Who's Who in Australia

[1][2] WWIA is part of a series of reference works that includes Who's Who of Australian Women and Who's Who in Business in Australia.

[3] Who's Who in Australia began as the vision of South Australian sub-editor Fred Johns.

[4] Following his arrival in Australia in 1884, Johns compiled a volume of biographies of notable living compatriots.

Fred Johns died in December 1932, bequeathing £1,500 to the University of Adelaide to found a scholarship in biography.

[8] The National Library of Australia holds copies and reviews of Fred Johns's publications (1906–1922),[9] successors of 1927–28, 1933–34, 1935, 1938, 1941, 1944, 1947, 1950 and 1955, and subsequent series which were triennial (1959–1988) and annual (1991–present).