List Of Alumni From Brisbane State High School
This article is a list of notable alumni who attended Brisbane State High School.
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Went down the list of the dead.
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The bearded man and the lad in his teens,
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—Rebecca Sweeney (b. 1938)
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—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
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—Raymond Chandler (18881959)
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