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100 Notable alumni of University of Auckland

Updated: June 23, 2026 EliteDegrees

University of Auckland is ranked #170 in the world and #1 in New Zealand by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from University of Auckland sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff. Many individuals affiliated with University of Auckland won Nobel Prizes for Peace, in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, and Economics.

Danny Hilman Natawidjaja

1. Danny Hilman Natawidjaja

1961-. (aged 65)
geologist
Danny Hilman Natawidjaja is an Indonesian geologist specializing in earthquake geology and geotectonics at the Indonesian Institute of Sciences Research Center for Geotechnology.
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David Beattie

2. David Beattie

1924-2001 (aged 77)
judge
Sir David Stuart Beattie, GCMG, GCVO, QSO, KStJ, QC was an Australian-born New Zealand judge who served as the 14th governor-general of New Zealand from 1980 to 1985. During the 1984 constitutional crisis, Beattie was nearly forced to dismiss the sitting prime minister, Robert Muldoon.
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Maurice Williamson

3. Maurice Williamson

1951-. (aged 75)
politician
Maurice Donald Williamson is a New Zealand politician and former diplomat.
Lance O'Sullivan

4. Lance O'Sullivan

1973-. (aged 53)
physician
Lance O'Sullivan is a New Zealand Māori doctor (Te Rarawa, Ngati Hau, Ngati Maru) formerly practising in Kaitaia, Northland. He is also an author, public speaker and public health advocate. In 2013 O'Sullivan was declared Ngā Toa Whakaihuwaka (Supreme Māori of the year), and in 2014 he was declared New Zealander of the Year 2014 for bringing health programmes to...
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Murray McCully

5. Murray McCully

1953-. (aged 73)
diplomat lawyer politician
Murray Stuart McCully CNZM CF is a New Zealand former politician. He is a member of the National Party, and served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2008 to 2017.
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Jonathan Coleman

6. Jonathan Coleman

1966-. (aged 60)
politician
Jonathan David Coleman is a retired New Zealand politician and medical practitioner, who most recently served as Minister of Health and for Sport and Recreation under the Fifth National Government. Coleman also served as Minister of Defence and Immigration within the first two terms of that government, and represented the parliamentary constituency Northcote for the National Party from 2005 to...
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Margaret Wilson

7. Margaret Wilson

1947-. (aged 79)
lawyer politician
Margaret Anne Wilson DCNZM is a New Zealand lawyer, academic and former Labour Party politician. She served as Attorney-General from 1999 to 2005 and Speaker of the House of Representatives from 2005 to 2008, during the Fifth Labour Government.
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Jamie Whyte

8. Jamie Whyte

foreign currency trader philosopher politician
Jamie Whyte is a New Zealand classical-liberal academic and politician who was the Leader of ACT New Zealand in 2014. He unsuccessfully contested the Pakuranga electorate in the 2014 general election. At the election, Whyte held the first position on the party list, but ACT did not achieve enough party votes to secure any list seats. Soon after the 2014...
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Benson Stanley

9. Benson Stanley

1984-. (aged 42)
rugby union player
Benson Stanley is a rugby union player for US Montauban in the Pro D2. Stanley is a product of Auckland Grammar. He plays as a centre. Benson is one of the Stanley rugby clan that includes Chase, Joe, Jeremy, and Kyle. Benson is also the brother of Harlequin F.C. player Winston Stanley. Stanley was named in the 2010 All Blacks...
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David Epston

10. David Epston

1944-. (aged 82)
psychologist psychotherapist university teacher social worker
David Epston is a New Zealand social worker and therapist, formerly co-director of the Family Therapy Centre in Auckland, New Zealand, formerly visiting professor at the John F. Kennedy University, formerly an honorary clinical lecturer in the Department of Social Work, University of Melbourne, and formerly an affiliate faculty member in the Ph.D program in Couple and Family Therapy at...
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Pita Sharples

11. Pita Sharples

1941-. (aged 85)
politician
Sir Pita Russell Sharples KNZM CBE is a New Zealand Māori academic and politician, who was a co-leader of the Māori Party from 2004 to 2013, and a minister outside Cabinet in the National Party-led government from 2008 to 2014. He was the member of Parliament for the Tāmaki Makaurau electorate in Auckland from 2005 to 2014. He stepped down...
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Peter Davis

12. Peter Davis

1947-. (aged 79)
university teacher sociologist
Peter Byard Davis is a New Zealand sociologist, professor, and the husband of Helen Clark, who was the prime minister of New Zealand from 1999 to 2008.
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Raymond Huo

13. Raymond Huo

1964-. (aged 62)
politician
Raymond Huo is a New Zealand politician who was a Member of Parliament from 2008 to 2014 and from 2017 to 2020. He was first elected in 2008 as the New Zealand Labour Party's first MP of Chinese descent. He was the third Chinese New Zealander to enter Parliament, after the National Party's Pansy Wong and ACT's Kenneth Wang.
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Lowell Goddard

14. Lowell Goddard

1948-. (aged 78)
judge
Dame Lowell Patria Goddard, DNZM, KC is a former New Zealand High Court judge, from 1995 to 2015. She is thought to be the first person of Māori ancestry to have been appointed to the High Court. In 1988, she was one of the first two women to be appointed Queen's Counsel in New Zealand and in 1989 became the...
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Peter Gutmann

15. Peter Gutmann

computer scientist cryptographer
Peter Claus Gutmann is a computer scientist in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand. He has a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Auckland. His Ph.D. thesis and a book based on the thesis were about a cryptographic security architecture. He is interested in computer security issues, including security architecture, security...
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Anne Salmond

16. Anne Salmond

1945-. (aged 81)
historian academic anthropologist
Dame Mary Anne Salmond ONZ DBE FRSNZ is a New Zealand anthropologist. She was New Zealander of the Year in 2013. In 2020, she was appointed to the Order of New Zealand, the highest honour in New Zealand's royal honours system.
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Jonathan Hunt

17. Jonathan Hunt

1938-2024 (aged 86)
diplomat politician
Jonathan Lucas Hunt ONZ PC was a New Zealand politician and diplomat. He started a 38-year parliamentary career as the Baby of the House and retired as Father of the House. During that tenure, he was Speaker of the House of Representatives. Afterwards, he served as New Zealand's High Commissioner to the United Kingdom from 2005 to March 2008. He...
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Paul Goldsmith

18. Paul Goldsmith

1971-. (aged 55)
political candidate writer politician
Paul Jonathan Goldsmith is a New Zealand historian and politician. The biographer of several leading right-wing political and business figures, he was first elected a list member of the New Zealand House of Representatives for the National Party at the 2011 election.
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Jiaxin Cheng

19. Jiaxin Cheng

1974-. (aged 52)
cellist
Jiaxin Cheng is a Chinese cellist.
Jeanette Fitzsimons

20. Jeanette Fitzsimons

1945-2020 (aged 75)
politician
Jeanette Mary Fitzsimons CNZM was a New Zealand politician and environmentalist. She was the co-leader of the Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand from 1995 to 2009, and was a Member of Parliament from 1996 to 2010.
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Richard Prebble

21. Richard Prebble

1948-. (aged 78)
lawyer politician
Richard William Prebble CBE is a former member of the New Zealand Parliament. Initially a member of the Labour Party, he joined the newly formed ACT New Zealand party under Roger Douglas in 1996, becoming its leader from 1996 to 2004.
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Mohit Madaan

22. Mohit Madaan

1988-. (aged 38)
actor
Mohit Madaan is an Indian Hindi-film actor. He got recognition by playing the mastermind Bachchan Singh, one of the main characters in the film Aksar 2, a Hindi thriller film directed by Anant Mahadevan, co-starring Zareen Khan and Gautam Rode. The film is the sequel to 2006 hit film Aksar. Mohit Madaan is also credited as Mohit Madan in media.
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Lydia Bradey

23. Lydia Bradey

1961-. (aged 65)
mountaineer
Lydia Pounamu Bradey ONZM is a New Zealand mountaineer. She became the first woman to summit Mount Everest without supplemental oxygen in 1988. She has climbed Mount Everest a total of six times.
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Helen Winkelmann

24. Helen Winkelmann

1962-. (aged 64)
judge barrister
Dame Helen Diana Winkelmann GNZM is the 13th and current chief justice of New Zealand – head of the New Zealand judiciary – having been sworn in on 14 March 2019. She is the second woman to hold the position, following her immediate predecessor, Sian Elias.
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Phil Twyford

25. Phil Twyford

1963-. (aged 63)
politician political candidate
Philip Stoner Twyford is a politician from New Zealand and a member of the Labour Party. He has been a Member of Parliament since 2008. He is the Labour Party MP for Te Atatū.
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Maurice Gee

26. Maurice Gee

1931-2025 (aged 94)
scholar of English teacher novelist writer children's writer
Maurice Gough Gee was a New Zealand novelist. He was one of New Zealand's most distinguished and prolific authors, having written over thirty novels for adults and children, and having won numerous awards both in New Zealand and overseas, including multiple top prizes at the New Zealand Book Awards, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in the UK, the Katherine...
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Metiria Turei

27. Metiria Turei

1970-. (aged 56)
lawyer politician
Metiria Leanne Agnes Stanton Turei is a New Zealand academic and former politician. She was a Member of Parliament from 2002 to 2017 and the female co-leader of the Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand from 2009 to 2017. Turei resigned from the co-leader position on 9 August 2017 amid a political controversy arising from her admission to lying to...
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Hone Harawira

28. Hone Harawira

1955-. (aged 71)
politician
Hone Pani Tamati Waka Nene Harawira is a New Zealand Māori activist and former parliamentarian. He was elected to parliament as the member for the Māori electorate of Te Tai Tokerau in 2005 as the Māori Party candidate.
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Latha Hegde

29. Latha Hegde

1996-. (aged 30)
actor
Latha Hegde is an Indian-born New Zealand actress who works mainly in Kannada also works in Telugu films.
Raymond Firth

30. Raymond Firth

1901-2002 (aged 101)
academic anthropologist
Sir Raymond William Firth CNZM FRAI FBA was an ethnologist from New Zealand. As a result of Firth's ethnographic work, actual behaviour of societies (social organization) is separated from the idealized rules of behaviour within the particular society (social structure). He was a long-serving professor of anthropology at the London School of Economics, and is considered to have singlehandedly created...
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Linda Tuhiwai Smith

31. Linda Tuhiwai Smith

1950-. (aged 76)
professor
Linda Tuhiwai Te Rina Smith CNZM, previously a professor of indigenous education at the University of Waikato in Hamilton, New Zealand, is now a distinguished professor at Te Whare Wānanga o Awanuiārangi. Smith's academic work is about decolonising knowledge and systems. The Royal Society Te Apārangi describes Smith’s influence on education as creating "intellectual spaces for students and researchers to...
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Amber Sainsbury

32. Amber Sainsbury

1978-. (aged 48)
actor film actor
Amber Sainsbury is a New Zealand actress, philanthropist, and producer. She starred in the Sky One series Hex (2005). She is a founder of the charity Dramatic Need.
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Peter Shiu

33. Peter Shiu

1970-. (aged 56)
politician
Peter Shiu Ka-fai is the current Chairman of the Liberal Party and a member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong. He is also a former member of Eastern District Council, for Braemar Hill constituency on Hong Kong Island.
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Julie Anne Genter

34. Julie Anne Genter

1979-. (aged 47)
politician political candidate
Julie Anne Genter MP is an American-born New Zealand politician who is a member of the House of Representatives representing the Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand. Genter was elected to each Parliament from 2011 to 2023 on the party lists, before being elected as the Member of Parliament for the Rongotai electorate in the 2023 election. She served as...
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Aishah

35. Aishah

1965-. (aged 61)
singer actor socialite
Wan Aishah binti Wan Ariffin, known mononymously as Aishah, is a singer, actress, and politician from Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia.
Tawfik Hamid

36. Tawfik Hamid

1961-. (aged 65)
journalist writer
Tawfik Hamid is an Egyptian-American Muslim reformer and medical doctor. A self-described former member of the militant group al-Jama'a al-Islamiyya, he says that he started to preach in mosques to promote his message and, as a result, became a target of Islamic militants, who threatened his life. He has been a Senior Fellow and Chair for the Study of Islamic...
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Simeon Brown

37. Simeon Brown

1991-. (aged 35)
politician political candidate
Simeon Peter Brown is a New Zealand politician and Member of Parliament in the House of Representatives for the National Party. In January 2025, he was appointed Minister of Health by Prime Minister Chris Luxon.
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Christopher Chandler

38. Christopher Chandler

1960-. (aged 66)
financier businessperson investor
Christopher Chandler is a New Zealand businessman and founder of Dubai-based investment company Legatum which also provides funding for UK media channel GB News.
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Sian Elias

39. Sian Elias

1949-. (aged 77)
lawyer judge
Dame Sian Seerpoohi Elias GNZM KC PC is a former New Zealand judge who served as the 12th chief justice of New Zealand, and was therefore the most senior member of the country's judiciary. She was the inaugural presiding judge of the Supreme Court of New Zealand and on several occasions acted as administrator of the Government.
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Wayne Brown

40. Wayne Brown

1946-. (aged 80)
civil servant businessperson politician
Wayne Kelvin Forrest Brown is a New Zealand politician and the mayor of Auckland since the 2022 Auckland mayoral election. He has worked in leadership roles in several large New Zealand businesses and public infrastructure organisations. He was mayor of the Far North District Council from 2007 to 2013.
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Mike Rann

41. Mike Rann

1953-. (aged 73)
political adviser politician diplomat journalist media consultant
Michael David Rann AC CNZM is an Australian former politician and diplomat who was the 44th premier of South Australia from 2002 to 2011. He was later Australian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom from 2013 to 2014, and Australian ambassador to Italy, Albania, Libya and San Marino from 2014 to 2016.
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Tuilaʻepa Saʻilele Malielegaoi

42. Tuilaʻepa Saʻilele Malielegaoi

1945-. (aged 81)
archer economist politician
Susuga Tuilaʻepa Lupesoliai Neioti Aiono Saʻilele Malielegaoi is a Samoan politician and economist who is the current Leader of the Opposition of Samoa. A leader of the Human Rights Protection Party (HRPP), he served as the sixth prime minister of Samoa from 1998 to 2021.
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Roger Douglas

43. Roger Douglas

1937-. (aged 89)
politician
Sir Roger Owen Douglas is a retired New Zealand politician, economist and accountant who served as a minister in two Labour governments. He is most recognised for his key involvement in New Zealand's radical economic restructuring in the 1980s, when the Fourth Labour Government's economic policy became known as "Rogernomics", which implemented neoliberal economic policies.
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Richard Chandler

44. Richard Chandler

entrepreneur
Richard Fred Chandler is a New Zealand-born billionaire businessman. Starting his career as an investor in 1982, in 2006 he founded the Clermont Group, an international conglomerate based in Singapore. Chandler "has a reputation for buying struggling companies and successfully rebuilding them," according to ABC News. He remains chairman of the Clermont Group.
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Laisenia Qarase

45. Laisenia Qarase

1941-2020 (aged 79)
politician banker
Laisenia Qarase was a Fijian politician. He served as the sixth Prime Minister of Fiji from 2000 to 2006. After the military quashed the coup that led to the removal of Mahendra Chaudhry, Qarase joined the Interim Military Government as a financial adviser on 9 June 2000, until his appointment as Prime Minister on 4 July. He won two parliamentary...
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John Tamihere

46. John Tamihere

1959-. (aged 67)
politician political candidate
John Henry Tamihere is a New Zealand politician, media personality, and political commentator. He was a member of Parliament from 1999 to 2005, including serving as a Cabinet minister in the Labour Party from August 2002 to November 2004. Tamihere ran unsuccessfully for Auckland mayor in the 2019 election. He joined Te Pāti Māori (the Māori Party) in 2020 and...
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Ngaire Woods

47. Ngaire Woods

1963-. (aged 63)
professor economist
Ngaire Tui Woods CBE is the founding dean of the Blavatnik School of Government and professor of Global Economic Governance at the University of Oxford.
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Carmel Sepuloni

48. Carmel Sepuloni

1977-. (aged 49)
politician political candidate
Carmel Jean Sepuloni is a New Zealand politician who served as the 20th deputy prime minister of New Zealand. A member of the Labour Party, she was first elected to Parliament in 2008 for a three-year term as a list Member of Parliament (MP) and was re-elected as MP for Kelston in 2014. In 2023, she was elected as the...
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Catherine Tizard

49. Catherine Tizard

1931-2021 (aged 90)
university teacher activist politician
Dame Catherine Anne Tizard ONZ GCMG GCVO DBE QSO DStJ 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.
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David Seymour

50. David Seymour

1983-. (aged 43)
political candidate engineer politician
David Breen Seymour is a New Zealand politician who has served as the 21st deputy prime minister of New Zealand since 2025 and as the 1st minister for regulation since 2023. A member of the ACT Party, he has served as its leader and Member of Parliament (MP) for Epsom since 2014.
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Ashley Bloomfield

51. Ashley Bloomfield

1966-. (aged 60)
civil servant university teacher
Sir Ashley Robin Bloomfield KNZM is a New Zealand public health official. He served as the chief executive of the Ministry of Health and the country's Director-General of Health from 2018 to 2022. He was the public-facing health specialist liaising with the media during the COVID-19 pandemic in New Zealand on behalf of the government, from the first press conference...
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Vincent Cheng

52. Vincent Cheng

1979-. (aged 47)
politician
Vincent Cheng Wing-shun, MH is a Hong Kong politician. He is the current member of the Legislative Council member for Kowloon West and former member of the Sham Shui Po District Council for Nam Cheong North from 2015 to 2019. As a member of Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong (DAB), he made an upset in...
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Mahé Drysdale

53. Mahé Drysdale

1978-. (aged 48)
rower
Alexander Mahé Owens Drysdale MNZM is a New Zealand politician and retired rower. Drysdale is a two-time Olympic champion and a five-time world champion in the single sculls. He is a seven-time New Zealand national champion and five-time recipient of New Zealand Sportsman of the Year. He is the current mayor of Tauranga.
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Anand Satyanand

54. Anand Satyanand

1944-. (aged 82)
lawyer judge politician
Sir Anand Satyanand GNZM QSO KStJ is a New Zealand lawyer, judge, and ombudsman who served as the 19th Governor-General of New Zealand from 2006 to 2011.
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Phil Goff

55. Phil Goff

1953-. (aged 73)
diplomat politician
Philip Bruce Goff CNZM is a New Zealand retired politician and former diplomat. He was a member of the New Zealand Parliament from 1981 to 1990 and again from 1993 to 2016. He served as leader of the Labour Party and leader of the Opposition between 11 November 2008 and 13 December 2011.
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Vaughan Jones

56. Vaughan Jones

1952-2020 (aged 68)
mathematician university teacher
Sir Vaughan Frederick Randal Jones was a New Zealand mathematician known for his work on von Neumann algebras and knot polynomials. He was awarded a Fields Medal in 1990.
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Chris Liddell

57. Chris Liddell

1958-. (aged 68)
philanthropist businessperson politician
Christopher Pell Liddell CNZM is a New Zealand-American businessperson who served as chief financial officer of Microsoft, the vice chairman of General Motors, senior vice president and CFO of International Paper, director and chairman of Xero and the White House deputy chief of staff in the first Trump administration.
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Adrian Zenz

58. Adrian Zenz

1974-. (aged 52)
lecturer sinologist anthropologist
Adrian Nikolaus Zenz is a German anthropologist known for his studies of the Xinjiang internment camps and persecution of Uyghurs in China. He is a director and senior fellow in China studies at the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, an anti-communist think tank established by the US government and based in Washington, DC.
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Gavin Hastings

59. Gavin Hastings

1962-. (aged 64)
American football player rugby union player
Andrew Gavin Hastings, OBE is a Scottish former rugby union player. A fullback, he is widely regarded to be one of the best ever Scottish rugby players and was one of the outstanding players of his generation, winning 61 caps for Scotland, 20 of which as captain. He played for Watsonians, London Scottish, Cambridge University, Scotland and the British Lions....
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David Lange

60. David Lange

1942-2005 (aged 63)
diplomat lawyer politician
David Russell Lange ONZ CH PC was a New Zealand politician who served as the 32nd prime minister of New Zealand from 1984 to 1989. A member of the New Zealand Labour Party, Lange was also the minister of Education and the minister of Foreign Affairs alongside his term as prime minister. He was also the attorney-general of New Zealand...
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Golriz Ghahraman

61. Golriz Ghahraman

1981-. (aged 45)
barrister political candidate politician prosecutor
Golriz Ghahraman is a New Zealand former politician, lawyer and writer. The former United Nations lawyer was a child asylum seeker, and became the first refugee elected to New Zealand's Parliament. Ghahraman was a member of the New Zealand House of Representatives for the Green Party from 2017 to 2024, when she resigned amid multiple shoplifting allegations, which she was...
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Nalini Singh

62. Nalini Singh

1977-. (aged 49)
novelist lawyer writer librarian English teacher
Nalini Singh is a New Zealand author of Indo-Fijian descent. She has authored numerous paranormal romance novels.
Simon Bridges

63. Simon Bridges

1976-. (aged 50)
lawyer politician
Simon Joseph Bridges is a New Zealand former politician, broadcaster and lawyer. He served as Leader of the National Party and Leader of the Opposition between 2018 and 2020, and as the Member of Parliament for Tauranga from the 2008 election to May 2022, when he resigned. Bridges is the first and currently the only Māori person to serve as...
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Eliza McCartney

64. Eliza McCartney

1996-. (aged 30)
athletics competitor high jumper pole vaulter
Eliza McCartney is a New Zealand track and field athlete who competes in the pole vault and won the bronze medal in this event at the 2016 Summer Olympics. She is the current New Zealand and Oceania record holder at 4.94 m ( 16 ft 2+1⁄4 in), and is the outdoor world junior record holder at 4.64 m ( 15...
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Russell Coutts

65. Russell Coutts

1962-. (aged 64)
skipper marine architect
Sir Russell Coutts KNZM CBE is a world champion New Zealand yachtsman. He won an Olympic gold medal and skippered three Americas Cup victories in 1995, 2000, and 2003.
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Gary Chaw

66. Gary Chaw

1979-. (aged 47)
singer lyricist singer-songwriter
Gary Chaw, also known as Gary Cao or Cao Ge or by his alter ego Cao Xiaoge, is a Malaysian Chinese singer-songwriter based in Taiwan, who has had achieved success in Taiwan, Mainland China, Malaysia, Hong Kong, and Singapore. He is renowned for his stage presence, wide vocal range, and rich voice. In addition, he composes for himself and other...
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Rieko Ioane

67. Rieko Ioane

1997-. (aged 29)
rugby sevens player rugby union player
Rieko Edward Ioane is a New Zealand rugby union player who plays as a centre or wing for United Rugby Championship club Leinster. He plays for New Zealand at international level.
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Chlöe Swarbrick

68. Chlöe Swarbrick

1994-. (aged 32)
political candidate entrepreneur politician
Chlöe Charlotte Swarbrick MP is a New Zealand politician who has served as a co-leader of the Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand since 2024.
Philippa Boyens

69. Philippa Boyens

1962-. (aged 64)
film producer screenwriter director
Philippa Jane Boyens MNZM is a New Zealand screenwriter who co-wrote the screenplay for The Lord of the Rings series, King Kong, The Lovely Bones, and the three-part film series The Hobbit.
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Emily Barclay

70. Emily Barclay

1984-. (aged 42)
film actor actor stage actor
Emily Barclay Ward is a British-born New Zealand and Australian AFI award winning actress.
Michael Jones

71. Michael Jones

1965-. (aged 61)
rugby union coach rugby union player
Sir Michael Niko Jones KNZM is a New Zealand former rugby union player and coach.
Judith Collins

72. Judith Collins

1959-. (aged 67)
political candidate lawyer politician
Judith Anne Collins KC MP is a New Zealand politician who has served as the attorney-general and minister of defence since 27 November 2023. She served as the leader of the Opposition and leader of the New Zealand National Party from 14 July 2020 to 25 November 2021. Collins has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Papakura since...
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Nanaia Mahuta

73. Nanaia Mahuta

1970-. (aged 56)
political candidate anthropologist politician
Nanaia Cybele Mahuta is a New Zealand former politician who served as the Minister of Foreign Affairs of New Zealand from 2020 to 2023. A member of the New Zealand Labour Party, Mahuta served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for 27 years, at first for the party list and then for three different Māori electorates, latterly for Hauraki-Waikato. Mahuta...
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Edmund Hillary

74. Edmund Hillary

1919-2008 (aged 89)
mountaineer explorer philanthropist beekeeper autobiographer
Sir Edmund Percival Hillary was a New Zealand mountaineer, explorer, and philanthropist. On 29 May 1953, Hillary and Sherpa mountaineer Tenzing Norgay became the first climbers confirmed to have reached the summit of Mount Everest. They were part of the ninth British expedition to Everest, led by John Hunt. From 1985 to 1988 he served as New Zealand's High Commissioner...
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Rose McIver

75. Rose McIver

1988-. (aged 38)
actor film director
Frances Rose McIver is a New Zealand actress. She portrays Samantha Arondekar in the CBS supernatural sitcom Ghosts (2021–present), Olivia "Liv" Moore in The CW supernatural comedy-drama series iZombie (2015–2019), Summer Landsdown the Yellow Ranger in Power Rangers RPM (2009), and Amber Moore in the romantic comedy film A Christmas Prince (2017) and its two sequels, The Royal Wedding (2018)...
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Marcus Chang

76. Marcus Chang

1983-. (aged 43)
songwriter television actor actor film actor
Marcus Chang is a Taiwanese actor and singer-songwriter. He made his acting debut in the film Café. Waiting. Love (2014) and rose to prominence with the television series Back to 1989 (2016). He gained international recognition for his dual-role performance in the romantic fantasy series Lost Romance (2020), for which he won the Asian Star Prize at the 16th Seoul...
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Bundee Aki

77. Bundee Aki

1990-. (aged 36)
rugby union player
Fua Leiofi Bundellu Aki is a professional rugby union player who plays as a centre for United Rugby Championship club Connacht. Born in New Zealand, he represents Ireland at international level after qualifying on residency grounds. He became an Irish citizen in 2024, and maintains dual citizenship. He has four caps for the British and Irish Lions, has won three...
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Helen Clark

78. Helen Clark

1950-. (aged 76)
university teacher political scientist politician
Helen Elizabeth Clark ONZ SSI PC is a New Zealand politician who served as the 37th prime minister of New Zealand from 1999 to 2008 and was the administrator of the United Nations Development Programme from 2009 to 2017. She was New Zealand's fifth-longest-serving prime minister, and the second woman to hold that office.
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Winston Peters

79. Winston Peters

1945-. (aged 81)
political candidate rugby union player diplomat politician
Winston Raymond Peters PC is a New Zealand politician. He has led the political party New Zealand First since he founded it in 1993, and since November 2023 has served as the 25th minister of foreign affairs. A long-serving member of Parliament (MP), Peters was re-elected for a fifteenth time at the 2023 general election, having previously been an MP...
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Lisa Harrow

80. Lisa Harrow

1943-. (aged 83)
film actor actor stage actor
Lisa Harrow ONZM is a New Zealand, RADA-trained actress, noted for her roles in British theatre, films and television. She is perhaps best known for her portrayal of Nancy Astor in the British BBC television drama Nancy Astor.
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Peter Gluckman

81. Peter Gluckman

1949-. (aged 77)
scientist physician
Sir Peter David Gluckman is a New Zealand scientist. Originally trained as a paediatrician, he served as the inaugural Chief Science Advisor to the New Zealand Prime Minister from 2009 to 2018. He is a founding member and was inaugural chair of the International Network for Government Science Advice, and is president of the International Science Council.
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Nigel Latta

82. Nigel Latta

1967-2025 (aged 58)
television presenter clinical psychologist
Nigel Raymond Latta ONZM was a New Zealand clinical psychologist, author and broadcaster. He had often been described as "New Zealand's best-known psychologist".
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Henry Puna

83. Henry Puna

1949-. (aged 77)
politician
Henry Tuakeu Puna is a Cook Islands politician. He most recently served as the secretary-general of the Pacific Islands Forum from May of 2021 to 2024. He was Prime Minister of the Cook Islands from November 2010 to October 2020. Since 2006 he has been leader of the Cook Islands Party.
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Margaret Mahy

84. Margaret Mahy

1936-2012 (aged 76)
screenwriter novelist writer librarian children's writer
Margaret Mahy ONZ was a New Zealand author of children's and young adult books. Many of her story plots have strong supernatural elements but her writing concentrates on the themes of human relationships and growing up. She wrote more than 100 picture books, 40 novels and 20 collections of short stories. At her death she was one of thirty writers...
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Stuart Nash

85. Stuart Nash

1967-. (aged 59)
politician
Stuart Alexander Nash is a New Zealand politician and lawyer. He was a member of the House of Representatives for Labour Party from 2008 to 2011, and was re-elected in 2014 election as a representative of Napier electorate. In October 2017 when Jacinda Ardern became Prime Minister of New Zealand, Nash entered Labour Cabinet, with a portfolios of Police, Revenue,...
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David Shearer

86. David Shearer

1957-. (aged 69)
politician
David James Shearer MBE is a New Zealand United Nations worker and politician. He was a member of the New Zealand Parliament for the Labour Party from 2009 to 2016, serving as Leader of the Opposition from 2011 to 2013.
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Āpirana Ngata

87. Āpirana Ngata

1874-1950 (aged 76)
historian jurist lawyer politician
Sir Āpirana Turupa Ngata was a prominent New Zealand statesman. He has often been described as the foremost Māori politician to have served in parliament in the mid-20th century, and is also known for his work in promoting and protecting Māori culture and language. His legacy is one of the most prominent of any New Zealand leader in the 20th...
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Bryan Charles Gould

88. Bryan Charles Gould

1939-. (aged 87)
politician
Bryan Charles Gould CNZM is a New Zealand-born British former politician and diplomat. He served as a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1974 to 1979, and again from 1983 to 1994. He was a member of the Labour Party's shadow cabinet from 1986 to 1992, and stood unsuccessfully for the leadership of the party in 1992.
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Andrew Coster

89. Andrew Coster

police officer
Andrew David Coster is a New Zealand senior public servant and former police officer. He served as Commissioner of Police from 3 April 2020 to 10 November 2024 and was subsequently appointed Secretary for Social Investment and chief executive of the Social Investment Agency, before resigning from that role in November 2025 following an Independent Police Conduct Authority report into...
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Ronald Syme

90. Ronald Syme

1903-1989 (aged 86)
historian university teacher classical scholar translator
Sir Ronald Syme, OM, FBA was a New Zealand-born historian and classicist. He was regarded as the greatest historian of ancient Rome since Theodor Mommsen and the most brilliant exponent of the history of the Roman Empire since Edward Gibbon. His great work was The Roman Revolution (1939), a masterly and controversial analysis of political life in the Roman Republic...
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Hinemoa Elder

91. Hinemoa Elder

1993-1998 (aged 5)
television presenter researcher
Hinemoa Elder MNZM is a New Zealand youth forensic psychiatrist and former television presenter. She is a professor in indigenous research at Te Whare Wānanga o Awanuiārangi, a fellow of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists, and sits on the Māori Advisory Committee of the Centre for Brain Research.
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Colin Craig

92. Colin Craig

1968-. (aged 58)
businessperson
Colin Craig is a New Zealand businessman and perennial candidate who was the founding leader of the Conservative Party of New Zealand.
Ingrid Visser

93. Ingrid Visser

1966-. (aged 60)
biologist researcher
Ingrid Natasha Visser is a New Zealand marine biologist who studies orcas. She regularly lectures on the subject aboard cruise ships, especially in Antarctica, and has been featured in several documentaries about orcas.
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Niki Caro

94. Niki Caro

1967-. (aged 59)
film producer screenwriter film director
Nikola Jean Caro MNZM is a New Zealand film, television, and music video director and screenwriter. Her 2002 film Whale Rider was critically praised and won a number of awards at international film festivals. She directed the 2020 live action version of Disney's Mulan, making her the second woman and the second New Zealand director hired by Disney to direct...
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Shane Reti

95. Shane Reti

1963-. (aged 63)
badminton player politician badminton executive and administrator political candidate physician
Shane Raymond Reti QSM MP is a New Zealand politician and a member of the New Zealand House of Representatives, and a Cabinet Minister with the roles of Minister for Pacific Peoples, Minister of Science, Innovation, and Technology, Minister of Universities and Minister of Statistics. He was first elected at the 2014 general election as the Member of Parliament (MP)...
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Marama Davidson

96. Marama Davidson

1973-. (aged 53)
politician political candidate
Marama Mere-Ana Davidson is a New Zealand politician who has served as a co-leader of the Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand since 2018.
Pete Bethune

97. Pete Bethune

1965-. (aged 61)
explorer
Captain Peter James Bethune is a New Zealand ship's captain with 500 ton master licence, published author, producer of The Operatives TV show, and public speaker. He is the founder of Earthrace Conservation. He works assisting countries in Asia, Central America and Africa with fisheries enforcement and anti-poaching. He is the holder of the world record for circumnavigating the globe...
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Stephen Donald

98. Stephen Donald

1983-. (aged 43)
rugby union player
Stephen Rex Donald is a retired New Zealand rugby union player who played for the NEC Green Rockets in the Japanese Top League. A first five-eighth or centre, he won 24 international caps for New Zealand. Nicknamed 'Beaver', he is best known for kicking the winning penalty in the 2011 Rugby World Cup final.
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Peter Thomson

99. Peter Thomson

1948-. (aged 78)
diplomat politician
Peter Thomson OF is a Fijian diplomat and the United Nations Secretary-General's Special Envoy for the Ocean, and President of the United Nations General Assembly from September 2016 until September 2017. He served as Fiji's Permanent Representative to the United Nations February 2010 to August 2017, with concurrent duties as Fiji's Ambassador to Cuba.
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Wilson Whineray

100. 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.
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