53 Notable alumni of Lincoln University, New Zealand
Updated: June 22, 2026 EliteDegrees
Lincoln University, New Zealand is ranked #1,327 in the world and #8 in New Zealand by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 53 notable alumni from Lincoln University, New Zealand sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff. Many individuals affiliated with Lincoln University, New Zealand won Nobel Prizes for Peace, in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, and Economics.
1. Trish Fraser
1966-2025 (aged 59)
soil scientist
Patricia Margaret Fraser was a New Zealand soil scientist at Crown Research Institute Plant & Food Research in Lincoln. Her work focused on the role of earthworms in the soil, and nitrate leaching, to further understand soil quality in cropping systems. She won a 2020 New Zealand Woman of Influence Award in the rural category, and became a Fellow of...
+ show more
2. Harry Knight
1860-. (aged 166)
chairperson
farmer
Henry Arthur Knight was a New Zealand sheep farmer, racehorse owner, and local politician. He was the first student and the third director of the Canterbury Agricultural College.
+ show more
3. Lance McCaskill
1900-1985 (aged 85)
botanical collector
academic
writer
Lancelot William McCaskill CBE was a New Zealand agricultural instructor, lecturer, conservationist and writer. Born in Winchester, South Canterbury, New Zealand, he became aware of soil erosion problems in 1929 through his work towards his master's thesis Fertilizers in New Zealand, 1867–1929. He argued in favour of land management and conservation over downstream engineering solutions. His long career of public...
+ show more
4. David Meates
1980-1984 (aged 4)
chief executive officer
David William Meates MNZM is a New Zealand business leader in Christchurch, New Zealand, and son of former All Black, Bill Meates. He was chief executive of Canterbury and West Coast District Health Boards until 4 September 2020.
+ show more
5. Lindsay Tisch
1947-. (aged 79)
politician
William Lindsay Tisch QSO JP is a former New Zealand National Party politician.
6. Ronald Trotter
1927-2010 (aged 83)
businessperson
Sir Ronald Ramsay Trotter was one of New Zealand's pre-eminent business leaders. He was knighted for his service to business in 1985.
7. Paul Quinn
1951-. (aged 75)
politician
rugby union player
Bernard Paul Quinn is a New Zealand businessman, former rugby union player and former politician. He captained the Wellington Rugby Football Union team from 1981 to 1983 and the New Zealand Māori national team from 1980 to 1982. From 2008 to 2011, he was a Member of the New Zealand House of Representatives for the National Party.
+ show more
8. Julian Rayner
biologist
Julian Charles Rayner is a New Zealand-British malaria researcher and academic. He is a Professor of Cell Biology and the Director of the Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, part of the University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine. He is also Director of Wellcome Connecting Science. He was previously a member of academic Faculty at the Wellcome Sanger Institute.
+ show more
9. Jack Stratton
1994-. (aged 32)
rugby union player
Jack Stratton is a New Zealand rugby union player who plays for the Crusaders in the Super Rugby competition. His position of choice is scrum-half.
10. Doug Edmeades
1949-. (aged 77)
scientist
Douglas Charles Edmeades ONZM is a New Zealand soil scientist. He was involved in high-profile litigation in relation to the effectiveness of the Maxicrop brand of fertiliser.
+ show more
11. Turi Carroll
1890-1975 (aged 85)
farmer
politician
Sir Alfred Thomas "Turi" Carroll KBE was a New Zealand Māori leader and local politician. He was a member of the Kahungunu Tribal Executive, chair of the Wairoa County Council, and president of the New Zealand Māori Council from 1962 to 1967.
+ show more
12. Ainsley Iggo
1924-2012 (aged 88)
physiologist
university teacher
Ainsley Iggo FRS was a New Zealand born neurophysiologist.
13. Di Lucas
1950-. (aged 76)
environmental planner
landscape architect
Diane Jean Lucas ONZM is a New Zealand landscape architect and environmental planner known for her conservation works, and particularly in and around Christchurch, Banks Peninsula and the Canterbury Plains and South Island High Country. She is a strong advocate for the protection of natural and indigenous ecosystems, and sustainable rural management.
+ show more
14. Kelvin Coe
1944-. (aged 82)
Kelvin John Coe ONZM is a New Zealand former politician who was the mayor of Selwyn District from 2007 to 2016.
15. Lloyd Evans
1927-2015 (aged 88)
plant physiologist
Lloyd Thomas Evans was a New Zealand plant physiologist who made his career in Australia.
16. John Hotop
1929-2015 (aged 86)
rugby union player
John Hotop was a New Zealand rugby union player. A first five-eighth, Hotop represented Bush, Manawatu, Canterbury, and Otago at a provincial level. He was a member of the New Zealand national side, the All Blacks, in 1952 and 1955. Three internationals against Australia were the full extent of his involvement with the All Blacks.
+ show more
17. Priscilla M. Wehi
biologist
researcher
ecologist
Priscilla M. Wehi is a New Zealand ethnobiologist and conservation biologist. As at July 2021 she is an associate professor at the University of Otago and on the first of that month officially undertook the role of director of Te Pūnaha Matatini, a centre of research excellence in complex systems and data analytics. During the COVID-19 pandemic in New Zealand...
+ show more
18. Lesley L. Rhodes
scientist
Lesley Louise Rhodes CNZM is a New Zealand scientist. She is the co-leader of the Nationally Significant Database programme for the Cawthron Institute. In the 2017 Queen's Birthday Honours, she was named as a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit in recognition for her contributions to science and marine farming.
+ show more
19. Helen Hughes
1929-2024 (aged 95)
botanist
teacher
civil servant
Helen Hannah Rigg Hughes CBE CRSNZ was a New Zealand botanist. She served as New Zealand's first Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment, from 1987 to 1996.
+ show more
20. John Hayes
1958-. (aged 68)
politician
John Bernard Hayes ONZM is a former New Zealand politician and diplomat. A member of the National Party, he was a Member of the New Zealand House of Representatives in the Wairarapa electorate from 2005 to 2014.
+ show more
21. Ian Hurst
1951-. (aged 75)
rugby union player
Ian Archibald Hurst is a former New Zealand rugby union player who played for the All Blacks in the early 1970s. He also played provincial rugby for North Otago and Canterbury.
+ show more
22. David Carter
1967-. (aged 59)
basketball player
basketball coach
Sir David Cunningham Carter KNZM is a New Zealand National Party politician who served as the 29th Speaker of the New Zealand House of Representatives from 2013 to 2017 and as a Cabinet Minister in the Fourth and Fifth National Governments. He represented the Selwyn electorate in the 44th Parliament and the Banks Peninsula electorate in the 45th Parliament. He...
+ show more
23. Toni Street
1983-. (aged 43)
television presenter
Toni Street is a New Zealand television presenter and sports commentator. She is best known for co-hosting the New Zealand current affairs programme Seven Sharp alongside Mike Hosking, as well as presenting morning shows and sports reporting for One News.
+ show more
24. Jane Watson
1990-. (aged 36)
netballer
Jane Louise Watson is a New Zealand netball international. She was a member of the New Zealand teams that won the 2019 Netball World Cup and the 2021 Constellation Cup. Watson has also played for both Mainland Tactix and Southern Steel in the ANZ Championship and the ANZ Premiership. In 2017 she was a member of the Steel team that...
+ show more
25. Amy Rule
2000-. (aged 26)
rugby union player
Amy McKenzie Rule is a New Zealand rugby union player. She plays for the Black Ferns internationally and was a member of their 2021 Rugby World Cup champion squad. She also plays for Matatū in the Super Rugby Aupiki competition and represents Canterbury provincially.
+ show more
26. David Clendon
1955-. (aged 71)
politician
David James Clendon is a New Zealand former politician. He was a list Member of Parliament in the New Zealand House of Representatives for the Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand from 2009 until 2017. He later served one term on the Far North District Council from 2019 to 2022.
+ show more
27. Chelsea Bremner
1995-. (aged 31)
teacher
rugby union player
Chelsea Bremner is a New Zealand rugby union player. She plays for the Black Ferns internationally and was a member of their 2021 Rugby World Cup champion squad. She previously played for Matatū in 2022, but now plays for the Chiefs Manawa in the Super Rugby Aupiki competition. She represents Canterbury at a provincial level.
+ show more
28. Olivia Merry
1992-. (aged 34)
field hockey player
Olivia Catherina Merry is a New Zealand field hockey player for the national team. She competed in the women's hockey tournament at the 2014 Commonwealth Games where she won a bronze medal. She also attended the 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games where she and her team won gold.
+ show more
29. Pema Gyamtsho
1961-. (aged 65)
politician
Pema Gyamtsho is a Bhutanese politician who served as the Second Party President of the Bhutan Peace and Prosperity Party and Opposition Leader in the National Assembly of Bhutan from 2013 until his resignation in 2020. Since then he has been the Director General of International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (|ICIMOD). He also served as the Minister of Agriculture...
+ show more
30. Sam Bosworth
1994-. (aged 32)
coxswain
Sam Bosworth is a New Zealand coxswain. He is an Olympic champion and was the first male coxswain to win an international elite rowing event in a female crew.
+ show more
31. Andy Dalton
1951-. (aged 75)
rugby union player
Andrew Grant Dalton is a former New Zealand rugby union player. He captained the national team, the All Blacks, 17 times in tests. He is a second-generation All Black; his father Ray Dalton played in two All Blacks tests in the late 1940s.
+ show more
32. Maggie Barry
1960-. (aged 66)
costume designer
actor
radio personality
politician
Margaret Mary Barry ONZM, generally known as Maggie Barry, is a New Zealand radio and television presenter and politician.
33. Robbie Fruean
1988-. (aged 38)
rugby union player
Robert Lakopo Fruean is a retired New Zealand rugby union footballer. He is a midfield back and plays outside centre (13) and sometimes on the wing. He is a former Porirua College head boy. He is of Samoan & Cook islands heritage.
+ show more
34. Wilson Whineray
1935-2012 (aged 77)
rugby union player
Sir Wilson James Whineray KNZM OBE was a New Zealand business executive and rugby union player. He was the longest-serving captain of the national rugby union team, the All Blacks, until surpassed by Richie McCaw in 2014. Rugby writer Terry McLean considered him the All Blacks' greatest captain.
+ show more
35. Andrew Ellis
1984-. (aged 42)
rugby union player
Andrew Ellis is a New Zealand rugby union player who plays the position of scrum-half for Rugby New York in Major League Rugby (MLR).
36. Rodney Hide
1956-. (aged 70)
politician
Rodney Philip Hide QSO is a former New Zealand politician of the ACT New Zealand party. Hide was a Member of Parliament for ACT from 1996 until 2011, was ACT's leader between 2004 and 2011, and represented the Epsom constituency from 2005 to 2011. In the Fifth National Government, Hide was Minister of Local Government, Associate Minister of Commerce and...
+ show more
37. Damien O'Connor
1958-. (aged 68)
politician
political candidate
Damien Peter O'Connor is a New Zealand Labour Party politician who served as Minister of Agriculture, Minister for Biosecurity, Minister for Trade and Export Growth, Minister for Land Information and Minister for Rural Communities in the Sixth Labour Government. He previously served as a cabinet minister in the Fifth Labour Government. He had been a member of Parliament since 1993...
+ show more
38. Reuben Thorne
1975-. (aged 51)
rugby union player
Reuben David Thorne is a New Zealand rugby union player, and former captain of the national team, the All Blacks. Now involved with Big Brother Big Sister and is the Christ College first XV coach.
+ show more
39. Joe Moody
1988-. (aged 38)
rugby union player
Joseph Paul Tamatea Moody is a New Zealand rugby union footballer who plays as a prop for the Crusaders in Super Rugby and Canterbury in the Bunnings NPC. He made his debut for New Zealand in 2014 and has 57 international caps.
+ show more
40. Dominic Bird
1991-. (aged 35)
rugby union player
Dominic Bird is a New Zealand rugby union player who plays as a lock and has represented the All Blacks. He has also played for Canterbury and Wellington in the Mitre 10 Cup, the Crusaders and Chiefs in Super Rugby. He has also played for Racing 92 in the French Top 14.
+ show more
41. Don McKinnon
1939-. (aged 87)
diplomat
politician
Sir Donald Charles McKinnon ONZ GCVO PC is a New Zealand politician who served as the 12th deputy prime minister of New Zealand and the minister of Foreign Affairs of New Zealand. He was the fourth secretary-general of the Commonwealth of Nations from 2000 until 2008.
+ show more
42. Chandler Cunningham-South
2003-. (aged 23)
rugby union player
Chandler Cunningham-South is an English professional rugby union player who plays as a forward for Premiership Rugby club Harlequins and the England national team.
+ show more
43. Robbie Deans
1959-. (aged 67)
cricketer
rugby union player
Robert Maxwell Deans is a New Zealand rugby union coach and former player, currently the head coach of Japanese club Saitama Wild Knights. He was head coach of the Australian national team between 2008 and 2013. Deans previously coached the Crusaders for eight seasons and was an assistant coach of New Zealand between late 2001 and 2003. As the coach...
+ show more
44. Jeremy Rockliff
1970-. (aged 56)
farmer
politician
Jeremy Page Rockliff MP is an Australian politician currently serving as the 47th premier of Tasmania. Rockliff's premiership began in 2022 following the resignation of Peter Gutwein. He previously served as deputy premier from 2014 to 2022.
+ show more
45. Mark Inglis
1959-. (aged 67)
mountaineer
scientist
winegrower
sport cyclist
biochemist
Mark Joseph Inglis ONZM is a New Zealand mountaineer, researcher, winemaker and motivational speaker. He holds a degree in Human Biochemistry from Lincoln University, New Zealand, and has conducted research on leukaemia. He is also an accomplished cyclist and, as a double leg amputee, won a silver medal in the 1 km time trial event at the 2000 Summer Paralympics...
+ show more
46. Charles Upham
1908-1994 (aged 86)
farmer
Charles Hazlitt Upham VC & Bar was a New Zealand soldier decorated for actions during World War II.
47. Richie McCaw
1980-. (aged 46)
rugby union player
Richard Hugh McCaw ONZ is a New Zealand retired professional rugby union player. He captained the New Zealand national team, the All Blacks, in 110 out of his 148 test matches, and won two Rugby World Cups. He has won the World Rugby Player of the Year award a joint record three times and was the most capped test rugby...
+ show more
48. Sam Whitelock
1988-. (aged 38)
rugby union player
Samuel Lawrence Whitelock ONZM is a New Zealand former rugby union player.
49. Richie Mo'unga
1994-. (aged 32)
rugby union player
Richie Mo'unga is a New Zealand professional rugby union player who plays as a first five-eighth for Japan Rugby League One club Toshiba Brave Lupus and the New Zealand national team.
+ show more
50. Jordie Barrett
1997-. (aged 29)
rugby union player
Jordan Matthew Barrett is a New Zealand-born rugby union player who currently plays as a centre or fullback for Irish side Leinster in the United Rugby Championship. He represents New Zealand internationally.
+ show more
51. Annabel Langbein
1958-. (aged 68)
chef
Annabel Rose Langbein ONZM is a New Zealand celebrity cook, food writer and publisher. She has published over 30 cookbooks, and co-produced three seasons of her award-winning television series, Annabel Langbein The Free Range Cook, which launched on the TV One network in New Zealand and has since screened in more than 90 countries.
+ show more
52. Jack Goodhue
1995-. (aged 31)
rugby sevens player
rugby union player
Elias Jack Goodhue is a New Zealand rugby union player who currently plays as a centre for Castres Olympique in the French Top 14.
53. George Whitelock
1986-. (aged 40)
rugby union player
George Braeden Whitelock is a former New Zealand rugby union player. He played for the Crusaders in the Super Rugby competition and Canterbury in the Air New Zealand Cup. He played as a flanker.
+ show more