List of New Zealanders

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This is a list of well-known people associated with New Zealand.

1 Art
2 Architecture
3 Commerce
4 Craft, Design & Fashion
5 Film, Radio, Television, Theatre
6 Inventors
7 Literary
8 Military and Police
9 Music
10 Politics
11 Science
12 Sports
13 Other
14 Fictional New Zealanders
15 Other lists
16 Reference
17 External links

[edit] Art

Gretchen Albrecht - painter
G.F. Angas - 19th C artist
Rita Angus - 20th C painter
Billy Apple- 20th C painter
Edward Ashworth - 19th C painter
Murray Ball - cartoonist
William Bambridge - 19th C artist
Stephen Bambury
Paul Beadle - sculptor & medalist
Don Binney - painter
Philippa Blair - 20th C painter
Charles Blomfield - 19th Century painter
Andrew de Boer - painter
Brian Brake - photographer
William Brassington - stonemason & sculptor
Nigel Brown - painter
Alfred Burton - 19th C photographer
Len Castle - potter
Raymond Ching - painter
Russell Clark - painter
Cuthbert Clarke - 19th C artist
Tracy Collins - multi-media artist
Neil Dawson - 20th C sculptor
Paul Dibble - 20th C sculptor
Don Driver
Dr John Elam - 19th C art patron
Robert Ellis - 20th C painter
Jaqueline Fahey - painter, writer
Clas Edvard Friström 1864-1950, Artist, art teacher
Dick Fizzell - 20th C painter
Blythe Fletcher - 20th C painter
Tony Fomison - painter
Marti Friedlander - photographer
Alan Gibbs - art patron
Jenny Gibbs - art patron
Max Gimblett - painter
Charles Goldie - 19th Century painter
Sir George Grey - 19th Century art patron
Richard Gross - 20th C sculptor
Frederick Gully - 19th Century painter
W D Hammond - 20th C painter
Gil Hanly - photographer
Patrick Hanly - painter
Paul Hartigan - sculptor
Rhona Haszard - 20th C painter
Charles Heaphy - 19th C painter
Christine Hellyar sculptor
Louise Henderson - 20th C painter
Frances Hodgkins - painter
Ralph Hotere - painter, educator
J.C. Hoyte - 19th C painter
Thomas Biddulph Hutton - 19th c artist
John Ioane
John Johnson - 19th C painter
Robyn Kahukiwa - painter
Henry Joseph Kelliher 1896-1991, art patron
Andrew Kepple Animator and Artist. Notably TMST Animation.
Richard Killeen - painter
John Kinder - 19th C painter & photographer
Gottfried Lindaur - 19th C painter
Doris Lusk - 20th C painter
Len Lye - 20th C sculptor, experimental film maker
Molly Macalister - sculptor
Josiah Martin - 19th C photographer
Karl Maugham - painter
Colin McCahon - painter, museum curator, teacher
Shona McFarlane - 20th C painter
James McKelvie - 19th Century art patron
Mary McIntyre - painter
Peter McIntyre - 20th C painter
J.J. Merrett - 19th C artist
Judy Millar
George Moodie - 19th C photographer
Selwyn Muru - carver, painter, poet, producer, singer, writer
James Nairn - 19th & 20th C painter
Guy Ngan - painter & sculptor
Michael Parekowhai - artist
Claudia Pond-Eyley - painter
John Pule - artist, writer
John Radford - sculptor
Alfred Sharpe - 19th C painter
Peter Siddell - 20th C painter
Sylvia Siddell - 20th C painter
Michael Smither - painter
Louis John Steele - 19th C painter
Simon Stockley - painter
Terry Stringer - sculptor
Grahame Sydney- 20th C painter
Marte Szirmay- sculptor
Anton Teutenberg - 19th Century sculptor & medalist
Jeff Thomson - sculptor
Philip Trusttum - painter
Greer Twiss - sculptor
Petrus Van Der Velden - 20th Century painter
Bianca van Rangelrooy - painter / sculptor
James Wallace - art patron
Denys Watkins - printmaker
Felicity West - printmaker
Ans Westra - photographer
Henry Winkelmann - 19th & 20th C photographer
Pamela Wolf - painter
Toss Woollaston - painter
Brent Wong - 20th C painter
Robert Henry Wynyard - 19th C artist

[edit] Architecture

Kenneth Aimer - 20th C architect
Charles Le Neve Arnold - 20th C architect
Ian Athfield - architect
Alva Bartley - 20th C architect
Edward Bartley - 19th C architect
Edmund Bell - 19th C architect
Edward Bentley - 19th C architect
Peter Beaven - 20th C architect
Edward Billson - 20th C architect
W.R Bloomfield - 19th C architect
Vernon Brown - 20th C architect
Pierre.F.M. Burrows - 19th C architect
John Campbell (1857-1942) - architect
James Walter Chapman-Taylor- 20th C architect
B.C. Chilwell - 20th C architect
W.H. Clayton - 19th C architect
Walter Arthur Cumming - 20th C architect
John Currie - 19th C architect
Tibor K. Donner - 20th C architect
Malcolm Keith Draffin - 20th C architect
R.F. Draffin - 20th C architect
Cedric Firth - 20th Century architect
Charles Reginald Ford - 20th Century architect
John Goldwater - 20th Century architect
Hugh Grierson - 20th C architect
William Henry Gummer - 20th C architect
Humphrey Hall - 20th Century architect
R.B. Hammond - 20th C architect
Matthew Henderson - 19th C architect
Philip Herepath - 19th C architect
William A. Holman - 20th C architect
Richard Keals - 19th C architect
Henry Kulka - 20th Century architect
Roy Alston Lippencott - 20th C architect
Isaac Luck - 19th C architect
Edward Mahoney - 19th Century architect
Thomas Mahoney - 19th Century architect
John Thomas Mair - 20th Century architect
Jack Manning - 19th Century architect
William Mason - 19th Century architect
Horace Massey- 20th Century architect
T.W. May - 20th Century architect
Ivan Mercep
John Mitchell - 19th Century architect
Craig Moller
R.W. de Montalk - 20th Century architect
Benjamin Mountfort - 19th Century architect
Thomas Mullions - 20th Century architect
Frederick Newman - 20th Century architect
W. Robin Simpson - 20th Century architect
Arthur Sinclair O'Connor- 20th Century architect
Paul Pascoe - 20th C architect
Andrew Patterson
Daniel B. Patterson - 20th Century architect
Francis Petre - 19th Century architect
Llew Piper - 20th C architect
Ernst Plischke - 20th C Architect
Imi Porsolt - 20th Century architect
Ron Sang - 20th Century architect
John Sinclair - architect
Walter Robertson - 19th Century architect
David Ross - architect
Edward Rumsey - 19th Century architect
Jeremy Salmond
Samuel Hurst Seager - 20th C architect
J. Sholto-Smith - 20th Century architect
James Slator - 19th & 20th Century architect & engineer
Frederick Thatcher - 19th Century architect
R.H. Toy - 20th Century architect
C.Trevithick - 20th Century architect
George Troup - 20th C architect & engineer
Clinton Savage - 20th Century architect
Henry Wade - 19th Century architect
Norman Wade - 19th & 20th Century architect
Ewen Wainscott - 20th Century architect
Miles Warren
Bill Wilson - 20th Century architect
Gordon Wilson - 20th Century architect
James Wrigley - 19th Century architect

[edit] Commerce

Alfred Buckland 1825-1903, landowner, auctioneer, farmer, businessman
Sir John Logan Campbell 1817-1912, merchant, local politician, businessman, philanthropist
George Court retailer, businessman, philanthropist
John Court 1846-1933 retailer, businessman, city councillor, philanthropist
Thomas Wong Doo 1903-1963, merchant, interpreter, community leader
Lewis Alfred Eady 1891-1965, music retailer, company director, benefactor
Josiah Clifton Firth 1826-1897, Flourmiller, politician, pastoralist, entrepreneur
Gregory Fortuin - businessman and Race Relations Conciliator (2001-2)
Murray Haszard - entrepreneur and businessman
Keith Wilson Hay 1917-1997, builder, businessman, local politician, morals campaigner
Dick Hubbard - founder of Hubbards Foods and Auckland mayor (2004-)
Sir Robert Jones, property tycoon.
Henry Joseph Kelliher 1896-1991, businessman, publisher, art patron, credit reformer
Robert Laidlaw - retailer, founder of FTC, the Farmers Trading Company
David Levene - retailer
Thomson Wilson Leys 1850-1924, journalist, editor, newspaper proprietor, philanthropist
Sir Roy McKenzie - retailer
Sir Arthur Myers 1867 - 1926. businessman, politician, philanthropist
Douglas Myers
Sam Morgan - businessman, founder of Trade Me
David Nathan 1816-1886, merchant, auctioneer, shipping agent, community leader
Thomas Russell 1830-1904, lawyer, businessman, politician, financier, land speculator
Marianne Smith 1851-1938, founder of Smith and Caughey's Businesswoman, community worker, philanthropist
Sir Angus Tait - businessman and electronics innovator
Stephen Tindall, ONZM - retailer, founder of The Warehouse
Edward Earle Vaile 1869-1956, Real estate agent, farmer, philanthropist
Eric Watson - businessman
James Williamson 1814-1888, merchant, landowner, financier, speculator
Jack Yan - publisher, designer and businessman (born in Hong Kong)

[edit] Craft, Design & Fashion

Frank Carpay - ceramicist
Len Castle - ceramicist
Garth Chester - furniture designer
Trelise Cooper - fashion designer
Bronwynne Cornish - ceramicist
John Crichton - interior designer
Elisabeth Findlay - fashion designer
Diana Firth - furniture designer
Mary Hardwick-Smith - ceramicist
Humphrey Ikin - furniture designer
Olive Jones - ceramicist
Elizabeth Lissaman - ceramicist
Douglas Lloyd Jenkins - Design Historian
William Mason - wallpaper designer
Liz Mitchell - fashion designer
Keith Murray - ceramicist
Patricia Perrin - ceramicist
Stephane Rondel - furniture designer
Margarita Robertson - fashion designer
Anton Seuffert - 19th C furniture maker
Ernest Shufflebottom - ceramicist
May Smith - fabric designer
Matthew von Sturmer - furniture designer and jeweller
Kate Sylvester - fashion designer
Rebecca Taylor - fashion designer (moved to USA)
Dorothy Thorpe - ceramicist
Warren Tippett - ceramicist
Karen Walker - fashion designer
Katy Wallace - furniture Designer

[edit] Film, Radio, Television, Theatre

Andrew Adamson - film director
Peter Arnett - TV journalist, Pulitzer Prize winner
Alison Bell – TV journalist and former anchorwoman
Martin Campbell - film director
John Campbell
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)
Lana Coc-Kroft - host, beauty queen
Ray Columbus
Russell Crowe - actor (moved to Australia at age 4 moved back at age 14)
Cliff Curtis - actor
Max Cryer - presenter, singer, writer
Aunt Daisy - radio broadcaster
Angela D'Audney
Tammy Davis actor
Roger Donaldson - director (born in Australia)
Roger Hall - playwright and scriptwriter
Rudall Hayward - pioneer film maker
Mark Hewlett - radio and television personality (born in Zimbabwe)
Paul Holmes - radio and television presenter
Kim Hill
Peter Jackson - film director
Rowena Jackson - ballerina
Billy T. James - comedian, actor
Raybon Kan - columnist, comedian
Phil Keoghan - TV presenter
Lucy Lawless - actress (Xena: Warrior Princess)
Bruno Lawrence - actor and musician with band Blerta (born in England)
Richard Long - Former TVNZ newsreader
Zane Lowe - BBC Radio One DJ (Moved to UK)
Melanie Lynskey - Hollywood actress
Anita McNaught - TVNZ and BBC World newsreader (born in England)
Stewart Main - Film Director
Robyn Malcolm actress
Ngaio Marsh - author and theatrical director
Temuera Morrison - actor
Ian Mune - actor, director, screenwriter
Geoff Murphy - director
Andrew Niccol - film director, screenwriter
Michael Parmenter - dancer
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)
Antonia Prebble actress
Lew Prime
Grant Roa actor
Jessica Lee Rose - notable Youtube user
Pete Sinclair
Ewen Solon, actor
Lee Tamahori - film director
Hilary Timmins - television presenter
Selwyn Toogood - television and radio presenter
Karl Urban - actor
Vincent Ward, film director
Davina Whitehouse, actress (born UK)
Annie Whittle, actress and singer
Peter Wells - author & film director
Douglas Wright - dancer

[edit] Inventors

John Britten - designer of the Britten motorcycle
Morton W. Coutts - invented the revolutionary continuous fermentation method of brewing
A J Hackett - Bungy creator
Bill Hamilton - developed the modern jetboat
Colin Murdoch - inventor of the disposable syringe
Richard Pearse - outstanding early aviator/inventor
Alan Pritchard - pioneer of aerial topdressing

[edit] Literary

See: New Zealand literature

[edit] Military and Police

Baron Freyberg of Wellington - Governor-General of New Zealand 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 of New Zealand services
Stewart Graeme Guthrie - police sergeant posthumously awarded the George Cross
Hone Heke - Ngapuhi tribal chief
Hongi Hika - first military leader of the Musket Wars
Alfred Hulme - awarded the Victoria Cross
Edgar James "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
Leonard Trent - World War II pilot, Victoria Cross recipient.
Lloyd Alan Trigg - World War II pilot, (only person awarded the VC solely on recommendation of the enemy)
Charles Upham - World War II soldier (one of three awarded the Victoria Cross twice)
Nancy Wake - the most decorated servicewoman of World War II
James Allen Ward - VC winning sergeant pilot of 75 Squadron RNZAF.

[edit] Music

[edit] 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
Christine Fletcher MP & Mayor of Auckland
William Fox - Prime Minister
Sir George Grey- Prime Minister and twice Governor
Keith Holyoake - Prime Minister and Governor-General
Norman Kirk - Prime Minister
David Lange - Prime Minister
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)
Sir Maurice O'Rorke George Maurice O'Rorke 1830 - 1916
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

[edit] Science

Alexander Aitken - mathematician/statistician, writer, mental calculator, musician
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
Sir Harold Gillies - pioneering plastic surgeon
Sir Fred Hollows - eye surgeon
Vaughan Jones - mathematician, awarded Fields Medal
Edward Kidson - eminent New Zealand scientist, latterly Director of Meteorological Services in New Zealand
Sir Archie McIndoe - pioneer plastic surgeon
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
Robert Webster - discovered the link between human flu and bird flu
Maurice Wilkins - shared the 1962 Nobel Prize in Medicine for his part in elucidating the structure of DNA

[edit] 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)
Tom Fyfe - mountaineer and mountain guide
Sir Richard Hadlee - cricketer
Murray Halberg - runner
Sir Edmund Hillary - mountaineer
Doug Howlett - rugby player
Denny Hulme - world champion racing driver
Brian Lochore - rugby player
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
Wayne Shelford - rugby player
Carlos Spencer - rugby player
Mark Todd - horseman
John Walker - runner
Michael Walker - jockey
Sarah Ulmer - cyclist
Tana Umaga - rugby player
Irene Van Dyk - Netball great (born in South Africa)
Tony Wilding - tennis great

[edit] Other

Bill Andersen - trade unionist
Rewi Alley - friend of China
Jean Batten - aviator
Kylie Bax - supermodel
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)
Teresa Cormack - young murder victim
Nicola Brockie - magazine editor
Russell Brown - journalist, blogger
Graeme Cairns - performer, musician, and politician
Charlotte Cleverley-Bisman, ill baby who made news headlines worldwide
Derek Freeman, anthropologist
Eve van Grafhorst - AIDS patient and activist (born in Australia)
Ben (the Blanket Man) Hana - Wellington character
Hone Heke - Māori leader
Rachel Hunter - supermodel
Pat Kelly - trade unionist
Michael King - historian
Te Kooti - Māori leader
Peter Mahon - lawyer
John Minto - activist
Burt Munro - speed record breaker
Sir Keith Sinclair - Historian
Kate Sheppard - suffragist
Frank Worsley - Antarctic explorer and mariner
Austin Leonard Walsh 1881-1951, Engineer, aviation administrator
Vivian Claude Walsh 1887-1950, Engineer, aviator

[edit] Fictional New Zealanders

Alex - Unbelievably overachieving schoolgirl hero of Tessa Duder's novels
Blondini gang - non existent criminals from Goodbye Pork Pie
Madge Allsop - bridesmaid and companion of Dame Edna Everage and supposedly a New Zealander
Dr Ropata - soap opera cliché
the Dog - cartoon animal
Fred Dagg - fictional farmer and father of seven Trevs
Wal Footrot - cartoon farmer/owner of Footrot Flats and the Dog
Mazer Rackham- half Maori New Zealander, defeated the invading Bugger fleet in the Second Invasion in Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card.
Vale and Valea - cartoon schoolboys from Brotown

[edit] 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

[edit] Reference

The Dictionary of New Zealand Biography

[edit] External links

NZEdge Heroes - Contains the biographies of many famous New Zealanders

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[edit] Architecture

[edit] Commerce

[edit] Craft, Design & Fashion

[edit] Film, Radio, Television, Theatre

[edit] Inventors

[edit] Literary

[edit] Military and Police

[edit] Music

[edit] Politics

[edit] Science

[edit] Sports

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