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List of people from Dunedin

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The New Zealand city of Dunedin has produced a large number of notable people. Many are natives of the city, while others travelled to Dunedin to be educated at the University of Otago.

The arts

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Visual arts

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  • Illustrator and engraver John Buckland Wright
  • Australian war artist H. Septimus Power was born in Dunedin in 1877[1]
  • Cartoonist Colin Wilson
  • Caricature artist Murray Webb
  • Māori painter Ralph Hotere lived and worked in Port Chalmers
  • Painters Grahame Sydney, Jeffrey Harris and Claire Beynon all live in Dunedin
  • Pete Wheeler, painter, lived in Dunedin for several years
  • Frances Hodgkins (1869–1947), New Zealand's most celebrated expatriate painter, born in Dunedin, trained at the Dunedin School of Art and first matured here as an artist
  • Alfred Henry O'Keeffe (1858–1941), prominent artist during the early 20th Century
  • Colin McCahon, painter
  • Rodney Kennedy, artist, critic, drama director and patron
  • Children's book illustrator David Elliot currently lives in Port Chalmers
  • Prominent architects Francis Petre, Edmund Anscombe, and Robert Lawson all lived and worked in Dunedin
  • Lindsay Daen, sculptor
  • Shona McFarlane, artist and journalist who wrote and illustrated "Dunedin, Portrait of a City" (1970, Whitcombe & Tombs, ISBN 0-7233-0171-9)
  • Ernest Heber Thompson, artist
  • Jan McLean, dollmaker
  • Arthur George William Sparrow, commercial artist, photographer and businessman

Literature

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Drama

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Music

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Politics and business

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Science

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Sport

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Cricket

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Netball and basketball

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Rugby union

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Other sports

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Military

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  • Sir Keith Park, World War I air ace, later Air Marshal in the defence of London during World War II.
  • Duncan Boyes, English recipient of the Victoria Cross in 1864 in Japan, was buried in Dunedin in 1869.
  • Horace Robert Martineau, English recipient of the Victoria Cross in 1899 in South Africa, was buried in Dunedin in 1916.
  • Fraser Barron, standout bomber pilot during World War II

Other

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  • Surveyor and explorer John Turnbull Thomson was a Dunedin resident.
  • David Bain, subject of one of New Zealand's most famous legal causes célèbres was born in Dunedin.
  • Rachel Armitage, community leader, welfare worker, and first female BA graduate at Oxford University.
  • Presbyterian minister and social activist Rutherford Waddell spent his entire ministry in Dunedin.
  • Mary Ronnie, City Librarian, first woman National Librarian and first woman National Librarian in the world.
  • David Gray, the perpetrator of the 1990 Aramoana massacre in which 14 people were killed, was born in Dunedin and raised in Port Chalmers.
  • Colin Bouwer, a South-African-born doctor and Head of Psychiatry at the University of Otago, spent 16 years in prison for the murder of his third wife three years after they became residents of Dunedin.
  • Jean Stevenson, YWCA New Zealand General Secretary and women´s advocate.[8]

References

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  1. ^ "Power, Harold Septimus (1877–1951)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. National Centre of Biography, Australian National University.
  2. ^ Page, Dorothy. "Eileen Louise Soper". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Ministry for Culture and Heritage. Retrieved 23 April 2017.
  3. ^ Obituary, The Musical Times, Vol. 110, No. 1519 (September, 1969), p. 974
  4. ^ Somerville, Ross. "Jennie Macandrew". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Ministry for Culture and Heritage. Retrieved 23 April 2017.
  5. ^ "Pamela Tate Victoria's First Female Solicitor-General". Victorian Government. 8 July 2003. Retrieved 29 September 2007.
  6. ^ Roth, Herbert. "Frank Winfird Millar". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Ministry for Culture and Heritage. Retrieved 23 April 2017.
  7. ^ Morris, Chris (25 November 2008). "Mayor sorry for slogan, blames media". Otago Daily Times. Retrieved 24 November 2008.
  8. ^ Coney, Sandra. "Jean Stevenson". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Retrieved 21 March 2024.