List of New Zealand businesspeople

The following is a list of notable businesspeople from New Zealand.

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.

A-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
• Sir Ray Avery - pharmaceutical scientist
• 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
• 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
• William Betts Mason - founder of W.B. Mason, born in New Zealand and emigrated to the US
• Flora MacKenzie (1902-1982) - brothel owner and dressmaker
• Sir Roy McKenzie (1922-2007) - retailer, philanthropist
• Sir James Mills (1847-1936) - founder of the Union Company
• Jeremy Moon - businessman; founder of Icebreaker clothing
• Sam Morgan - businessman; founder of Trade Me, an Internet-auction website
• Nick Mowbray - businessman; co-founder of ZURU, a toy manufacturer
• Simon Moutter - engineer, businessman
• Sir Arthur Myers (1867-1926) - businessman, politician, philanthropist
• Douglas Myers - businessman, brewer

N-Z

• Joseph Nathan (1835-1912) - manufacturer, founded Joseph Nathan & Co. and Glaxo
• Sir Charles Norwood (1871-1966) - businessman, philanthropist
• 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 (born 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

• Lists of New Zealanders