- Tana Umaga
Jonathan Falefasa "Tana" Umaga, ONZM, (born May 27 1973 in Lower Hutt, New Zealand) is a New Zealand rugby union footballer and former captain of the national team, the All Blacks. He has played for the Hurricanes since the Super 12's inception in 1996 and took over the captaincy in 2003.
- Katherine Mansfield
Katherine Mansfield was a prominent New Zealand modernist writer of short fiction.
- Russell Crowe
Russell Ira Crowe (born April 7, 1964) is a New Zealand-Australian actor. Crowe is a recipient of an Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in 2000's Gladiator.
- Karl Urban
Karl-Heinz Urban is a New Zealand actor. He may be best known for playing Éomer in the second and third installment of Peter Jackson's "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy, the role of Kirill, Jason Bourne's opposite number in "The Bourne Supremacy" and the lead role in the video game adaption of "Doom".
- Mark Burton
Mark Burton is a New Zealand soccer player. He plays as a midfielder. As a teenager, Burton was recommended to SV Werder Bremen by compatriot and New Zealand football legend Wynton Rufer who played for Bremen at the time. After spending several years in their youth and amateur sides, he moved to lower division teams VfL Osnabrück, Kickers Emden and VfB Lübeck before returning to New Zealand. He also played for the New Zealand national soccer team, …
- Fran Wilde
Fran Wilde QSO (1951-), is a New Zealand politician, and former Wellington Labour MP and 32nd Mayor of Wellington.
- Jane Campion
Jane Campion is an Academy Award-winning film maker. She is one of the most internationally successful New Zealand directors, although most of her work has been made in or financed by other countries, principally Australia – where she now lives – and the USA. Campion attended the Australian Film Television and Radio School early in its history, where she learned the craft that has resulted in a career that spans fourteen films as director, …
- Jon Toogood
Jonathan Charles Toogood (born in Wellington, New Zealand, on August 9, 1971) is a member of the New Zealand band Shihad. He is the songwriter, lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist. He formed the band in 1988 with fellow Wellingtonian and Wellington High School student, Tom Larkin. Toogood and Larkin met as teenage AC/DC fans. Larkin and fellow band members Phil Knight and Karl Kippenberger reside in Melbourne, Australia, however Toogood lives back in his home town, …
- Norman Kirk
Norman Eric Kirk (6 January 1923 - 31 August 1974), was Prime Minister of New Zealand from 1972 until his sudden death in 1974. He led the Parliamentary wing of the New Zealand Labour Party from 1965 to 1974. Kirk had a reputation as the most formidable debater of his time.
- Tom Larkin
Tom Larkin (born in Wellington, New Zealand on September 18, 1971) is a member of the New Zealand band Shihad. He plays the drums, sings background vocals and manipulates samplers (in live settings). Tom plays DW drums and uses Sabian cymbals. When playing live, Tom always performs the final sound check on his drum kit himself.
- Ray Ahipene-Mercer
Ray Ahipene-Mercer is a New Zealand politician currently serving as city councillor in Wellington, only the second Māori to be elected to the Wellington City Council and the first Māori to be elected since 1962. He is also a guitar-maker, musician, and well-known environmentalist, and was one of the leaders of the Clean Water Campaign, which led to the end of sewage pollution of the Wellington coast.
- Phil Knight
Philip Roydon Knight (born in Wellington, New Zealand) is a member of the New Zealand band Shihad. He plays guitars, keyboards and sings background vocals. <br><br>
- Karl Kippenberger
Karl Brenton Jamie Kippenberger (born in Wellington, New Zealand on August 26, 1973), grandson of Major General Howard Kippenberger, is the bass guitarist of the New Zealand band Shihad. <br><br>
- Vaughan Coveny
Vaughan Coveny (born 13 December, 1971 in Wellington, New Zealand) is a successful football player, who frequently represented his country from the 1990s onwards. Coveny currently plays for New Zealand based A-League club, the Wellington Phoenix. Coveny is primarily a striker although he has also played as a winger. Coveny became New Zealand's greatest ever goalscorer on May 27, 2006, when he scored twice in the All Whites 3-1 victory over Georgia.
- Leo Bertos
Leonidas Christos "Leo" Bertos (born 20 December 1981 in Wellington) is a New Zealand soccer player who plays as a striker or winger for Perth Glory. Leo's father was born in Greece, his mother born in New Zealand and his grandfather is from Romania but he chose to represent New Zealand. He signed for Perth Glory for the 2006/2007 A-League season on a two year deal and attempted to add depth in midfield that lacked consistency and a dominant factor in 2006-07, …
- Jenny Bornholdt
Jenny Bornholdt (born 1960) is an award-winning New Zealand poet and anthologist. Born in Lower Hutt, she currently lives in Wellington. She is co-editor of "My Heart Goes Swimming: New Zealand Love Poems" and the Oxford "Anthology of New Zealand Poetry in English", which won the Montana NZ Book Award for Poetry in 1997. In addition, Bornholdt won the 2002 Meridian Energy Katherine Mansfield Memorial Fellowship, …
- Nancy Wake
Nancy Grace Augusta Wake AC, GM (born August 30 1912), was the Allies' most decorated servicewoman of World War II who fought alongside the maquis groups of the French Resistance
- Niki Caro
Niki Caro (born 1967) is a film director and screenwriter who was born in Wellington, New Zealand. Her most significant film to date is "Whale Rider" from 2002. It was critically praised and won a number of awards at international film festivals.
- David Jackson
David Charles Jackson was a boxer from New Zealand, who competed at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, where he was eliminated in the second round of the Welterweight (69kg) division at the hands of Valery Rachkov from the Soviet Union. He also competed at two Commonwealth Games: in 1974 (Christchurch) and 1978 (Edmonton).
- Pollyfilla
Pollyfilla (aka Colin McLean) (born August 1978) is a Wellington drag artiste. The drag persona of Colin McLean of Lower Hutt, Pollyfilla through the years has become an icon not only of Wellington's Queer community, but the wider community and New Zealand as a whole, performing regularly at social and community events, attending GLBT rights rallies, entertaining on stage, film and television, …
- Chris Killen
Christopher John "Chris" Killen (born October 8, 1981 in Wellington) is a New Zealand born football player, currently playing for Scottish Premier League side Celtic.
- Onny Parun
Onny Parun (born April 15, 1947 in Wellington) is a former tennis player from New Zealand, who was among the world’s top 20 for five years and in 1971 and 1972 he reached the quarterfinals at Wimbledon. He made the final of the Australian Open in 1973, losing to John Newcombe in four sets, and was a US Open quarterfinalist in 1973 and also a quarterfinalist at the French Open in 1975. Parun and Australian Dick Crealy won the French Open doubles title in 1974.
- Jack Marshall
Sir John Ross Marshall, GBE, CH, (March 5, 1912 - August 30, 1988), generally known as Jack Marshall, was a New Zealand politician. After spending twelve years as Deputy Prime Minister, he served as Prime Minister for most of 1972.
- Bob Scott
Bob Scott was a New Zealand All Blacks rugby union player. He was born in Wellington on February 6 1921. During World War II, he served in Italy and was one of the players in the New Zealand Army rugby team along with Bob Stuart as fullback. As an All Black in 1946 he toured Australia and later South Africa.
- Sean Wade
Sean Patrick Wade (born February 2, 1966 in Wellington) is a retired long-distance runner from New Zealand, who represented his native country in the men's marathon at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia). There he finished in 83rd place. Wade was also a member of the Kiwi team at the 1990 Commonwealth Games, where he ended up in 11th position in the men's steeplechase.
- Richard Barton
Richard Barton was the first European resident of Trentham, Upper Hutt, in New Zealand. He established the native bush reserve, Barton's Bush. He was buried in Upper Hutt at St John's Anglican Church cemetery.
- Clive Revill
Clive Selsby Revill (born April 18, 1930 in Wellington, New Zealand) is an experienced character actor who has made more than 50 films and TV movies and whose work has ranged from blockbuster films to stage classics. Among his film roles were two notable films for Billy Wilder, "The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes" in 1970 and "Avanti!" in 1972. He also played dour Finlay Perkin in the blockbuster 1978 American miniseries "Centennial".
- Andy Anderson
Andy Anderson (born 18 July 1947 in Wellington, New Zealand) is an actor best known for his roles on Australian television. He has appeared regularly in "The Sullivans" (as Jim Sullivan), "Gloss" (as Matt Winter), "Prisoner" (as Rick Manning), "Fire" (as John Kennedy), and "The Bob Morrison Show" (as Steve Morrison). Guest appearances on television include: "The Flying Doctors", "A Country Practice", …
- Brendon Pongia
Brendon Pongia is a New Zealand television presenter and a former Tall Black. He is currently co-hosting "Good Morning" alongside Sarah Bradley. He has also appeared on the Māori Television show "Iwi All-Stars". His home town is Greymouth and he is of Māori descent.
- Simon Elliott
Simon Elliott (born June 10, 1974 in Wellington, New Zealand) is a football (soccer) player from New Zealand, who currently plays as a defensive midfielder for Fulham of the English Premier League. He is also a regular on the New Zealand national team. Elliott played college soccer at Stanford University, where he scored 13 goals and 12 assists in four years between 1995 and 1998. Undrafted by Major League Soccer, he signed with Boston Bulldogs.
- Phillip Burrows
Phillip Ross Burrows (born April 25, 1980 in Wellington) is a field hockey player from New Zealand, who earned his first cap for the national team, nicknamed "The Black Sticks", in January 2000. The striker is New Zealand's top field goal scorer and was named "2003 New Zealand Player of the Year". Burrows is internationally recognised for his pace and skill. Since his debut he has competed in over 120 international games for his country, …
- Raf de Gregorio
Raf de Gregorio (Born May 20, 1977 in Wellington) is a New Zealand soccer player, currently playing for NZFC outfit Team Wellington. The much-travelled midfielder is skipper of the team. He also plays for the New Zealand national soccer team, the All Whites and collected 23 caps (2 goals) since making his debut in 2000 against China.
- William Hayward Pickering
William Hayward Pickering ONZ KBE (24 December 1910 - 15 March 2004) was a New Zealand born rocket scientist who headed Pasadena, California's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) for 22 years, retiring in 1976. He was a senior NASA luminary and pioneered the exploration of space.
- Kyle Pontifex
Kyle Marshall Pontifex (born February 5, 1980 in Wellington) is a field hockey goalkeeper from New Zealand, who earned his first cap for the national team, nicknamed "The Black Sticks", in 2001 against Malaysia. He's spent a number of years as understudy to first choice Paul Woolford and is currently challenging for the number one position. His good form at the 2005 Sultan Azlan Shah Cup saw him earn the top spot for the bronze medal match, …
- Duncan Oughton
Duncan Oughton (born June 14, 1977 in Wellington, New Zealand) is a New Zealand footballer who plays for the Columbus Crew of Major League Soccer. Oughton played college soccer at Cal State Fullerton from 1997 to 2000. Before joining CS Fullerton, he played at Otago University in New Zealand. As a senior as CS Fullerton, he scored 17 goals and 8 assists. Upon graduating, Oughton was selected 10th overall in the 2001 MLS SuperDraft by the Columbus Crew.
- Ben Hana
Ben Hana, who prefers to be called Brother but is more widely known as Blanket Man as headlined by the local media is an infamous character in Wellington, New Zealand. Wearing only a loincloth and blanket and sporting dreadlocks, Hana worships the Māori sun god Ra (not to be confused with the Egyptian sun god of the same name).
- Allan Pearce
Allan Pearce (born April 7, 1983 in Wellington) is a New Zealand soccer player who plays as a striker. In the 2004/05 season he played for Waitakere United, scoring 6 goals. In September 2006, Allan re-signed with Waitakere United after a short spell playing in England again, this time with Worksop Town of the Conference North Division.
- Samuel Revans
Samuel Revans (circa 1807-14 July 1888) was a notable New Zealand newspaper owner, entrepreneur and politician. He was the "Father of Journalism in New Zealand." Samuel Revans is known to have been a native of London but, as was common in the early 19th century, the day, month and even the exact year of his birth have been lost to history. He was trained as a printer, and worked in London. He then joined Henry Samuel Chapman in Canada, …
- Ted Morgan
Edward ("Ted") Morgan (born April 5, 1906 - died November 22, 1952) was a boxer from New Zealand, who won the gold medal in the men's welterweight division at the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
- Brian Brake
John Brian Brake (1927 - 1988) was a New Zealand photographer. Born in Wellington. Brian Brake was the adopted son of John Samuel Brake and his wife Jennie Brake (nee Chiplin. He was raised between Arthurs Pass, where is father owned the General Store, and Christchurch, where he attended school at Christchurch Boys High School. Brian Brake trained with Spencer Digby from 1945, joining the National Film Unit in 1947, directing "Snows of Aorangi" in 1950.