Peter Andrews is a grazier, thoroughbred racehorse breeder, author, inventor and advocate of natural sequence farming: b. NSW 1940.
James Armour was a gold digger, bush labourer, butcher, cook, hutkeeper, engineer, author of book on aeronautics and inventor of patented flying machine, 1884: b. Lanarksshire 1830; d. Gateshead 1907.
Arthur Ashwin was a prospector, bush labourer, wanderer, pastoralist of sorts: b. Adelaide 1850; d. Western Australia 1930.
Thea Astley was a novelist, four times winner of the Miles Franklin Award: b. Brisbane 1925; d. Gold Coast 2004.
Murray Bail is a writer of novels, short stories and non-fiction: b. Adelaide 1941.
John Bailey is an Australian author: b. 1944.
Sidney John Baker was a journalist, novelist, biographer, philologist: b. Wellington 1912; d. Sydney 1976.
Joseph Banks was a botanist, naturalist, patron of science: b. London 1744; d. Isleworth 1820.
John Batman was a grazier, bounty hunter in VDL, ‘founder’ of Melbourne by means of a ‘treaty’ with the Aboriginal owners: b. Rosehill 1801; d. Melbourne 1839.
Barbara Baynton (a.k.a. Barbara Allonson-Winn, Barbara Jane Frater, Barbara Janet Lawrence, Lady Headley) was a writer of short stories and a novel, Human Toll (London 1907), businesswoman and antique collector: b. Scone NSW 1857; d. Melbourne 1929.
Charles Bean was a barrister, journalist, war correspondent and historian: b. Bathurst 1879; d. Concord 1968.
George Bennett was a physician and naturalist: b. Plymouth 1804; d. Sydney 1893.
Judith Beveridge is a poet and poetry editor: b. London 1956.
Ralph Vincent Billis was a pastoralist, public servant and private secretary: b. Castlemaine 1879; d. Hawthorn 1947.
Tony Birch is a poet, novelist, essayist and short story writer: b. Melbourne 1957.
Herbert Schreiber Bloxsome was a cattle breeder (Aberdeen Angus) in Mundubbera, historian in the Burnett river district and memoirist: b. UK 1876; d. Toowomba 1957.
Barcroft Henry Thomas Boake (Surcingle) was a poet, drover: b. 1866; d. 1892.
Peter James Boyce is a writer and historian: b. Hobart 1964.
Martin Boyd was a soldier, architect and novelist: b. Switzerland 1893; d. Rome 1972.
Edwin James Brady was a journalist, poet, short story writer, publisher, publicist and socialist: b. Carcoar 1869; d. Pambula 1952.
George A. Brown (Bruni – after Bruny Island) was a sheep breeder: b. Tasmania 1834; d. Melbourne 1909.
Mary Bundock was a flower painter and collector of Aboriginal artefacts: b. Hunter Valley 1844; d. Perth 1924.
Caleb Burchett was a builder, selector and pioneer: b. Hounslow 1843; d. Poowong 1934.
David Wynford Carnegie was a miner, adventurer and explorer: b. England 1871; d. Nigeria 1900.
David Cameron is the manager of heritage and Aboriginal relations, Rio Tinto: b. Newcastle (NSW) 1963.
David Watt Campbell was a rugby player (England), RAAF pilot (DFC and bar), grazier and poet: b. Adelong 1915; d. Canberra 1979.
Paul Carter is a scholar and ‘spatial’ historian: b. England 1951.
Coles Child was an Anglican clergyman: b. London 1817; d. Sydney 1898.
Francis Grenville (Sir Frank) Clarke was a farmer, grazier, company director and conservative MLC (Victoria): b. Sunbury 1879; d. South Yarra 1955.
Marcus Clarke was a poet, novelist, critic, librarian and bohemian: b. London 1846; d. Melbourne 1881.
Louis Charles Cook was a South Gippsland dairy farmer and naturalist.
Lyle Courtney is an author: b. Maryborough 1930.
Peter J. F. Coutts and Dan C. Witter are archaeologists. Peter Coutts was the first director of the Victorian Archaeological Survey.
Christopher Keith Wallace-Crabbe is a poet, teacher and critic: b. Richmond 1934.
Emily Caroline Creaghe was an explorer and diarist: b. Bay of Bengal 1860; d. Sydney 1944.
Bernard Charles Cronin was a graduate of Dookie Agricultural College, farmer, journalist, writer of novels, short stories and verse (often under pseudonyms): b. Ealing 1884; d. East Camberwell 1968.
Allan Cunningham was a botanist and explorer: b. Wimbledon 1791; d. Sydney 1839.
Robyn Davidson is a writer: b. Miles 1950.
Arthur Hoey Davis (Steele Rudd) was an under-sheriff, horseman, farmer, magazine editor, playwright and writer of short stories: b. Drayton 1868; d. Brisbane 1935.
James Dawson was a pastoralist, amateur ethnographer, protector of Aboriginal people: b. Scotland 1806; d. Camperdown 1900.
Robert Leycester Dawson was a farmer, cedar getter, public servant, naturalist, and collector of Aboriginal words and artefacts in northern rivers district: b. Bowenfels 1860; d. Lindfield 1943.
David Denholm was a soldier, academic, historian and novelist (writing as David Forrest): b. Maryborough 1924; d. Wagga Wagga 1997.
Arthur Dewhurst was a surveyor and photographer: b. Cambridge c1833; d. 1889.
George Dunderdale was a prospector, Clerk of Courts in Port Albert Vic. and author: b. Lancashire 1822; d. 1903.
Mary Durack was a pastoralist, writer and Aborginal benefactor: b. Adelaide 1913; d. Nedlands 1994.
Chester Eagle is an author, editor and publisher: b. Bendigo 1933.
John Frederick Edey was a WWI soldier, soldier settler, farmer, rural contractor and bushman: b. London 1897; d. Red Cliffs 1983.
Martin Edmond is an author and film writer: b. Ohakune 1952.
Ray Francis Stanley Ericksen was an academic, historian and biographer: b. 1919; d. Melbourne 1998.
George Essex Evans was a patriotic Australian poet, columnist and essayist: b. London 1863; d. Toowoomba 1909.
John Leyworthy Evans is a Mallee farmer and conservationist: b. Waikerie 1930.
George Everard was a shepherd, rabbiter, shearers’ cook, Mallee dweller, pedestrian and theatre lover: b. London c1835; d. Ballarat 1925.
Edward John Eyre was an explorer (with Wylie, an Aboriginal man), walked to Albany from Adelaide (1844), enlightened protector of Aboriginal people in Lower Murray region, SA, ‘notorious monster’, governor of Jamaica: b. England 1815; d. England 1901.
Albert Facey was a rural worker, soldier, farmer, tram driver, unionist and author: b. Maidstone 1894; d. Midlands 1982.
George Knight Erskine-Fairholme was a drover, watercolourist, explorer, squatter, amateur scientist, botanist, palaeontologist and author: b. Scotland 1822; d. 1889.
Elizabeth Farrelly is a columnist, architect, author and Sydney City councilor: b. Dunedin 1957.
George Michell Farwell was a traveller, adventurer, writer of books (especially about the outback), stories, articles, radio documentaries and plays: b. Bath 1911; d. Adelaide 1976.
James Fenton was a farmer, historian and timber merchant: b. Ireland 1820; d. Launceston 1901.
John Fenwick was a pastoralist, hide and skin merchant, and freemason: b. United Kingdom 1823; d. Brisbane 1900.
Timothy Fridtjof Flannery is a zoologist, paleontologist, mammologist, environmentalist and global warming activist: b. Melbourne 1956.
Mary Eliza Fullerton was a selector’s daughter, feminist, socialist, anti-conscriptionist, writer of novels, non-fiction, short stories and poetry (often under pseudonyms): b. Glenmaggie 1868; d. Sussex 1946.
Lyn Cuthbert Furnell was a teacher, barrister, judge, Royal Commissioner: b. Lismore 1903; d. 1981.
Joseph Furphy was a failed selector, successful bullock driver and ‘sage of the riverine’: b. Yarra Glen 1843; d. Perth 1912.
William Leonard Gammage is a historian: b. Wagga 1942.
William Garner is a writer (especially for television, films, plays): b. Bendigo 1944.
Karen George is a historian and sole proprietor of Historically Speaking: country-born, now based in Adelaide.
Dame Mary Gilmore was a socialist, New Australia settler, schoolteacher, essayist, patriot and poet: b. Mary Vale 1865; d. Sydney 1962.
Lucy Gray was a pioneer at Hughenden, Queensland, diarist and correspondent: b. Ireland 1840; d. Dunedin 1879.
Tom Griffiths is a historian: b. Melbourne 1957.
Mrs Aeneas Gunn was a best-selling writer (especially childrens books under pseudonym Jeannie Gunn); We of the Never Never was based on thirteen months she spent on a station in Northern Territory where Mr Gunn died: b. Carlton 1870; d. Hawthorn 1961.
Charles Harpur was a poet, critic, gold commissioner and sheep farmer: b. Windsor 1813; d. NSW 1868.
Alexander Harris was a writer and traveller: b. London 1804; d. Ontario 1874.
Joseph Hawdon was an overlander, farmer and pioneer postal contractor: b. Durham 1813; d. Christchurch 1871.
Elizabeth Hawkins (nee Lilly) crossed the Blue Mountains to Bathurst in 1822 with her husband, mother and eight children under twelve (the first free white family to do so): b. Kent 1783; d. Sydney 1875.
Arthur Thomas Henry was a contractor (surveying, building, dam and road construction, rabbit destruction) and bushman: b. Geelong 1871; d. Yarram 1956.
Mona Violet Henry was a nursing sister with the Presbyterian Australian Inland Mission in Birdsville 1950–52: b. Townsville 1914; d. c1990s.
Barry Hill was a poet, novelist, journalist and librettist: b. Melbourne 1943.
Mary Ernestine Hill was a journalist, wanderer, writer of popular fiction and non-fiction: b. Rockhampton 1899; d. Brisbane 1972.
Philip Hodgins was a poet: b. Shepparton 1959; d. Maryborough 1995.
Clement Hodgkinson was a surveyor (Northern Rivers NSW) and public servant: b. Southhampton 1819; d. Hawthorn 1893.
Keith Hofmaier was a local historian, Victoria.
W.H.C. Holmes was a settler: b. c1861; d. Korumburra 1928.
Ion Llewellyn Idriess was a prospector, drover, rabbitter, boundary rider, adventurer, soldier and prolific author: b. Waverley 1889; d. Mona Vale 1979.
Yallum Jackey (Werrieotinna) was a labourer/resident at John Riddoch’s station in Yallum Park, South Australia, last full-blood member of the Pinejunga tribe: b. c1830; d. 1902.
Dianne Dorothy Johnson was a social anthropologist, and advocate for indigenous people and the environment: b. 1947; d. 2012.
Murray Johnson is a historian and author: b. 1956.
Frederic Wood Jones was an anatomist, naturalist, anthropologist at Adelaide, Melbourne and Manchester universities: b. Hackney 1879; d. London 1954.
Paul Kane is a poet, teacher and critic: b. New York 1950.
Thomas Michael Kenneally is an author (novels, non-fiction, plays): b. Sydney 1935.
Alfred Stephen Kenyon was an ethnographer, historian, engineer and nation builder: b. Victoria 1867; d. Heidelberg 1943.
Margaret Kiddle was a historian: b. South Yarra 1914; d. Richmond 1958.
John Kinsella is a poet, novelist, critic, publisher and journal editor: b. Perth 1963.
David Herbert Lawrence was a writer: b. Notts 1885; d. France 1930.
Henry Lawson was a writer of short stories and verse: b. Grenfell 1867; d. Sydney 1922.
Timothy (‘Tim’) Lee is a writer and rural broadcaster: b. 1964.
Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig Leichhardt was an explorer and scientist: b. Prussia 1813; d. 1848.
Bert Leoni and Tip Byrne were sugar cane farmers in North Queensland.
Gladys Linke is an author: b. 1927.
Tim Low is a biologist, writer and environmentalist: b. 1956
James Stuart 'Jimmy' MacDonald was a gallery director and conservative art critic (modernists were 'filth'): b. Carlton 1878; d. Melbourne 1952.
Hugh Roger MacDonald is a writer (novels, non-fiction, poetry): b. Young 1941.
Ann McGrath is a historian: b. Brisbane 1956.
Dennis McIntosh is a shearer, tunneler, swimming coach, teacher and writer: b. Townsville 1958.
Dorothy Maguire was the daughter of pioneer Kangaroo Valley selector Patrick Maguire: b. 1852; d. 1944.
David Malouf is a writer (novels, short stories, libretti, poems): b. Brisbane 1934.
Alan Mayne is a professor of social history and public policy.
Louisa Anne (aka Mrs Charles) Meredith (aka Twamley) was a pioneer, writer of non-fiction, fiction and verse, botanist, environmentalist and artist: b. Birmingham 1812; d. Collingwood 1895.
Henry Howard Meyrick (F.J. Meyrick) was a pastoralist: b. Ramsbury 1822; d. (drowned in the La Trobe river) 1847.
Edward Millen was a grazier, journalist, politician and founder of the Commonwealth Repatriation Department: b. Deal 1860; d. Caulfield 1923.
David Albert Millsom is a farmer: b. Melbourne 1950.
Thomas Livingstone Mitchell (Lt. Col, Sir) was a soldier, NSW surveyor-general and explorer: b. Scotland 1792; d. Darling Point 1855.
Georgiana Molloy (nee Kennedy) was a pioneer settler in Augusta (Western Australia), pioneer botanist, exporter of Western Australian seeds to United Kingdom gardens: b. Cumberland 1805; d. Busselton (consequent on the birth of her fifth child) 1842.
Frank Moorhouse is a writer of essays, short stories (many of them ‘discontinuous narratives’), film, radio and TV scripts, and journalist: b. Nowra 1938.
Andrew Muir: b. 1917; d. 2006.
Sarah Murgatroyd was a British journalist, adventurer and author: b. England 1967; d. 2002.
Justin Murphy is a journalist and environmental scientist.
Les Allan Murray is a poet, essayist and literary editor: b. Nabiac 1938.
Francis Myers (‘Telemachus’) was a journalist (Melbourne Argus): b. 1854; d. Jindabyne 1907.
John Shaw Nielson was a farmer, public servant and poet: b. Penola 1872; d. Melbourne 1942.
Oodgeroo Noonuccal (formerly Kath Walker) was a poet, educator and Aboriginal activist: b. North Stradbroke Island 1920; d. Victoria 1993.
John Oxley was an explorer, sheep and cattle breeder, and bank director: b. Yorkshire 1784; d. Kirkham 1828.
Andrew Barton ‘Banjo’ Paterson was a war correspondent, soldier, equestrian, bushman, balladeer, poet, journalist, writer of books for children, humourist and broadcaster: b. Orange 1864; d. Sydney 1941.
Brian Penton was a journalist, newspaper editor, novelist and social critic: b. Brisbane 1904; d. Sydney 1951.
Xavier Pons is a French academic: b. Rodez 1948.
Ida Margaret Poore (Lady) was a writer and the wife of Admiral Sir Richard Poore, Commander-in-Chief of the Australian Naval Station from 1908–1911: b. 1859; d. 1941.
Rosa Caroline Praed (aka Mrs Campbell Praed) was a novelist, memoirist and spiritualist: b. Bromelton 1851; d. Devon 1935.
Katharine Susannah Prichard was a journalist, novelist and communist party activist: b. Fiji 1883; d. Perth 1969.
Stephen J Pyne is a United States firefighter, and historian specialising in environment, exploration and fire: b. 1949.
Henry Reynolds is a historian: b. Hobart 1938.
John George Robertson was a botanist and squatter: b. Scotland 1803; d. Scotland 1862.
Walter Edmund Roth was a doctor, anthropologist, protector of Aboriginal people: b. London 1861; d. Guyana 1933.
George Augustus Robinson was a builder, musterer, ‘civilizer’ of Tasmanian indigenous people, protector of Aboriginal people in Port Phillip District: b. London 1791; d. Bath 1866.
Eric Charles Rolls was a farmer, soldier, poet, historian, childrens author and writer of classic works on Australian landscape and history: b. Grenfell 1923; d. Camden Haven 2007.
Deborah Bird Rose is an ethnographer: b. Maine 1946.
Brendan Ryan is a poet: b. Panmure 1963.
Oscar de Satge was a pastoralist, parliamentarian and ‘pure merino’: b. England 1836; d. England 1906.
George Seddon was an academic, polymath, urban designer, planner and author: b. Berriwollock 1927; d. Fremantle 2007.
Kenneth Adolf Slessor was a journalist, newspaper and journal editor, war correspondent amd poet: b. Orange 1901; d. Sydney 1971.
Robert Henry Stainthorpe was a boundary rider and commission agent: b. Forest Creek 1855; d. Malvern 1934.
William (Bill) Edward Hanley Stanner was a journalist, soldier, advocate for Aboriginal interests, and anthropologist: b.Watson’s Bay 1905; d. Canberra 1981.
Douglas Stewart was a poet, literary editor and playwright: b. New Zealand 1913; d. Hornsby 1985.
Randolph Stow was a writer of fiction, poetry, reviews, childrens books and libretti: b. Geraldton 1935; d. Harwich 2010.
Theodor George Henry (Ted) Strehlow was a linguist, Commonwealth patrol officer and author: b. Hermannsburg 1908; d. Adelaide 1978.
Charles Sturt was a soldier, surveyor-general and explorer: b. India 1795; d. Cheltenham 1869.
Fraser Sutherland (Reverend) was a Presbyterian minister: b. 1895; d. 1973.
Abel Tasman was a navigator: b. Netherlands c1603; d. Batavia 1659.
Thomas Griffith Taylor was a geographer: b. Essex 1880; d. Manly 1963.
Colin Milton Thiele was a soldier, writer, educator, and author of children’s books and books about rural life: b. Eudunda 1920; d. Brisbane 2006.
Daryl Tonkin was a stockman, farmer and timber miller: b. Essendon 1918; d. Drouin 2008.
David Trigger is an anthropologist: b. Brisbane 1953.
James Hamilton Twigg was a miner, hunter, fencing contractor and farmer at Powalup, Western Australia, later British East Africa: b. Ireland 1874; d. unknown.
Roger Underwood is a forester, bushfire specialist and columnist in Western Australia.
John Vader was a WWII soldier and airman, journalist and author (including several books about war): b. Armidale (NSW) 1919; d. Potts Point 2005.
Raymond A. Walls is a Shire Engineer and local historian.
Shirley Patricia Walker is a lecturer, critic and author: b. 1927.
Samuel Wagan Watson is a poet: b. Brisbane 1972.
John or Jackey White was the last member of the Bunganditj tribe, of the Wannon district, Victoria: b. c1824; d. Lake Condah 1894.
Neville Graham White was a soldier, geneticist, biologist, linguist and anthropologist: b. Geelong 1945.
Patrick White was a novelist, playwright, Nobel Prize-winner (1973): b. London 1912; d. Sydney 1990.
William John Wills was a shepherd, surveyor, astronomer and second-in-command to Robert O’Hara Burke on an expedition to cross Australia from north to south: b. Devon 1834; d. Cooper’s Creek 1861.
Korah Halcomb Wills was a publican and Mayor of Bowen and Mackay (QLD): b. Dover 1828; d. Brentford 1896.
Trevor Winter was a pastoralist in Murndal Wannon River, Vic., and brother of Samuel Pratt Winter: b. Ireland 1822; d. 1885.
Tim Winton is an Australian writer: b. Karrinyup 1960.
Judith Arundell Wright was a poet, author and environmentalist: b. Armidale (NSW) 1915; d. Canberra 2000.
Tony Wright is a journalist, columnist for The Age and author: b. Heywood 1951.