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List of New Zealanders Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description

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

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Peter Arnett - TV journalist, Pulitzer Prize winner
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 ()
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

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

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 (only combat soldier to win the Victoria Cross twice)
Nancy Wake - the most decorated servicewoman of World War II

Georgina Beyer - world's first transsexual MP
Jim Bolger - Prime Minister (1990–7)
Helen Clark - Prime Minister (1999–)
Roger Douglas - Minister of Finance 1980s
Don McKinnon - Secretary General of the Commonwealth
Garnet Hercules Mackley - MP
Mike Moore - Prime Minister and Director-General of the World Trade Organization
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
Julius Vogel - Prime Minister
Ian Fraser - founder of the Libertarianz party

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
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

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)
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
Vaughan Jones - mathematician (Field's medallist)
Pat Kelly - trade unionist
Te Kooti - Māori leader
Ngaio Marsh - author and theatrical director
Kate Sheppard - suffragist

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