Victoria University of Wellington is a university in Wellington, New Zealand. It was established in 1897 by Act of Parliament, and was a constituent college of the University of New Zealand.
Alistair Te Ariki Campbell, ONZM was a New Zealand poet, playwright, and novelist. His father was a New Zealand Scot and his mother was a Cook Island Maori from Penrhyn Island.
Fleur Adcock is a New Zealand poet and editor, of English and Northern Irish ancestry, who has lived much of her life in England. She is well-represented in New Zealand poetry anthologies, was awarded an honorary doctorate of literature from Victoria University of Wellington, and was awarded an OBE in 1996 for her contribution to New Zealand literature. In 2008 she was made a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to literature.
Phillida Bunkle is a former New Zealand politician. She represented the Alliance in Parliament from 1996 to 2002, when she retired. Bunkle was for many years a lecturer at Victoria University.
William Manhire is a New Zealand poet, short story writer, emeritus professor, and New Zealand's inaugural Poet Laureate (1997–1998). He founded New Zealand's first creative writing course at Victoria University of Wellington in 1975, and has been a strong promoter of New Zealand literature and poetry throughout his career. Many of New Zealand's leading writers graduated from his course. He has received many notable awards including a Prime Minister's Award for Literary Achievement in 2007 and an Arts Foundation Icon Award in 2018.
Melvin Norman "Pat" Day was a New Zealand artist and art historian.
John Faithful Fortescue Platts-Mills, was a British barrister and left-wing politician. He was the Labour Party Member of Parliament for Finsbury from 1945 to 1950.
Dame Marie Mildred Clay was a distinguished researcher from New Zealand known for her work in global educational literacy. She was committed to the idea that children who struggle to learn to read and write can be helped with early intervention. A clinical psychologist, she developed the Reading Recovery intervention programme in New Zealand and expanded it worldwide.
Guy Winston Salmon is a New Zealand environmentalist.
Stanley Joseph Rodger is a former New Zealand politician of the Labour Party. He was President of the Public Services Association between 1970 and 1973 and Member of Parliament for Dunedin North from 1978 to 1990.
Ian Duncan McKinnon is a New Zealand educator and local politician, and is a former deputy mayor of Wellington.
Vincent Gerard O’Sullivan is one of New Zealand's best-known writers. He is a poet, short story writer, novelist, playwright, critic, editor, biographer, and librettist.
Gregory Leo O’Brien is a New Zealand poet, painter and editor.
Denis Bazeley Gordon McLean was a New Zealand diplomat, academic, author and civil servant.
Philippa Lynne Howden-Chapman is a professor of public health at the University of Otago, Wellington, and the director of the New Zealand Centre for Sustainable Cities.
Dame Cynthia Alcyion Kiro is a New Zealand public health academic. She is a former Children's Commissioner and former head of the School of Public Health at Massey University and currently head of Te Kura Maori at Victoria University of Wellington. She is a Māori of Ngā Puhi, Ngāti Kahu, Ngāti Hine descent.
Dame Therese Maria Walsh is a chief executive and business leader from New Zealand. Her particular successes include her roles as the chief operating officer for the 2011 Rugby World Cup and head of the organising body for the 2015 Cricket World Cup, held in Australia and New Zealand.
Andrew Coster is the current New Zealand Police Commmissioner and former Deputy Police Commissioner. He has served as the New Zealand Commissioner of Police since 3 April 2020.
The 1992 New Year Honours in New Zealand were appointments by Elizabeth II on the advice of the New Zealand government to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by New Zealanders. The awards celebrated the passing of 1991 and the beginning of 1992, and were announced on 31 December 1991.
David Allan Hamer was a New Zealand historian.
