- Sam Neill
Sam Neill, DCNZM, OBE (born 14 September, 1947) is a New Zealand film and television actor, and owner of the Two Paddocks winery in Central Otago. He is best known for his role in "Reilly, Ace of Spies" and playing paleontologist Doctor Alan Grant in "Jurassic Park" and "Jurassic Park III".
- Rachel Hunter
Rachel Hunter (born September 9, 1969) is a fashion model, actress and reality TV show host. Born in Auckland, New Zealand, Hunter began modelling by age 17 and rose to prominence after posing as a Sports Illustrated model in 1989. She appeared on magazine covers, including Cosmopolitan and on the 1994 "Dream Team" cover of Sports Illustrated's annual swimsuit issue.
- Jack Yan
Jack Yan is a publisher, designer and businessman, born 1972 in Kowloon, Hong Kong. Yan founded his own company in 1987 while a teenager and grew it, initially, into the region's leading font software firm, claiming to be the first New Zealander to design digital typefaces. He created over 100 typeface designs himself for the firm, and inspired other local typeface designers such as Kris Sowersby to pursue careers in that industry.
- Dominic Cork
Dominic Gerald Cork (born 7 August 1971 in Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire) is an English cricketer who bowls swing and seam. He is also a more than useful batsman, and at his best could be considered a genuine all-rounder, though he never quite fulfilled this dual promise at the highest level. He was also a fine fielder, either close to the wicket or in the deep. Cork made his first-class debut with Derbyshire against the touring New Zealanders in 1990, …
- 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.
- Lee Nelson
Lee "Final Table" Nelson, M.D. (born January 19 1943 in the United States) is a retired New Zealand doctor and now a professional poker player, based in Auckland. Nelson is a regular on the Australasian poker tournament circuit, having won two events at the 2005 Crown Australian Poker Championship. In April 2005, Nelson won the PartyPoker World Open in Maidstone, Kent, England, …
- Arbi Barayev
Arbi Barayev [Alternate spellings Arabi and Baraev] (born 1973, died July 2001), also known as "The Terminator", was a Chechen warlord and renegade leader of Special Purpose Islamic Regiment, a militant Chechen rebel group. Barayev is believed to have ordered the executions of three Britons and a New Zealander, kidnapped in 1998, and was reported to have boasted that he had personally killed 170 people.
- David Stewart
David Ernest Robertson Stewart (born 22 May, 1948) is an Indian-born former Scottish cricketer who played for Scotland and had a brief county cricket career with Worcestershire. He was born in Bombay (now Mumbai). Stewart played Second XI cricket for Warwickshire in 1966, but then moved to Worcestershire. He made his first-class debut for Scotland against Warwickshire at Edgbaston in June 1969, scoring 51 and 6 in a thrilling four-run Scottish victory.
- Olivier de Kersauson
Olivier de Kersauson was the seventh child in a family of eight. While he was the only de Kersauson not to have been born in Brittany, he was born on 20th July 1944 and brought up near Morlaix in a “provincial Catholic aristocracy with compulsory mass,” as he calls it. Very early on, Olivier de Kersauson was to break away from his family. Without being inattentive, he was a pupil, who did not settle in well to school life with the fathers at boarding school.
- Samuel Frickleton
Samuel Frickleton (1 April 1891 - 6 August 1971) was a New Zealander recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. He was 26 years old, and a lance-corporal in the 3rd Battalion, New Zealand Rifle Brigade, New Zealand Expeditionary Force during the First World War. He enlisted in 1915, and was discharged as medically unfit with tuberculosis.
- Jack Hinton
John Daniel 'Jack' Hinton (17 September 1909-1997) was a New Zealander, a World War II soldier in 2NZEF who was awarded the Victoria Cross for leading an assault in Greece in 1941. The Victoria Cross, is the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. Captured by the Germans, Hinton twice escaped. He is however perhaps best remembered for his profanity.
- Barry Magee
Arthur Barrington "Barry" Magee (born January 6, 1934 in New Plymouth, New Zealand) was a New Zealander athlete who mainly competed in the marathon. He competed for New Zealand in the men's marathon at the 1960 Summer Olympics held in Rome, Italy, where he won the bronze medal. Four years later in Tokyo he ended up in 23rd place.
- William Stevenson
Sir William Stevenson, KBE CStJ, full name William Alfred Stevenson, (1901 – 1983), was a New Zealand industrialist and philanthropist. He was the Son of William Stevenson (1897 – 1964) who founded the company Stevenson Group in 1912. Sir William was Chairman of the Howick Town Board (1944 – 1947) then Mayor (1953 – 1963) of Howick, New Zealand.
- John Price
John Price (6 July 1908 - ?? March 1995) was an English cricketer who played 11 first-class matches for Worcestershire in the late 1920s. He had the unwanted distinction of never playing in a winning side in his entire first-class career. He made his debut against the New Zealanders in early June 1927, dismissing opener Jack Mills in both innings. In three County Championship games later that season, he took a further four wickets, all in two matches against Somerset, …
- Roger Randle
Roger Quentin Randle (born 15 May, 1974 in Hastings, New Zealand is a New Zealand rugby union footballer. He plays as a wing. He plays for the Waikato Chiefs in the Super 14 competition.He represented the New Zealand Colts in 1995 and he also represented the New Zealand Māori rugby union team in 1996, …
- Barnaby Joyce
Barnaby Joyce was elected to the Senate for Queensland in 2004 and commenced his six year term on July 1, 2005. Based in St.George, he has the most western-based Senator's office in the State. With the strong support of his family and constituents behind him, Barnaby is committed to his job of representing Queenslanders in the Senate. Barnaby knows what it's like to work hard to support a young family and to build a small business from scratch.
- Alan Mullally
Alan David Mullally (born 12 July 1969 in Southend-on-Sea, Essex) is a former English cricketer. Mullally grew up in Western Australia, and played for the Australian Under-19 side against their West Indian counterparts in 1987/88. That same season he made his first-class debut for that state in their Sheffield Shield final victory over Queensland at Perth. He stayed with Western Australia for another couple of seasons, with variable success.
- James Allen Ward
James Allen Ward was a New Zealander recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. He was 22 years old, and a Sergeant in the Royal New Zealand Air Force, serving with 75 (NZ) Squadron, Royal Air Force during the Second World War.
- Leonard Henry Trent
Group Captain Leonard Henry Trent VC DFC (1915-1986) was a New Zealander recipient of the Victoria Cross, the most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. A pilot of the Royal New Zealand Air Force, Trent was attached to the Royal Air Force on initially flying Bristol Blenheims. He test flew the Douglas DB-7 Boston, which he strongly recommended to the RAF. He was appointed to command No.
- James Crichton
James Crichton VC (15 July, 1879 - 25 September, 1961) was born in Carrickfergus in County Antrim. By birth an Irish recipient, and by naturalisation a New Zealander recipient, of the Victoria Cross - the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. He was 39 years old, and a private in the 2nd Battalion, Auckland Infantry Regiment, …
- Carla Werner
Carla Werner (New Zealander) is a singer and songwriter. She is the daughter of a dairy farmer and her grandfather played in a band called the "Country Boys". She formerly sang country music. She provides the vocals for Paul Oakenfold's album "Bunkka" in the song "Southern Sun"
- William Edward Sanders
William Edward Sanders VC, DSO (7 February 1883 - 14 August 1917) was a New Zealander recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. Born in Auckland on 7 February 1883, Sanders was a highly experienced and intelligent sailor, having worked on steam and sailing ships since 1897. The outbreak of World War I found him in Britain, …
- Brian Perkins
Brian Perkins (born 1943 in Wanganui, New Zealand) is a senior newsreader on BBC Radio 4. All of Perkins' relatives are New Zealanders, although they refer to England as home. His mother, who played on the local radio station 2XA, gave him a taste "of the fantasy of radio". He first started working in 1962 in Christchurch on radio stations of the New Zealand Broadcasting Service (NZBS), and its successor, the New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation (NZBC).
- David Burn
David Burn was a Tasmanian pioneer and dramatist. Burn was born about the end of the eighteenth century and after being in the navy emigrated to Tasmania in 1825. He returned to England in 1828, and in September 1829 his play, "The Bushrangers", was acted with success at the Caledonian Theatre, Edinburgh. Early in January 1830 his farce, Manias and Maniacs, afterwards re-named Our First Lieutenant, was played at the same theatre for several successive nights.
- Harry Spencer
Harry Norman Ernest Spencer (1 October 1901 - 13 August 1954) was an English cricketer who played four first-class matches between 1923 and 1932, one for Worcestershire and three for Warwickshire. Born in Shipston-on-Stour, Warwickshire, Spencer made his first (and only) appearance for Worcestershire against the touring New Zealanders in June 1927. He picked up two wickets, dismissing the New Zealand captain Tom Lowry in each innings, …
- Paul Clarkin
Paul Clarkin was a New Zealander and a renowned polo player, known internationally as 'Mr Polo'. He first started playing polo in his early twenties. He was killed playing polo in Cirencester, England after falling during a game in which he was reputedly "playing a blinder". He was married to Chele Clarkin and had two sons and one daughter: John-Paul, himself a successful polo player who took over the running of Mystery Creek Polo Club in New Zealand; Matthew, …
- Richard Travis
Richard Charles Travis VC, DCM, MM (6 April 1884-25 July 1918) was a New Zealander recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to Commonwealth forces. His real name was Dickson Cornelius Savage. He was 34 years old, and a sergeant in the 2nd Battalion, Otago Infantry Regiment, …
- William James Hardham
Captain William James Hardham VC (31 July 1876- 13 April 1928) was a New Zealander recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
- Eddie Paynter
Edward Paynter (5 November 1901 - 5 February 1979) was an English cricketer: an attacking batsman and excellent fielder. His Test batting average of 59.23 is the fifth highest of all time, and second only to Herbert Sutcliffe amongst Englishmen; against Australia alone Paynter averaged an extraordinary 84.42. Born in Oswaldtwistle, Lancashire, Paynter did not make his first-class debut for Lancashire County Cricket Club at the relatively advanced age of 24 in July 1926.
- Richard Staple
Richard Wayne Staple (born 25 November 1969 in Kingston, Jamaica) is an American cricketer. He started his first-class cricket career playing for his native Jamaica from 1989-90 to 1994-95. He later emigrated to the United States and became captain of his adopted nation. He played two further first-class games in the 2004 ICC Intercontinental Cup. Staple led the United States to victory in the ICC Six Nations Challenge in 2004, …
- Ettie Annie Rout
Ettie Annie Rout (later "Ettie Annie Hornibrook") (24 February 1877-17 September 1936) was a Tasmanian-born New Zealander whose work among servicemen in Paris and the Somme during World War I made her a war hero among the French, yet through the same events became "persona non grata" in New Zealand. She married Fred Hornibrook on 3 May 1920 (no children, later separated). She died in the Cook Islands, and is buried there.
- Guy Doleman
Guy Doleman (b. November 22 1923, Hamilton, New Zealand - d. January 30 1996, Los Angeles) was an New Zealander actor. He is perhaps best known from his role as Count Lippe in the 1965 James Bond film "Thunderball". Guy Doleman died of cancer in 1996 in Los Angeles, aged 72.
- Jeffrey Parazzo
Jeffrey Parazzo (born March 29, 1978) is a Canadian actor of Filipino and New Zealander heritage. He was born in Toronto, Ontario. He originally auditioned for the role of the Blue Dino Ranger but was thought to fit better as the mysterious White Ranger. He later voiced Tommy Oliver/Black Brachio Ranger in the "Power Rangers: SPD" team up episode "Wormhole" (uncredited) when Disney decided not to bring back Jason David Frank because of costs (as a result, …
- Phil Newport
Philip John Newport (born 11 October 1962 in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire) was an English cricketer, who played primarily as a seam and swing bowler. Newport was a stalwart of Worcestershire County Cricket Club for most of the 1980s and 1990s, and played a key part in the county's triumphs in the late 1980s. After playing a number of times for Worcestershire's Second XI in 1982, …
- John Dawson Dewhirst
John Dawson Dewhirst (born United Kingdom 1952 died Cambodia 1978) was a British teacher and amateur yachtsman who was one of several western victims of the Khmer Rouge during the genocidal rule of Pol Pot. Dewhirst was born in the Jesmond district of Newcastle Upon Tyne in 1952 and trained as a teacher before moving to Japan to teach English in 1977. In August 1978 Dewhirst was apparently holidaying off the Thai coast with his friends, …
- Donald Forrester Brown
Donald Forrester Brown was a New Zealander recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. He was 26 years old, and a sergeant in the 2nd Battalion, Otago Infantry Regiment, New Zealand Expeditionary Force during the First World War when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the VC. On 15 September 1916 south-east of High Wood, France, …
- Lucy Hockings
Lucy Hockings is a New Zealander who is working as a television journalist for BBC World. She joined the network as producer in 1999, just before being promoted to senior producer in 2000, and worked on Asia Today and HARDtalk. She kept on reporting on the September 11, 2001 attacks, followed by the Afghanistan and Iraq wars. In 2003, she became BBC World's presenter, covering such events as the 2004 Tsunami, 2005 London bombings, and the death of Pope John Paul II.
- Reginald Stanley Judson
Reginald Stanley Judson VC, DCM, MM (29 September 1881 - 26 August 1972) was a New Zealander recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. He was 36 years old, and a sergeant in the 1st Battalion, Auckland Infantry Regiment, New Zealand Expeditionary Force during the First World War when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the VC.
- Harry John Laurent
Harry John Laurent (15 April 1895- 9 December 1987) was a New Zealander recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. He was 23 years old, and a sergeant in the 2nd Battalion, New Zealand Rifle Brigade, New Zealand Expeditionary Force during the First World War when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the VC.
- Henry James Nicholas
Henry James Nicholas (VC, MM)(11 June 1891-23 October 1918) was a New Zealander recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.