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Women born between the end of World War I and the outbreak of World War II
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- Abell, Elizabeth-Anne Stuart (1926 - ) - Nurse administrator, Nurse
- Allender, Marie (1921 - 1995) - Naturalist
- Andersen, Betty Margaret (1930 - ) - Nurse educator
- Anderson, Charlotte Morrison (1915 - 2002) - Paediatric Gastroenterologist
- Anderson, Joan Mary (Jan) (1932 - 2015) - Plant Biochemist
- Anderson, Margaret Cordue (1937 - ) - Botanist, Ecologist
- Anderson, Mary Nairne (1921 - ) - Dental scientist
- Andrews, Shirley (1915 - 2001) - Biochemist
- Anstee, Dorothy Rae (1932 - ) - Nurse
- Anstey, Olive Eva (1920 - 1983) - Nurse, Nurse educator, Nurse advocate
- Asche, Leila Valerie (1927 - 2019) - Microbiologist
- Aston, Helen Isobel (1934 - 2020) - Ornithologist, Taxonomic botanist
B
- Bale, Patricia Marea (1931 - ) - Pathologist
- Balmford, Rosemary Anne (1933 - ) - Judge, Ornithologist
- Barr, Yvonne M. (1932 - ) - Scientist
- Barwick, Diane Elizabeth (1938 - 1986) - Anthropologist, Author, Historian
- Bashir, Marie Roslyn (1930 - ) - Governor, University Chancellor, Educator, Psychiatrist
- Beal, Susan (1935 - ) - Paediatrician
- Bear, Isabel (Joy) (1927 - 2021) - Mineral chemist
- Bennett, Margaret Joyce (1937 - ) - Nurse educator
- Berndt, Catherine Helen (1918 - 1994) - Social anthropologist
- Besly, Mary Ann Catherine (1929 - 1994) - Zoologist
- Billings, Evelyn Livingston (Lyn) (1918 - ) - Physician
- Bishop, Ruth Frances (1933 - 2022) - Microbiologist, Virologist
- Black, Jessica Hope (Hope) (1919 - 2018) - Malacologist, Marine biologist
- Bradley, Joan Burton (1916 - 1982) - bush regenerator
- Brewer, Ilma Mary (1915 - 2006) - Botanist, Educator
- Briggs, Barbara Gillian (1934 - ) - Botanist, Phylogenetic systematist
- Brookes, Helen May (1917 - 2008) - Entomological artist, Entomologist
- Brown, Valerie Anne (1930 - ) - Educator, Environmental scientist
- Browne, Elaine Joy (1931 - 1993) - Organic chemist
- Bullock, Margaret Irene (1933 - ) - Educator, Physiotherapist
- Bullwinkel, Vivian (1915 - 2000) - Nurse, Health administrator
- Burgess, Margaret Anne (1937 - ) - Immunologist, Paediatrician
C
- Caldicott, Helen Mary (1938 - ) - Paediatrician, Writer, Activist
- Cameron, Margaret Alison (1937 - 2023) - Librarian, University Administrator, Ornithologist
- Canning, Estelle Margaret (1936 - 2021) - Botanist, Plant collector
- Clarke, Adrienne Elizabeth (1938 - ) - Botanist, Plant geneticist, Science administrator, University Chancellor
- Clyne, Densey (1926 - ) - Naturalist
- Cornforth, Rita (1915 - 2012) - Chemist
- Corrick, Margaret Georgina (1922 - 2020) - Botanist, Naturalist
- Cossart, Yvonne Edna (1934 - 2014) - University Administrator, Virologist
- Cramond, Teresa Rita O'Rourke (Tess) (1926 - 2015) - Anaesthetist, Educator
- Cribb, Joan Winnifred (1930 - ) - Botanist
- Crockford, Joan Marian (1919 - 2015) - Palaeontologist
- Croll, Joan (Una) (1928 - ) - Pathologist, Radiologist
- Crossley, Stella Ann (1933 - 2007) - Educator, Psychologist, Zoologist
- Crowley, Rosemary Anne (1938 - ) - Politician, Physician
D
- Dale, Elizabeth Charlotte (1934 - ) - Educator
- Davenport, Marjory Winifred (1924 - 2003) - Marine engineer
- Davies, Valerie Ethel (1920 - 2012) - Arachnologist, Museum curator, Zoologist
- Dawe, Kathleen Edith (1915 - 1999) - Social worker
- Daws, Joyce Margaretta (1925 - 2007) - Thoracic surgeon
- de la Hunty, Shirley Barbara (1925 - 2004) - Conservationist, Educator
- de Silva, Pamela Elizabeth (1930 - 1997) - Occupational hygienist
- Demediuk, Taisa (1922 - 2011) - Chemist
- Dey, Judith Elizabeth (1923 - 2011) - Paediatrician
- Dick, Margaret Isabella Brownlee (1918 - 2008) - Microbiologist
- Dixon, Joan Maureen (1937 - 2019) - Mammalogist, Museum curator, Zoologist
- Doley, Alison Betty (1938 - 2019) - Conservationist, Farmer
- Dorsch, Susan Evelyn (1935 - ) - Physician, Educator
- Durdin, Dorothy Joan (1922 - ) - Medical historian, Nurse, Educator
- Dyason, Diana Joan (1919 - 1989) - Science historian, Medical historian
E
F
- Fanning, Elizabeth Ann (1918 - ) - Dentist, Dental surgeon
- Farman, Margaret Alyson (1928 - 2001) - Nurse educator
- Fawkes, Barbara Noel (1915 - 2002) - Nurse, Educator
- Fearnley, Cecily Lydia (1925 - ) - Natural history artist
- Feilman, Patricia Edith (1925 - ) - Secretary
- Fildes, Joyce Eleanor (1921 - 2013) - Analytical chemist
- Flood, Josephine Mary (1936 - ) - Archaeologist
- Ford, Joan Munro (1918 - 1992?) - Biologist
- Freeman, Joan (1918 - 1998) - Physicist
G
- Gall, Ruth Edna (1923 - 2017) - Chemist
- Garson, Olga Margaret (Margaret) (1927 - 2020) - Cytogeneticist, Pathologist, Educator
- Gent, Betty Lovell (1921 - ) - Mathematical physicist
- George, Elizabeth (1935 - 2012) - Botanist
- Goatcher, Phyllis Marion Elliott (1922 - ) - Physician
- Godfrey, Joan Estelle (1922 - ) - Medical historian, Nurse, Nurse educator, Author
- Goodnow, Jacqueline Mary Jarrett (1924 - 2014) - Psychologist, Educator
- Gott, Margaret (Beth) (1922 - 2022) - Author, Botanist, Ethnobotanist
- Grant, Beryl (1921 - ) - Nurse
- Grant, Mary Elizabeth (1930 - 2023) - Pharmacist, Politician
- Griffith, June Clare (1924 - 1978) - Chemist, Science educator
- Grimwade, Joan Elizabeth (1934 - ) - Grazier
H
- Hailes, Dorothy Jean (1926 - 1988) - Medical practitioner
- Hallam, Sylvia Joy (1927 - 2019) - Archaeologist
- Hamlin, Elinor Catherine (1924 - 2020) - Obstetrician, Gynaecologist
- Hancock, Judith Anne (1937 - ) - Teacher
- Hardy, Barbara Rosemary (1927 - ) - Conservationist
- Harslett, Morwenna Jean (Jean) (1925 - 2015) - Natural history collector, Historian
- Hayward, Nancy Joan (1916 - 1989) - Educator, Microbiologist
- Hebestreit, Lydia Karola Ludewine (1925 - ) - Nurse educator
- Henderson, Margaret Mary (1915 - 2017) - Physician
- Hercus, Luise Anna (1926 - 2018) - Ethnologist, Linguist
- Hewson, Helen (1938 - 2007) - Botanical artist, Botanist, Scientific editor
- Holman, Mollie Elizabeth (1930 - 2010) - Physiologist
- Horadam, Eleanor Mollie (1921 - 2002) - Mathematician
- Howqua, June Louise (1921 - ) - Physician
- Hughes, Helen (1928 - ) - Author
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- MacArthur-Onslow, Dorothy Wolseley (1922 - ) - Physician
- Mackay, Patricia (1926 - ) - Anaesthetist
- Mackenzie, Catherine Margaret (1915 - ) - Nurse, Missionary
- Main, Barbara York (1929 - 2019) - Arachnologist
- Makinson, Kathleen Rachel (1917 - 2014) - Physicist
- Malinek, Malvina (1937 - ) - Medical scientist, Biochemist
- Marceglia, Albina Zora (1919 - ) - Clerk
- Marks, Elizabeth Nesta (1918 - 2002) - Entomologist, Ecologist
- Marlay, Elaine (1915 - 1977) - Dentist
- Martin, Marjory-Dore (1933 - ) - Science educator
- Mather, Patricia (1925 - 2012) - Museum curator, Marine biologist
- May, Valerie (1916 - 2007) - Phycologist
- McArthur, Annie Margaret (Margaret) (1919 - 2002) - Anthropologist, Nutritionist
- McBriar, Elizabeth Maud (Maud) (1922 - 2014) - Geologist
- McBryde, Isabel (1934 - ) - Archaeologist
- McCarthy, Doreen (1936 - ) - Nurse administrator
- McCulloch, Ellen Margery (1930 - 2005) - Ornithologist
- McCusker, Alison (1933 - 2015) - Botanist, Science administrator
- McGovern, Margaret Mary (1932 - ) - Medical administrator
- McNaughton, Jean Wise (1919 - 2003) - Nutritionist
- Medley, Gabriele (1935 - ) - Pathologist
- Meehan, Betty Francis (1933 - ) - Anthropologist, Archaeologist
- Menzies, Mona (1920 - ) - Nurse administrator
- Middleton, Margaret (1928 - 2019) - Philanthropist
- Millis, Nancy Fannie (1922 - 2012) - Microbiologist, University Chancellor
- Mitchell, Ruby Frances (Mitch) (1916 - 2001) - Nurse
- Moore, Olive Gwenne (1921 - 2007) - Author, Mathematician, Teacher
- Morton, Merial Carr (1921 - ) - Chemist
- Moyal, Ann (1926 - 2019) - Science historian
- Murphy, Patricia Joan (Pat) (1930 - 2006) - Botanical collector
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P
- Parker, Judith Milburn (1936 - ) - Nurse, Teacher, Scholar
- Parkes, Merle Elicia (1927 - ) - Nurse, Nurse educator
- Parsons, Robin June (1932 - ) - Nurse educator
- Paton, Joan (1916? - 2000) - Ornithologist
- Penridge, Joan Elizabeth (1937 - 1994) - Nurse, Nurse educator, Educational administrator
- Perry, Grace (1927 - 1987) - Physician, Poet
- Perry, Nancye Enid Kent (1918 - 2011) - Entomologist, Artist
- Pieroni, Margaret Edith (1936 - ) - Botanical artist, Photographer
- Plante, Enid Campbell (1918 - 2007) - Chemist
R
- Ramsay, Helen P. (1928 - ) - Bryologist
- Raphael, Beverley (1934 - 2018) - Psychiatrist
- Reilly, Pauline Neura (1918 - 2011) - Ornithologist, Writer
- Rennick, Stefanie (1918 - 2001) - Conservationist, Teacher
- Richards, Aola Mary (1927 - 2021) - Entomologist
- Rickard, Pamela Athalie Deidre (1928 - 2002) - Biochemist, Biotechnologist
- Roberts, Judith Mary (1936 - ) - Nurse
- Robertson, Enid Lucy (1925 - 2016) - Systematic botanist
- Robertson, Wendy (1927 - 2016) - Mathematician
- Rosser, Celia Elizabeth (1930 - ) - Botanical artist
- Rubinstein, Gertrude (1918 - ) - Chemical physicist
- Russell, Boyne Marie (1931 - 2022) - Physician
S
- Salivin, Irene (1926 - ) - Analytical chemist
- Sanger, Ruth Ann (1918 - 2001) - Haematologist
- Schlink, Margaret (1916 - 2001?) - Obstetrician, Gynaecologist
- Sefton, Ann Elizabeth (1936 - ) - Physiologist, Educator
- Siedlecky, Stefania Winifred (1921 - ) - Physician, Gynaecologist, Epidemiologist
- Sinkora, Doris Martha (1927 - 2017) - Phycologist
- Sisely, Lorna Verdun (1916 - 2004) - Surgeon
- Slater, Patricia Violet (Pat) (1918 - 1990) - Nurse, Nurse educator
- Stainton, Mary Colleen (1938 - ) - Nurse educator
- Stones, Elsie Margaret (Margaret) (1920 - 2018) - Botanical artist
- Street, Anne Penfold (1932 - 2016) - Mathematician, Educator
- Sutton, Fay (1926 - 2000) - Conservationist
- Swan, Ailsa Macvey (1922 - 1998) - Chemist, Conservationist
T
- Taylor, Joan Margaret (1929 - 2017) - Botanist
- Taylor, Marjory Alice Hamlet (1920 - ) - Nurse administrator
- Temple, Diana (1925 - ) - Pharmacologist
- Thomas, Faith (1933 - ) - Nurse, Midwife
- Thompson, Joy (1923 - 2018) - Botanist
- Tiddy, Josephine Mary (1938 - ) - Nurse
- Tideman, Ruth (1932 - ) - Teacher
- Tindale, Mary Douglas (1920 - 2011) - Taxonomic botanist
- Tom, Jean Marion (1922 - ) - Community worker
- Tooth, Kathleen Helen (1916 - ) - Physician
- Trundle, Ailsa Merle (1916 - 2002) - Architect
- Turner, Gillian (1931 - ) - Geneticist
W
- Wade, Mary Julia (1928 - 2005) - Palaeontologist, Geologist
- Warren, Grace (1929 - ) - Educator, Missionary, Surgeon
- Watson, Jeanette Esther (Jan) (1927 - ) - Marine zoologist, Metallurgist
- Weste, Gretna Margaret (1917 - 2006) - Botanist
- White, Mary Elizabeth (1926 - 2018) - Palaeobotanist
- Whitehead, Sylvia Gladys (1921 - 2012) - Mineralogist, Petrologist
- Wilson, Gwenifer Catherine May (Gwen) (1916 - 1998) - Anaesthetist, Medical historian
- Woodroofe, Gwendolyn Marion (Gwen) (1918 - 2012) - Community worker, Virologist
- Woolcock, Ann Janet (1937 - 2001) - Medical scientist
- Woolley, Patricia Ann (1932 - ) - Mammalogist
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