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Backhouse, Benjamin
Backhouse, Clarence
Backhouse, James
Bacon, Matthew
Badcoe, Peter
Badgery, James
Badham, Charles
Badham, Herbert
Bagatella, Rino
Baggara
Baggs, Sydney A
Baglin, Douglass
Bagnall, William
Bailey, Amelia
Bailey, Bert
Bailey, Charles
Bailey, Harry Richard
Bailey, John
Bailey, Robin
Bailey, Victor Albert
Bain, James C
Bainbridge, George
Baird, Bruce George
Bakaitis, Helmut
Baker, Frederick
Baker, Glenn A
Baker, Harold
Baker, Jane
Baker, Maggie
Baker, Richard
Baker, Robert Walter
Baker, Sidney John
Baker, William
Balcombe, Thomas Tyrwhitt
Baldwin, Peter
Baldwinson, Arthur
Balfour, James Lawson
Ball, Henry Lidgbird
Ball, RT
Ball, Thomas
Ballederry
Ballooderry
Balmain, William
Balson, Ralph
Baly, Edward
Bandler, Faith
Bangai
Banks, John D
Banks, Joseph
Bannister, Saxe

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Backhouse, Benjamin

Architect and social reformer who campaigned to improve Sydney's sewerage system.

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Backhouse, Clarence

Architect and painter.

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Backhouse, James

Naturalist and Quaker missionary who travelled extensively and reported to several colonial governments on prison reform and transportation in Australia and South Africa.

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Bacon, Matthew

Early landholder at Dee Why.

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Badcoe, Peter

Army officer who was awarded the Victoria Cross for rescuing a soldier under heavy fire during the Vietnam War.

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Badgery, James

Free settler who established a mill in Sydney as well as having extensive land grants at Bringelly, Suttons Forest and along the Hawkesbury.

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Badham, Charles

Renowned scholar who became Professor of Classics and was to influence the role of public examinations and the growth of a free public library in Sydney.

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Badham, Herbert

Modernist artist and writer whose figurative paintings depicted city life and beach scenes.

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Bagatella, Rino

Italian community leader who assisted in the foundation of Club Marconi.

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Baggara

Baggara (Bagara, Baggarra) or Boggora, was from Broken Bay.  In 1804 British botanist Robert Brown on the HMS Investigator obtained a list of the Aboriginal names of plants from him, and described him as 'very intelligent Native of Broken Bay - he appeared to be about 22 or between than 25 years of age'. He died in 1813 of natural causes and was buried in Woolloomooloo on 20 November 1813, when Clever men conducted the only recorded traditional inquest in the Sydney coastal area.

He was also known as Mendoza.

 

 

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Baggs, Sydney A

Architect who specialized in the environmental impact of buildings.

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Baglin, Douglass

Photographer who documented many of Sydney's heritage buildings.

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Bagnall, William

Local identity in Brookvale in late nineteenth century.

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Bailey, Amelia

Soprano.

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Bailey, Bert

Actor, writer and theatrical manager who became famous in film as Dad Rudd.

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Bailey, Charles

Tugboat operator in Balmain at the beginning of the twentieth century.

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Bailey, Harry Richard

Psychiatrist who, with others, treated patients at Chelmsford Private Hospital with Deep Sleep Therapy and electric shock therapy. The death of at least 26 of these patients by 1979 eventually led to a Royal Commission in 1988. Bailey had taken his own life while being investigated in 1985.

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Bailey, John

Farmer born about 1797 in the Hawkesbury area, who farmed land in several places on the Macdonald River.

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Bailey, Robin

English actor of theatre and television.

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Bailey, Victor Albert

Physicist.

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Bain, James C

Suburban vaudeville entrepreneur.

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Bainbridge, George

Early pilot at Watsons Bay.

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Baird, Bruce George

State and federal Liberal politician who held public office between 1984 to 2007.

 

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Bakaitis, Helmut

Film and theatre director, actor and screenwriter.

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Baker, Frederick

Organ builder who made the organ at St Benedict's Catholic church Broadway.

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Baker, Glenn A

Australian journalist, commentator and broadcaster well known for his vast knowledge of Rock music.

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Baker, Harold

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Notable sportsman who won three New South Wales swimming championships in 1906 and captained the Australian water polo team. He played Rugby football for Australia three times against New Zealand. He also won boxing and wrestling championships and worked as a boxing referee. Once described as a 'man with a marble mouth and a jaw of steel. A man of ice with frozen eyes and a frozen voice', he became famous for his role in the Coogee Beach surf rescue of 1911.

Baker, Jane

Orchardist, who with her husband, was one of the first in the Lane Cove area.

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Baker, Maggie

Policewoman who was serving in the police force during the time of Sydney's razor gangs and was described by author Larry Writer as Lillian Armfield's 'right-hand woman'. Baker's true identity is not known as she adopted a pseudonym when describing her memories of the famous gangland figures, Kate Leigh and Tilly Devine.

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Baker, Richard

Botanist, curator and academic whose studies of Australian plants, particularly eucalypts, were often controversial.

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Baker, Robert Walter

Gallipoli veteran who took up land at Bankstown Soldier Settlement.

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Baker, Sidney John

Philologist and author of The Australian Language (1966).

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Baker, William

Pioneering orchardist in the Lane Cove area.

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Balcombe, Thomas Tyrwhitt

Artist and surveyor who worked across south east Australia with Thomas Livingstone Mitchell. His artistic works were well known in colonial Sydney and included sketches, paintings, lithography and wax models. His representations of the gold fields were especially popular. The son of early colonial treasurer William Balcombe, he was born on St Helena where Napoleon had been exiled, and knew the deposed Emperor.

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Baldwin, Peter

Activist and Labor politician who served in both state and federal parliaments and was bashed for exposing corruption in Labor Party branches in Sydney.

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Baldwinson, Arthur

Architect and teacher whose work influenced both town planning and domestic architecture in Sydney.

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Balfour, James Lawson

Prominent portrait painter based at Dee Why.

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Ball, Henry Lidgbird

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Commander of HMS Supply in the First Fleet who explored Port Jackson and discovered and named Lord Howe Island.

Ball, RT

Engineer, businessman and politician.

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Ball, Thomas

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Senior Constable who was one of several police officers commended for bravery and promoted to sergeant due to his actions in the Bridge Street Affray in 1894. He died at the age of 50 at his home in Leichhardt, leaving a widow and five young children.

Ballederry

Aboriginal fisherman who traded fish with officers at Parramatta in the early days of settlement.

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Ballooderry

Aboriginal man of the Burramattagal clan.

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Balmain, William

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First Fleet assistant surgeon, later principal surgeon and landowner.

Balson, Ralph

Trained at the Julian Ashton school, Balson's geometric abstractions were among the most advanced modern painting of his generation in Sydney.

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Baly, Edward

Teacher and one-time lecturer on mesmerism who became master of several small schools in Sydney and Parramatta between the 1840s and 1860s.

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Bandler, Faith

Writer, activist and campaigner for human and civil rights.

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Bangai

Aboriginal man who was an ally of the Wangal man, Woollarawarre Bennelong. He was shot by Royal Marines as he and another man, Bigon, were robbing a potato garden at Dawes Point. Surgeon John White was led by Nanbarry and an Aboriginal woman nearby where they found his body. He had bled to death.

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Banks, John D

Landscape artist who painted many works around the Harbour.

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Banks, Joseph

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Botanist on the Endeavour who recommended Botany Bay for penal settlement.

Bannister, Saxe

Barrister and the colony's first attorney general whose professional competence was very quickly called into question.

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