# List of South Islanders

This is a list of Famous South Islanders:
* Top
* 0–9
* A
* B
* C
* D
* E
* F
* G
* H
* I
* J
* K
* L
* M
* N
* O
* P
* Q
* R
* S
* T
* U
* V
* W
* X
* Y
* Z

## 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