Arthur William Forster Bligh was born in 1905 at Sydney. He was articled to Toowoomba architect William Hodgen (1866-1943) in 1922 until he established his own practice in 1926 in Toowoomba. After moving to Brisbane he established an architectural practice. Colin W. Jessup joined this practice. During the Second World War he worked for the USA Service Drawing Office and returned to private practice in 1944. In 1957 Bligh and Jessup were joined by Athol Bretnall and Ronald Voller (1915-2006). The practice at that time was renamed Bligh Jessup Bretnall and Partners. Graham Bligh (his son) became a partner in the practice in 1965. Arthur Bligh retired in 1974.

Alan Lindsay Queale was born on 16 November 1908 at Boonah, Queensland. Heentered the Queensland Public Service in 1924 and retired in 1974. In 1935 he was appointed Clerk of the Petty Sessions and served in Dalby, Ipswich, Cunnamulla, Wynnum and Coolangatta. From 1966 to 1974 he was seconded to duty in the Chief Office Justice Department and worked extensively in the history and administration of the Law in Queensland. He was a member of the armed forces in World War II . He researched and wrote in the areas of convict history and Queensland and Australian-Irish history. He was a member of the John Oxley Advisory Committee from 1968 to 1977 and a trustee of the Lionel Lindsay Gallery and Library Trust in Toowoomba, Queensland. He never married. He died 21 July 1982.

Born in Brisbane in 1930, Robert Findlay (Robin) Gibson completed a Diploma of Architecture at The University of Queensland in 1954 and then moved to London, where he worked for Sir Hugh Casson, Neville Conder and James Cubitt and Partners. Returning to Brisbane in 1957, he established a practice under his own name with student architects Gabriel Poole, Geoffrey Pie and Robert Collin. Around 1970 this practice was renamed Robin Gibson and Partners.

In the 1950s and 60s Gibson's firm completed various residential and commercial jobs and government commissions for work at universities and colleges of advanced education. He rose to public prominence in 1973 after winning a competition to design a new Queensland Art Gallery. The success of this project led to a commission to design the Queensland Cultural Centre, a cluster of buildings that included the Art Gallery, the Queensland Museum, the Queensland State Library, and the Queensland Performing Arts Complex. Other prominent Gibson projects in Brisbane include Mayne Hall (The Great Hall), the Biological Sciences Library and Central Library at The University of Queensland, stage one of the Queen Street Mall, the ANZAC-Post Office Square redevelopment, the Government complex at 33 Charlotte Street, and 111 George Street. Robin Gibson and Partners was also awarded the project to restore Brisbane's St. Stephen’s Cathedral and Chapel.

Gibson was named Queenslander of the Year in 1982, and in 1983 became an Officer of the Order of Australia in recognition of his services to architecture. In 1989, he won the Australian Institute of Architects' Gold Medal. Also that year The University of Queensland conferred an honorary doctorate on Gibson for his distinguished contributions to the architecture of Australia, Brisbane, and the University.

Rita Cynthia Huggins's mother was Rose, a Bidjara-Pitjara woman and her father was Albert Holt, son of a Yuri woman. Rose's mother was named Lucy Conway from the Maranoa River and Rita had a white father whose name she did not know. Rita was born in the land of the Bidjara-Pitjara people and at an early age, she was taken under the Aborigines Protection Act from her country to Cherbourg Aboriginal Reserve.

In the 1960s, Rita, a single mother was living in Brisbane when Aboriginal politics began to bring changes for the rights of Aboriginal people. Events such as the Freedom Ride and the 1967 Referendum were on the political agenda. Rita's desire was to make life better for herself and her people and she became more active in the Aboriginal community helping her people. Over the years Rita's main interests were her family and standing up for her people's rights and she was an important role model to an entire generation of younger black women. Rita is also the mother of historian, writer and academic Jackie Huggins.

Actor/singer/comedian Jenny Howard (1902-1996), born Daisy Evelyn Louise Blowes in London, first performed in Australia on the Tivoli Circuit in 1929 and settled there permanently with husband Percy King in the 1940s. For over 50 years, she appeared in musical theatre throughout Australia, including the popular Christmas pantomimes.

Bob Cochrane married Kathleen Joan Patterson on 19 December 1945.

Kathleen Joan Patterson was born on 6 January 1923. She married George Robert Cochrane on 19 December 1945. Kathie Cochrane was a biographer and friend of Oodgeroo Noonuccal. She and her husband were active in various groups working for the rights of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples from the 1960s onwards.

Doris Catherine Rass, known as Dot, was a well-known and active Communist Party member in the Brisbane for a long period before moving to New South Wales; was a regular Tribune seller, worked at the People's Bookshop, and for the Tribune Fair; died on 12 July 1980 at Richmond, New South Wales.

Rosa Soady was born on 5 July 1885 at Gosford, New South Wales and was an artist's model, autobiographer and printmaker. Rose modelled for and eventually married Norman Lindsay.She died on 23 May 1978 at Lane Cover, Sydney.

Percival Charles Lindsay was born on 17 September 1870 at Creswick, Victoria, was an illustrator, landscape artist and painter. He died on 21 September 1952 at North Sydney.