List of New Zealanders
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This is a list of well-known people associated with New Zealand.
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Art
- Gretchen Albrecht - painter
- Murray Ball - cartoonist
- Don Binney - painter
- Trelise Cooper - fashion designer
- Elisabeth Findlay - fashion designer
- Tony Fomison - painter
- Marti Friedlander - photographer
- Charles Goldie - painter
- Gil Hanly - photographer
- Patrick Hanly - painter
- Frances Hodgkins - painter
- Ralph Hotere - painter, educator
- Robyn Kahukiwa - painter
- Len Lye - artist/film maker
- Colin McCahon - painter, museum curator, teacher
- Liz Mitchell - fashion designer
- Selwyn Muru - carver, painter, poet, producer, singer, writer
- Michael Parekowhai - artist
- John Pule - artist, writer
- Margarita Robertson - fashion designer
- Terry Stringer - sculptor
- Kate Sylvester - fashion designer
- Rebecca Taylor - fashion designer (moved to USA)
- Greer Twiss - sculptor
- Karen Walker - fashion designer
- Ans Westra - photographer
Commerce
- Gregory Fortuin - businessman and Race Relations Conciliator (2001-2)
- Murray Haszard - entrepreneur and businessman
- Dick Hubbard - founder of Hubbards Foods and Auckland mayor (2004-)
- Sir Angus Tait - businessman and electronics' innovator
- Stephen Tindall, ONZM - low-cost retailer, owner of The Warehouse
- Eric Watson - businessman
- Jack Yan - publisher, designer and businessman (born in Hong Kong)
Film, Radio, Television
- Peter Arnett - TV journalist, Pulitzer Prize winner
- Alison Bell – TV journalist and former anchorwoman
- Martin Campbell - film director
- Jane Campion - film director
- Keisha Castle-Hughes - actress (born in Australia, moved to New Zealand at age 4)
- John Clarke - actor, comedian (moved to Australia)
- Russell Crowe - actor (moved to Australia at age 4)
- Cliff Curtis - actor
- Max Cryer - presenter, singer, writer
- Roger Donaldson - director (born in Australia)
- Roger Hall - playwright and scriptwriter
- Paul Holmes - radio and television presenter
- Peter Jackson - film director
- Billy T. James - comedian, actor
- Raybon Kan - columnist, comedian
- Phil Keoghan - TV presenter (born in New Zealand)
- Lucy Lawless - actress (Xena: Warrior Princess)
- Bruno Lawrence - actor and musician with band Blerta (born in England)
- Richard Long - Former TVNZ newsreader
- Anita McNaught - TVNZ and BBC World newsreader (born in England)
- Temuera Morrison - actor
- Ian Mune - actor, director, screenwriter
- Geoff Murphy - director
- Andrew Niccol - film director, screenwriter
- Brian Perkins - BBC Radio Four newsreader and announcer
- Sam Neill - actor (born in Northern Ireland, raised in New Zealand)
- Anna Paquin - actress (born in Canada, raised in New Zealand)
- Hilary Timmins - television presenter
- Selwyn Toogood - television and radio presenter
- Karl Urban - actor
Inventors
- John Britten - designer of the Britten motorcycle
- Morton W. Coutts - invented the revolutionary continuous fermentation method of brewing
- Bill Hamilton - developed the modern jetboat
- Richard Pearse - outstanding early aviator/inventor
Literary
Military and Police
- Bernard, Lord Freyberg of Wellington - General, and Victoria Cross winner
- Sir Arthur Coningham - RAF Bomber Command
- Sir Roderick Carr - RAF Bomber Command and Chief of the Indian Air Force
- Sir William Gentry - Chief of Staff
- Stewart Graeme Guthrie - police sergeant awarded the George Cross
- Hone Heke - Ngapuhi tribal chief
- Alfred Hulme - awarded the Victoria Cross
- "Cobber" Kain - RAF fighter ace (first pilot to win a DFC in WW II)
- Sir Keith Park- RAF sector commander during the Battle of Britain
- Lloyd Alan Trigg - World War II pilot, (only person awarded the VC on recommendation of the enemy)
- Charles Upham - World War II soldier (one of the very few who won the Victoria Cross twice)
- Nancy Wake - the most decorated servicewoman of World War II
Music
See also List of New Zealand musicians.
- Jack Body - composer
- Ray Columbus - singer, TV presenter
- Dave Dobbyn - singer, songwriter
- Neil Finn - singer, songwriter
- Tim Finn - singer, songwriter
- Dame Joan Hammond - violinist, soprano
- Marc Hunter - singer (moved to Australia)
- Dame Kiri Te Kanawa - opera singer
- Chris Knox - singer, songwriter
- Douglas Lilburn - composer, educator
- Jenny Morris - singer, songwriter
- Sir Howard Morrison - entertainer
- John Rowles – singer
- Bic Runga - singer, songwriter
- Scribe - rapper
- Holly Valance - singer (moved to Australia)
- Hayley Westenra - singer
Politics
Main list: List of New Zealand politicians
- Georgina Beyer - world's first transsexual MP
- Jim Bolger - Prime Minister (1990-7)
- Helen Clark - Prime Minister (1999-)
- Sir Roger Douglas - Minister of Finance 1980s
- Keith Holyoake - Prime Minister and Governor-General
- Don McKinnon - Secretary General of the Commonwealth
- Mike Moore - Prime Minister and Director-General of the World Trade Organization
- Sir Dove-Myer Robinson - long serving Auckland mayor
- Sir Robert Muldoon - Prime Minister (1975-84)
- Michael Joseph Savage - Prime Minister
- Richard Seddon - Prime Minister
- Jenny Shipley - New Zealand's first female Prime Minister (1997-9)
- Tariana Turia - Maori politician
- Sir Julius Vogel - Prime Minister
Science
- Alexander Aitken - mathematician / soldier
- Sir Brian Barratt-Boyes - heart surgeon
- Dr. John Cade - Demonstrated usefulness of lithium salts in treating bipolar disorder
- Leslie Comrie - computer pioneer
- G H Cunningham - "father" of New Zealand mycology
- Joan Dingley - mycologist
- Doug Dye - plant bacteriologist
- Charles Gifford - teacher and very successful promoter of astronomy
- Harold Gillies - pioneering plastic surgeon
- Vaughan Jones - mathematician, awarded Fields Medal
- Edward Kidson - eminent New Zealand scientist, latterly Director of Meteorological Services in New Zealand
- Alan G MacDiarmid - co-winner of the 2000 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- Frank Newhook - plant pathologist
- William Pickering, central figure and pioneer of NASA space exploration
- Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson - scientist and winner of the 1908 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- Maurice Wilkins - shared the 1962 Nobel Prize in Medicine for his part in elucidating the structure of DNA
Sports
- Chris Amon - racing driver
- Anne Audain - runner
- Todd Blackadder - rugby player
- Sir Peter Blake - yachtsman
- Possum Bourne - rally driver
- Pero Cameron - basketball player
- Michael Campbell - golfer
- Hamish Carter - triathlete
- Sir Bob Charles - champion golfer
- Don Clarke - rugby player
- Christian Cullen - rugby player
- Russell Coutts - yachtsman (moved to Switzerland)
- Scott Dixon - racing driver
- Caroline Evers-Swindell, champion rower
- Georgina Evers-Swindell, champion rower, twin sister of Caroline
- Ian Ferguson - kayaker
- Bob Fitzsimmons - world boxing heavyweight champion (born in UK, raised in NZ)
- Sir Richard Hadlee - cricketer
- Murray Halberg - runner
- Sir Edmund Hillary - mountaineer
- Doug Howlett - rugby player
- Denny Hulme - world champion racing driver
- Jonah Lomu - rugby player
- Jack Lovelock - runner
- Arthur Lydiard - running coach
- Sean Marks - basketball player
- Precious McKenzie - weightlifter (born in South Africa)
- Bruce McLaren - racing driver
- Colin Meads - rugby player
- Stan Meads - rugby player; younger brother of Colin
- Andrew Mehrtens - rugby player (born in South Africa)
- Lorraine Moller - runner, won Boston Marathon
- Allison Roe - runner, won Boston and New York City Marathons 1981
- Joe Rokocoko - rugby player (born in Fiji)
- Wynton Rufer - soccer player, voted Oceania Player of the Century
- Peter Snell - runner
- Mark Todd - horseman
- John Walker - runner
- Michael Walker - jockey
- Wayne Shelford - rugby player
- Carlos Spencer - rugby player
- Sarah Ulmer - cyclist
- Tana Umaga - rugby player
- Tony Wilding - tennis great
Other
- Bill Andersen - trade unionist
- Ian Athfield - architect
- Rewi Alley - friend of China
- Jean Batten - aviator
- Thomas Bracken - author of -God Defend New Zealand- and first to publish the phrase -God's Own Country-
- Ian Brackenbury Channell - The Wizard of Christchurch and of New Zealand (born in England)
- William Brassington - stonemason
- Nicola Brockie - magazine editor
- Charlotte Cleverley-Bisman, ill baby that made news headlines worldwide
- Eve van Grafhorst - AIDS patient and activist (born in Australia)
- Ben (the Blanket Man) Hana - Wellington character
- Dr Fred Hollows - eye surgeon (moved to Australia)
- Hone Heke - Māori activist
- Rachel Hunter - supermodel
- Russell Brown - journalist, blogger
- Pat Kelly - trade unionist
- Te Kooti - Māori leader
- Isaac Luck - architect
- Rowena Jackson - ballerina
- Ngaio Marsh - author and theatrical director
- Benjamin Mountfort - architect
- Francis Petre - architect
- Kate Sheppard - suffragist
Fictional New Zealanders
- Madge Allsop - bridesmaid and companion of Dame Edna Everage and supposedly a New Zealander
Other lists
- Governor-General of New Zealand (for a list of Governors-General)
- Prime Minister of New Zealand (for a list of PMs)
- Culture of New Zealand (for a list of iconic characters)
- New Zealand cinema (for a list of related people)
- New Zealand literature (for a list of New Zealand writers)
- List of people by nationality
Reference
- The Dictionary of New Zealand Biography (http://www.dnzb.govt.nz/dnzb/Spider_Entry.asp)