List of South Islanders

This is a list of Famous South Islanders :

A

Alexander Aitken – mathematician/statistician, writer, mental calculator, musician
Ronald Algie – politician
Fred Allen – rugby union player
James Allen – politician
James Allen – rugby union player
Rewi Alley – supporter of Chinese communism
Peter Arnett – TV journalist, Pulitzer Prize winner
Basil Arthur – politician
Ian Athfield – architect

B

David Bain
Alison Ballance – author and film-maker
Rick Barker – politician
James Baxter – poet
Francis Bell – first New Zealand-born Prime Minister
David Benson-Pope – politician
Todd Blackadder – rugby player
Ben Blair – rugby player
William Brassington – stonemason and sculptor
Kelly Brazier – rugby player
John Britten – designer of the Britten motorcycle
Donald Forrester Brown – awarded the Victoria Cross
Nigel Brown – painter
Gerry Brownlee – politician
Kerry Burke – politician

C

Dan Carter – rugby player
Nathan Cohen – world champion and Olympic champion rower
Thomas Cooke – awarded the Victoria Cross
Warren Cooper – politician
Michael Cullen – politician
G. H. Cunningham – plant pathologist
Allen Curnow – poet

D

Alan Dale – actor
Lianne Dalziel – politician
Stephnie de Ruyter – politician
Bob Deans – rugby union player
Bruce Deans – rugby union player
Robbie Deans – rugby player and coach
Rod Dixon – runner
Rod Donald – politician
Sarah Dougherty – early settler
Jimmy Duncan – rugby union player, coach and referee
Peter Dunne – politician

E

Andy Ellis – rugby union player
Thomas Ellison – rugby union player and lawyer
Bill English – politician

F

Bob Fitzsimmons – world boxing heavyweight champion
Corey Flynn – rugby player
George Forbes – Prime Minister
Tom Fyfe – mountaineer

G

George Gair – politician
Daryl Gibson – rugby player
Charles Gifford – teacher and very successful promoter of astronomy
George Gillett – rugby union player
Sir Harold Gillies – pioneering plastic surgeon
Robin Gray – politician
Arthur Guinness – politician
Stewart Graeme Guthrie – police sergeant posthumously awarded the George Cross

H

Sir Richard Hadlee – cricketer
John Hall – Premier of New Zealand
William Hall-Jones – Prime Minister of New Zealand
Adam Hamilton – politician
Bill Hamilton – developed the modern jetboat
Scott Hamilton – rugby union player
Mark Hammett – rugby union player
Dame Joan Hammond – violinist, soprano
Joseph Hatch – Invercargill businessman, "harvester" of penguins
Rudy Heeman – inventor
Louise Henderson – painter
Graham Henry – rugby union coach
Jack Hinton – awarded the Victoria Cross
Frances Hodgkins – painter
Sidney Holland – Prime Minister
Sir Fred Hollows – eye surgeon
Andrew Hore – rugby union player
Ned Hughes – rugby union player
Alfred Hulme – awarded the Victoria Cross
Denny Hulme – world champion racing driver

J

Chris Jack – rugby player
Rowena Jackson – ballerina

K

Phil Keoghan – TV presenter
Norman Kirk – Prime Minister
Terry Knights – awarded the Military Cross for service in Iraq

L

Robert Lawson – architect
Richard Loe – rugby player
Jack Lovelock – runner
Isaac Luck – architect
Len Lye – sculptor, experimental film maker

M

Laurie Mains – rugby union player and coach
Justin Marshall – rugby union player
Aaron Mauger – rugby union player
Ivan Mauger – six time Motorcycle speedway world champion
Nathan Mauger – rugby union player
Colin McCahon – painter, museum curator, teacher
Richie McCaw – rugby union player
Leon MacDonald – rugby union player
Thomas Mackenzie – Prime Minister of New Zealand
Shona McFarlane – painter
Michael McGarry – football player
Duncan McGregor – rugby union player
Sir Archie McIndoe – pioneer plastic surgeon
Cameron McIntyre – rugby player
Peter McIntyre – painter
Andrew Mehrtens – rugby union player
Henry Monson – gaoler
William Sefton Moorhouse – prominent Canterbury politician and settler
Benjamin Mountfort – architect
Burt Munro – speed record breaker
Colin Murdoch – inventor of the disposable syringe

N

Edgar Neale – Mayor (1941–1945) and MP (1946–1957) for Nelson
Henry James Nicholas – awarded the Victoria Cross
Tane Norton – former All Black captain

P

Geoffrey Palmer – Prime Minister of New Zealand
Richard Pearse – early aviator and inventor
Francis Petre – architect

R

Bill Rowling – Prime Minister of New Zealand
Bic Runga – singer, songwriter
Ernest Rutherford – 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson, scientist and winner of the 1908 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

S

Richard Seddon – Prime Minister of New Zealand
George 'Johnny' Sellars – pioneering parachutist
Henry Sewell – Premier of New Zealand
Kate Sheppard – suffragist
Jenny Shipley – New Zealand's first female Prime Minister
Edward Stafford – Premier of New Zealand
Billy Stead – rugby union player
Robert Stout – Premier of New Zealand
Grahame Sydney – painter

T

Sir Angus Tait – businessman and electronics innovator
Brad Thorn – rugby union and rugby league player
Reuben Thorne – rugby union player
Richard Travis – awarded the Victoria Cross
Brian Turner – poet
Glenn Turner – cricketer
Greg Turner – golfer

U

Charles Upham – World War II soldier (one of three awarded the Victoria Cross twice)

V

Petrus Van der Velden – painter
Sir Julius Vogel – Premier of New Zealand

W

Miles Warren – architect
Richard James Waugh – minister, historian, aviation chaplain and writer
Robert Webster – discovered the link between human flu and bird flu
Ian Wedde – poet
Hayley Westenra – singer
Tony Wilding – tennis player
Geoff Williams – painter
Jeff Wilson – sportsman
Shelton Woolright – musician, best known as the drummer of Blindspott
Alex Wyllie – rugby union player and coach

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