List of South Islanders
This is a list of Famous South Islanders:
A
- Alexander Aitken - mathematician/statistician, writer, mental calculator, musician
- Ronald Algie - politician
- Fred Allen - rugby union player
- James Allen - politician
- James Allen - rugby union player
- Rewi Alley - supporter of Chinese communism
- Peter Arnett - TV journalist, Pulitzer Prize winner
- Basil Arthur - politician
- Ian Athfield - architect
B
- David Bain
- Alison Ballance - author and film-maker
- Rick Barker - politician
- James Baxter - poet
- Francis Bell - first New Zealand-born Prime Minister
- David Benson-Pope - politician
- Todd Blackadder - rugby player
- Ben Blair - rugby player
- William Brassington - stonemason and sculptor
- John Britten - designer of the Britten motorcycle
- Donald Forrester Brown - awarded the Victoria Cross
- Nigel Brown - painter
- Gerry Brownlee - politician
- Kerry Burke - politician
C
- Dan Carter - rugby player
- Nathan Cohen - world champion and Olympic champion rower
- Thomas Cooke - awarded the Victoria Cross
- Warren Cooper - politician
- Michael Cullen - politician
- G. H. Cunningham - plant pathologist
- Allen Curnow - poet
D
- Alan Dale - actor
- Lianne Dalziel - politician
- Stephnie de Ruyter - politician
- Bob Deans - rugby union player
- Bruce Deans - rugby union player
- Robbie Deans - rugby player and coach
- Rod Dixon - runner
- Rod Donald - politician
- Jimmy Duncan - rugby union player, coach and referee
- Peter Dunne - politician
E
- Andrew Ellis - rugby union player
- Thomas Ellison - rugby union player and lawyer
- Bill English - politician
F
- Bob Fitzsimmons - world boxing heavyweight champion
- Corey Flynn - rugby player
- George Forbes - Prime Minister
- Tom Fyfe - mountaineer
G
- George Gair - politician
- Daryl Gibson - rugby player
- Charles Gifford - teacher and very successful promoter of astronomy
- George Gillett - rugby union player
- Sir Harold Gillies - pioneering plastic surgeon
- Robin Gray - politician
- Arthur Guinness - politician
- Stewart Graeme Guthrie - police sergeant posthumously awarded the George Cross
H
- Sir Richard Hadlee - cricketer
- John Hall - Premier of New Zealand
- William Hall-Jones - Prime Minister of New Zealand
- Adam Hamilton - politician
- Bill Hamilton - developed the modern jetboat
- Scott Hamilton - rugby union player
- Mark Hammett - rugby union player
- Dame Joan Hammond - violinist, soprano
- Joseph Hatch - Invercargill businessman, "harvester" of penguins
- Rudy Heeman - inventor
- Louise Henderson - painter
- Graham Henry - rugby union coach
- Jack Hinton - awarded the Victoria Cross
- Frances Hodgkins - painter
- Sidney Holland - Prime Minister
- Sir Fred Hollows - eye surgeon
- Andrew Hore - rugby union player
- Ned Hughes - rugby union player
- Alfred Hulme - awarded the Victoria Cross
- Denny Hulme - world champion racing driver
J
- Chris Jack - rugby player
- Rowena Jackson - ballerina
K
- Phil Keoghan - TV presenter
- Norman Kirk - Prime Minister
- Terry Knights - awarded the Military Cross for service in Iraq
L
- Robert Lawson - architect
- Richard Loe - rugby player
- Jack Lovelock - runner
- Isaac Luck - architect
- Len Lye - sculptor, experimental film maker
M
- Laurie Mains - rugby union player and coach
- Justin Marshall - rugby union player
- Aaron Mauger - rugby union player
- Ivan Mauger - six time Motorcycle speedway world champion
- Nathan Mauger - rugby union player
- Colin McCahon - painter, museum curator, teacher
- Richie McCaw - rugby union player
- Leon MacDonald - rugby union player
- Thomas Mackenzie - Prime Minister of New Zealand
- Shona McFarlane - painter
- Duncan McGregor - rugby union player
- Sir Archie McIndoe - pioneer plastic surgeon
- Cameron McIntyre - rugby player
- Peter McIntyre - painter
- Andrew Mehrtens - rugby union player
- Henry Monson - gaoler
- William Sefton Moorhouse - prominent Canterbury politician and settler
- Benjamin Mountfort - architect
- Burt Munro - speed record breaker
- Colin Murdoch - inventor of the disposable syringe
N
- Edgar Neale - Mayor (1941–1945) and MP (1946–1957) for Nelson
- Henry James Nicholas - awarded the Victoria Cross
- Tane Norton - former All Black captain
P
- Geoffrey Palmer - Prime Minister of New Zealand
- Richard Pearse - early aviator and inventor
- Francis Petre - architect
R
- Bill Rowling - Prime Minister of New Zealand
- Bic Runga - singer, songwriter
- Ernest Rutherford - 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson, scientist and winner of the 1908 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
S
- Richard Seddon - Prime Minister of New Zealand
- George 'Johnny' Sellars - pioneering parachutist
- Henry Sewell - Premier of New Zealand
- Kate Sheppard - suffragist
- Jenny Shipley - New Zealand's first female Prime Minister
- Edward Stafford - Premier of New Zealand
- Billy Stead - rugby union player
- Robert Stout - Premier of New Zealand
- Grahame Sydney - painter
T
- Sir Angus Tait - businessman and electronics innovator
- Brad Thorn - rugby union and rugby league player
- Reuben Thorne - rugby union player
- Richard Travis - awarded the Victoria Cross
- Brian Turner - poet
- Glenn Turner - cricketer
- Greg Turner - golfer
U
- Charles Upham - World War II soldier (one of three awarded the Victoria Cross twice)
V
- Petrus Van der Velden - painter
- Sir Julius Vogel - Premier of New Zealand
W
- Miles Warren - architect
- Robert Webster - discovered the link between human flu and bird flu
- Ian Wedde - poet
- Hayley Westenra - singer
- Tony Wilding - tennis player
- Geoff Williams - painter
- Jeff Wilson - sportsman
- Shelton Woolright - musician, best known as the drummer of Blindspott
- Alex Wyllie - rugby union player and coach