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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.