Dame Malvina Lorraine Major is a New Zealand opera soprano.
Sir Stephen Robert Tindall is the founder of New Zealand retailer The Warehouse, The Warehouse Group, and the Tindall Foundation.
Dame Lois Joan Muir is a New Zealand netball coach and administrator, and a former representative netball and basketball player. Muir represented New Zealand in two sports, playing with the Tall Ferns from 1952 to 1962 and the Silver Ferns from 1960 to 1963. She later became head coach of the Silver Ferns for 15 years from 1974 to 1988.
Dame Paula Rae Rebstock is an Auckland-based consultant and company director who served as the Chair of the New Zealand Commerce Commission until March 2009. Originally from Montana in the United States, Rebstock has lived in New Zealand since 1987.
Dame Iritana Te Rangi Tāwhiwhirangi is a New Zealand advocate of Māori language education and the Kohanga Reo movement.
Dame Kāterina Te Heikōkō Mataira was a New Zealand Māori language proponent, educator, intellectual, artist and writer. Her efforts to revive and revitalise the Māori language, led to the growth of the Māori immersion schools in New Zealand.
Dame Alcyion Cynthia Kiro is a New Zealand public health academic, administrator, and advocate, who has served as the 22nd Governor-General of New Zealand since 21 October 2021. Kiro is the first Māori woman, the third person of Māori descent, and the fourth woman to hold the office.
Dame Jane Elizabeth Harding is a New Zealand academic new-born intensive case specialist (neonatologist). She was awarded the Rutherford Medal in 2019.
Dame Jennifer Barbara Gibbs is a New Zealand philanthropist and art collector, and in 2007 was described as "the most constant champion of contemporary art in New Zealand."
Dame Alison Burns Quentin-Baxter is a retired New Zealand constitutional lawyer. She advised a number of small island states on the drafting of their constitutional documents.
Dame Areta Koopu, is a New Zealand social worker and Māori activist. She was a member of the New Zealand Māori Council from 1987 to 1992, National President of the Māori Women's Welfare League from 1993 to 1996, and a Human Rights Commissioner from 1996 to 2001.
Dame Peggy Gwendoline Koopman-Boyden is a New Zealand gerontologist. A professor of social gerontology at the University of Waikato, she was accorded the title of professor emeritus when she retired in 2016.
Dame Karen Margaret Sewell is a New Zealand educator and public servant. In the 2012 New Year Honours, she was appointed a Companion of the Queen's Service Order, for services to the State, and in the 2016 Queen's Birthday Honours, she was appointed a Dame Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to education.
Dame Jocelyn Barbara Fish was a New Zealand women's rights campaigner.
Dame Alison Mary Roxburgh was a New Zealand women's rights advocate and community leader.
Dame Karen Olive Poutasi is a New Zealand government official.
Dame Rosemary Anne Horton is a New Zealand philanthropist. Over a period of more than 40 years she has raised money for New Zealand organisations, many of which focus on sick children and women.
Dame Patricia Mary Harrison is a New Zealand educationalist.
Dame Deirdre Glenna Milne is a New Zealand feminist active from the 1970s and a retired lawyer.
Sir William Alexander Denny is a New Zealand medicinal chemist, noted for his work investigating drugs for the treatment of cancer.
