List of New Zealand Catholics

This is a list of notable New Zealand Catholics. All additions should be sourced and ideally their faith or Catholic identity should be significant to their notability.

Activists

 * Patricia Bartlett, former nun and social conservative. She founded the Society for Promotion of Community Standards.
 * Marilyn Pryor, served on the Executive Council of what is now called Voice for Life.

Artists and architects

 * Francis Petre, architect of cathedrals

Businesspeople

 * Charles Todd motor-industry pioneer and temperance activist; many in the Todd family were or are Catholics

Politicians

 * Anand Satyanand, Governor-General from 2006 to 2011, first Roman Catholic and first ethnic Indian (of Indo-Fijian origins) viceregal officeholder, ombudsman, lawyer and judge
 * Jim Bolger, thirty-fifth Prime Minister of New Zealand
 * Sir Charles Clifford, 1st Baronet (1813–1893), first Speaker of the New Zealand House of Representatives
 * Peter Dignan, fifteenth Mayor of Auckland City
 * Bill English, thirty-ninth Prime Minister of New Zealand
 * Walter Lee, Auckland member of parliament
 * Mark Mitchell, Minister of Police
 * Michael Joseph Savage, twenty-third Prime Minister of New Zealand
 * Heremia Te Wake, tribal leader and catechist
 * Joseph Ward, seventeenth Prime Minister of New Zealand
 * Frederick Weld, sixth Prime Minister of New Zealand

Clergy

 * Fr. Douglas Al-Bazi, refugee from Islamism
 * Fr. Mark Beban, also a cricketer.
 * Fr. Felix Donnelly (1929-2019), social activist, writer, academic and radio talkback host
 * Rev. Fr. George Duggan, philosopher and centenarian
 * Fr. David Kennedy, astronomer and educator
 * Bernard O'Brien SJ, Seminary professor.
 * Antony Sumich, F.S.S.P.,  New Zealander who was a former international Rugby Union and Cricket player for Croatia.
 * Fr. Wiremu Te Awhitu, first Māori to be ordained

Religious sisters and nuns

 * Mary St Domitille Hickey, historian, school principal, and reportedly the first New Zealand woman to be awarded a doctorate in literature
 * Mary Gonzaga Leahy, nun and hospital matron
 * Sister Mary Leo, music educator, Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire
 * Sister Marie Roche, honoured for her work in a prison

Writers and journalists

 * K. O. Arvidson, poet and academic
 * James K. Baxter, poet and convert who was offered a job composing catechetical material for the Catholic Education Board
 * Eileen Duggan (1894-1972), Poet.
 * Patrick Anthony Lawlor, writer known for the autobiographical work Old Wellington days, also worked for the Catholic Writers' Movement of New Zealand