Notable Inhabitants
- John Gowing, co-founder of Gowings store
- Kenneth Slessor, poet
- James Toohey, brewer
- Jimmy Governor, outlaw
- Peter Dodds McCormick, songwriter ("Advance Australia Fair")
- Louisa Lawson, suffragette
- Lilian Fowler, Australia's first female mayor
- Bea Miles, well-known Sydney eccentric
- Jack Lang, former Premier of New South Wales
- Joseph Cahill, former Premier of New South Wales
- David Jones, founder of David Jones stores
- John Fairfax, newspaper proprietor
- Abe Saffron, Sydney businessman and "underworld figure"
- Jacob Pitman, advocate of shorthand (whose epitaph is written phonetically)
- Sally Anne Huckstep, Sydney underworld figure,
- Three Victoria Cross recipients:
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- Sergeant John Paton, awarded in Indian Mutiny
- Captain Richard Been Stannard, Royal Naval Reserve, awarded in Norway campaign, World War II (cremated)
- Sergeant John Woods Whittle, awarded in World War I.
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