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Sporting facility in the Moore Park area of the Centennial Parklands. It commemorates E S Marks who was Lord Mayor of Sydney in 1930.

Owner of a successful tailoring business, Richard Hagon served as a Councillor in the City of Sydney Council and was Lord Mayor in 1933.

Gunman who murdered seven people before shooting himself on the afternoon of 17 August 1991 at Strathfield Plaza in Sydney's inner west.

Politician and lawyer who rose to prominence despite being a Catholic and the son of convicts, and became a popular and influential Sydney figure.

Anglican minister who worked with drunks and the poor, and founded a number of charitable enterprises aimed at rehabilitating the destitute of Sydney.

Gabrielle Gwyther is postdoctoral research fellow in the Social Justice and Social Change Research Centre at the University of Western Sydney

Small weatherboard Federation cottage in southern Sydney, notable for being the home of writer Miles Franklin and her parents until 1954.

Founded in a Darlinghurst cafe, Tropfest has become a major annual event in Sydney's film calendar.

Governor who worked closely with the early responsible governments in New South Wales and was very active in philanthropic work in Sydney.

Con man and bushranger who was tried and hanged in Sydney in 1880. His alias as a bushranger was Captain Moonlite, or Moonlight.

Author, poet and natural history artist who recorded her observations of colonial life and bush flora and fauna from Sydney to Tasmania.

Aboriginal camp site excavated by archaeologists in the 1930s which provided some of the early foundations for archaeological understandings of Sydney's prehistory.

Pastoralist and politician who held grazing runs at Goulburn and Monaro and lived in Sydney only to attend to his political obligations.

A school of arts building constructed in 1860. It was demolished in 1885 for the building of the North Sydney Court House.

From the first Maltese who arrived as convicts, the Maltese community in Sydney has been distinctive and successful. Lage numbers of Maltese immigrants arrived in the postwar period, and have settled all over Sydney, particularly in the western suburbs. Strong religious…

Lower Blue Mountains residential town overlooking Nepean River with views of the Sydney area. Bernard Francis Cummins established a lookout there in 1931.

Northern beachside suburb between the ocean and the Narrabeen Lakes. It is the site of the Sydney Academy of Sport and Recreation.

Physician and author who believed in homeopathic medicine and established Sydney's first Turkish bath. He also lectured on cremation and rational clothing.

Picture palace opened in 1919 in a hall on the Pacific Highway which remains one of the few suburban independent cinemas in Sydney.

First hotel in Gladesville, licenced in 1856. Situated near the flagstaff erected on a high point to relay messages between Sydney and Parramatta.