List of New Zealand businesspeople

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The following is a list of New Zealand businesspeople.

  • Samuel Brown 1845-1909, Wellington merchant, mayor
  • Alfred Buckland 1825-1903, landowner, auctioneer, farmer, businessman
  • Sir John Logan Campbell 1817-1912, merchant, local politician, businessman, philanthropist, the Father of Auckland
  • George Court retailer, businessman, philanthropist
  • John Court 1846-1933 retailer, businessman, city councillor, philanthropist
  • Thomas Wong Doo 1903-1963, merchant, interpreter, community leader
  • Lewis Alfred Eady 1891-1965, music retailer, company director, benefactor
  • Josiah Clifton Firth 1826-1897, Flourmiller, politician, pastoralist, entrepreneur
  • Gregory Fortuin - businessman and Race Relations Conciliator (2001-2)
  • Sir Jack Harris - manufacturer, of Bing Harris
  • Murray Haszard - entrepreneur and businessman
  • Joseph Hatch 1837-1928, Invercargill businessman, "harvester" of penguins
  • Keith Wilson Hay 1917-1997, builder, businessman, local politician, morals campaigner
  • Dick Hubbard - founder of Hubbards Foods and Auckland mayor (2004-2007)
  • Sir Robert Jones, property tycoon, founder of New Zealand Party.
  • Henry Joseph Kelliher 1896-1991, businessman, publisher, art patron, credit reformer
  • Robert Laidlaw - retailer, founder of FTC, the Farmers Trading Company
  • David Levene - retailer
  • Thomson Wilson Leys 1850-1924, journalist, editor, newspaper proprietor, philanthropist
  • Sir John Luke 1858-1931, businessman, politician
  • Sir Roy McKenzie 1922-2007, retailer, philanthropist
  • Sir James Mills 1847-1936, founded the Union (shipping) Company
  • Sir Arthur Myers 1867-1926. businessman, politician, philanthropist
  • Douglas Myers - businessman, brewer
  • Sam Morgan - businessman, founder of Trade Me
  • David Nathan 1816-1886, merchant, auctioneer, shipping agent, community leader
  • Joseph Nathan 1835-1912, manufacturer, founded Joseph Nathan & Co. and Glaxo
  • Sir Charles Norwood 1871-1966, businessman, philanthropist
  • John Plimmer 1812-1905, businessman, the Father of Wellington
  • Thomas Russell 1830-1904, lawyer, businessman, politician, financier, land speculator
  • Marianne Smith 1851-1938, founder of Smith and Caughey's Businesswoman, community worker, philanthropist
  • Sir Angus Tait 1919-2007, businessman and electronics innovator
  • Stephen Tindall, ONZM - retailer, founder of The Warehouse
  • Edward Earle Vaile 1869-1956, Real estate agent, farmer, philanthropist
  • Eric Watson - businessman
  • James Williamson 1814-1888, merchant, landowner, financier, speculator
  • Jack Yan - publisher, designer and businessman (born in Hong Kong)