The following are notable Australian Presbyterians:
- Arthur Aspinall – co-founder and first principal of The Scots College, Bellevue Hill, Sydney; Congregational and Presbyterian minister; Joint founder of the Historical Society of New South Wales
- Jessie Aspinall – first female junior medical resident at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital[1]
- Peter Cameron – principal of St Andrew's College; Minister convicted by the Presbyterian Church of Australia of heresy[2]
- Arthur Dean (judge)
- John Ferguson – Presbyterian minister; acting principal of St Andrew's Theological College; senior chaplain and chairman of the Presbyterian Ladies' College, Sydney Council[3]
- John Flynn – founder of the Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia and the Australian Inland Mission
- James Forbes – minister of the Free Presbyterian Church of Victoria and founder of the Melbourne Academy, a college for boys (later Scotch College).
- Friedrich Hagenauer – Presbyterian minister; founder of Ramahyuck Mission to house the members of the Ganai tribe who survived attacks in west and central Gippsland
- Allan Harman – principal of the Presbyterian Theological College
- Rev. Dr Andrew Harper – Biblical scholar and teacher
- Matthew Guy – Victorian Leader of the Opposition
- Adrian Kebbe – former weightlifter
- John Dunmore Lang (1799–1878) – Presbyterian minister, writer, politician and activist
- Dr. John Marden – first Headmaster of the Presbyterian Ladies' College, Sydney; Pioneer of women's education; Presbyterian elder[4]
- John McGarvie – Presbyterian minister and writer
- William McIntyre – first Gaelic-speaking minister in Australia; educator
- Dr Ewen Neil McQueen – second headmaster of the Presbyterian Ladies' College, Sydney; Prominent educational innovator; Scientist; Psychologist; General Practitioner[5]
- Sir Robert Menzies – Australian prime minister
- Reverend William Miller – minister of the Free Presbyterian Church of Victoria
- David Charles Mitchell - lawyer, minister and solicitor-general of Lesotho.
- Sibyl Enid Vera Munro Morrison – first female barrister in New South Wales[6]
- William Ridley – English Presbyterian missionary who studied Australian Aboriginal languages
- Robert Steel – 19th-century Scottish/Australian minister and religious author[7]
- Joan Sutherland – operatic soprano (Australian by birth; parents were of Scottish Presbyterian descent)
- Reverend F. R. M. Wilson – early pioneer lichenologist and minister
- Bruce W. Winter – principal of Queensland Theological College
See also
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{{cite book}}:|work=ignored (help) - ^ Cameron, Peter (8 July 1993). "The making of a heretic". Opinion-Analysis. Melbourne: The Age. p. 14. Retrieved 26 February 2008.
- ^ Dougan, Alan (1981). "John Ferguson (1852–1925)". Ferguson, John (1852–1925). Australian Dictionary of Biography. Vol. 8 (Online ed.). Melbourne: Melbourne University Press. pp. 486–487. Retrieved 26 February 2008.
- ^ Dougan, Alan (1986). "John Marden (1855–1924)". Marden, John (1855–1924). Australian Dictionary of Biography. Vol. 10. Melbourne, Vic.: Melbourne University Press. pp. 407–408. Retrieved 9 October 2007.
- ^ McFarlane, John (1988). The Golden Hope: Presbyterian Ladies' College, 1888–1988. P.L.C Council, Presbyterian Ladies' College Sydney, (Croydon). ISBN 0-9597340-1-5.
- ^ O'Brien, Joan M (1986). "Sibyl Enid Morrison (1895–1961)". Morrison, Sibyl Enid Vera Munro (1895–1961). Melbourne University Press. p. 596. Retrieved 1 August 2007.
{{cite book}}:|work=ignored (help) - ^ Dougan, Alan. "Steel, Robert (1827–1893)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. ISBN 978-0-522-84459-7. ISSN 1833-7538. OCLC 70677943. Retrieved 10 September 2013.