New Zealand's Top 100 History Makers
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New Zealand's Top 100 History Makers was a weekly television programme first shown on Prime Television New Zealand on 6 October 2005. 430 notable New Zealanders were ranked by a panel to determine the 100 most influential in New Zealand history. The final episode, screened on 17 November 2005, showed the rankings of the top ten of these people as a result of votes collected from the public via text and internet. (These votes are not statistically valid as they involve self-selected voters).
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[edit] The panel
The show's rankings were produced by merging the ratings of eight panellists, who are all well-known New Zealanders:
- Stacey Daniels - Television and radio personality
- Raybon Kan - Comedian
- Robyn Langwell - Editor of North & South magazine
- Douglas Lloyd-Jenkins - Writer and historian
- Melanie Nolan - Historian
- Joseph Romanos - Journalist and author
- Tainui Stephens - Television producer
- Kerre Woodham - Radio personality
[edit] Panel rankings
- Ernest Rutherford - physicist
- Kate Sheppard - Suffragette
- Sir Edmund Hillary - mountaineer and explorer
- Sir George Grey - Governor and Premier
- Michael Joseph Savage - politician
- Sir Apirana Ngata - Māori politician
- Hone Heke - Māori chief
- Dr Frederick Truby King - founder of Plunket Society
- William Hobson - co-author of the Treaty of Waitangi
- Jean Batten - aviator
- Sir Brian Barratt-Boyes - heart surgeon
- Peter Snell - runner
- Sir William Pickering - space scientist
- Peter Jackson - film maker
- Janet Frame - writer
- Te Rauparaha - Māori leader
- Colin Meads - All Black
- Dame Whina Cooper - Māori leader
- Katherine Mansfield - writer
- Thomas Brydone and William Davidson - refrigeration pioneers
- Richard Pearse - aviation pioneer
- Te Whiti o Rongomai - Pacifist Māori leader
- Richard Seddon - politician
- Sir Peter Buck - Māori leader
- Sir Julius Vogel - politician
- Maurice Wilkins - scientist
- Helen Clark - politician
- Mabel Howard - politician
- Sir Bernard Freyberg - General
- Sir Harold Gillies - plastic surgeon
- Dame Kiri Te Kanawa - Opera singer
- Sir Keith Park - Air commodore
- Professor Alan MacDiarmid - Nobel laureate chemist
- Sir Peter Blake - yachtsman
- Dr C.E. (Clarence Edward) Beeby - educationalist
- Jack Lovelock - athlete
- Dr John Bedbrook - biotechnologist
- James K. Baxter - poet
- Dr Fred Hollows - eye surgeon
- Sir Murray Halberg - athlete and philanthropist
- Neil Finn - musician
- Edward Gibbon Wakefield - colony founder
- David Lange - politician
- Sir Robert Muldoon - politician
- Thomas J Edmonds - industrialist
- Colin McCahon - painter
- Colin Murdoch - inventor
- Sir Archibald McIndoe - plastic surgeon
- Rev Samuel Marsden - missionary
- Peter Fraser - politician
- John Clarke - comedian
- Ettie Rout - campaigner for safe sex
- Arthur Lydiard - popularised jogging
- Kupe - discoverer of Aotearoa
- Te Puea Herangi - Māori leader
- John Walker - runner
- Tim Finn - musician
- John A. Lee - politician
- Sir James Wattie - industrialist
- Sir Bill Hamilton - inventor
- Norman Kirk - politician
- Bill Gallagher - inventor
- Dr Michael King - Historian
- Frances Hodgkins - Painter
- George Nepia - All Black
- Sir James Fletcher - Industrialist
- Mother Aubert - Nun
- Charles Heaphy - Explorer
- A.H. Reed - Publisher
- Frank Sargeson - Writer
- Sir Roger Douglas - Politician
- Dr Matthew During - Scientist
- Te Kooti Arikirangi Te Turuki - Warrior
- Hongi Hika - Warrior chief
- Sir David Low - Cartoonist
- Kate Edger - Women's pioneer
- Dame Marie Clay - Educationalist
- Rewi Alley - Sinophile
- Thomas Rangiwahia Ellison - Rugby captain
- Rua Kenana Hepetipa - Prophet
- Tahupotiki Wiremu Ratana - Prophet
- Aunt Daisy - Broadcaster
- Charles Upham - Soldier
- Ralph Hotere -
- Sir Richard Hadlee - Cricketer
- Billy T James - Comedian
- Sir Keith Sinclair - Historian
- Charles Goldie - Painter
- John Minto - Activist
- Rudall Hayward - Film maker
- Witi Ihimaera - Writer
- John Te Rangianiwaniwa Rangihau - Māori language promoter
- Dave Dobbyn - Songwriter
- Russell Coutts - Sailor
- Jonah Lomu - All Black
- Peter Mahon - Lawyer
- Georgina Beyer - Transgender politician
- A J Hackett - Bungy jumping pioneer
- Denny Hulme - Formula One driver
- Russell Crowe - Actor
On the final programme, the 101st on the list was revealed:
101. Sir Mountford "Toss" Woollaston - Painter
[edit] Public rankings
- Ernest Rutherford - scientist
- Kate Sheppard - suffragette
- Edmund Hillary - explorer and humanitarian
- Charles Upham - war hero
- Billy T James - comedian
- David Lange - prime minister
- Apirana Ngata - politician
- Colin Murdoch - inventor of the disposable syringe
- Rua Kenana Hepetipa - prophet
- Roger Douglas - politician and economist
[edit] External link
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