David Frederick Hawkins (1933–) grew up at Fairlight on the northern side of Sydney Harbor and attended North Sydney Boys High School. He finished first in the breaststroke at the 1950 Empire Games in Auckland swimming the “butterfly” style and then...
Hume Dow (1916–1997) was born at Melbourne. He came to the United States in 1924 when his father, David M. Dow, was appointed official secretary of the Australian Commissioner to America. His father was the head of the Australian mission to the United...
William Ernest (Bill) Kendall swam for Australia at the Berlin Olympics in 1936. He was a member of the class of 1940 and elected captain of the Harvard University freshmen's swimming team. He left Harvard at the end of his sophomore year and went to work...
Victor Kwonglee Kwong (1906–1979) was born at Cairns, Queensland. In 1919, he was Dux of the Lower School of Scotch College, Melbourne, and attended the Upper School for a year. From September 1922 to June 1924 he was a student at St. John’s University in...
Hugh O’Neill (1897–1960) was born at Unley, South Australia on November 21, 1897, the son of Arthur O’Neill and Maud Everline O’Neill (nee Williams). He appears in examination lists in the Adelaide press as a student at Unley District High School and...
Clyde Fairbanks Maxwell was born at North Hampton, Massachusetts on 11 April 1892. His father, Walter Maxwell (1851–1934), was an Englishman who had studied science in London and Zurich before taking a Masters degree at Harvard in 1889 and then teaching...