List of Indigenous Australian Historical Figures - 1788-1888

1788-1888

  • William Barak (1824–1903) - ngurungaeta of Wurundjeri, police tracker, then artist
  • Bennelong - Representative of the Eora People at the time Port Jackson was settled.
  • Billibellary (1799–1846) - ngurungaeta of the Wurundjeri-willam clan
  • Calyute - Leader of the Pindjarup people at the time of the Battle of Pinjarra
  • Derrimut - Bunurong elder during European settlement of Melbourne
  • Jackey Jackey, assisted Edmund Kennedy expedition into Cape York and awarded solid silver breastplate for heroic deeds.
  • Jandamarra, a Bunuba man who resisted European occupation
  • William Lanne - King Billy, last surviving male of the Oyster Cove clan of Tasmanian Aborigines
  • Mannalargenna - Tasmanian Aborigine of the Plangermaireener people
  • Mokare - Noongar guide and peacemaker.
  • Johnny Mullagh - Aborigine cricketer who was known for his remarkable performance in the 1868 Aborigine cricket team's tour of England.
  • Musquito - Originally from Sydney, became a bushranger following transportation to Tasmania
  • Tommy Windich -- Western Australian explorer
  • Pemulwuy -- Member of the Eora people (Botany Bay) area
  • Fanny Cochrane Smith - First Tasmanian Aborigine born on Flinders Island
  • Truganini -- last surviving full-blooded Tasmanian Aborigine
  • Turandurey -- she and daughter Ballandella traveled with Major Mitchell, acting as interpreter
  • Tullamareena -- member of Wirundgeri, Melbourne
  • Simon Wonga (1824–1874) - ngurungaeta of the Wurundjeri people around Melbourne who secured land at Coranderrk, and the suburb Wonga Park was named after him
  • Yagan -- Western Australian leader in 1830s
  • Yarri -- who saved many people in the 1852 floods at Gundagai, New South Wales
  • Wylie -- Aboriginal guide who stayed with Edward John Eyre in their crossing of the Nullabor

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