List of South Islanders

A

• Alexander Aitken - mathematician/statistician, writer, mental calculator, musician
• Ronald Algie - politician
• Fred Allen - rugby union player
• James Allen - politician
• James Allen - rugby union player
• Rewi Alley - supporter of Chinese communism
• Basil Arthur - politician
• Peter Arnett - TV journalist, Pulitzer Prize winner
• Ian Athfield - architect

B

• David Bain
• Alison Ballance - author and film-maker
• Rick Barker - politician
• James Baxter - poet
• Francis Bell - first New Zealand-born Prime Minister
• David Benson-Pope - politician
• Todd Blackadder - rugby player
• Ben Blair - rugby player
• William Brassington - stonemason & sculptor
• John Britten - designer of the Britten motorcycle
• Donald Forrester Brown - awarded the Victoria Cross
• Nigel Brown - painter
• Gerry Brownlee - politician
• Kerry Burke - politician

C

• Dan Carter - rugby player
• Thomas Cooke - awarded the Victoria Cross
• Warren Cooper - politician
• Michael Cullen - politician
• G. H. Cunningham - plant pathologist
• Allen Curnow - poet

D

• Alan Dale - actor
• Lianne Dalziel - politician
• Bob Deans - rugby union player
• Bruce Deans - rugby union player
• Robbie Deans - rugby player & coach
• Stephnie de Ruyter - politician
• Rod Dixon - runner
• Rod Donald - politician
• Jimmy Duncan - rugby union player, coach & referee
• Peter Dunne - politician

E

• Andrew Ellis - rugby union player
• Thomas Ellison - rugby union player & lawyer
• Bill English - politician

F

• Bob Fitzsimmons - world boxing heavyweight champion
• Corey Flynn - rugby player
• George William Forbes - Prime Minister

G

• George Gair - politician
• Daryl Gibson - rugby player
• Charles Gifford - teacher and very successful promoter of astronomy
• George Gillett - rugby union player
• Sir Harold Gillies - pioneering plastic surgeon
• Stewart Graeme Guthrie - police sergeant posthumously awarded the George Cross
• Robin Gray - politician
• Arthur Guinness - politician

H

• Sir Richard Hadlee - cricketer
• John Hall - Premier of New Zealand
• William Hall-Jones - Prime Minister of New Zealand
• Adam Hamilton - politician
• Bill Hamilton - developed the modern jetboat
• Scott Hamilton - rugby union player
• Mark Hammett - rugby union player
• Dame Joan Hammond - violinist, soprano
• Joseph Hatch - Invercargill businessman, "harvester" of penguins
• Rudy Heeman - inventor
• Louise Henderson - painter
• Graham Henry - rugby union coach
• Jack Hinton - awarded the Victoria Cross
• Frances Hodgkins - painter
• Sidney Holland - Prime Minister
• Sir Fred Hollows - eye surgeon
• Andrew Hore - rugby union player
• Ned Hughes - rugby union player
• Alfred Hulme - awarded the Victoria Cross
• Denny Hulme - world champion racing driver

J

• Chris Jack - rugby player
• Rowena Jackson - ballerina

K

• Phil Keoghan - TV presenter
• Norman Kirk - Prime Minister
• Terry Knights - awarded the Military Cross for service in Iraq

L

• Robert Lawson - architect
• Richard Loe - rugby player
• Jack Lovelock - runner
• Isaac Luck - architect
• Len Lye - sculptor, experimental film maker

M

• Laurie Mains - rugby union player & coach
• Justin Marshall - rugby union player
• Aaron Mauger - rugby union player
• Ivan Mauger - six time Motorcycle speedway world champion
• Nathan Mauger - rugby union player
• Colin McCahon - painter, museum curator, teacher
• Richie McCaw - rugby union player
• Leon MacDonald - rugby union player
• Thomas Mackenzie - Prime Minister of New Zealand
• Shona McFarlane - painter
• Duncan McGregor - rugby union player
• Sir Archie McIndoe - pioneer plastic surgeon
• Cameron McIntyre - rugby player
• Peter McIntyre - painter
• Andrew Mehrtens - rugby union player
• Henry Monson - gaoler
• William Sefton Moorhouse - a prominent Canterbury politician and settler
• Benjamin Mountfort - architect
• Burt Munro - speed record breaker
• Colin Murdoch - inventor of the disposable syringe

N

• Edgar Neale - Mayor (1941-1945) and MP (1946-1957) for Nelson
• Henry James Nicholas - awarded the Victoria Cross
• Tane Norton - former All Black captain

O

• Anton Oliver - rugby player
• Frank Oliver - rugby player
• Simon O'Neill - opera singer

P

• Geoffrey Palmer - Prime Minister of New Zealand
• Richard Pearse - early aviator/inventor
• Francis Petre - architect

R

• Bill Rowling - Prime Minister of New Zealand
• Bic Runga - singer, songwriter
• Ernest Rutherford - 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson, scientist and winner of the 1908 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

S

• Richard Seddon - Prime Minister of New Zealand
• George 'Johnny' Sellars - pioneering parachutist
• Henry Sewell - Premier of New Zealand
• Kate Sheppard - suffragist
• Jenny Shipley - New Zealand's first female Prime Minister
• Edward Stafford - Premier of New Zealand
• Billy Stead - rugby union player
• Robert Stout - Premier of New Zealand
• Grahame Sydney - painter

T

• Sir Angus Tait - businessman and electronics innovator
• Brad Thorn - rugby union & rugby league player
• Reuben Thorne - rugby union player
• Richard Travis - awarded the Victoria Cross
• Brian Turner - poet
• Glenn Turner - cricketer
• Greg Turner - golfer

U

• Charles Upham - World War II soldier (one of three awarded the Victoria Cross twice)

V

• Petrus Van der Velden - painter
• Sir Julius Vogel - Premier of New Zealand

W

• Miles Warren - architect
• Robert Webster - discovered the link between human flu and bird flu
• Ian Wedde - poet
• Hayley Westenra - singer
• Tony Wilding - tennis player
• Geoff Williams - painter
• Jeff Wilson - sportsman
• Shelton Woolright - Musician. Best known as the drummer of Blindspott
• Alex Wyllie - rugby union player & coach