon Gibb was a man whose prodigious energy, flair for publicity and wide experience brought him many honours and…

early twentieth century, mid twentieth century
Sir Donald Bradman

Donald George (Don) Bradman (1908–2001) was worshipped as the most dominant batsman in cricket history and an Australian hero from…

1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s
Sir Douglas Mawson

Sir Douglas Mawson was a colossus of the heroic age of Antarctic exploration who carried the banner of scientific research…

early twentieth century, mid twentieth century
Sir Edward Hayward

Edward Waterfield Hayward (known as ‘Bill’) was born in Adelaide, South Australia, on 10th November 1903, the son of Arthur…

early twenty–first century, late twentieth century, mid twentieth century
Sir Edward Holden

Edward Wheewall Holden was born on 14th August 1885 at College Town, South Australia. He was educated at Prince Alfred…

early twentieth century, mid twentieth century
Sir Edward Stirling, CMG

Edward Charles Stirling was a ‘Renaissance man’ who possessed a profound interest in and knowledge of many topics. He trained…

1840s, 1850s, 1860s, 1870s, 1880s, 1890s, 1900-1910, 1910s
Sir Edwin Thomas Smith

Edwin Thomas Smith was born in Walsall, Staffordshire, England, on 6th April 1830, the son of leather merchant Edwin Smith…

1850s, 1860s, 1870s, 1880s, 1890s, 1900-1910, 1910s
Sir George Brookman, KBE

Staunch capitalist George Brookman was born in Glasgow, Scotland, on 15th April 1850, the son of printer Benjamin Brookman and…

1890s, 1900-1910, 1920s
Sir George Strickland Kingston

George Strickland Kingston was born in Bandon, Cork, Ireland, in August 1807, the son of timber merchant and landowner George…

1830s, 1840s, 1850s, 1860s, 1870s
Sir Hans Heysen, OBE

Wilhelm Ernst Hans Franz Heysen was born in Hamburg, Germany, on 8th October 1877, the son of Louis Heinrich Wilhelm…

1960s, early twentieth century, mid twentieth century
Sir Henry Ayers, GCMG

Henry Ayers was born in Portsea, England, on 1st May 1821, the son of dockworker William Ayers and his wife…

1840s, 1850s, 1860s, 1870s, 1880s, 1890s
Sir Henry Newland, CBE, DSO

Henry Simpson Newland was born at Kensington, South Australia, on 24th November 1873, the son of pastoralist Simpson Newland of…

1870s, 1880s, 1890s, 1900-1910, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s
Sir Hugh Cairns, KBE

Hugh William Bell Cairns was the only child of a Scottish father and an Australian mother. His father, William, was…

1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s
Sir John Cleland, CBE

John Burton Cleland was born in Norwood, South Australia, on 22nd June 1878, the son of medical practitioner William Lennox…

1890s, 1900-1910, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s
Sir John Melrose

John Melrose was born on 12th January 1860 at Rosebank station, Mount Pleasant, South Australia, the son of station-owner George…

1860s, 1870s, 1880s, 1890s, 1900-1910, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s
Sir Kenneth Wills, KBE, MC

Kenneth Agnew Wills was born in Adelaide on 3rd March 1896. His father, R.J.H. Wills, was a partner in the…

1890s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s
Sir Langdon Bonython, AO KCMG

John Langdon Bonython was born in London, England, on 15th October 1848, the son of carpenter and builder George Langdon…

1870s, 1880s, 1890s, 1900-1910, 1920s, 1930s
Sir Lloyd Dumas

At the end of a long life Sir Lloyd Dumas described himself as ‘the luckiest man in the world’. He…

early twentieth century, mid twentieth century
Sir Mark Oliphant AC KBE

State Governor from 1971-1976, Sir Mark Oliphant was a man of conscience, not content with the purely ceremonial role of…

late twentieth century, mid twentieth century
Sir Mellis Napier, KCMG

Thomas John Mellis Napier was born at Dunbar, Scotland, on 24th October 1882, the son of medical practitioner Alexander Disney…

1890s, 1900-1910, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s
Sir Richard Baker KCMG

Richard Chaffey Baker was a leading conservative politician who played a significant part in the formulation of the Australian Constitution…

1840s, 1850s, 1860s, 1870s, 1880s, 1890s
Sir Robert Chapman

Robert William Chapman was born at Stony Stratford, Buckinghamshire, England, on 27th December 1866, the son of currier Charles Chapman…

1890s, 1900-1910, 1920s, 1930s
Sir Robert Helpmann, CBE

Robert Helpmann was comprehensively described by Ninette de Valois, the head of the Vic-Wells Ballet, as ‘talented, enthusiastic, extremely intelligent,…

early twentieth century, late twentieth century, mid twentieth century