List of New Zealand doctors

The following is a list of notable medical doctors from New Zealand.


 * Louis Barnett – surgeon
 * Sir Brian Barratt-Boyes – cardiac surgeon
 * Agnes Bennett – doctor and medical officer in World War I
 * John Daniel Bergin – neurologist
 * Alice Bush – doctor, paediatrician and campaigner for family planning services and abortion access
 * Margaret Cruickshank – first registered female doctor in New Zealand
 * Sylvia Gytha de Lancey Chapman – medical superintendent
 * Charles Farthing – pioneer in the treatment of AIDS
 * Isaac Featherston – politician
 * Erich Geiringer – founder of the New Zealand Medical Association
 * David Gerrard – swimmer, Professor of Sports Medicine at University of Otago Dunedin School of Medicine. Former New Zealand Olympic chef de mission
 * Sir Harold Gillies – pioneering plastic surgeon
 * Felicity Goodyear-Smith – doctor and medical academic at the University of Auckland
 * Herb Green – specialist at the centre of the Cartwright Inquiry
 * Elizabeth Gunn – doctor and founder of the Children's Health Camp movement
 * Ian Hassall – paediatrician
 * Te Rangi Hīroa (also known as Sir Peter Henry Buck) – member of the Ngāti Mutunga Māori iwi
 * Fred Hollows – ophthalmologist
 * Paul Hutchison – politician
 * Tracy Inglis – Auckland medical practitioner
 * Sir Truby King – child-care pioneer
 * Ivan Lichter – thoracic surgeon
 * Sir Robert Macintosh – pioneering anaesthetist
 * Sir Archibald McIndoe – pioneering plastic surgeon
 * Brad McKay, doctor, author and television personality
 * Rainsford Mowlem – pioneering plastic surgeon
 * Courtney Nedwill – doctor and public health officer
 * James Newman (geriatrician) – geriatrician and medical superintendent
 * Thomas Moore Philson – doctor and hospital superintendent
 * Cecily Pickerill – plastic surgeon
 * Sir Henry Pickerill – plastic surgeon
 * Denis Rogers – local-body politician
 * Sir Edward Sayers – Methodist missionary; military medical administrator; consultant physician, then Dean, of the University of Otago Dunedin School of Medicine
 * Jessie Scott – notable New Zealand doctor, medical officer and prisoner of war.
 * Emily Siedeberg – doctor, hospital superintendent and first female medical graduate in New Zealand
 * Ebenezer Teichelmann – surgeon, mountaineer and photographer
 * Henry Thacker – Member of Parliament and Mayor of Christchurch
 * Ronald Trubuhovich – pioneer in critical-care medicine
 * Thomas Valintine – doctor and public health administrator
 * Leslie Whetter – surgeon and Antarctic explorer
 * Christine Coe Winterbourn – Professor of Pathology at the University of Otago