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

Contents

1 Art 2 Commerce 3 Film, Radio, Television 4 Inventors 5 Literary 6 Military and Police 7 Music 8 Politics 9 Science 10 Sports 11 Other 12 Fictional New Zealanders 13 Other lists 14 Reference

Art

• Murray Ball - cartoonist
• Trelise Cooper - fashion designer
• Elisabeth Findlay - fashion designer
• Charles Goldie - painter
• Len Lye - artist/film maker
• Patrick Hanly - painter
• Frances Hodgkins - painter
• Ralph Hotere - painter, educator
• Colin McCahon - painter, museum curator, teacher
• Selwyn Muru - carver, painter, poet, producer, singer, writer
• Margarita Robertson - fashion designer
• Rebecca Taylor - fashion designer (moved to USA)
• Karen Walker - fashion designer

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
• 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)
• 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

See: New Zealand literature

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
• Denny Hulme - world champion racing driver
• Jonah Lomu - rugby player
• Jack Lovelock - runner
• Arthur Lydiard - running coach
• 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
• 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)
• 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
• 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