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