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Aboriginal boy known as young Pigeon from Shoalhaven who was in Sydney in the early 1800s. He was attacked with a tomahawk by Musquito in early 1806 and seriously injured.

Daily afternoon newspaper first published in 1910. In 1953 Associated Newspapers sold it to Fairfax who published The Sun until 1988 as a companion to the Sydney Morning Herald.

Traditionally owned by the Dharug people, Laughtondale was named after John Laughton, who jumped ship in Sydney and became a boatbuilder and orchardist.

Despite being an expatriate for most of his life, George Clutsam composed much music inspired by Australia and his works were performed in Sydney.

Born into a privileged life of travel and culture, Eadith Walker became one of Sydney's foremost philanthropists and patrons of the arts.

Irish-born businessman William Speer was mayor of Sydney in 1864, and a parliamentarian by 1869. Speers Point at Lake Macquarie is named after him.

Two storey stone Victorian Regency house at 48 and 56 Alfred Street South, Milsons Point. It is one of the earliest stone houses still standing in North Sydney.

Suffrage campaigner and activist who emigrated to Australia in 1914, moving to Sydney in 1918, where she had a long and erratic career as a political campaigner for a range of causes.

Transgender Australian cabaret performer and entertainer who became the most famous member of the Les Girls show, in Sydney's Kings Cross. Carlotta is the stage name of Carol Spencer.

A comedy in three acts that premiered at Royal Victoria Theatre, Sydney. It was notable for its local colour and for integrating familiar colonial types into a comedy of Australian manners.

Brig constructed of ironbark and stringybark in Sydney. It capsized on the Hunter River in 1816 but was raised and continued carrying convicts and goods to Newcastle until 1825.

Former convict who joined Sydney's early police force in 1796. He was murdered in 1803, the first police officer killed in the line of duty in New South Wales. 

Matron and superintendent of reformatories Biloela and then Shaftesbury. She arrived in New South Wales in 1862 and established the reformatory for girls at Newcastle before coming to Sydney.

Administration for the peninsula at the northern end of Sydney's Northern Beaches, established in 1992. It was merged with Warringah and Manly to form Northern Beaches Council in 2016.

Principal Surgeon at the Sydney Hospital between 1819 and 1836. He became a large landowner after marrying into the Macarthur family. Lyndhurst at Glebe was built for him in 1837.

Businessman, born in China to White Russian parents, who was educated in Sydney and worked in textiles in South Africa and Israel, before establishing a property development company in 1963.

Urban design architect and sport planning enthusiast who was head of planning for the Sydney Olympics and who designed five venues for each for the Athens and Beijing Olympics.

Convict transported on HMS Supply who was granted a conditional pardon in 1794 and appointed Constable in 1800, ultimately becoming Chief Constable of Sydney and later Keeper of the Gaol.

Architect who was one of the most successful in nineteenth-century Sydney, with buildings all over the city and in many country towns, but was ruined by the 1890s depression.

Sculptor who worked in Sydney during the 1870s to 1890s producing several public works including three figures for the General Post Office facade and a statue of John Dunmore Lang.