List of New Zealand businesspeople
The following is a list of notable businesspeople from New Zealand.
A through M
- Margaret Alcorn (1868-1967) - interior designer and design store owner
- Mary Alcorn (1866-1928) - interior designer and design store owner
- Sophia Anstice (1849 - 1926) - dressmaker and draper
- Norah Barlow - former chief executive of Summerset Group
- Samuel Brown (1845–1909) – Mayor of Wellington and merchant
- Alfred Buckland (1825–1903) – auctioneer, farmer, businessman and landowner
- Sir Logan Campbell (1817–1912) – merchant, local politician, businessman, philanthropist, the Father of Auckland
- Dame Trelise Cooper – fashion designer
- Thomas Wong Doo (1903–1963) – merchant, interpreter, community leader
- Peri Drysdale – founder of Untouched World and Snowy Peak clothing companies
- Rod Drury - Businessman
- Lewis Alfred Eady (1891–1965) – music retailer, company director, benefactor
- Sir Michael Fay (born 1949) – merchant banker
- Josiah Firth (1826–1897) – flourmiller, politician, pastoralist, entrepreneur
- Gregory Fortuin – businessman and Race Relations Conciliator (2001–2002)
- Theresa Gattung – former chief executive of Telecom New Zealand (1993–2007)
- Elizabeth George (businesswoman) – hotel owner
- Sir Jack Harris, 2nd Baronet – chief executive of Bing, Harris & Co.
- Graeme Hart – New Zealand's richest businessman
- Murray Haszard – entrepreneur and businessman
- Joseph Hatch (1837–1928) – Invercargill businessman, "harvester" of penguins
- Keith Hay (1917–1997) – builder, businessman, local politician, morals campaigner
- Harriet Heron (ca.1836–1933) – hotel owner
- Michael Hill – jeweller, businessman, golfer
- Dame Bronwen Holdsworth – co--founder of Pultron Composites
- Dick Hubbard – founder of Hubbards Foods and Mayor of Auckland (2004–2007)
- Christopher Peter Huljich (born 1950) – entrepreneur and philanthropist
- Michael Huljich (born 1957) – entrepreneur and philanthropist
- Paul Huljich (born 1952) – author, entrepreneur and philanthropist
- Mary Jane Innes (1852–1941) – brewery owner
- Sir Robert Jones – property tycoon, founder of New Zealand Party
- Henry Joseph Kelliher (1896–1991) – businessman, publisher, art patron, credit reformer
- Johannes La Grouw – OBE and Business Hall of Fame, entrepreneur, philanthropist, co-founder of a revolutionary construction system (Lockwood)
- Robert Laidlaw – retailer, founder of FTC, the Farmers Trading Company
- 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 Company
- Sam Morgan – businessman; founder of Trade Me, an Internet-auction website
- Simon Moutter – engineer, businessman
- Sir Arthur Myers (1867–1926) – businessman, politician, philanthropist
- Douglas Myers – businessman, brewer
- Sir Ray Avery - Pharmaceutical scientist
N through Z
- Joseph Nathan (1835–1912) – manufacturer, founded Joseph Nathan & Co. and Glaxo
- Sir Charles Norwood (1871–1966) – businessman, philanthropist
- Lewis O'Donnell - businessman & investor.
- John Plimmer (1812–1905) – businessman, has been called the "Father of Wellington"
- Thomas Russell (c. 1830–1904) – lawyer, businessman, politician, financier, land speculator
- Marianne Smith (1851–1938) – businesswoman, founder of Smith & Caughey's, community worker, philanthropist
- Sir Dryden Spring – businessman
- Sir Angus Tait (1919–2007) – businessman and electronics innovator
- Stephen Tindall – retailer, founder of The Warehouse Group, a New Zealand department-store chain
- Matthew Tukaki (1974) – businessman, ex-Officio Director of the United Nations Global Compact, CEO of the Sustain Group, a global social investment business
- 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
See also
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