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