List of New Zealanders

From Wacklepedia - The Free Encyclopedia

• Alexander Aitken – mathematician / soldier
• Rewi Alley - friend of China
• Peter Arnett - TV journalist
• Jean Batten - Aviator
• Georgina Beyer - world's first transsexual MP
• Sir Peter Blake - champion yachtsman
• Possum Bourne - rally driver
• John Britten - engineer extraordinaire
• Jane Campion - film director
• Ian Brackenbury Channell - The Wizard of Christchurch and of New Zealand
• Helen Clark - New Zealand Prime Minister (1999 - )
• Don Clarke - rugby player
• Russell Crowe - actor (born in New Zealand, but moved to Australia at age 4)
• Scott Dixon - racing driver
• Ian Ferguson - kayaker
• Neil Finn - singer
• Tim Finn - singer
• Bernard, Lord Freyberg of Wellington - General, and Victoria Cross winner
• Harold Gillies - plastic surgeon
• Charles Goldie - artist
• Bill Hamilton - developed the modern jetboat
• Sir Edmund Hillary - mountaineer
• Denny Hulme - world champion racing driver
• Rachel Hunter - supermodel
• Peter Jackson - film director
• Vaughan Jones - mathematician (Field's medallist)
• "Cobber" Kain - RAF fighter ace (first pilot to win a DFC in WW II)
• Phil Keoghan - TV presenter (born in New Zealand)
• Lucy Lawless - actress (Xena Warrior Princess)
• Jonah Lomu - rugby player
• Jack Lovelock - athlete
• Len Lye - artist/film maker
• Katherine Mansfield - author
• Ngaio Marsh - author and theatrical director
• Don McKinnon - Secretary General of the Commonwealth
• Bruce McLaren - racing driver
• Colin Meads - rugby player
• Stan Meads - rugby player
• Sam Neill - actor
• Sir Keith Park- RAF sector commander during the Battle of Britain
• Richard Pearse - outstanding early aviator/inventor
• Ernest, Lord Rutherford of Nelson - scientist and winner of the Nobel Prize
• Michael Joseph Savage - politician
• Maurice Shadbolt - author
• Kate Sheppard - suffragist
• Jenny Shipley - Prime Minister 1997 - 1999 (NZ's first female prime minister)
• Peter Snell - athlete
• Dame Kiri Te Kanawa - opera singer
• Te Kooti - Māori leader
• Mark Todd - horseman
• Lloyd Alan Trigg - World War II pilot, (only person awarded the VC on recommendation of the enemy)
• Charles Upham - World War II soldier (only combat soldier to win the Victoria Cross twice)
• Nancy Wake - the most decorated servicewoman of World War II
• John Walker - athlete

See also: List of people by nationality,

Other Lists

• Prime Minister of New Zealand.
• 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)