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Katherine Mansfield (1888–1923) – writer. Thomas Brydone (1837–1904) and William Soltau Davidson (1846–1924) – refrigeration pioneers. Richard Pearse (1877–1953) – aviation pioneer. Te Whiti o Rongomai (c.1830–1907) – pacifist Māori leader. Richard Seddon (1845–1906) – Premier and Prime Minister of New Zealand.
Sports. List of New Zealand sportspeople. List of New Zealand double-international sportspeople. New Zealand Olympic medallists. List of New Zealand Twenty20 International cricketers. List of New Zealand ODI cricketers. List of New Zealand Test cricketers. List of New Zealand international footballers. List of New Zealand Kiwis representatives.
Sir Jack Harris, 2nd Baronet (1906–2009), chief executive of Bing, Harris & Co. Graeme Hart (born 1955), New Zealand's richest businessman. Murray Haszard (born 1954), entrepreneur and businessman. Joseph Hatch (1837–1928), Invercargill businessman, "harvester" of penguins. Keith Hay (1917–1997), builder, businessman, local politician ...
New Zealand Olympic medallists' success for New Zealand at the Olympics is often considered to be notable due to the relatively small population of the country (5.22 million as of June 2023). Being located in the remote South Pacific , New Zealanders needed to endure long sea voyages to attend the early Olympics.
List of New Zealand inventors. The following is a list of New Zealand inventors and inventions. Godfrey Bowen – developer of an improved sheep-shearing technique [1] John Britten – designer of the Britten motorcycle [2] Thomas Brydone and William Soltau Davidson – refrigerated shipping pioneers [3] Morton Coutts – invented the ...
Pete Wheeler, painter, lived in Dunedin for several years. Frances Hodgkins (1869–1947), New Zealand's most celebrated expatriate painter, born in Dunedin, trained at the Dunedin School of Art and first matured here as an artist. Alfred Henry O'Keeffe (1858–1941), prominent artist during the early 20th Century. Colin McCahon, painter.
There were 887,493 people identifying as being part of the Māori ethnic group at the 2023 New Zealand census, making up 17.8% of New Zealand's population. [112] This is an increase of 111,657 people (14.4%) since the 2013 census , and an increase of 288,891 people (48.3%) since the 2006 census .
The following is a list of famous people born in Gisborne, New Zealand, and people who spent significant periods of their lives living in the Gisborne/East Coast area (from Wairoa to Te Kaha to Opotiki). Those in italic are people who weren't born in the Gisborne region but have/had spent a majority of their lives living in the region. Examples ...