- Ruth Dyson
Ruth Suzanne Dyson (born 11 August 1957) is a New Zealand politician. She is a member of the Labour Party. Dyson was born in Lower Hutt. Her father served in the New Zealand Army, and so Dyson's family frequently moved around the country. Dyson joined the Labour Party in Westport in 1979, and worked as a campaign organiser for Labour MP Kerry Burke in the 1981 and 1984 elections. - 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. - David Ogden
David Ogden is the mayor of Lower Hutt in the Wellington region of New Zealand. - Nick Willis
Nicholas Ian Willis is a New Zealand Athlete, in the 1500 metres, who was a gold medalist at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne. He was the first athlete from New Zealand to win the 1500 metres at the Commonwealth games (although Peter Snell won gold in Perth in at the Empire Games). His gold-medal winning run was completed in a time of 3:38.49 minutes. Willis was born on the 25 April 1983 in Lower Hutt, New Zealand, … - Lloyd Jones
Lloyd Jones (born in Lower Hutt, 23 March, 1955) is a New Zealand author who currently resides in Wellington. He is a graduate of Victoria University. In 1988 he was the recipient of the Katherine Mansfield Memorial Fellowship. From August 2007 he will spend a year in Berlin as beneficiary of the Creative New Zealand Berlin Writers' Residency. In May 2007, he won the Commonwealth Writers Prize for his novel "Mr Pip". - Neemia Tialata
Neemiah Stanley Tialata (born 15 July 1982 in Lower Hutt, New Zealand) is a New Zealand rugby union footballer that currently plays for the national team - the All Blacks. As well as representing New Zealand, he also plays for the Hurricanes in the Super 14 and for Wellington in the Air New Zealand Cup. Tialata was born in Lower Hutt but moved, when he was one, to Samoa with his parents who were undergoing religious training. - Piri Weepu
Piri Awahou Tihou Weepu (born 7 September 1983) is a New Zealand rugby union footballer. He plays scrum-half for the All Blacks on international level, Wellington Lions in the National Provincial Championship and the Hurricanes in the Super 14. He first won national honours against Wales in 2004. In 2005 was called back into the All Blacks squad for the first Tri Nations test during the South African Springboks, … - Gareth Hopkins
Gareth James Hopkins (b. November 24, 1976) in Lower Hutt. A wicketkeeper, he played five one-day internationals in 2004 after Brendon McCullum went home from England for the NatWest series. - Melvin Day
Melvin (Pat) Day is a New Zealand artist. Day was born in Hamilton, New Zealand. At the age of eleven he began taking Saturday morning classes at Elam School of Art, University of Auckland. In 1939, he went on to study as a full-time student at Elam, graduating with a Preliminary Diploma in Fine Arts two years later. Apart from a brief period at Auckland Teachers’ Training College, … - Craig Foss
Craig Foss is a New Zealand politician, and currently serves as a member of Parliament. Foss was born in Lower Hutt, and attended Victoria University of Wellington. He worked in the banking sector, first for the Bank of New Zealand and then for Credit Suisse in London. In the 2005 election, Foss was a candidate for the National Party, standing in the Tukituki electorate and being ranked 44th on the party list. He won the Tukituki seat and entered Parliament. sco:Craig Foss - Jonathan Hunt
Jonathan Hunt, ONZ, (born December 2, 1938) is a New Zealand politician, and currently New Zealand's High Commissioner to the United Kingdom. He formerly served as Speaker of the New Zealand House of Representatives. He is a member of the Labour Party, and was until recently the longest serving MP in Parliament. Hunt is a member of the Order of New Zealand, New Zealand's highest civilian honour.. - Iain O'Brien
Iain Edward O'Brien (born 10 July, 1976 in Lower Hutt, Wellington) is a New Zealand cricket player. - Moana Mackey
Moana Lynore Mackey (born 28 February 1974) is a New Zealand politician. She is a member of the governing Labour Party. Mackey entered Parliament on 29 July 2003, having been the next candidate on Labour's party list when Graham Kelly vacated his seat. She is the daughter of Janet Mackey, who until 2005 was also a Labour MP - the two were the first mother-daughter team in Parliament. In the elections that year, Janet Mackey retired from politics, … - Jonathan Wyatt
Jonathan Craig Wyatt (born December 20, 1972 in Lower Hutt) is a long-distance runner from New Zealand, who is a three time world mountain running champion. He competed in the men's 5.000 metres at the 1994 Commonwealth Games, reaching the final, and the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia. A resident of Wellington, he finished fifth in the men's marathon race at the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester. - John Leslie
John Andrew Leslie (born 25 November 1970 in Lower Hutt, New Zealand) is a former rugby union footballer who played at for Scotland. He is the elder son of Andy Leslie the great All Blacks captain and the brother of Martin Leslie who also played for Scotland. John played more than 120 games for Otago and 32 for the Highlanders in the Super 12. He led Otago to the National Provincial Championship tilte in 1998. - 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, … - Ross Filipo
Ross Filipo (born 14 April 1979 in Lower Hutt, New Zealand) is a professional rugby union footballer. He first played provincial rugby for Marlborough in 2001. He then played for Wellingon B in 2002, and made his debut for Wellington in 2003. Although he had played for the Hurricanes development squad in 2003, he was not selected for the Hurricanes in 2004 and instead was drafted into the Crusaders for the 2004 Super 12. - Cory Jane
Cory Jane (born 8 February 1983 in Lower Hutt, New Zealand) is a New Zealand rugby union footballer who plays for Wellington in the Air New Zealand Cup. He has previously played for Hawke's Bay and was in the New Zealand team that won the Rugby Sevens gold medal at the 2006 Commonwealth Games. Furthermore he has also represented the New Zealand Maori Rugby union team. Jane was 3rd-equal on the 2006 Air New Zealand Cup leading try scorer list with 6 tries, … - Michael Kenny
Michael Vincent Kenny (born June 19, 1964 in Lower Hutt) is a former heavyweight boxer from New Zealand, who won the gold medal in the men's super heavyweight (+ 91 kg) division at the 1990 Commonwealth Games. He also represented his native country at 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California, falling in the second round to Dodovic Owini from Uganda. - Richard Reid
Richard Bruce Reid (b. 3 December, 1958) in Lower Hutt, Wellington. He played nine one-day internationals for New Zealand but no Tests. - Brian Houston
Brian Houston is the Senior Pastor of Hillsong Church in Sydney, Australia, a Pentecostal Christian church, affiliated with the Assemblies of God. With a current congregation of over 20,000 people, it is considered to be Australia's largest church, and has growing congregations in London, Kiev and Paris. Brian is also the National President of the Assemblies of God in Australia, the largest Pentecostal movement in Australia. - Frank Houston
Frank Houston born William Francis Houston in Wanganui, New Zealand, 1922 died Sydney, Australia, 8 November 2004. He commenced ministry training as a Salvation Army officer shortly after turning 18. He married Hazel and they had five children. They transferred to the Baptist church, and later to the Assemblies of God. Houston founded his first Assemblies of God ministry at Lower Hutt in 1960, … - Heath Davis
Heath Te-Ihi-O-Te-Rangi Davis (b. 30 November, 1971 in Lower Hutt) is a former New Zealand cricketer. He played five Tests and eleven one-day internationals in the 1990's. Davis was prevented from enjoying a longer international career by problems with injury, wides and, particularly no-balls. A quick and skiddy bowler, his impressive Test figures hide the story of up to 14 no-balls in an innings. - 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, … - Bruce Morrison
Bruce Donald Morrison (born December 17, 1933, Lower Hutt, Wellington) is a former New Zealand cricketer who played in one Test in 1963. - Kerry Bolton
Kerry Raymond Bolton (born 1956) is a far-right activist in New Zealand. He has been involved in a large number of organisations and has written publications focused around politics and on his interest in the occult and religion. Bolton was educated at Hutt Valley Technical College, in Lower Hutt, and currently lives in Paraparaumu. - Jamie Frater
Jamie Frater, born in Naenae (a suburb in Lower Hutt), New Zealand, is an opera singer based in London. In 2005 Frater was second runner up in New Zealand's premiere opera song competition the Lexus Song Quest (previously won by greats such as Dame Kiri Te Kanawa). Frater, who has studied under Flora Edwards, Margaret Medlyn, and Margaret Kingsley is a recipient of the Opera Waikato Scholarship (New Zealand), the Moyra Todd Foundation Scholarship (New Zealand), … - Peter Hogg
Peter Wardell Hogg, CC, QC, Ph.D, FRSC, LL.D (born 1939) is a Canadian lawyer, author and legal scholar. He is best known as a leading authority on Canadian constitutional law. Born in Lower Hutt, New Zealand, Hogg earned his LL.B from the University of New Zealand in 1962, his LL.M from Harvard University in 1963, and his Ph.D from Monash University in Melbourne, Australia in 1970. - Geoff Dolan
Geoff Dolan (born Geoffrey Patrick Dolan on December 29, 1964 in Lower Hutt, New Zealand) is a New Zealand actor, singer and corporate entertainer. He is 6' 2" and resides in Auckland, New Zealand. Geoffrey hails from New Zealand's rugby powerhouse Wainuiomata, home of Tana Umaga, Piri Weepu, Neemia Tialata, and Rodney Soliaolo. Geoffrey thought of being a rugby player, but realized he wasn't in the league of an All Black, … - Tim Beaglehole
Emeritus Professor Timothy Holmes Beaglehole (1933-) is the current Chancellor of Victoria University of Wellington. Born in Lower Hutt, Wellington, he is the son of famous historian Professor John Beaglehole. He gained a MA from Victoria, then receiving a MA and PhD from King's College, Cambridge. He was a Harkness Fellow at Harvard University (1965-1966) and taught at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London in 1978. - Jack Cowie
John Cowie (born March 30, 1912, Auckland, died June 3, 1994, Lower Hutt, Wellington) was a New Zealand cricketer who played in nine Tests from 1937 to 1949. In 1956, Cowie made his debut as a Test umpire; he officiated in a total of three Test matches. In addition, Cowie played professional soccer in the winter. - Jack Afamasaga
Jack Taualii Afamasaga (born June 2 1984 in Lower Hutt, New Zealand) is a New Zealand rugby league player for the Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles in the National Rugby League competition. He also played with the Parramatta Eels for several seasons; his position of choice is in the Second Row although he can also play at Prop if he is required to do so. Afamasaga is a cousin of Hurricanes and All Blacks player Ma'a Nonu. - Murray Burdan
Murray William Burdan (born May 2, 1975 in Lower Hutt) is a former freestyle and butterfly swimmer from New Zealand, who competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia for his native country. His biggest success came in 1995, at the second edition of the FINA World SC Championships in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where Burdan won the gold medal with the Men's 4x100 Medley Relay Team. - Lucy Doolan
Lucy Rose Doolan (b. 11 December, 1987) in Lower Hutt. She is a New Zealand cricketer who plays for the Wellington Blaze in the State League. - Arthur Trousdell
Arthur Trousdell in Lower Hutt, New Zealand, is a professional basketball player. He played for CB Villa de Los Barrios in LEB in Spain in 2006. Currently playing for the Hawkes Bay Hawks. Arthur Trousdell attended Hastings Boys High School. He has been a member of the New Zealand U/18 and U/20 national teams.He was a member of the New Zealand Tall Blacks squad for 2005. He played for the Hawkes Bay Hawks 2006 champions of the New Zealand NBL. - Aaran Lines
Aaran Lines (born 21 December, 1976 in Lower Hutt) is a New Zealand soccer player, who currently plays for Rochester Raging Rhinos in the USL First Division. He played for the New Zealand national soccer team, the All Whites, collecting 31 caps (4 goals) in official FIFA matches. Earned nine caps with U-23 squad, eight caps with U-20 team and 10 caps with U-17s. He moved to Germany at age 16 to play professionally. - Euan Mason
Euan Mason is Associate Professor at the School of Forestry at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand. His main research areas include silviculture, growth and yield modelling, hybrid modelling and decision-support (applied artificial intelligence). He is skilled in the field of dendrology, the identification of tree species. Euan was born in Invercargill, New Zealand but raised in Lower Hutt and Geneva before moving on to New Jersey. - Patrick Alphonsus Buckley
Patrick Alphonsus Buckley (1841-18 May, 1896) was a New Zealander soldier, lawyer, stateman, and judge who held several high government posts in Wellington in the early 1890s. Born near Castletownsend, County Cork, Ireland, he was educated at the Mansion House School, Cork; St. Colman's College, Paris; the Irish College, Paris; and the Catholic University, Leuven. Buckley was in Leuven when the Piedmontese invaded the Papal states in 1860, … - Leonard Monk Isitt
Air Vice-Marshal Sir Leonard Monk Isitt, KBE, (born July 27 1891 in Christchurch, New Zealand - died January 21 1976 in Lower Hutt, New Zealand) was a famous New Zealand military aviator and administrator. In World War I he served in the New Zealand Army, then transferred to the RAF. Between the wars, he served in the RNZAF and the Air Ministry. On 19 July 1943, Isitt was appointed Chief of Air Staff of the Royal New Zealand Air Force in the rank of air vice-marshal. - Sydney Walter Josland
Sydney Walter Josland (born in Christchurch, New Zealand on 30 January, 1904 and died in Lower Hutt near Wellington on 28 June, 1991) was a New Zealand bacteriologist who specialised in research into Leptospirosis and Salmonella.
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