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
 * Kelly Brazier – rugby player
 * 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
 * Sarah Dougherty – early settler
 * Jimmy Duncan – rugby union player, coach and referee
 * Peter Dunne – politician

E

 * Andy 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
 * Michael McGarry – football player
 * 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
 * Richard James Waugh – minister, historian, aviation chaplain and writer
 * 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