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Though representing one of Sydney's least known professions, harbour pilots have kept Sydney Harbour and Botany Bay safe for commercial shipping from the earliest days of settlement.

Two artists named Richard Read were active in Sydney in the early 19th century. Richard Read Senior (c.1765?–1829) arrived in Sydney in 1813 as a convict. His son Richard Read Junior (c.1796-1862) arrived in Sydney in 1819 as a free settler. For works by either artist on the…

Actor and theatrical producer who founded the Melbourne Repertory Company in 1911. After it folded in 1918 he moved to Sydney and founded the Sydney Repertory Theatre Society. He returned to Melbourne in 1928.

Leader of the first circus troupe to visit Sydney in 1841.

Publican, businessman and politician who was mayor of Sydney in 1862.

Surveyor and politician who served twice as Lord Mayor of Sydney.

Trapeze and acrobatic troupe which performed in Sydney in October 1873.

Medical doctor, philanthropist and politician who arrived in Sydney as a convict.

A musical about gay life in Sydney in the 1940s and 1950s.

Artist and City of Sydney Town Clerk between 1857 and 1887.

William Fitzgerald, a grocer, served as Lord Mayor of Sydney in 1920.

Musician and music teacher in early nineteenth century Sydney and Hobart.

Photographer whose work recorded many aspects of Sydney over many decades.

Administrative office to log ships and seamen arriving in Sydney Harbour.

Social club for Sydney's gay community in the 1960s and 70s.

Chief Inspector of Weights and Measures for Metropolitan Sydney from 1883-1909. 

Second Anglican bishop of Sydney and a founder of Moore Theological College.

Lawyer and partner in Allens, one of Sydney's oldest law firms.

Lawyer and partner in Allens, one of Sydney's oldest law firms.

Landscape painter and illustrator who contributed to Sydney Mail and Bulletin.