Yarri (Wiradjuri)

Yarri (c. 1810 – 24 July 1880) also spelt Yarrie, Yarry, or Yarrar, was an Aboriginal Australian man of the Wiradjuri language group who, along with another Wiradjuri man, Jacky Jacky, took a major part in the rescue of 69 people from the flooded Murrumbidgee River in Gundagai over three days from the night of 25 June to 27 June 1852.

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