Eric John Aarons was born on 16 March 1919. He was a member of of the Communist Party of Australia. He travelled to Cuba in 1965 as part of a delegation from the Communist Party of Australia: the Australian Party's first delegation to anywhere in the Americas. He died on 18 January 2019 in Sydney.

John Henry Macartney Abbott was born in Haydonton, NSW, in 1894. He was educated at the King's School, Parramatta and at the University of Sydney. He worked as a jackeroo, served in the Boer War and then became a journalist in London. He returned to Australia in about 1909 and published prolifically in journals such as the Bulletin and Lone Hand. In 1926 he married Katherina Wallace. In 1942 he was awarded a Commonwealth Literary Fund fellowship. His novels had a wide readership. Abbott died in 1953.

Anthony John Abbott was born in London on 4 November, 1957. His family moved to Australia a few months later and settled on the North Shore of Sydney, New South Wales. His education was received at St Ignatius' College Riverview, the University of Sydney, the University of Oxford (on a Rhodes Scholarship), and St Patrick's Seminary, Manly. Though he had planned to become a priest, he left the seminary after three years and decided to begin a career in politics instead. He was elected to the House of Representatives for Warringah, New South Wales at the by-election of 1994. Re-elected 1996, 1998, 2001, 2004, 2007, 2010, 2013 and 2016. During that time, he served as Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Employment, Education, Training and Youth Affairs from 11.3.1996 to 21.10.1998; Minister for Employment Services from 21.10.1998 to 30.1.2001; Minister for Employment, Workplace Relations and Small Business from 30.1.2001 to 26.11.2001; Cabinet Minister from 30.1.2001 to 3.12.2007; Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations from 26.11.2001 to 7.10.2003; Minister Assisting the Prime Minister for the Public Service from 26.11.2001 to 7.10.2003; Minister for Health and Ageing from 7.10.2003 to 3.12.2007; Prime Minister from 18.9.2013 to 15.9.2015; Cabinet Minister from 18.9.2013 to 15.9.2015. He was defeated at the general elections 2019. Abbott has published 4 non-fiction titles: (1995) The minimal monarchy: and why it still makes sense for Australia , (Wakefield Press, Kent Town, SA); (1997) How to win the constitutional war and give both sides what they want (Australians for Constitutional Monarchy in association with Wakefield Press); (2009) Battlelines (Melbourne University Press); and (2012) A strong Australia: the values, directions and policy priorities of the next Coalition Government (Bambra Press, Melbourne).

Sir Henry Abel Smith was Governor of Queensland from 1958 to 1966. He was born in Westminister, London, on 8 March 1900. He served in World War II as as major, and then was promoted to colonel and received the Distinguished Service Order. He and his wife, Lady May Helen Emma Cambridge, came to Queensland to assume office as Queensland Governor on 18 March 1958. They proved so popular that his original term was extended by three years.

Donna Abela is an Australian playwright, teacher, producer and director. She has published over 30 original and adapted plays, including Jump for Jordan, which won the Griffin Playwriting Award in 2013 and the AWGIE Award for Stage in 2015. She has taught scriptwriting at the University of Wollongong and at Excelsia College (formerly Wesley Institute), and runs workshops and short writing courses for many community groups, schools, and theatre companies.