# 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
* Liam Lawson - Formula One 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