List of New Zealand sportspeople

The following is a list of New Zealand sportspeople.

Basketball

 * Steven Adams – basketball player
 * Pero Cameron – basketball player
 * Sean Marks – basketball player
 * Dan Shamir (born 1975) - Israeli professional basketball coach, lives in Auckland

Golf

 * Michael Campbell – golfer
 * Sir Bob Charles – champion golfer
 * Lydia Ko - champion golfer
 * Danny Lee - golfer
 * Phil Tataurangi - golfer
 * Steve Williams – caddy

Motorsports

 * Chris Amon – Formula One and sports car driver
 * Bruce Anstey - motorcycle road racer
 * Brendon Hartley – Ex Formula One Driver and Two time WEC winner including 24 of Le mans Win
 * Possum Bourne – rally driving
 * Barry Briggs - motorcycle speedway rider
 * Nick Cassidy - Formula E Driver
 * Simon Crafar - motorcycle road racer
 * Graeme Crosby - motorcycle road racer
 * Scott Dixon – Six-time IndyCar champion, 2008 Indy 500 Champion
 * Mitch Evans - Formula E Driver
 * Denny Hulme – 1967 Formula One champion
 * Chris Lange - rally driver
 * Ivan Mauger – six-time motorcycle speedway world champion
 * Bruce McLaren – Formula One and CanAm driver
 * Scott McLaughlin - touring car driver, IndyCar Driver
 * Stefan Merriman - enduro rider
 * Steve Millen – sports car and off-road truck driver
 * Burt Munro – motorcycle speedway and land speed record holder
 * Greg Murphy – touring car driver
 * Chris Pither – touring car driver
 * Aaron Slight - motorcycle road racer
 * Ben Townley - World Champion, Motocross
 * Ted Tracey - Speedway racing driver
 * Shane van Gisbergen - touring car driver

Cricket
Main articles: List of New Zealand Test cricketers, List of New Zealand ODI cricketers, List of New Zealand Twenty20 International cricketers

See also:New Zealand national cricket team, New Zealand women's national cricket team


 * Craig Auckram
 * Brendon McCullum
 * Kane Williamson
 * Ross Taylor
 * Richard Hadlee
 * Shane Bond
 * Martin Crowe
 * Trent Boult
 * Lockie Ferguson
 * Tim Southee
 * James Neesham
 * Bradley-John Watling
 * Ajaz Patel
 * James Franklin
 * Scott Styris
 * Corey Anderson
 * Tom Latham
 * Colin de Grandhomme
 * Jacob Oram
 * Stephen Fleming
 * Daniel Vettori
 * Craig McMillan
 * Liz Perry
 * Shane Bond

Track and field

 * Valerie Adams – shotputter, four-time Olympic Champion
 * David Ambler – 100m, 200m sprints
 * Anne Audain – runner
 * Hamish Carter – triathlete
 * Rod Dixon – runner
 * Murray Halberg – runner
 * Jack Lovelock – runner
 * Arthur Lydiard – running coach
 * Lorraine Moller – runner, won Boston Marathon
 * Eliza McCartney - pole vaulter, Olympic bronze medallist
 * Dick Quax – runner
 * Allison Roe – runner, won Boston and New York City Marathons 1981
 * Peter Snell – runner, three times Olympic Champion
 * John Walker – runner, Olympic champion
 * Nick Willis – runner, Commonwealth champion, Olympic silver medallist
 * John Young - ultra distance runner; first person to run from Wellington to Auckland 1962 and Bluff to Cape Reinga 1964; first person to run across the Nulabhour Plain in Australia 1968

Watersports

 * Jo Aleh – world champion and Olympic champion sailor
 * Sir Peter Blake – yachtsman
 * Trent Bray – world champion swimmer
 * Nathan Cohen - world champion and Olympic champion rower
 * Russell Coutts – yachtsman, Olympic Champion
 * Caroline Evers-Swindell - champion rower
 * Georgina Evers-Swindell - champion rower
 * Ian Ferguson – kayaker
 * Danyon Loader – double olympic champion swimmer
 * Jonathan Winter – world champion swimmer

Miscellaneous

 * Margaret Jane Briggs, show-ring rider
 * Christine Jensen Burke – mountaineer
 * Helen Clarke - field hockey player
 * Cheree Crowley – professional wrestler
 * Dame Susan Devoy - squash player
 * Bob Fitzsimmons – world boxing heavyweight champion (born in UK, raised in NZ)
 * Tom Fyfe – mountaineer and mountain guide
 * Tony Garea – former WWWF/WWF professional wrestler
 * Sir Edmund Hillary – mountaineer
 * Mark Hunt - mixed martial artist
 * Precious McKenzie – weightlifter (born in South Africa)
 * Mark Todd – equestrian
 * Sarah Ulmer – cyclist
 * Michael Walker – jockey
 * Sarah Walker – BMX rider
 * Tony Wilding – tennis player