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Scottish missionary for Sydney City Mission in the Rocks and Millers Point area around 1900.

Perth based radio presenter who was host, from Perth, of a morning radio programme in Sydney.

Surveyor and architect whose work as Colonial Architect had a huge influence on Sydney's public buildings.

Sydney blue gum is a large flowering hardwood tree which can grow to 63 metres high.

Redfern council was incorporated in 1859 and amalgamated with the City of Sydney in 1949.

Captain of ship that brought Italian emigrants to Sydney in 1856, later deputy of Garibaldi.

Film producer and theatre entrepreneur who owned a number of cinemas and a production company in Sydney.

Scots have been in Sydney from earliest European contact, with Forby Sutherland, a young Scottish crew member on the Endeavour, buried at Sutherland in 1770. Scots have played important roles in all facets of Sydney's history. While the Scots can seem to be 'invisible…

Merchant and ship owner who became wealthy on the Pacific Island trade, extending his business into Europe and Asia, and allowing his purchase of an extensive property portfolio. After regular voyages to Sydney between 1827 and 1842, he settled in Sydney in 1843.

Energy supply company formed in Sydney in 1837 which supplied gas to Sydney street lights from 1841. It oversaw the conversion to natural gas in 1976, and diversified into electricity before merging with Alinta in 2006. AGL Energy is still a power retailer.

Novel set in Sydney's slums that describes life among the unemployed during the Great Depression.

Artist whose landscape sketches and lithographs illustrated convict and emigrant life in Sydney and Tasmania.

Lawyer and politician who became eminent in Sydney society but returned to England in 1865.

Dance company of 70 dancers from Moscow which performed in Sydney in 1966 and 1977.

Stone cutter and sculptor whose work appears on many of Sydney's most prominent public buildings.

South Australian artist who exhibited in Sydney and where he spent his later years teaching.

Solicitor and politician. He was the first Labor Lord Mayor of the City of Sydney.

Independent business woman who ran bathing establishments at several pools around Sydney in the 1890s.

Anglican minister, academic and theologian who served as Archbishop of Sydney from 2001 to 2013.

English-born newspaper editor, known particularly for his role as editor of the Sydney Morning Herald.