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Women alive during the period 1851 to Federation
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- Abbott, Gertrude (1846 - 1934) - Medical administrator, Nun
- Abbott, Joan Stevenson (1899 - 1975) - Nurse, Nurse educator
- Alexander, Jean Logan (1892 - 1977) - Chemist
- Alexander, Lilian Helen (1861 - 1934) - Medical practitioner
- Allan, Catherine Mabel Joyce (1896 - 1966) - Conchologist, Museum curator, Zoological artist
- Allen, Natalie Constance Bowen (1894 - 1972) - Physicist
- Anderson, Alecia Elizabeth Foley (Alice) (1897 - 1926) - Business woman, mechanic
- Anderson, Phyllis Margery (1901 - 1957) - Pathologist
- Appleford, Alice Ross (1891 - 1968) - Nurse, Nurse administrator
- Archer, Mary Ellinor Lucy (1893 - 1979) - Librarian
- Ashby, Alison Marjorie (1901 - 1987) - Botanical artist, Botanical collector
- Aspinall, Jessie Strahorn (1880 - 1953) - Physician
- Atkinson, Caroline Louisa Waring (1834 - 1872) - Naturalist, Writer
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- Bage, Anna Frederika (1883 - 1970) - Biologist
- Baker, Edith Clarice (1899 - 1983) - Nurse
- Bardsley, Doris (1895 - 1968) - Midwife, Nurse, Public servant
- Barnard, Marjorie Faith (1897 - 1987) - Librarian, Writer
- Barnett, Emily Caroline (1860 - 1944) - Explorer
- Barrett, Edith Helen (1872 - 1939) - Physician
- Barron, Ellen (1875 - 1951) - Nurse, Health administrator
- Bate, Mary Harriet (1855 - 1951) - Botanical collector
- Bates, Daisy May (1863 - 1951) - Anthropologist
- Baudinet, Dora Isabel (1883 - 1945) - Nurse, Public servant
- Bell, Jane (1873 - 1959) - Nurse
- Benham, Ellen Ida (1871 - 1917) - Educator, Botanist
- Bennett, Agnes Elizabeth Lloyd (1872 - 1960) - Physician
- Berne, Dagmar (1865 - 1900) - Physician
- Biddulph, Ellen Caroline (1855 - 1917) - Botanical collector
- Biddulph, Harriette (1839 - 1940) - Botanical collector
- Birkett, Rowena (1860 - 1915) - Natural history artist
- Blomfield, Isla Stuart (1865 - 1959) - health visitor, Nurse, sanitary inspector
- Boelke, Grace Fairley (1870 - 1948) - Physician
- Booth, Angela Elizabeth Josephine (1869 - 1954) - Eugenist
- Booth, Mary (1869 - 1956) - Physician, Public health worker
- Bourne, Eleanor Elizabeth (1878 - 1957) - Physician, Public health worker
- Brewster, Sarah Agnes Angus (1874 - 1957) - headmistress, Naturalist
- Brooks, Sarah Theresa (1850 - 1928) - Plant collector
- Brown, Ida Alison (1900 - 1976) - Palaeontologist
- Brown, Marie (1883 - 1949) - Physician
- Brown, Vera Scantlebury (1889 - 1946) - Physician, Paediatrician
- Browne, Grace Cuthbert (1900 - 1988) - Obstetrician, Gynaecologist
- Bryce, Lucy Meredith (1897 - 1968) - Haematologist
- Buchanan, Gwynneth Vaughan (1886 - 1945) - Zoologist
- Bunbury, Diana Richardson (1811 - 1898) - Botanical collector
- Butchart, Eva (1875 - 1955) - Artist, Dyemaker
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- Campbell, Kate Isabel (1899 - 1986) - Paediatrician
- Carter, Sarah Henriette (Henriette) (1822 - 1925) - Botanical collector
- Chapple, Phoebe (1879 - 1967) - Physician
- Charsley, Fanny Anne (1828 - 1915) - Botanical artist, Botanical collector
- Chase, Eleanor Emily (1896 - 1926) - Zoologist
- Chatfield, Florence (1867 - 1949) - Nurse, Hospital administrator
- Cilento, Lady Phyllis Dorothy (1894 - 1987) - Author, Educator, Journalist, Medical practitioner, Obstetrician
- Clemens, Mary Strong (1873 - 1968) - Botanical collector, Explorer
- Cohen, Fanny (1887 - 1975) - Mathematician, Educator
- Coleman, Edith (1874 - 1951) - Naturalist, Teacher
- Conyers, Evelyn Augusta (1870 - 1944) - Nurse
- Cookson, Isabel Clifton (1893 - 1973) - Botanist
- Cooper, Lilian Violet (1861 - 1947) - Physician
- Cowle, Kate Julia (1863 - 1916) - Botanist, Conservationist, Naturalist
- Coxen, Elizabeth Frances (1825 - 1906) - Naturalist, Meteorologist
- Crespin, Irene (1896 - 1980) - Micropalaeontologist, Geologist
- Crommelin, Minard Fannie (1881 - 1972) - Conservationist, Postmistress
- Cronin, Mary Ann (1871 - 1974) - Botanical collector
- Curley, Sylvia (1898 - 1999) - Nurse, Nurse administrator, Activist
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- Daly, Anne (1860 - 1924) - Medical administrator
- Dalyell, Elsie Jean (1881 - 1948) - Pathologist, Microbiologist
- D'Arcy, Constance Elizabeth (1879 - 1950) - Obstetrician, University Administrator, Gynaecologist
- Davey, Constance Muriel (1882 - 1963) - Psychologist
- Daw, Lucy Compson (1883 - 1958) - Nurse
- De Garis, Mary Clementina (1881 - 1963) - Physician
- De Mole, Fanny Elizabeth (1835 - 1866) - Botanical artist
- Dietrich, Koncordie Amalie (1821 - 1891) - Botanist, Naturalist
- Doherty, Muriel Knox (1896 - 1988) - Nurse, Nurse educator
- Dohnt, Lynley Eva (1900 - 1966?) - Nurse
- Dornwell, Edith Emily (1865 - 1945) - Teacher
- Dunlop, Eliza Hamilton (1796 - 1880) - Ethnographer
- Dwyer, Catherine Winifred (Kate) (1861 - 1949) - Welfare worker
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- Fielding, Una Lucy (1888 - 1969) - Neuroanatomist
- Fitzpatrick, Aileen (1898 - 1974) - Community worker, Teacher
- Fiveash, Rosa Catherine (1854 - 1938) - Botanical artist
- Fletcher, Jane Ada (Ada) (1870 - 1956) - Ornithologist, Poet
- Flockton, Lilian Margaret (Margaret) (1861 - 1953) - Botanical artist
- Forrest, Margaret Elvire (1844 - 1929) - Botanical artist, Botanical collector
- Forsaith, Dorothy Frances (1901 - 1977) - Science administrator, Scientist
- Fountaine, Margaret Elizabeth (1862 - 1940) - Entomological artist, Lepidopterist
- Fowler, Laura Margaret (1868 - 1952) - Medical practitioner, Missionary
- Franklin, Jane (1791 - 1875) - Explorer, Natural history collector, Science patron
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- Gardner, Hilda Josephine (1890 - 1953) - Bacteriologist
- Geissmann, Hilda Gladys (1890 - 1988) - Naturalist, Photographer
- Glover-Fleay, Maude Edith Victoria (1869 - 1965) - Natural history artist
- Gould, Ellen Julia (1860 - 1941) - Nurse, Hospital administrator
- Gray, Ethel (1876 - 1962) - Nurse
- Greig, Jane Stocks (1872 - 1939) - Physician, Health worker
- Greig, Janet Lindsay (1874 - 1950) - Physician, Anaesthetist
- Gribble, Mary Ann Elizabeth (1848 - 1929) - Botanical collector
- Grogan, Gertrude Urquhart (1899? - 1977?) - Physician
- Guerin, Jane (1846 - 1890) - Botanical collector
- Gullett, Lucy Edith (1876 - 1949) - Physician
- Gulliver, Susannah (1857 - 1938) - Botanical collector, Florist
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- Halley, Ida Gertrude Margaret (1867 - 1939) - Physician
- Harper, Margaret Hilda (1879 - 1964) - Paediatrician
- Hayter, Lorna (1897 - 1989) - Agriculturalist
- Hellicar, Jane (1840 - 1914) - Nurse
- Hensley, Annie (1901 - 1989) - Medical practitioner, Public health worker, Surgeon
- Higgins, Frances Georgina Watts (Ina) (1860 - 1948) - Landscape gardener
- Hill, Kate (1859 - 1933) - Nurse, Hospital administrator
- Hobler, Mabel Theodore (1871 - 1925) - Zoological collector
- Hodgkinson, Lorna Myrtle (1887 - 1951) - Educator, Psychologist
- Hodgkinson, Mary (c. 1824 - 1889) - Botanical collector
- Holden, Frances Gillam (1843 - 1924) - Nurse, Hospital administrator
- Holding, Charlotte Elizabeth (c. 1828 - 1916) - Botanical collector
- Hussey, Jessie (1862 - 1899) - Botanical collector
- Hynes, Sarah (Sally) (1859 - 1938) - Botanist, Teacher
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- Kellett, Adelaide Maud (1873 - 1945) - Nurse, Hospital administrator
- Kenny, Elizabeth (1880 - 1952) - Nurse, Health administrator
- Kincaid, Hilda Estelle (1886 - 1967) - Physician
- King, Georgina (1845 - 1932) - Anthropologist, Geologist
- Kirkcaldie, Rosa Angela (1887 - 1972) - Nurse, Hospital administrator
- Knight, Ann Augusta (Gussie) (1840 - 1904) - Botanical collector
- Knip, Pauline de Courcelles (1781 - 1851) - Ornithological artist
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- Mackenzie, Winifred Iris Evelyn (1900 - 1972) - Physician
- Mackerras, Mabel Josephine (Josephine) (1896 - 1971) - Parasitologist
- Macnamara, Annie Jean (1899 - 1968) - Medical scientist
- Mann, Ida Caroline (1893 - 1983) - Ophthalmologist
- Martin, Florence (1867 - 1957) - Physicist
- Masson, Mary (1862 - 1945) - Community service
- Mayo, Helen Mary (1878 - 1967) - Physician
- McCann, Annie Bellew (1838 - 1924) - Botanical collector
- McCarthy, Emma Maud (1859 - 1949) - Nurse
- McConnel, Ursula Hope (1888 - 1957) - Anthropologist, Ethnographer
- McCready, Georgina (1888 - 1980) - Nurse, Nurse administrator, Unionist
- McHard, Mary Ann (1825 - 1912) - Botanical collector
- McKenzie, Florence Violet (1890 - 1982) - Electrical engineer
- McKeon, Gwladys Yvonne (1897 - 1979) - Biologist, Natural history artist
- McLaughlin, Ada Mary (1881 - 1963) - Botanical collector
- McLennan, Ethel Irene (1891 - 1983) - Botanist, Plant pathologist
- Mead, Gertrude Ella (1867 - 1919) - Physician
- Meares, Mary Emma Goldsmith (1889 - 1964) - Welfare worker
- Medland, Lilian Marguerite (1880 - 1955) - Ornithological artist, Ornithologist
- Meredith, Louisa Ann (1812 - 1895) - Author, Botanical artist
- Moncrieff, Perrine Millais (1893 - 1979) - Ornithologist
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- Ramsay, Hilda Eileen (Eileen) (1886 - 1961) - Plant collector
- Richards, Anne Frances (Annie) (1845 - 1930) - Botanical collector
- Rivett, Amy Christine (1891 - 1962) - Physician
- Rivett, Doris Mary (Mary) (1896 - 1969) - Psychologist
- Rosenthal Schneider, Ilse (1891 - 1990) - Physicist
- Ross, Euphemia Welch (1889 - 1971) - Astronomer
- Rowan, Marian Ellis (1848 - 1922) - Botanical artist, Explorer, Botanical collector
- Russell, Emmie (1892 - 1987) - Orthoptist
S
- Sage, Annie Moriah (1895 - 1969) - Nurse
- Sayce, Edna Dorothy (1895 - 1983) - Physicist, Teacher
- Scott, Harriet (1830 - 1907) - Natural history artist, Naturalist
- Scott, Helena (1832 - 1910) - Natural history artist, Naturalist
- Sewell, Geraldine Allen (1861 - 1900) - Botanical collector
- Sewell, Julia (c. 1847 - 1914) - Botanical collector
- Sexton, Hannah Mary Helen (1862 - 1950) - Surgeon, Gynaecologist
- Shaw, Edna Mary Anna Jane (1891 - 1974) - Matron
- Sherrard, Kathleen Margaret Maria (1898 - 1975) - Palaeontologist, Geologist
- Shiels, Marjorie (1895 - 1970) - Ecologist
- Shipton, Eva Adeline (1900 - 1984) - Pathologist
- Smith, Ivy Blanche Irene (1884 - 1975) - Teacher, Community worker
- Spencer, Jessie (1859 - 1936) - Botanical collector
- Stang, Eleanor Margrethe (1894 - 1978) - Physician
- Stone, Emma Constance (Constance) (1856 - 1902) - Physician
- Stoneman, Ethel Turner (1890 - 1973) - Psychologist
- Sutherland, Sulina Murray MacDonald (1839 - 1909) - Nurse, Child welfare worker
- Sweet, Georgina (1875 - 1946) - Zoologist
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- Waddell, Winifred (1884 - 1972) - Botanist
- Walling, Edna Margaret (1895 - 1973) - Landscape gardener
- Warburton, Mary Egerton (1851 - 1930) - Botanical collector
- Wedgwood, Camilla Hildegarde (1901 - 1955) - Anthropologist
- Wehl, Clara Christine Maria (1833 - 1901) - Botanical collector
- Wehl, Louise Therese (1860 - 1952) - Botanical collector
- Wehl, Marie Magdalene (1862 - 1960) - Botanical artist, Plant collector
- White-Haney, Jean (1877 - 1953) - Botanist
- Wigan, Margaret Louise (1876 - 1970) - Ornithologist, Matron
- Williams, Fannie Eleanor (1884 - 1963) - Pathologist, Bacteriologist
- Williams, Mary Boyd Burfitt (1882 - 1956) - Physician, Pathologist
- Wilson, Grace Margaret (1879 - 1957) - Nurse
- Wood, Barbara Grendon (1897 - 1980) - Radiologist