Robert Adolph Wilton Morley, CBE was an English actor who was usually cast as a pompous English gentleman representing the Establishment, often in supporting roles. In Movie Encyclopedia, film critic Leonard Maltin describes Morley as "recognisable by his ungainly bulk, bushy eyebrows, thick lips and double chin, ... particularly effective when cast as a pompous windbag." More politely, Ephraim Katz in his International Film Encyclopaedia describes Morley as "a rotund, triple-chinned, delightful character player of the British and American stage and screen." In his autobiography, Responsible Gentleman, Morley said his stage career started with managements valuing his appearance for playing "substantial gentleman" roles — as a doctor, lawyer, accountant or other professional member of society.
William Beckwith McInnes was an Australian portrait painter, winner of the Archibald Prize seven times for his traditional style paintings.
Frederick McCubbin was an Australian artist and prominent member of the Heidelberg School art movement, also known as Australian Impressionism.
John Norman Button was an Australian politician, who served as a senior minister in the Hawke and Keating Labor governments. He was notable for the Button car plan, which involved modernising Australia's car industry by reducing tariffs and government protection.
John Alexander MacPherson, Australian colonial politician, was the 7th Premier of Victoria.
William Finlay Jefferson Currie was a Scottish actor of stage, screen, and television. He received great acclaim for his roles as Abel Magwitch in the British film Great Expectations (1946) and as Balthazar in the American film Ben-Hur (1959).
Leonard Arthur McPherson was one of the most notorious and powerful Australian career criminals of the late 20th century. McPherson is believed to have controlled most of Sydney's organised crime activity for several decades, alongside his contemporary Abe Saffron and associate George Freeman.
Sir George Hodges Knox, was an Australian politician, orchardist and military officer. The City of Knox is named after him.
Brigadier General Sir Walter Ramsay McNicoll, was an Australian teacher, soldier, and colonial administrator.
Sir William John Macleay was a Scottish-Australian politician, naturalist, zoologist, and herpetologist.
Major General James William Macarthur-Onslow, was a soldier, grazier and politician. The son of a prominent New South Wales family, he was commissioned in the New South Wales Mounted Rifles in 1892 and served in the Chitral Expedition, Second Boer War and the First World War. Afterwards he served in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly and New South Wales Legislative Council.
Sir William Murray McPherson, KBE was an Australian philanthropist and politician. He was the 31st Premier of Victoria.
John Douglas was an Anglo-Australian politician and Premier of Queensland.
James Alpin MacPherson otherwise known as The Wild Scotchman, was a Scottish-Australian bushranger active in Queensland in the 19th century. He was operational throughout the greater Wide Bay area and was eventually apprehended by members of the public outside of the town of Gin Gin, Queensland.
William Knox was an Australian businessman and politician.
Sir William Neil McKie MVO was an Australian organist, conductor, and composer. He was Organist and Master of the Choristers at Westminster Abbey 1941-1963 and noted for his direction of the music for the marriage of Princess Elizabeth in 1947, and later her Coronation in 1953.
Bernard Rubin was an Australian born racing driver and pilot who was a member of the "Bentley Boys" team at the Bentley Motor Company and winner of the 1928 24 Hours of Le Mans.
Jessie McPherson Private Hospital is a private hospital co-located with Monash Medical Centre in the Melbourne suburb of Clayton. It provides private health care to people in Melbourne, regional Victoria, interstate and overseas.
Charles Richard Wilton was a journalist in the State of South Australia, a longtime literary editor of The Advertiser and authored, under the pen name of "Autolycus", a long-running weekly column in The Courier of Mount Barker.
