Top 10 Top 10 Sydney Personalities
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1. Pemulwy
This Eora warrior resisted white settlement until he was caught and beheaded in 1802.
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2. John & Elizabeth Macarthur
The resourceful Macarthurs established Australia’s agricultural industry in 1790.
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3. William “Billy” Blue
He started a ferry service between Dawes Point and the North Shore.
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4. Wentworth, Blaxland & Lawson
Opening up Australia’s interior, these European explorers crossed the Blue Mountains in 1813.
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5. Caroline Chisholm
She arrived from Madras in 1838 to establish much-needed services for poor immigrant women.
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6. Sir Henry Parkes
A five-time premier of NSW, Parkes was a major proponent of Federation in the late 1890s (see Federation Pavilion).
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7. Tilley Devine & Kate Leigh
These madams of crime vied for control of Sydney’s 1920s and 30s “razor gangs”.
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8. Lars Halvorsen
This boatbuilder arrived from Norway in 1921 to establish Sydney’s most famous boatbuilding dynasty.
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9. Jack Mundey
Secretary of the Builders’ Labourers Federation, Mundey led the Green Bans (see Victoria Street) movement in the 1970s.
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10. Ita Buttrose
Indomitable media doyen and former editor-in-chief of the Australian Womens Weekly during the 1970s and 1980s.
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