The following are notable Australian Presbyterians: * Arthur Aspinall – co-founder and first principal of

The Scots College , motto_translation = O that we may be worthy of our forefathers , location = Bellevue Hill, Eastern Suburbs, Sydney , country = Australia , type = Independent single-sex primary a ...

, Bellevue Hill,

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; 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 *

Peter Cameron Peter Cameron is the name of: * Peter Cameron (entomologist) (1847–1912), English entomologist who specialised in Hymenoptera * Peter Cameron (minister) (born 1945), Scottish-born Church of Scotland minister convicted of heresy by the Presbyteria ...

– 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

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and

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of the

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Council * John Flynn – founder of the Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia and the Australian Inland Mission * James Forbes –

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of the Free Presbyterian Church of Victoria and founder of the Melbourne Academy, a college for boys (later Scotch College). *

Friedrich Hagenauer Friedrich Hagenauer (1829–1909) was a Presbyterian minister and missionary in Australia who established Ebenezer Mission and Ramahyuck mission.Robert Kenny, pg 134-145, ''The Lamb Enters the Dreaming - Nathaniel Pepper and the Ruptured World'', ...

– Presbyterian minister; founder of Ramahyuck Mission to house the members of the Ganai tribe who survived attacks in west and central Gippsland *

Allan Harman Allan Macdonald Harman, (born 7 June 1936)Douglas J. W. Milne (ed.), ''Israel and the Church: Essays in Honour of Allan Macdonald Harman'' (2001). is an Australian Presbyterian theologian and Old Testament scholar. He has been described as a "w ...

– principal of the Presbyterian Theological College * Rev. Dr Andrew Harper – Biblical scholar and teacher * Matthew Guy – Victorian Leader of the Opposition *

Adrian Kebbe Adrian Kebbe (born 11 August 1958) is a retired Australian weightlifter and Presbyterian Minister. Kebbe won a silver medal at the 1978 Commonwealth Games in Edmonton, Canada. Competing in the Lightweight – Overall category, he lifted ...

– former weightlifter *

John Dunmore Lang John Dunmore Lang (25 August 1799 – 8 August 1878) was a Scottish-born Australian Presbyterian minister, writer, historian, politician and activist. He was the first prominent advocate of an independent Australian nation and of Australian re ...

(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

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John McGarvie John McGarvie (1795 – 12 April 1853)Jean F. Arnot,, ''Australian Dictionary of Biography'', Volume 2, MUP, 1967, p. 166. retrieved 2009-09-29 was a Scottish-born Australian Presbyterian minister and writer. Early life and education McGarv ...

– Presbyterian

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;

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; General Practitioner *

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– 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

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in New South Wales * William Ridley – English Presbyterian missionary who studied

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* Robert Steel – 19th-century Scottish/Australian minister and religious author *

Joan Sutherland Dame Joan Alston Sutherland, (7 November 1926 – 10 October 2010) was an Australian dramatic coloratura soprano known for her contribution to the renaissance of the bel canto repertoire from the late 1950s through to the 1980s. She possessed ...

– operatic soprano (Australian by birth; parents were of Scottish Presbyterian descent) * Reverend F. R. M. Wilson – early pioneer lichenologist and minister *

Bruce W. Winter Bruce William Winter (born 2 July 1939) is a conservative evangelicalism, evangelical New Testament scholar and Director of the Institute for Early Christianity in the Graeco-Roman World. Winter was warden of Tyndale House (Cambridge), Tyndale H ...

– principal of Queensland Theological College

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Presbyterianism in Australia

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Australian

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