C5.4 Famous New Zealanders: Fine Art, Humour and the rest
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This article is from the New Zealand FAQ, by Phil Stuart-Jones and Lin Nah with numerous contributions by others.
C5.4 Famous New Zealanders: Fine Art, Humour and the rest
Fine: Art
Rita Angus
Neil Dawson
Francis Hodgson
C. F. Goldie (but which one!)
Robyn Kahukiwa
Colin McCahon
Olivia Spencer-Bower
Lew Summers
Bill Sutton
Humour:
John Clarke (Fred Dagg)
Barry Crump
Sam Hunt
Billy T James
Gordon McLauchlan
Pamela Stevenson
Rima te Wiata
Other...
Rewi Alley (helped rebuild China after the revolution)
Chris Amon (motor racing)
Robert Davidson (apiarist)
Al Deere (pilot, ace (Battle of Britain), Wing Commander - Air Commodore(?))
Sir Roger Douglas (accounting?)
Sir Harold Gillies (pioneering plastic surgeon, 1)
Ernest Godward (inventor of the carburettor)
Hone Heke (Maori 'politician')
Sir Edmund Hillary (mountaineering, aid work, ambassador)
Bernard Freyberg (soldier, Governor-General of NZ, 4)
Fred Hollows (eye surgeon, honorary Australian?)
Dennis Hulme (motor racing)
Vaughan Jones (mathematics, Fields Medal winner (theory of knots))
Sir Archibald McIndoe (pioneering plastic surgeon, 1)
Bruce McLaren (motor racing)
Colin Murdoch (inventor of the disposable syringe)
Air Marshall Keith Park (Commander, Battle of Britain, Defence of Malta)
Richard Pearse (first powered flight (probably))
Lord [Ernest] Rutherford, 1st Baron of Nelson and Cambridge (Nobel Prize,
Chemistry, 2), (1871-1937)
Mark Todd (equestrian)
Captain Charles Upham (farmer, veteran soldier, VC and bar, 3)
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