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AUCKLAND
Most Famous People Born in Auckland, New Zealand
- Notable people
- 2,037
- Peak decade
- 1980s
- Median birth year
- 1971
- Most distinctive
- Rugby 27.8×
A Pacific city whose distinctive professions are, more than anywhere else in the dataset, rugby and cricket players with netballers and rowers close behind. More than forty per cent of Auckland's notables are cricketers or other players, and its most famous son is Edmund Hillary. The 19th-century tail only starts in the 1840s — the city itself is younger than its oldest named resident — and the modern bench is filling up with actors from the Peter Jackson pipeline.
One face per decade — the most globally famous figure born in Auckland during each.
Notable Births by Decade
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What Auckland Is Known For
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Player is Auckland's biggest profession — 31% of all notables (623).
Auckland over-indexes on rugby — 27.8× the global rate.
Auckland under-produces politician — only 0.4× the global rate.
Profession Mix Over Time
Each band shows a profession family's share of Auckland's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.
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- Filtered to 1880s Clear ×
Hugh Walpole
1884 - 1941
Oswald Birley
1880 - 1952
Richard Atkinson Abbot
1883 - 1954
William Edward Sanders
1883 - 1917
Joseph Claude Sinel
1889 - 1975
Ivy Margaret Copeland
1888 - 1961
William Henry Gummer
1884 - 1966
Eunice Harriett Garlick
1883 - 1951
Clyde Carr
1886 - 1962
Marjorie Day
Born 1889
Hilda Ross
1883 - 1959
Jack Massey (politician)
1885 - 1964
Reg Read
1886 - 1974
Harvey Turner
1889 - 1983
Caleb Olliff
1883 - 1961
George Sellars
1886 - 1917
Henry Du Vall
1886 - 1917
Frank Wilson (New Zealand rugby union)
1885 - 1916
Vivian Kavanagh
1882 - 1917
William Brook-Smith
1885 - 1952
Lancelot Hemus
1881 - 1933
James Donald (politician)
1889 - 1971
Edward Caradus
1885 - 1969
Robert Gordon (cricketer)
1889 - 1914
Geoffrey Armstrong Buddle
1887 - 1951
Leopold Prime
1884 - 1923
Charles Clark (Auckland cricketer)
1883 - 1970
Herbert Simpson (cricketer)
1886 - 1950
William Graham (cricketer)
1881 - 1961
Evan MacCormick
1882 - 1918
Robert Coates (cricketer)
1881 - 1956
Victor Macky
1887 - 1951
James Maguire (rugby union)
1886 - 1966
John Edward Duncan
1884 - 1959