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Poet, highly respected critic and longtime professor at the University of Sydney.

Actress (1872-1949) who appeared in Sydney in the late 1890s-early 1900s

New Zealand-born painter who painted Sydney landscapes and cityscapes in modernist style.

Naval surgeon and naturalist who arrived in Sydney with the First Fleet.

Australian swimmer, winner of gold medals at the Sydney and Athens Olympics.

Merchant and landowner in nineteenth-century Sydney. His home Crows Nest had a commanding view across Sydney Harbour. He was the nephew of the early feminist Mary Wollstonecraft and cousin to Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, the author of Frankenstein.

Sculpture by Janet Laurence and Fiona Foley of a forest of 29 poles outside the Museum of Sydney symbolising the interaction between Aboriginal and non Aboriginal people. They represent the 29 Aboriginal clans of Sydney and are inscribed with words from Aboriginal languages…

Rabbit seller famous for his loud comments at Sydney Cricket Ground matches.

Council established in 1895 to govern a small area on Sydney's north shore.

Politician representing first East Sydney and then Hartley in the Blue Mountains.

City of Sydney alderman, for whom Green Park at Darlinghurst is named.

Architectural practice in Sydney in the first decades of the twentieth century.

Philanthropist, devout Baptist and wife of one of Sydney's most prominent businessmen.

Non-profit community organisation formed to inform and represent residents of Northbridge, Sydney.

Perhaps the earliest ballad opera written in Sydney, first performed in 1844.

Trade union organiser Ernest O'Dea served as Lord Mayor of Sydney 1949-52

Surveyor and architect who designed churches and public buildings in mid-nineteenth-century Sydney.

Mauritian trader who undertook the first Mauritian expedition to Sydney in 1802.

Outbreak of disease that decimated the Aboriginal population of the Sydney area.