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.

Colonel William Light’s survey marker from 1837 is to be incorporated in the new Royal Adelaide Hospital site

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

Colonel William Light’s grave remains in Light Square, while Light's Monument there has been replaced and embellished over time

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

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

An eclectic selection of significant contributors to South Australia to 1986

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.