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Physician, businessman and politician who was regarded as a connoisseur, scholar and statesman. He helped found Sydney University, and a museum there is named for him.

Artist and sculptor who trained and taught at East Sydney Technical College and was official war artist for six months in World War II.

Activist and Labor politician who served in both state and federal parliaments and was bashed for exposing corruption in Labor Party branches in Sydney.

Operator and partner of towage company with his brother Thomas. He retained the Sydney branch of the business when the partnership dissolved in 1883.

Japanese pianist who visited Sydney in 1936 but who gained disfavour after he married an Australian woman at the outbreak of World War II.

Clergyman who emigrated for his health but took ordination in Sydney and tactfully served as intermediary between an ageing bishop and his changing diocese.

Artist who travelled with Charles Darwin on the Beagle before settling in Sydney where he recorded the landscapes and harbour for thirty five years.

A principal Sydney playwright of the late 1960s and 1970s. He was one of the first contemporary Australian playwrights recognised overseas and authored 88 works.

Italian explorer who spent most of his life as a Spanish naval officer, commanding many scientific expeditions around the world stopping in Sydney in 1793.

Sailor who survived the wreck of the Edward Lombe in Sydney Harbour in 1834. He was described in reports of the disaster as a boy.

Romantic comedy that tells the story of Scott, a Sydney ballroom dancer, who finds love and authenticity dancing with Fran, a local girl of Spanish descent.

Doctor who became an army officer during World War II, and was a leading pathologist and officeholder in several medical organisations after returning to Sydney.

Leading poet and writer of fiction, known for his singing ability, who was an editor at the North Sydney News and the Daily Telegraph.

Pentecostal megachurch begun in 1983 as the Hills Christian Life Centre in Baulkham Hills. It later merged with Sydney Christian Life Centre at Waterloo.

Prominent horticulturalist in inner Sydney who owned 40 acres of nursery and market gardens on Bourke Street, Redfern. He also owned land at Roseville. 

Convict who arrived in Sydney 1794 and later farmed in the Seven Hills area where he was instrumental in establishing a school for local children.

Kings Cross exists in Sydney's imagination as much as it does in any physical form, and pinning down its geographical boundaries is difficult. It has loomed large in Sydney's culture since the first houses were built nearby in the 1830s, and continues to attract tourists and…

Constructed after two disastrous shipwrecks, Hornby lighthouse has offered safe passage into Sydney Harbour since 1858.

Otherwise unknown, George Plummer owned the name 'Sydney Symphony Orchestra', until the ABC bought it from him in 1937. An earlier group by that name had formed in 1908 and gave performances until 1914.

Sydney's Royal Easter Show is the nation's largest annual event, currently attracting more than 900,000 visitors to its site at Homebush Bay. For generations, the Show has brought 'the country to the city', and continues to be important, especially for children, in Sydney's…