Neil James Cherry was a New Zealand environmental scientist.
Dame Reubina Ann Ballin was a New Zealand psychologist and victims' rights advocate. In 2002, she was accorded New Zealand's highest civilian honour, membership of the Order of New Zealand.
Michele Knobel was a Professor of Education in the Department of Teaching and Learning at Montclair State University and an internationally recognized researcher and scholar in the area of literacy education, new literacies and digital technologies.
Duncan I. Steel is a British space scientist. He has discovered several minor planets and has written four popular science books. He is a member of the International Astronomical Union, which lists him as working at the Xerra Earth Observation Institute in Nelson, in the South Island of New Zealand. He was formerly on the staff of the University of Salford in the United Kingdom. Steel completed a PhD at the University of Canterbury in 1984 with a thesis on the orbital characteristics of meteoroids.
Professor Robin Pollard is a New Zealand academic who has spent much of his career working in Australia and Malaysia. He was the Vice-Chancellor at Lincoln University near his home town of Christchurch, New Zealand until March 2018. Previous positions include Deputy Vice-Chancellor at Central Lancashire University and Pro Vice-Chancellor and President of Monash University Malaysia Campus.
Geoffrey Brind Jameson is a structural chemist and biologist at Massey University in Palmerston North, New Zealand. Jameson completed a PhD at the University of Canterbury in 1977. He is the director of the Centre for Structural Biology, and a crystallographer, using X-ray crystallography and NMR spectroscopy to determine the structure of materials.
Myrtle May Simpson (1905–1981) was a notable New Zealand teacher, school inspector and educationalist. She was born in Christchurch, New Zealand in 1905. Simpson completed her master's degree at Canterbury University College in 1935, with a thesis on the history of the New Zealand Parliament between 1856 and 1860.
Hugh Crawford Dixon Somerset was a notable New Zealand teacher, adult education director, university professor and writer. He was born in Belfast, North Canterbury, New Zealand in 1895. He graduated from Canterbury College with a master's thesis in 1931.
Ali Rafeeq was the Editor in Chief of Haveeru Daily and Haveeru Online in the Maldives. After serving the position for 23 years, in 2010 he shifted to New Zealand. A native of Fuvahmulah, Maldives, Rafeeq is the first Maldivian to acquire a PhD from Journalism. He acquired the PhD from the University of Canterbury in New Zealand. He acquired his master's degree from the same University in 2003 and was chosen among the top students, winning a scholarship for his PhD. Rafeeq acquired his bachelor's degree in journalism from the International Islamic University Malaysia. He is also the founder of Haveeru Online.
Vernon Albert Small is a New Zealand chess International Master (IM). He represented New Zealand in eight Chess Olympiads from 1976 to 1992. Previously a journalist for Fairfax Media, Small is now a press secretary to Cabinet minister David Parker.
Fiona Ruth Cross is a New Zealand arachnologist. She did both her MSc and PhD theses at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand.
Timothy Clinton Bell is a New Zealand computer scientist, with interests in computer science education, computer music and text compression. In 2017, it was announced by SIGCSE that Bell would receive the 2018 award for 'Outstanding Contribution to Computer Science Education'.
Brian Garner Wybourne was a New Zealand theoretical physicist known for his groundbreaking work on the energy levels of rare-earth ions and applications of Lie groups to the atomic f shell and by mathematicians for his work on group representation theory.
Lynda Ferrell Delph is a Distinguished Professor of Biology and member of the Evolution, Ecology, and Behavior Program at Indiana University - Bloomington.
Jane M. Maidment is a New Zealand social work academic, and as of 2019 is a full professor at the University of Canterbury.
Tracey Lee McLellan is a New Zealand politician. In 2020 she was elected as a Member of Parliament in the House of Representatives for the Labour Party.
Michael Thomas Lynskey is a New Zealand academic and psychiatrist. He is Professor of Addictions in the National Addictions Centre at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience of King's College London in the United Kingdom. He has previously held positions at the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre of the University of New South Wales in Australia and at the Department of Psychiatry at the Washington University School of Medicine in the United States. He trained in New Zealand, where he graduated with a master's degree from from the University of Canterbury. He also attended the University of Otago and worked on the Christchurch Health and Development study.
Mauī John Mitchell was a New Zealand historian who specialised in Māori history, particularly in the upper South Island. Of Māori descent, he affiliated to Te Āti Awa and Ngāti Tama. Mitchell completed a master's thesis in 1967, followed by a doctoral thesis in 1971, both at the University of Canterbury.
Angela Cheryl Wanhalla is a professor of history at the University of Otago in New Zealand. Her book about interracial marriage in New Zealand won the 2014 Ernest Scott Prize. Wanhalla was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society Te Apārangi in 2022.
Sonja Lee Macfarlane is a New Zealand education academic and an associate professor at the University of Canterbury. Macfarlane specialises in the development of cultural awareness in the New Zealand education system.
