Neena Gill,is a British Labour Party politician. She served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the West Midlands first from 1999 to 2009,and then from 2014 to 2020.
Margaret Elizabeth Austin is a former New Zealand politician. She was an MP from 1984 to 1996,representing first the Labour Party and then briefly United New Zealand.
Owen Marshall Jones,who writes under the pen name Owen Marshall,is a New Zealand short story writer and novelist. The third son of a Methodist minister younger brother of Allan Jones,and older brother of Rhys Jones,he came of age in Blenheim and Timaru,and graduated from the University of Canterbury with an MA in English in 1964. Marshall taught in a rural boys' high school for 25 years before becoming a full-time author.
Dame Catherine Anne Tizard,was a New Zealand politician who served as Mayor of Auckland City from 1983 to 1990,and the 16th governor-general of New Zealand from 1990 to 1996. She was the first woman to hold either office.
Pravasi Bharatiya Divas is a celebratory day observed on 9 January by the Republic of India to mark the contribution of the overseas Indian community towards the development of India. The day commemorates the return of Mahatma Gandhi from South Africa to Mumbai on 9 January 1915.
Dame Frances Helen Wilde is a New Zealand politician,and former Wellington Labour member of parliament,Minister of Tourism and Mayor of Wellington. She was the first woman to serve as Mayor of Wellington. She was chairperson of the Greater Wellington Regional Council from 2007 until 2015,and since 2019 she has chaired the board of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa.
The Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs (MOIA) was a ministry of the Government of India. It was dedicated to all matters relating to the Indian diaspora around the world.
Margaret Moir is a former New Zealand politician of the National Party. Previously,she was the elected chairman of the West Coast Regional Council.
Richard Francis Walls was a New Zealand politician and businessman.
Jennifer Norah Kirk was a New Zealand politician of the Labour Party.
Sir Hamish Grenfell Hay was a New Zealand politician,who served as Mayor of Christchurch for fifteen years,from 1974 to 1989. He was Christchurch's longest-serving mayor.
Himanshu Gulati is a Norwegian politician representing the Progress Party. Gulati was the chairperson of the Progress Party's Youth from 2012 to 2014. He served as State Secretary in the Ministry of Justice and Public Security from 2013 to 2014,and at the Office of the Prime Minister from 2014 until 2017. In 2017 he was elected as a representative in the Norwegian parliament from Akershus,where he has served in the Committee on Justice.
The New Zealand Suffrage Centennial Medal 1993 was established by Royal Warrant on 1 July 1993. It was created to commemorate Women's suffrage in New Zealand and to recognize those New Zealand and Commonwealth citizens who had made a significant contribution to women's rights or women's issues in New Zealand. The medal was only awarded in 1993.
Priyanca Radhakrishnan is a New Zealand politician who has been elected to the New Zealand parliament since the 2017 general election as a representative of the New Zealand Labour Party and is currently Minister for the Community and Voluntary Sector.
Dame Grace Shellie Hollander was a New Zealand community leader.
Jean Sutherland Fleming is a New Zealand reproductive biologist,science communication advocate and environmentalist. She has been a professor emerita in science communication since her retirement from the University of Otago in 2014.
Barbara Gay Williams is a retired New Zealand nurse.
Dame Elizabeth Ann Hanan is a New Zealand local-body politician and community leader. She served as deputy mayor of Dunedin between 1998 and 2004.
Dame Patricia Mary Harrison is a New Zealand educationalist.
Ruth Elizabeth Harley is a New Zealand theatre,film and television executive.
