Who's Who

An index of women featured in Women's History Month, the National History Challenge and other projects supported by AWHF, with links to the Australian Women's Archives Project, the Australian Dictionary of Biography and other authoritative sites.

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Ellen Cahill (Killarney Kate) [c. 1863 - 3 JAnuary 1934]
Street singer

Bessy Cameron [1851-1895]
Nyungar woman and school teacher

Caroline Carleton [? - 1874]

Lyricist

Amy Castles [25 July 1880 - 19 November 1951]

Opera singer

Margaret Catchpole
Convict, midwife

Sally Chapman [1960-2009]

Executive Director of the Newcastle Division of Engineers Australia 1993-2009

Alice Chisholm [1856 - ?]
Wartime aid worker

Lena Chisholm

Maggie Chisholm

Fanny Cochrane - Smith [December 1834 - 24 February 1905]
Singer , Tasmanian Aborigine

Jessie Mary Cooper (McAndrew) [1918-1993]

Parliamentarian

Major General Elizabeth Cosson
Australian Army General

Jessie Couvreur (Huybers) 'Tasma' [1848-1897]
Writer and lecturer

Edith Dircksey Cowan (Brown) OBE [2 August 1861-9 June 1932]

Parliamentarian and community worker

Camilla Cowley
Pastoralist, activist

Geraldine Cox [10 June 1945 - ]
Founder of Cambodian orphanage

Joan Marjorie Coxsedge (Rochester) [5 January 1931-]

Parliamentarian

Helen Crisp (Wighton) [26 September 1916-25 May 2002]
Academic and adminstrator

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Kitchen Entrepreneurs: Women in the Food Business

Demeter’s Daughters: women’s harvest history

Who's Who