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

  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 - Longest-serving Premier and Prime Minister of New Zealand
  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 union captain
  80. Rua Kenana Hepetipa - Prophet
  81. Tahupotiki Wiremu Ratana - Prophet
  82. Aunt Daisy - Broadcaster
  83. Charles Upham - Soldier
  84. Ralph Hotere- Artist
  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

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