Sir William Cairns, Governor of Queensland Wikipedia entry Australian Dictionary of Biography
Archdeacon Joseph Campbell, clergyman and agricultural entrepreneur. Australian Dictionary of Biography
Dr John Cani appointed Vicar-Apostolic of North Queensland in 1878, headquartered at Cooktown.
Richard Cannon, assistant ship's surgeon in a vessel commanded by Commander George Nares who made a maritime survey of the Whitsunday group of islands in 1864-67 and named a valley observed on the coastline after him. Subsequently wrote Savage scenes from Australia, being a short history of the settlement at Sommerset, Cape York, in the form of a lecture delivered for the Young Men's Christian Association of Valparaiso at the opening of the session 1885.
Joseph Michael Carnell, from Mackay, applied for an occupation licence for Brampton Island on 12 March 1907. Itseems he did nothing with the island as the licence lapsed and Brampton was declared open to occupation on 1 February 1908.
Jan Carstenz sailed almost to the head of the Gulf of Carpentaria in 1623. He named it after Pieter de Carpentier, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies. Wikipedia entry
William Skelton Ewbank Melbourne Charters *The Grand Pajandrum': The 1872 suspension of Gold Commissioner W.S.E.M. Charters The Gold Field Commissioners on the Colonial Queensland Frontier, 1870-1875
Father Michael Martin Clancy was the first resident Parish Priest in Geraldton (now Innisfail). Wikipedia entry
Charles Collins, Labor MLA for Burke and Bowen QP150
Harold Collins, Labor MLA for Cook and Tablelands QP 150
The Condons were an an early farming family with property to the south-west of Townsville.
William and Alan Cooke, brothers held an occupation licence over the Molle Group and were granted occupation licence 304 on 20 November 1906 for Hayman Island. Their tenure ended and the island was again opened to occupation on 14 February 1910.
The Cutten family, four sons and four daughters, acquired shomestead selections in Bingil Bay in 1888 which were consolidated into a 3000 acre estate called Bicton where they grew citrus, tropical fruits, copra, tobacco, coffee and tea. They also built a a timber mill to provide material for fruit cases. The plantation was obliterated in the 1919 cyclone.,