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List of Australian Presbyterians

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The following are notable Australian Presbyterians:

  • Arthur Aspinall - co-founder and first Principal of The Scots College, Bellevue Hill, Sydney; Congregational and Presbyterian Minister; Joint founder of the Historical Society of New South Wales
  • Jessie Aspinall - first female junior medical resident at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital
  • Dr. Roland Boer - self-proclaimed Christian Communist and Biblical scholar at Renmin University of China and University of Newcastle (Australia)
  • Peter Cameron - Principal of St Andrew's College; Minister convicted by the Presbyterian Church of Australia of heresy
  • Arthur Dean (judge)
  • John Ferguson - Presbyterian minister; Acting Principal of St Andrew's Theological College; Senior Chaplain and Chairman of the Presbyterian Ladies' College, Sydney Council
  • John Flynn - founder of the Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia and the Australian Inland Mission
  • James Forbes - Minister of the Free Presbyterian Church of Victoria and founder of the Melbourne Academy, a college for boys (later Scotch College).
  • Friedrich Hagenauer - Presbyterian minister; founder of Ramahyuck Mission to house the members of the Ganai tribe who survived attacks in west and central Gippsland
  • Allan Harman - principal of the Presbyterian Theological College
  • Rev. Dr Andrew Harper - Biblical scholar and teacher
  • Matthew Guy - Victorian Leader of the Opposition
  • Adrian Kebbe - former weightlifter
  • John Dunmore Lang (1799 – 1878) - Presbyterian minister, writer, politician and activist
  • Dr. John Marden - first Headmaster of the Presbyterian Ladies' College, Sydney; Pioneer of women's education; Presbyterian elder
  • John McGarvie - Presbyterian minister and writer
  • William McIntyre - first Gaelic-speaking minister in Australia; educator
  • Dr Ewen Neil McQueen - second Headmaster of the Presbyterian Ladies' College, Sydney; Prominent educational innovator; Scientist; Psychologist; General Practitioner
  • Sir Robert Menzies - Australian Prime Minister
  • Reverend William Miller - Minister of the Free Presbyterian Church of Victoria
  • Sibyl Enid Vera Munro Morrison - first female barrister in New South Wales
  • William Ridley - English Presbyterian missionary who studied Australian Aboriginal languages
  • Robert Steel - 19th-century Scottish/Australian minister and religious author
  • Joan Sutherland - operatic soprano (Australian by birth; parents were of Scottish Presbyterian descent)
  • Reverend F. R. M. Wilson - early pioneer lichenologist and minister
  • Bruce W. Winter - principal of Queensland Theological College
  • References

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