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).

Contents 1 The panel 2 Panel rankings 3 Public rankings 4 External link

[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

1. Ernest Rutherford - physicist
2. Kate Sheppard - Suffragette
3. Sir Edmund Hillary - mountaineer and explorer
4. Sir George Grey - Governor and Premier
5. Michael Joseph Savage - politician
6. Sir Apirana Ngata - Māori politician
7. Hone Heke - Māori chief
8. Dr Frederick Truby King - founder of Plunket Society
9. William Hobson - co-author of the Treaty of Waitangi
10. Jean Batten - aviator
11. Sir Brian Barratt-Boyes - heart surgeon
12. Peter Snell - runner
13. Sir William Pickering - space scientist
14. Peter Jackson - film maker
15. Janet Frame - writer
16. Te Rauparaha - Māori leader
17. Colin Meads - All Black
18. Dame Whina Cooper - Māori leader
19. Katherine Mansfield - writer
20. Thomas Brydone and William Davidson - refrigeration pioneers
21. Richard Pearse - aviation pioneer
22. Te Whiti o Rongomai - Pacifist Māori leader
23. Richard Seddon - politician
24. Sir Peter Buck - Māori leader
25. Sir Julius Vogel - politician
26. Maurice Wilkins - scientist
27. Helen Clark - politician
28. Mabel Howard - politician
29. Sir Bernard Freyberg - General
30. Sir Harold Gillies - plastic surgeon
31. Dame Kiri Te Kanawa - Opera singer
32. Sir Keith Park - Air commodore
33. Professor Alan MacDiarmid - Nobel laureate chemist
34. Sir Peter Blake - yachtsman
35. Dr C.E. (Clarence Edward) Beeby - educationalist
36. Jack Lovelock - athlete
37. Dr John Bedbrook - biotechnologist
38. James K. Baxter - poet
39. Dr Fred Hollows - eye surgeon
40. Sir Murray Halberg - athlete and philanthropist
41. Neil Finn - musician
42. Edward Gibbon Wakefield - colony founder
43. David Lange - politician
44. Sir Robert Muldoon - politician
45. Thomas J Edmonds - industrialist
46. Colin McCahon - painter
47. Colin Murdoch - inventor
48. Sir Archibald McIndoe - plastic surgeon
49. Rev Samuel Marsden - missionary
50. Peter Fraser - politician
51. John Clarke - comedian
52. Ettie Rout - campaigner for safe sex
53. Arthur Lydiard - popularised jogging
54. Kupe - discoverer of Aotearoa
55. Te Puea Herangi - Māori leader
56. John Walker - runner
57. Tim Finn - musician
58. John A. Lee - politician
59. Sir James Wattie - industrialist
60. Sir Bill Hamilton - inventor
61. Norman Kirk - politician
62. Bill Gallagher - inventor
63. Dr Michael King - Historian
64. Frances Hodgkins - Painter
65. George Nepia - All Black
66. Sir James Fletcher - Industrialist
67. Mother Aubert - Nun
68. Charles Heaphy - Explorer
69. A.H. Reed - Publisher
70. Frank Sargeson - Writer
71. Sir Roger Douglas - Politician
72. Dr Matthew During - Scientist
73. Te Kooti Arikirangi Te Turuki - Warrior
74. Hongi Hika - Warrior chief
75. Sir David Low - Cartoonist
76. Kate Edger - Women's pioneer
77. Dame Marie Clay - Educationalist
78. Rewi Alley - Sinophile
79. Thomas Rangiwahia Ellison - Rugby captain
80. Rua Kenana Hepetipa - Prophet
81. Tahupotiki Wiremu Ratana - Prophet
82. Aunt Daisy - Broadcaster
83. Charles Upham - Soldier
84. Ralph Hotere -
85. Sir Richard Hadlee - Cricketer
86. Billy T James - Comedian
87. Sir Keith Sinclair - Historian
88. Charles Goldie - Painter
89. John Minto - Activist
90. Rudall Hayward - Film maker
91. Witi Ihimaera - Writer
92. John Te Rangianiwaniwa Rangihau - Māori language promoter
93. Dave Dobbyn - Songwriter
94. Russell Coutts - Sailor
95. Jonah Lomu - All Black
96. Peter Mahon - Lawyer
97. Georgina Beyer - Transgender politician
98. A J Hackett - Bungy jumping pioneer
99. Denny Hulme - Formula One driver
100. Russell Crowe - Actor

On the final programme, the 101st on the list was revealed:

101. Sir Mountford "Toss" Woollaston - Painter

[edit] Public rankings

1. Ernest Rutherford - scientist
2. Kate Sheppard - suffragette
3. Edmund Hillary - explorer and humanitarian
4. Charles Upham - war hero
5. Billy T James - comedian
6. David Lange - prime minister
7. Apirana Ngata - politician
8. Colin Murdoch - inventor of the disposable syringe
9. Rua Kenana Hepetipa - prophet
10. Roger Douglas - politician and economist

[edit] External link

• Programme web site from web.archive.org