List of New Zealand sportspeople
The following is a list of New Zealand sportspeople.
Rugby
Motorsports
- Burt Munro - Motorcycle speedway land speed record holder
- Chris Amon - auto racing
- Possum Bourne - rally driving
- Scott Dixon - auto racing
- Denny Hulme - world champion, auto racing
- Ivan Mauger - six time Motorcycle speedway world champion
- Bruce McLaren - racing driver
- Greg Murphy - auto racing
- Chris Pither - auto racing
Track and field
- Valerie Adams - shotputter, Olympic Champion
- David Ambler, - 100m, 200m sprints
- Anne Audain - runner
- Hamish Carter - triathlete
- Rod Dixon - runner
- Murray Halberg - runner
- Jack Lovelock - runner
- Arthur Lydiard - running coach
- Lorraine Moller - runner, won Boston Marathon
- Dick Quax - runner
- John Walker - runner, Olympic champion
- Allison Roe - runner, won Boston and New York City Marathons 1981
- Peter Snell - runner, three times Olympic Champion
- Nick Willis - runner, Commonwealth champion, Olympic Silver medallist
Watersports
- Sir Peter Blake - yachtsman
- Trent Bray - world champion swimmer
- Russell Coutts - yachtsman, Olympic Champion
- Caroline Evers-Swindell, champion rower
- Georgina Evers-Swindell, champion rower
- Ian Ferguson - kayaker
- Danyon Loader - double olympic champion swimmer
- Jonathan Winter - world champion swimmer
Basketball
- Pero Cameron - basketball player
- Sean Marks - basketball player
Golf
- Michael Campbell - golfer
- Sir Bob Charles - champion golfer
- Steve Williams - caddy
- Danny Lee (golfer)
Soccer
Rugby league
Miscellaneous
- Bob Fitzsimmons - world boxing heavyweight champion (born in UK, raised in NZ)
- Tom Fyfe - mountaineer and mountain guide
- Tony Garea - Former WWWF/WWF professional wrestler
- Sir Richard Hadlee - cricketer
- Sir Edmund Hillary - mountaineer
- Precious McKenzie - weightlifter (born in South Africa)
- Wynton Rufer - soccer player, voted Oceania Player of the Century
- Mark Todd - horseman
- Sarah Ulmer - cyclist
- Irene Van Dyk - netball player (born in South Africa)
- John Walker - runner
- Michael Walker - jockey
- Sarah Walker - BMX rider
- Adine Wilson - netball player(former captain)
- Tony Wilding - tennis player
- Casey Williams - netball player (current captain)