Australian Dictionary of Biography
Australia’s pre-eminent dictionary of national biography. Here are over 10,000 scholarly biographies of persons who were significant in Australian history. Entries on individuals who died after 1980 will be added as successive volumes of the ADB are published. The dictionary covers the orthodox fields of politics, business, religion, the land, the professions and the arts, it also attempts to reflect the rich variety of Australian life by including representatives of every social group and sphere of endeavour.