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Vincent Craven was Secretary of Scripture Union in Australia, and the first Secretary of Scripture Union and Children's Special Service Mission in NSW. Her served as YMCA Welfare Officer on the Kokoda Trail in PNG during WW2. In 1946 he went to Canada to become acting National Director of Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship. He was also General Director of Ontario Pioneer Camps. He established Christian Camping International in Canada and served as National President.
(Obituary, series 271-2)

The Centre was established in 1991 at Robert Menzies College, a residential college of Macquarie University.

Dr Howard Guinness was a member of the influential Irish brewing family and the grandson of the missionary Henry Grattan Guinness. He trained in medicine at St Bartholomew's Hospital, London, but never practiced. He travelled to Australia in 1930, having been sent by Inter-Varsity Fellowship to develop Christian student groups on university campuses, and helped to establish the Sydney University and Melbourne University Evangelical Unions. In 1938 he married Barbara Green and was ordained in 1940. In 1949 he became Rector of St Barnabas Broadway, and then St Michael's Vaucluse in 1957. He died in Wentworth Falls, NSW. https://matthiasmedia.com/briefing/2010/07/sacrifice-have-we-given-up/
Howard Guinness, ‘Author’s Preface’, Sacrifice, Inter-Varsity Fellowship of Evangelical Unions, London, 1939 (1936), p. viii
Keith and Gladys Hunt, For Christ and the University: The Story of InterVarsity Christian Fellowship of the U.S.A., 1940-1990 (IVP, Downers Grove, 1991)
Meredith Lake, Proclaiming Jesus Christ as Lord: A History of the Sydney University Evangelical Union (The EU Graduates Fund, Sydney, 2005)

Sydney University Evangelical Union was formed on 31st March 1930. An informal group, started by John Deane in 1919, was known as the Bible League and was formed in protest to the widening of the membership conditions of the Christian Union (now the Australian Student Christian Movement) to include 'seekers'. In 1929 Dr Howard Guinness visited Australia and spoke at the Katoomba Christian Convention where members of the Bible League encountered him and were inspired to reorganise. A committee was elected and the name changed to Evangelical Union. In 1935 members of the EU founded the Inter-School Christian Fellowship. The EU's parent body, the Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship (now the Australian Fellowship of Evangelical Students) was formed in 1936.
In 1955 a General Committee was formed, comprised of the executive, faculty leaders, specialist committee leaders and a mission team representative. In 1964 the General Committee was remade into a Governing Council made up of the executive and faculty representatives.
In 1998 the Australian Chinese Evangelical Students group was incorporated into the EU.
Sources: EU Committee Handbook; Lake, Meredith. "Proclaiming Jesus Christ as Lord : a history of the Sydney University Evangelical Union", Sydney: EU Graduates' Fund, 2005.

D.C. Mill was a Baptist minister who served at Eastwood Baptist Church and was involved with Back to the Bible Broadcasting.

John Hercus was born in South India, and raised in Hamilton, NZ. In 1930 he was awarded a scholarship to study science at Sydney University. He graduated with a medical degree in 1942, the same year he married Marjorie Ormiston. They had four children. He joined the AIF at the start of WW2, and served as an ophthalmologist. He worked as an ophthalmologist and ophthalmic surgeon in various Sydney hospitals. He was involved in the Sydney University Evangelical Union as a student, holding the office of President from 1940-1941. He was a founding member of the IVF Graduates' Fellowship, IVF Vice-President 1969, and President in 1972 and 1973.

Ian Burnard was born in Adelaide and graduated from the University of Adelaide in 1960 with a Bachelor of Science. He was President of the Adelaide University Evangelical Union from 1955-1956. From 1957 to 1976 he worked for Inter Varsity Fellowship, in several roles including General Secretary from 1962-1976. He then worked in the education sector and as a consultant to the NSW Police.

Mark Hutchinson was the director of the Centre for the Study of Australian Christianity at Robert Menzies College.