Famous Ngarrindjeri
- Poltpalingada Booboorowie (Tommy Walker), a popular Adelaide personality in the 1890s.
- Ruby Hunter, musician.
- Natascha McNamara, academic and activist.
- David Unaipon, inventor and author. His picture is featured on the Australian $50 banknote.
- James Unaipon, first Aboriginal deacon.
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Famous quotes containing the word famous:
“Lizzie Borden took an axe
And gave her mother forty whacks;
When she saw what she had done,
She gave her father forty-one.”
—Anonymous. Late 19th century ballad.
The quatrain refers to the famous case of Lizzie Borden, tried for the murder of her father and stepmother on Aug. 4, 1892, in Fall River, Massachusetts. Though she was found innocent, there were many who contested the verdict, occasioning a prodigious output of articles and books, including, most recently, Frank Spiering’s Lizzie (1985)