Famous Australian Bushrangers
Bushranger↕ | Real Name↕ | Active↕ | Territory↕ | Fate↕ | Known For↕ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Ned Kelly | Edward Kelly | 1878-1880 | Victoria | Hanged in Melbourne 1880 | Homemade plate armor, Glenrowan shootout, Such is life last words, Australia's outlaw icon |
Captain Thunderbolt | Frederick Wordsworth Ward | 1863-1870 | Northern New South Wales | Shot dead by police 1870 | Gentleman bushranger, longest run of any Australian outlaw, New England range legend |
Dan Morgan | John Owen or Daniel Morgan | 1863-1865 | Riverina, NSW / Victoria | Shot dead at Peechelba Station 1865 | Mad Dog Morgan, violent and unpredictable, immortalized in Dennis Hopper film Mad Dog Morgan |
Ben Hall | Benjamin Hall | 1862-1865 | Central New South Wales | Shot dead by police 1865 | Leader of the Hall Gang, Eugowra gold escort robbery, sympathetic Robin Hood image |
Frank Gardiner | Francis Christie | 1850s-1864 | Central New South Wales | Exiled to America after prison | Leader of the Eugowra Rocks gold robbery, one of the biggest heists in colonial Australia |
John Gilbert | John Gilbert | 1862-1865 | New South Wales | Shot dead 1865 | Right-hand man of Ben Hall, involved in the Hall Gang's many stagecoach and gold heists |
Martin Cash | Martin Cash | 1842-1843 | Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania) | Pardoned, died 1877 | Escaped Port Arthur twice, rare bushranger who survived and wrote a bestselling memoir |
Mary Ann Bugg | Mary Ann Bugg | 1860s | Northern NSW | Died 1905 | Indigenous-Australian partner of Captain Thunderbolt, rode alongside him as a bushranging woman |
Michael Howe | Michael Howe | 1812-1818 | Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania) | Killed 1818 | Early colonial outlaw, self-styled Governor of the Ranges, inspired the first Australian book |
Matthew Brady | Matthew Brady | 1824-1826 | Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania) | Hanged in Hobart 1826 | Gentleman Brady, raided towns with military precision, sympathetic colonial folk hero |
Frederick Ward's gang associate Captain Moonlite | Andrew George Scott | 1879 | Victoria / NSW | Hanged 1880 | Former lay preacher turned outlaw, Wantabadgery Station siege, theatrical courtroom defense |
Bold Jack Donohoe | John Donohoe | 1827-1830 | New South Wales | Shot dead 1830 | Inspired the folk song Bold Jack Donohoe and later The Wild Colonial Boy |
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