List of Australian Presbyterians

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 ^[1]
• Peter Cameron – principal of St Andrew's College; Minister convicted by the Presbyterian Church of Australia of heresy ^[2]
• 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 ^[3]
• 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
• Nora Hood (c. 1836–1871), Aboriginal Australian religious figure
• 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 ^[4]
• 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 ^[5]
• Sir Robert Menzies – Australian prime minister
• Reverend William Miller – minister of the Free Presbyterian Church of Victoria
• David Charles Mitchell - lawyer, minister and solicitor-general of Lesotho.
• Sibyl Enid Vera Munro Morrison – first female barrister in New South Wales ^[6]
• Robert Bruce Plowman - the first patrol padre for the Australian Inland Mission ^[7]
• William Ridley – English Presbyterian missionary who studied Australian Aboriginal languages
• Robert Steel – 19th-century Scottish/Australian minister and religious author ^[8]
• 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

See also

• Presbyterian Church of Australia

References

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2. Cameron, Peter (8 July 1993). "The making of a heretic". Opinion-Analysis. Melbourne: The Age. p. 14. Retrieved 26 February 2008.
3. Dougan, Alan (1981). "John Ferguson (1852–1925)". Ferguson, John (1852–1925). Australian Dictionary of Biography. Vol. 8 (Online ed.). Melbourne: Melbourne University Press. pp. 486–487. Retrieved 26 February 2008.
4. Dougan, Alan (1986). "John Marden (1855–1924)". Marden, John (1855–1924). Australian Dictionary of Biography. Vol. 10. Melbourne, Vic.: Melbourne University Press. pp. 407–408. Retrieved 9 October 2007.
5. McFarlane, John (1988). The Golden Hope: Presbyterian Ladies' College, 1888–1988. P.L.C Council, Presbyterian Ladies' College Sydney, (Croydon). ISBN   0-9597340-1-5.
6. O'Brien, Joan M (1986). "Sibyl Enid Morrison (1895–1961)". Morrison, Sibyl Enid Vera Munro (1895–1961). Melbourne University Press. p. 596. Retrieved 1 August 2007.{{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
7. Bucknell, Graeme (2008). "Robert Bruce Plowman (1866-1996)". Northern Territory Dictionary of Biography (Rev ed.). Darwin: Charles Darwin University Press. pp. 472–474. hdl:10070/492231. ISBN   9780980457810 . Retrieved 21 November 2025.^{[ dead link ]}
8. Dougan, Alan. "Steel, Robert (1827–1893)". Australian Dictionary of Biography . National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. ISBN   978-0-522-84459-7. ISSN   1833-7538. OCLC   70677943 . Retrieved 10 September 2013.

External links

• Official website of the Presbyterian Church of Australia
• The Presbyterian Church of Australia in New South Wales
• The Presbyterian Church of Queensland
• The Presbyterian Church of Victoria