30 Australian people in whaling

Richard Ryther Steer Bowker was an Australian mariner, physician, surgeon and politician.

Benjamin Boyd was a Scottish entrepreneur who became a major shipowner, banker, grazier, politician and slaver, exploiting South Sea Islander labour in the colony of New South Wales.

Sir Oswald Walters Brierly, was an English marine painter from an old Cheshire family and he was born at Chester.

Henrik Johan Bull was a Norwegian businessman and whaler. Henry Bull was one of the pioneers in the exploration of Antarctica.

Eber Bunker (1761–1836) was a sea captain and pastoralist, and he was born on 7 March 1761 at Plymouth, Massachusetts. He commanded one of the first vessels to go whaling and sealing off the coast of Australia. His parents were James Bunker and his wife Hannah, née Shurtleff.

Burns Philp was once a major Australian shipping line and merchant that operated in the South Pacific. When the well-populated islands around New Guinea were targeted for blackbirding in the 1880s, a new rush for labour from these islands began. James Burns and Robert Philp purchased several well-known blackbirding ships to quickly exploit the human resource in this region, and Burns Philp entered the slave trade. The company ended its involvement in blackbirding in 1886. In later years the company was a major player in the food manufacturing business. Since its delisting from the Australian Stock Exchange in December 2006 and the subsequent sale of its assets, the company has mainly become a cashed up shell company. It is wholly owned by Graeme Hart's Rank Group.

Francis William Cadell was a European explorer of Australia, most remembered for opening the Murray River up for transport by steamship and for his activities as a slave trader.

Robert Campbell (1769–1846) was a merchant and politician in Sydney. He was a member of the first New South Wales Legislative Council. Campbell, a suburb of Canberra was named in his honour.

William Lodewyk Crowther FRCS was an Australian politician, who was Premier of Tasmania from 20 December 1878 to 29 October 1879.

Sir Stuart Alexander Donaldson was the first Premier of the Colony of New South Wales.

William Dutton, known as "Captain Dutton", was a whaler and seaman remembered as a pioneer of Portland, Victoria. Posthumously he has been referred to as "William Pelham Dutton".

John Finnis, generally known as "Captain Finnis", was a seaman who is remembered for his association with Charles Sturt in the colonial period of South Australia.

Captain John Hart C.M.G.(25 February 1809 – 28 January 1873) was a South Australian politician and a Premier of South Australia.

Edward Henty, was a pioneer and first permanent settler in the Port Phillip district, Australia.

Francis Henty, was an early settler of Australia.

Alexander Imlay together with his brothers George (1794?-1846), and Peter (1797–1881) were Scottish-born pioneer settlers in southern New South Wales. They operated in the region as pastoralists, whalers and shipbuilders. A number of things in the area were named after them. These include Imlay Street, the main street in Eden, the Mount Imlay National Park and Imlay Shire.

Peter Imlay (1797–1881), along with his brothers Alexander (1794-1847) and George (1794?-1846) were Scottish-born pioneer settlers in southern New South Wales. They operated in the region as pastoralists, whalers and shipbuilders.

John "Johnny" Jones was a trader and settler in New Zealand.

Thomas Henry Kendall, also Henry Clarence Kendall, publishing as Henry Kendall, was an Australian author and bush poet, who was particularly known for his poems and tales set in a natural environment setting.

William Lanne was a Tasmanian Aboriginal. He is most well known as the last 'full-blooded' Aboriginal Tasmanian man.

Simeon Lord was a pioneer merchant and a magistrate in Australia. He became a prominent trader in Sydney, buying and selling ship cargoes. Despite being an emancipist Lord was made a magistrate by Governor Lachlan Macquarie, and he became a frequent guest at government house. His business dealings were extensive. He became one of Sydney's wealthiest men. He was at various times a retailer, auctioneer, sealer, pastoralist, timber merchant and manufacturer. He is mentioned in many Australian History books, in particular regarding his status as an emancipist.

John Macarthur was a British army officer, entrepreneur, politician, architect and pioneer of settlement in Australia. Macarthur is recognised as the pioneer of the wool industry that was to boom in Australia in the early 19th century and become a trademark of the nation. He is noted as the architect of Farm House, his own residence in Parramatta, and as the man who commissioned architect John Verge to design Camden Park Estate in Camden, in New South Wales. He was instrumental in agitating for, and organising, a rebellion against the colonial government in what is often described as the Rum Rebellion.

Herman Melville was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet of the American Renaissance period. Among his best-known works are Moby-Dick (1851), Typee (1846), a romanticized account of his experiences in Polynesia, and Billy Budd, Sailor, a posthumously published novella. Although his reputation was not high at the time of his death, the centennial of his birth in 1919 was the starting point of a Melville revival and Moby-Dick grew to be considered one of the great American novels.

James Merriman was an Australian cooper, whaler, publican, shipowner, alderman, mayor of Sydney and member of the New South Wales Parliament.

Robert Clark Morgan was an English sea captain, whaler, diarist, and, in later life, a missionary. He captained the Duke of York, bringing the first settlers to South Australia in 1836. His life in the British whaling industry has been recorded in the book The Man Who Hunted Whales (2011) by Dorothy M. Heinrich. His diaries are held in the State Library of New South Wales.

Henry Reed was an Australian landowner, shipowner, merchant, philanthropist and evangelist..

Bourn Russell was a British/Australian mariner, pastoralist, politician and businessman. He was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Council between 1858 and 1880. He was also a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for four months in 1856.

Lionel Samson was an early Swan River Colony settler and businessman whose firm, Lionel Samson & Son, is the second oldest continuing family business in Australia.

Robert Towns was a British master mariner who settled in Australia where he became a businessman, sandalwood merchant, colonist, shipowner, pastoralist, politician, coolie and Kanaka slave trader, whaler and civic leader. He was the founder of Townsville, Queensland.

Alan John Villiers DSC; Military Order of St James(23 September 1903 – 3 March 1982) was an author, adventurer, photographer and mariner.