Dally Messenger, Australian rugby player, cricketer, and sailor (died 1959)

Herbert Henry "Dally" Messenger, was an Australian rugby league and rugby union player. One of Australasia's first professional rugby footballers, he is recognised as one of the greatest-ever players in either code. He played for New South Wales in the first match run by the newly-created New South Wales Rugby Football League, which had just split away from the established New South Wales Rugby Football Union.