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List of New Zealand doctors
Last updated
February 21, 2025
The following is a list of notable
medical doctors
from New Zealand.
Louis Barnett
–
surgeon
Sir
Brian Barratt-Boyes
–
cardiac surgeon
Agnes Bennett
– doctor and medical officer in
World War I
John Daniel Bergin
–
neurologist
Alice Bush
– doctor, paediatrician and campaigner for family planning services and abortion access
Margaret Cruickshank
– first registered female doctor in New Zealand
Sylvia Gytha de Lancey Chapman
– medical superintendent
Charles Farthing
– pioneer in the treatment of
AIDS
Isaac Featherston
– politician
Erich Geiringer
– founder of the
New Zealand Medical Association
David Gerrard
– swimmer, Professor of Sports Medicine at
University of Otago Dunedin School of Medicine
. Former New Zealand Olympic
chef de mission
Sir
Harold Gillies
– pioneering
plastic surgeon
Felicity Goodyear-Smith
– doctor and medical academic at the
University of Auckland
Herb Green
– specialist at the centre of the
Cartwright Inquiry
Elizabeth Gunn
– doctor and founder of the Children's Health Camp movement
Ian Hassall
– paediatrician
Te Rangi Hīroa
(also known as Sir Peter Henry Buck) – member of the
Ngāti Mutunga
Māori
iwi
Fred Hollows
–
ophthalmologist
Paul Hutchison
– politician
Tracy Inglis
– Auckland medical practitioner
Julian Jack
- physiologist
Sir
Truby King
– child-care pioneer
Ivan Lichter
–
thoracic surgeon
Sir
Robert Macintosh
– pioneering
anaesthetist
Sir
Archibald McIndoe
– pioneering
plastic surgeon
Brad McKay
, doctor, author and television personality
Rainsford Mowlem
– pioneering
plastic surgeon
Courtney Nedwill
– doctor and public health officer
James Newman (geriatrician)
– geriatrician and medical superintendent
Thomas Moore Philson
– doctor and hospital superintendent
Cecily Pickerill
– plastic surgeon
Sir
Henry Pickerill
– plastic surgeon
Denis Rogers
– local-body politician
Sir
Edward Sayers
– Methodist missionary; military medical administrator; consultant physician, then Dean, of the
University of Otago Dunedin School of Medicine
Jessie Scott
– notable New Zealand doctor, medical officer and prisoner of war.
Emily Siedeberg
– doctor, hospital superintendent and first female medical graduate in New Zealand
Ebenezer Teichelmann
– surgeon, mountaineer and photographer
Henry Thacker
–
Member of Parliament
and
Mayor of Christchurch
Ronald Trubuhovich
– pioneer in
critical-care medicine
Thomas Valintine
– doctor and public health administrator
Leslie Whetter
– surgeon and Antarctic explorer
Christine Coe Winterbourn
– Professor of
Pathology
at the
University of Otago
See also
Biography portal
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New Zealand portal
Lists of New Zealanders
List of physicians
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