An austere but tolerant Lutheran migrant leader, August Kavel contributed significantly to South Australia’s rich legacy of German culture.

A soldier and explorer, Captain Charles Sturt was first to chart the River Murray.

Remembered as the founder of the City of Adelaide, Light was South Australia’s first surveyor-general.

A trailblazing jurist, Dame Roma Mitchell pushed for numerous law reforms and became South Australia’s first female governor.

As premier, Dunstan’s agenda of social and political reform transformed South Australia.

A physician by training, Charles Everard became a landholder, a farmer and a prominent colonist.

Works by the renowned and unpretentious artist John Dowie enhance many public places

This merchant, banker, landowner and philanthropist was generous but shrewd, and often tagged with the phrase ‘philanthropy plus ten per cent’.

A phenomenally successful athlete, Marjorie Jackson Nelson went on to become a governor of South Australia

Richard Bowyer Smith and his brother Clarence could both rightfully claim distinction as the inventors of the stump-jump plough. 

By turns architect, engineer, surveyor and parliamentarian, Sir George Kingston was also Speaker of the House of Assembly for almost two decades.

Founder of the Congregational Church in South Australia, Thomas Stow was a strenuous minister and a dedicated opponent of state aid to religion.