Peter Lynn

Peter Lynn

male, 63 years old
27 m octopus kite, dyneema, Kitesurfing, ripstop nylon, spectra/dyneema, Ashburton, NewZealand
Peter Lynn is a New Zealand kitemaker, engineer and inventor. He is notable for his construction of the world's largest kites (Guinness book of...

Simon O'Neill

male, 38 years old
New Zealand opera singer, Idomeneo, Salzburg Festival, Dialogues of the Carmelites, Ashburton, NewZealand, La clemenza di Tito…Arts Laureate of New Zealand
Simon O'Neill (born 1971) is a New Zealand-born operatic tenor. O'Neill was born in Ashburton, New Zealand and received his musical training at the...
Annamarie Jagose

Annamarie Jagose

female, 44 years old
New Zealand women writer, Women novelist, Victoria University, wellington, university of auckland, Melbourne University…Ashburton, NewZealand, Royal Society of New Zealand
Annamarie Jagose (born Ashburton, New Zealand, 1965) is a writer of academic and fictional works. She gained her PhD (Victoria University,...
Hugh Kawharu

Hugh Kawharu

male, deceased (2006)
Oxford University, professor, cambridge university, Knights Bachelor, maori, Member of the Order of New Zealand…New Zealand Maori, Order of New Zealand, Ashburton, Ashburton, NewZealand, Royal Society of New Zealand
Sir Ian Hugh Kawharu, ONZ, FRSNZ, (18 February 1927 - 19 September 2006) was a distinguished academic and paramount chief of the Ngāti Whātua Mā...
William Nosworthy

William Nosworthy

male
New Zealand Reform Party MP, Member of the Cabinet of New Zealand, Minister of External Affairs, Ashburton, NewZealand, New Zealand Cabinet, Ashburton…New Zealand Parliament, New Zealand Reform Party, New Zealand foreign minister, New Zealand finance minister
William Nosworthy (1867 - 1946) was a New Zealand politician. He briefly served as Minister of Finance and then Minister of External Affairs in the...
Edward Jerningham Wakefield

Edward Jerningham Wakefield

male, deceased (1879)
Member of New Zealand provincial councils, Ashburton, NewZealand, New Zealand Company, politician, Cook Strait, Adventure in New Zealand
Edward Jerningham Wakefield (25 June 1820 - 3 March 1879) was the only son of Edward Gibbon Wakefield. He was born in London, and educated in...

Helen Watson

female, 37 years old
Lincoln, Lincoln, New Zealand, Women's Cricket World Cup, Ashburton, NewZealand, women's one-day international, New Zealand cricket team
Helen Maree Watson [cricketer] (b. 17 February, 1972) in Ashburton, New Zealand. She has played 43 women's one-day internationals for New Zealand....
Stacey Carr

Stacey Carr

female, 25 years old
2004 Summer Olympics, field hockey, Field hockey player at the 2004 Summer Olympics, field hockey player, Olympic competitor for New Zealand, The Black Sticks…Ashburton, NewZealand
Stacey Carr (born April 6, 1984 in Ashburton, New Zealand) is a field hockey midfielder from New Zealand, who made her international debut for the...
Rachel Petrie

Rachel Petrie

female, 38 years old
field hockey, Field hockey player at the 2000 Summer Olympics, field hockey player, 2000 Summer Olympics, Olympic competitor for New Zealand, Ashburton, NewZealand
Rachel Jane Petrie (born April 21, 1971 in Ashburton, New Zealand) is a former field hockey defender from New Zealand, who finished sixth with her...
Elizabeth McCombs

Elizabeth McCombs

female, deceased (1935)
From Christchurch, New Zealand Labour Party MP, Christchurch, New Zealand, suffragette, politician, labour party…New Zealand Labour Party, New Zealand Parliament, Ashburton, Ashburton, NewZealand, New Zealand Women's Christian Temperance Union
Elizabeth McCombs (19 November 1873 - 7 June 1935) was a New Zealand politician, and the first woman to be elected to the New Zealand Parliament.