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Duigan is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Harry Duigan (1875–1931), Australian footballer * John Robertson Duigan (1882–1951), Australian aviator * John Duigan (born 1949), Australian film director * John Evelyn Duigan (1883–1950), New Zealand major general *Mike Duigan, Australian politician *Nick Duigan (born 1984), Australian footballer *Nick Duigan (politician), Australian politician *Suzanne Duigan Suzanne Lawless Duigan (7 July 1924 – 1993) was an Australian paleobotanist who specialised in fossil pollen (palynology). She collaborated with fellow botanist Isabel Cookson extensively on Paleogene brown coal deposits in Victoria. She pione ...
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Harry Duigan
Henry Mcleod Black Duigan (24 December 1875 – 6 August 1931) was an Australian rules footballer who played with St Kilda in the Victorian Football League The Victorian Football League (VFL) is an Australian rules football league in Australia serving as one of the second-tier regional semi-professional competitions which sit underneath the fully professional Australian Football League (AFL). It ... (VFL). References External links * * 1875 births 1931 deaths Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state) St Kilda Football Club (VFA) players St Kilda Football Club players Australian male long jumpers Australian Athletics Championships winners {{AFL-bio-1870s-stub ...
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John Robertson Duigan
John Robertson Duigan MC (31 May 1882 – 11 June 1951) was an Australian pioneer aviator who built and flew the first Australian-made aircraft. Family Duigan was born in Terang, Victoria, and grew up in Melbourne He married nurse Kathleen Rebecca Corney at Caulfield on 26 November 1913. Education He grew up in Melbourne, and was educated at Brighton Grammar School. Aviator He travelled to the United Kingdom in late 1901 to study electrical engineering at Finsbury Technical College in London (1902-1904) and Motor Engineering at Battersea Polytechnic (1905). He worked for the Wakefield & District Light Railway Co. until 1907 when he returned to Australia. From 1908 he lived at 'Spring Plains', a sheep station owned by his father near Mia Mia in central Victoria. After seeing a postcard of Wilbur Wright's flights in France in late 1908 he began experimenting with aviation, first constructing a Wright-type glider, and then a powered aircraft. The 20-25 hor ...
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John Duigan
John Duigan (born 19 June 1949) is an Australian film director and screenwriter. He is mostly known for his two autobiographical films ''The Year My Voice Broke'' and ''Flirting'', and the 1994 film ''Sirens'', which stars Hugh Grant. Biography Duigan was born in Hartley Wintney, Hampshire, England to an Australian father, and emigrated to Australia in 1961. He is related to many Australian performers, being the brother of novelist Virginia Duigan (wife of director Bruce Beresford) and uncle of Trilby Beresford. Duigan studied at the University of Melbourne, where he resided at Ormond College and graduated in 1973 with a master's degree in Philosophy. While at university, he worked extensively as an actor and director in theatre, and acted in a number of films (including ''Brake Fluid'', ''Bonjour Balwyn'' and ''Dalmas''). He began directing films in 1974, with early successes including '' Mouth to Mouth'', winner of the Jury Prize at the Australian Film Institute (AFI) Aw ...
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John Evelyn Duigan
Major General Sir John Evelyn Duigan, (30 March 1883 – 9 January 1950) was an officer who served with the New Zealand Military Forces during the First and Second World Wars. He was Chief of the General Staff of the New Zealand Military Forces from 1937 to 1941. Born in Wanganui, New Zealand, in 1883, Duigan joined a unit of colonial volunteers during the Boer War. He was wounded and repatriated to New Zealand, but later returned to South Africa with the 10th New Zealand Contingent. After the war, he joined the New Zealand Military Forces as a professional soldier. During the First World War, he commanded the New Zealand Tunnelling Company and was awarded the Distinguished Service Order for his service. From 1917 to 1918 he served in staff and training positions. He also served in staff positions in the postwar military, eventually rising to the rank of colonel and commanding Northern Command by 1930. In 1937, he was promoted to major general and appointed the Chief of the Gene ...
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Mike Duigan
Michael Gregory Duigan was an Australian politician who represented the South Australian House of Assembly seat of Adelaide Adelaide ( ) is the capital city of South Australia, the state's largest city and the fifth-most populous city in Australia. "Adelaide" may refer to either Greater Adelaide (including the Adelaide Hills) or the Adelaide city centre. The dem ... for the Labor Party from 1985 to 1989. References Members of the South Australian House of Assembly Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Australian Labor Party members of the Parliament of South Australia {{Australia-Labor-politician-stub ...
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Nick Duigan
Nick Duigan de Bolfo, T.Blues shore up the spine, says Hughes, Retrieved 23 March 2011 (born 7 September 1984)Carlton Football CluSelection 70 - Nick Duigan, retrieved 23 March 2011. is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for the Carlton Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). Background Originally from South Australia, Duigan grew up supporting the Adelaide Crows and playing junior football for Pembroke School in Adelaide and also was a junior player at the Walkerville Football Club. Throughout his junior career, he was troubled by injuries and had a hard time stringing a series of games together until after the age of twenty. Duigan is a registered psychologist; throughout his early 20s, Duigan studied psychology at university, and by the end of 2010, then aged 26, Duigan had completed his master's degree in psychology.Gleeson, M.The Age "Out of Africa and into Carlton", 19 November 2010, Retrieved 23 March 2011. During the same perio ...
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Nick Duigan (politician)
Nicholas John Henry Duigan (born 1 May 1970) is an Australian politician. He has been the Liberal member for Windermere in the Tasmanian Legislative Council The Tasmanian Legislative Council is the upper house of the Parliament of Tasmania in Australia. It is one of the two chambers of the Parliament, the other being the House of Assembly. Both houses sit in Parliament House in the state capital, ... since May 2021. Duigan hosted the fishing television program '' Hook, Line and Sinker'' for over twenty years. References 1970 births Living people Members of the Tasmanian Legislative Council Liberal Party of Australia members of the Parliament of Tasmania 21st-century Australian politicians {{Australia-Liberal-politician-stub ...
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