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* Sir [[John Jamison]] Kt, MD (1776–1844), landowner, physician and Member of the Legislative Council of New South Wales.{{cite AuDB |id2=jamison-sir-john-2268 |title=Jamison, Sir John (1776–1844) |first=G. P. |last=Walsh |volume=2 |year=1967 |accessdate=27 November 2017}}

* The Reverend [[Thomas Cooper Makinson]] (1809–1893), Mulgoa’s first resident [[Anglican]] clergyman and schoolmaster, who later converted to [[Catholicism]].{{cite AuDB |id2=makinson-thomas-cooper-2423 |title=Makinson, Thomas Cooper (1809–1893) |first=R. A. |last=Daly |volume=2 |year=1967 |accessdate=27 November 2017}}

* Emmanuel Margolin, entrepreneur and former operator of [[El Caballo Blanco]], which contained Sydney’s largest private zoo.{{cite web |url=http://www.camdenaccommodation.com.au/camden-accommodation-articles/1990/5/21/margolin-properties-on-market/ |title=Margolin Properties on Market |work=Camden Accommodation |date=21 May 1990 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120331001734/http://www.camdenaccommodation.com.au/camden-accommodation-articles/1990/5/21/margolin-properties-on-market/ |archivedate=31 March 2012}}{{cite web |url=http://www.alligators.com.au/alligators-articles/1989/2/1/zoo-owner-fights-with-neighbours-over-access/ |title=Zoo Owner Fights With Neighbours Over Access |work=Alligators.com.au |publisher=Originally published in [[The Sydney Morning Herald]] |date=1 February 1999 }}

* Senator The Honourable [[Marise Payne]].{{cite web |url=http://www.marisepayne.com/biography |title=Biography |publisher=Marise Payne }}{{self-published-inline|date=November 2017}}

* [[David Stove]] (1927-1994), philosopher.{{citation needed|date=November 2017}}

Suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Mulgoa is a village, located in the local government area of the City of Penrith, in the region of western Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Mulgoa is located approximately 66 kilometres (41 mi) west of the Sydney central business district.

Mulgoa covers an area of 5,530 hectares (13,700 acres), south of the Penrith suburbs of Regentville and Glenmore Park.

History[edit]

Aboriginal culture[edit]

Mulgoa takes its name from the Mulgoa people, who were an Aboriginal Australian people, the Indigenous inhabitants of the area who spoke the Dharug language. The name is believed to mean “black swan“. The Mulgoa were not the only inhabitants of the area; they shared the Mulgoa Valley with the Gandangara people of the Southern Highlands, whose territory extended up into the Blue Mountains. The Aboriginal peoples mostly lived a hunter-gatherer lifestyle governed by traditional laws, which had their origins in their mythology known as the Dreamtime. Their homes were bark huts called gunyah. They hunted kangaroos and emus for meat, and gathered yams, berries and other native plants.^[2]^[3]

European settlement[edit]

Following the arrival of the First Fleet in Sydney, there were a number of bloody battles between the British settlers and the local Indigenous people in this area, however, it is believed that the Mulgoa people were generally peaceful and most of the clashes were with the