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[1]
- 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[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
- 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
- Sibyl Enid Vera Munro Morrison - First female barrister in New South Wales[6]
- William Ridley - English Presbyterian missionary who studied Australian Aboriginal languages
- Robert Steel - 19th-century Scottish/Australian minister and religious author[7]
- 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.
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