Famous Names

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Hayley Mills, child actor (& teenage and adult actor), who starred in lots of films I saw in my childhood and youth (eg Pollyanna, The Parent Trap, Summer Magic).

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Malcolm Fraser, another Australian Prime Minister from 1975 to 1983

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Franklin Roosevelt

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Rudyard Kipling

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Katherine Mansfield, a New Zealand writer famed for her short stories which depict life in New Zealand in the early 20th century. One of our literary greats.

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Maurice Gee, another well known New Zealand children's author

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Georgie Henley, a rather well-known actress in these parts!

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Henry Lawson, an Australian well loved poet & writer

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Louis Pasteur, a pioneer of germ theory

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Patrick Henry, an American attorney, planter, politician, and orator best known for his declaration to the Second Virginia Convention (1775): "Give me liberty, or give me death!"

~Wunder

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Harriet Tubman, an African-American woman who escaped from slavery and then made thirteen return trips to free other slaves using a network called the Underground Railroad.

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(Dr) Truby King, a famed New Zealander pediatrician who wrote books on child care