Aboriginal activist Daisy Bindi (c.1904 - 1962)
Aboriginal cook and carer Hetty Perkins (c.1905 -1979)
Aboriginal leader Tarereenore (c.1800 -1831)
Aboriginal leader Louisa Briggs (1836 - 1925)
Aboriginal leader Pearl Gibbs (1901 - 1983)
Aboriginal missionary Angelina Noble (c.1879 - 1964)
Aboriginal rights activist Olive Pink (1884 - 1975)
Aboriginal teacher Bessy Cameron (1851 - 1895)
actress Enid Lorimer (1888 - 1982)
actress Lottie Lyell (1890 - 1925)
actress Doris Fitton (1901 - 1985)
actress and author Ethel Kelly (1875 - 1949)
architect Florence Taylor (1879 - 1969)
artist Ellis Rowan (1848 - 1922)
artist Jane Neville-Rolfe (1850 - 1928)
artist Margaret Preston (1875 - 1963)
artist Dorrit Black (1891 - 1951)
artist Grace Cossington Smith (1892 - 1984)
athlete Decima Norman (1909 - 1983)
author Katharine Susannah Prichard (1883 - 1969)
author and illustrator May Gibbs (1877 - 1969)
author and artist Louisa Meredith (1812 - 1895)
biologist Freda Bage (1883 - 1970)
birth control advocate Brettena Smyth (1840 - 1898)
birth control advocate Lillie Goodisson (1860 - 1947)
botanical artist Rosa Fiveash (1854 - 1938)
botanist Georgiana Molloy (1803 - 1843)
botanist Ethel McLennan (1891 - 1983)
botanist Margaret Blackwood (1909 - 1986)
botanist Joyce Vickery (1908 - 1979)
busdriver Sylvia Birdseye (1902 - 1962)
bushranger Mary Ann Baker (1834 - 1905)
businesswoman Maria Lord (1780 - 1859)
businesswoman Nell Martyn (1887 - 1926)
caterer Charlotte Sargent (1859 - 1924)
charity organiser Fanny Macleay (1793 - 1836)
composer Ruby Davy (1883 - 1949)
composer Margaret Sutherland (1897 - 1984)
Congregational minister Winifred Kiek (1884 - 1975)
conservationist Minard Crommelin (1881 - 1972)
convict Margaret Catchpole (1762 - 1819)
convict Mary Reibey (1777 - 1855)
convict Catherine Henrys (1805 - 1855)
crèche founder Laura Corbin (1841 - 1906)
critic Nettie Palmer (1885 - 1964)
CWA founder Grace Munro (1879 - 1964)
dancer Kathleen Gorham (1932 - 1983)
deaconess Matilda Jane Evans (1827 - 1886)
diarist Annie Dawbin (1816 - 1905)
doctor Constance Stone (1856 - 1902)
doctor Gertrude Halley (1867 - 1939)
doctor Constance Ellis (1872 - 1942)
doctor Eleanor Bourne (1878 - 1957)
doctor Ethel Osborne (1882 - 1968)
doctor Fanny Reading (1884 - 1974)
doctor Vera Scantlebury Brown (1889 - 1946)
doctor Phyllis Cilento (1894 - 1987)
drover Kitty Gallagher (c1785 - c.1875)
economist Persia Campbell (1898 - 1974)
educator Lillian de Lissa (1885 - 1967)
electrician Florence McKenzie (1892 - 1982)
entomologist Jo Mackerras (1896 - 1972)
ethnographer Eliza Dunlop (1796 - 1880)
evangelist and social reformer Eliza Pottie (1836 - 1907)
factory inspector Agnes Milne (1850 - 1919)
factory manager Marcella Cameron (1879 - 1948)
farmer's wife Janette Octoman (1879 - 1971)
feminist Henrietta Dugdale (1826 - 1918)
feminist Rose Scott (1847 - 1925)
feminist Annette Bear-Crawford (1853 - 1899)
feminist Vida Goldstein (1869 - 1949)
feminist Mildred Muscio (1882 - 1964)
feminist Jessie Street (1889 - 1970)
feminist Bessie Guthrie (1905 - 1977)
feminist and teacher Bella Lavender (1858 - 1923)
film producer Elsa Chauvel (1898 - 1983)
film star Louise Lovely (1895 - 1980)
founder Australia Council Dorothy Helmrich (1889 - 1984)
garage proprietor Alice Anderson (1897 - 1926)
graphic designer Eirene Mort (1879 - 1977)
gynaecologist Kate Ardill Brice (1886 - 1955)
headmistress Eliza Fewings (1857 - 1940)
headmistress Winifred West (1881 - 1971)
headmistress Fanny Cohen (1887 - 1975)
historian Margaret Kiddle (1914 - 1958)
historical geographer Ida Lee (1865 - 1943)
hospital founder Mother Abbott (1846 - 1934)
hospital matron Jane Bell (1873 - 1959)
hotelier Hannah Maclurcan (1861 - 1936)
humanitarian Frances Levvy (1831 - 1924)
immigrants' friend Caroline Chisholm (1808 - 1877)
jockey Bill Smith (1886 - 1975)
journalist Daisy Bates (1859 - 1951)
journalist Stella Allan (1871 - 1962)
journalist Jessie Litchfield (1883 - 1956)
journalist Alice Jackson (1887 - 1974)
journalist Andrea Jenner (1891 - 1985)
journalist Janet Mitchell (1896 - 1957)
kindergarten teacher Zoe Benjamin (1882 - 1962)
Labor activist Mary Ryan (1886 - 1968)
Labor leader Kate Dwyer (1861 - 1949)
labour activist Emma Miller (1839 - 1917)
lawyer Anna Brennan (1879 - 1962)
lawyer Christian Jollie-Smith (1885 - 1963)
lawyer Mary Tenison Woods (1896 - 1971)
local government councillor Grace Benny (1872 - 1944)
mathematician Hanna Neumann (1914 - 1971)
medical scientist Jean Macnamara (1899 - 1968)
Mercy Sister Mother Vincent (1819 - 1892)
micropalaeontologist Irene Crespin (1896 - 1980)
mining entrepreneur Deborah Hackett (1887 - 1965)
missionary Eliza Hassall (1834 - 1917)
missionary Retta Long (1878 - 1956)
newspaper proprietor Louisa Lawson (1848 - 1920)
novelist Henry Handel Richardson (1870 - 1946)
novelist Marie Bjelke-Petersen (1874 - 1969)
novelist Eleanor Dark (1901 - 1985)
novelist Christina Stead (1902 - 1983)
nurse Lucy Osburn (1835 - 1891)
nurse Elizabeth Kenny (1880 - 1952)
obstetrician Constance D'Arcy (1879 - 1950)
OPAL executive Caroline Archer (1922 - 1973)
ophthalmologist Ida Mann (1893 - 1983)
organiser Eleanor Glencross (1876 - 1950)
paediatrician Helen Mayo (1878 - 1967)
paediatrician Kate Campbell (1899 - 1982)
palaeobotanist Isabel Cookson (1893 - 1973)
pastoralist Eliza Forlonge (1785 - 1859)
pastoralist Jemina Jenkins (1786 - 1842)
pathologist Elsie Dalyell (1881 - 1948)
peace activist Marian Harwood (1846 - 1934)
peace activist Roma Gilchrist (1909 - 1983)
philanthropist Mary Colton (1822 - 1898)
philanthropist Emily Dobson (1842 - 1934)
philanthropist Janet Clarke (1851 - 1909)
philanthropist Edith Onians (1866 - 1955)
physicist Ruby Payne Scott (1912 - 1981)
poet and feminist Mary Fullerton (1868 - 1946)
policewoman Kate Cocks (1875 - 1954)
political candidate Alicia Petersen (1862 - 1923)
politician Edith Cowan (1861 - 1932)
politician Florence Cardell-Oliver (1876 - 1965)
politician Elizabeth Couchman (1876 - 1982)
politician Millicent Preston Stanley (1883 - 1955)
politician Margaret McIntyre (1886 - 1948)
politician Doris Blackburn (1889 - 1970)
politician May Holman (1893 - 1939)
politician Enid Lyons (1897 - 1981)
politician Annabelle Rankin (1908 - 1986)
political activist Adela Pankhurst Walsh (1885 - 1960)
postmistress Elise Barney (1815 - 1883)
preacher Martha Webster (1839 - 1915)
prima donna Nellie Melba (1861 - 1931)
producer Kathleen Robinson (1901 - 1983)
property owner Elizabeth Macarthur-Onslow (1840 - 1911)
prison matron Mary Hutchinson (1810 - 1880)
psychologist Constance Davey (1882 - 1963)
rebel Bea Miles (1902 - 1974)
feminist Maybanke Anderson (1845 - 1927)
religious Mary MacKillop (1842 - 1909)
school inspector Julia Flynn (1878 - 1947)
school inspector Ruth Gibson (1901 - 1975)
school inspector Adelaide Miethke (1881 - 1962)
scriptwriter Barbara Vernon (1916 - 1978)
sculptor Ola Cohn (1892 - 1964)
sculptor Daphne Mayo (1895 - 1982)
sex educator Angela Booth (1869 - 1954)
singer Florence Austral (1894 - 1968)
singer and actress Nellie Stewart (1858 - 1931)
social reformer Catherine Spence (1825 - 1910)
social reformer Jessie Vasey (1897 - 1966)
soprano Gladys Moncrieff (1892 - 1976)
stockwoman Phoebe Farrar (1869 - 1960)
suffragist Mary Lee (1821 - 1909)
suffragist Mary Windeyer (1836 - 1912)
swimmer Annette Kellerman (1886 - 1975)
swimmer Fanny Durack (1889 - 1956)
Tasmanian Aborigine Truganini (1812 - 1876)
Tasmanian Aborigine Fanny Cochrane Smith (1834 - 1905)
teacher Mary Montgomerie Bennett (1881 - 1961)
teacher Lucy Woodcock (1889 - 1968)
teacher of cookery Amy Schauer (1871 - 1956)
temperance advocate Jessie Rooke (1845 - 1906)
temperance advocate Marie Kirk (1855 - 1928)
theosophic feminist Bessie Rischbieth (1874 - 1967)
trade unionist Muriel Heagney (1885 - 1974)
United Nations official Eleanor Hinder (1893 - 1963)
union organiser Mel Cashman (1891 - 1983)
union organiser Doris Beeby (1894 - 1948)
union secretary Cecilia Shelley (1893 - 1986)
welfare worker Edith Waterworth (1873 - 1957)
welfare worker Ella Simon (1902 - 1981)
writer K Langloh Parker (1856 - 1940)
writer Barbara Baynton (1857 - 1929)
writer Ethel Turner (1872 - 1958)
writer Miles Franklin (1879 - 1954)
writer Zora Cross (1890 - 1964)
writer Nina Murdoch (1890 - 1976)
writer and teacher Helen Palmer (1917 - 1979)
zoologist Georgina Sweet (1875 - 1946)