Famous+New+Zealanders

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 * ===Actors and Directors===
 * [|Jane Campion]
 * [|Peter Jackson]
 * [|Lucy Lawless]
 * [|Sam Neill]
 * [|Anna Paquin]

Artists

 * [|Rita Angus]
 * [|Colin McCahon]
 * [|Bill Sutton]
 * [|Toss Woollaston]
 * See also our [|artist profiles] in our art section

Authors

 * [|Elsie Locke]
 * [|Gwenda Turner]
 * [|More NZ Author interviews]
 * See also our [|writers' profiles] in our literature section

Canterbury Heroes
See also [|Canterbury people] in our Heritage section.
 * [|Rewi Alley]
 * [|John Britten]
 * [|Harry Ell]
 * [|Kate Sheppard]
 * [|Nurse Maude]
 * [|Anthony Wilding]

Composers

 * [|Douglas Lilburn]
 * [|Gareth Farr]

Singers and musicians

 * [|Michael Houstoun]
 * [|Kiri Te Kanawa]
 * [|Inia Te Wiata]
 * [|Dave Dobbyn]
 * [|Neil Finn]
 * [|Sir Howard Morrison]
 * [|Bic Runga]
 * See also our [|local musician profiles] in our music section.

Dancers

 * [|Rowena Othlie Jackson]
 * [|Jon Trimmer]
 * [|Douglas Wright]

Scientists and inventors

 * [|John Britten]
 * [|Richard William Pearse]
 * [|Ernest Rutherford]
 * See also our [|scientists profiles] in our science section || ===Athletes===
 * [|Hamish Carter]
 * [|Bevan Docherty]
 * [|Valerie Adams]
 * [|Yvette Williams]
 * [|Nick Willis]

Climbers

 * [|Edmund Hillary]

Cricket players

 * [|Nathan Astle]
 * [|Chris Cairns]
 * [|Catherine Campbell]
 * [|Emily Drumm]
 * [|Stephen Fleming]
 * [|Sir Richard Hadlee]
 * [|Debbie Hockley]
 * [|Dick Motz]
 * [|Glenn Turner]
 * [|Daniel Vettori]
 * [|Team profiles - The Black Caps]
 * [|Team profiles - The White Ferns]

Cyclists

 * [|Hayden Roulston]
 * [|Sarah Ulmer]
 * [|Sarah Walker]

Footballers

 * [|All Whites’ player profiles]

Golfers

 * [|Bob Charles]
 * [|Michael Campbell]

Hockey players

 * [|Anna Lawrence]
 * [|Mandy Smith]
 * [|Team Profiles — Black Sticks — men]
 * [|Team Profiles — Black Sticks — women]

Netball players

 * [|Silver Ferns]
 * [|Irene van Dyk]
 * [|Bernice Mene]
 * [|Julie Seymour]

Riders

 * [|Blyth Tait]
 * [|Mark Todd]

Rowers

 * [|1972 Munich gold-medal rowing eight]
 * [|Mahe Drysdale]
 * [|Caroline and Georgina Evers-Swindell]
 * [|Rob Waddell]

Rugby players

 * [|Todd Blackadder]
 * [|Dan Carter]
 * [|Don Clarke]
 * [|Grant Fox]
 * [|Jonah Lomu]
 * [|Brian Lochore]
 * [|Richie McCaw]
 * [|Colin Meads]
 * [|Andrew Mehrtens]
 * [|George Nepia]

Tennis Players

 * [|Anthony Wilding]
 * [|Marina Erakovic] ||