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Mayor five times, Sir William Manning was one of Sydney's most prominent Catholic businessmen, during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Australia's first colonial creatives probably didn't think of themselves as artists. Mostly, they were just trying to get by. All the Best listened for secret histories from Australia's first penal colony in The Rocks, Sydney. The result was These Walls Have Ears, a live…

Teacher, businessman, farmer and diarist, John Armstrong was active in debates and organisations in Sydney's mid-nineteenth century public sphere.

Convict transported for highway robbery who escaped to resume his career around Sydney. He joined the Aboriginal resistance led by Pemulwuy.

Businessman and local politician who was first mayor of Hunters Hill, and one of Sydney's early photographers, using the daguerreotype process.

HMS Success was a 28 gun wooden sailing ship launched in 1825 which left Sydney to explore the coast of Western Australia.

Musical impresario who visited Sydney with his opera company and orchestra in 1912 and 1913, presenting 15 operas in five weeks.

Teacher, educator and writer who was very influential in reshaping education in Sydney in the first half of the twentieth century.

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

Marine officer and merchant who established himself in Hobart but maintained large landholdings in both Van Diemen's Land and near Sydney.

Construction company founded in Japan in 1898 which has built major works in Asia and Australia including the Sydney Harbour Tunnel.

Ironmonger who set up a branch of the family company Burdekin & Hawley in Sydney and became a wealthy and successful merchant and landholder.

Architect who was largely responsible for the second stage of Sydney Town Hall, but did not live to see it completed.

Illegitimate daughter of Thomas Arndell who was to follow her father to Sydney as the wife of the explorer William Hovell.

American-born pastor who moved to Sydney in 1983 and helped to raise community awareness of HIV AIDS, establishing the Ankali Project.

Champion billiards player who, like Walter, played exhibition and championship matches in Sydney though he was soon ecliped by his brother.

Active figure in 1960s underground Sydney and the city's theatre scene, Mutch later became an experimental filmmaker, sculptor and anti-nuclear activist.

Murderer known as 'Sydney Mutilator' who killed and mutilated four homeless men between 1961 and 1962 before being arrested in 1963.

Importer who ran his business from 81 Clarence Street, Sydney. He lived at Sandgate Cottage in 1885, then known as 'Kilkerran'.

Tabloid newspaper founded in 1879 under the name Sydney Daily Telegraph. After 1927 it was known as Daily Telegraph News Pictorial.