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DUNEDIN
Most Famous People Born in Dunedin, New Zealand
- Notable people
- 638
- Peak decade
- 1940s
- Median birth year
- 1924
- Most distinctive
- Cricket 26.7×
One face per decade — the most globally famous figure born in Dunedin during each.
Notable Births by Decade
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What Dunedin Is Known For
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Cricket is Dunedin's biggest profession — 34% of all notables (217).
Dunedin over-indexes on cricket — 26.7× the global rate.
Dunedin under-produces football — only 0.2× the global rate.
Profession Mix Over Time
Each band shows a profession family's share of Dunedin's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.
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- Writing
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Alan Dale
Born 1947
Janet Frame
1924 - 2004
David Low (cartoonist)
1891 - 1963
Harold Gillies
1882 - 1960
Alexander Aitken
1895 - 1967
Greg Henderson
Born 1976
Brad Thorn
Born 1975
Juliet Marillier
Born 1948
Rosaleen Norton
1917 - 1979
Brendon McCullum
Born 1981
Fred Hollows
1929 - 1993
Ngila Dickson
Born 1958
Tamati Williams
Born 1984
Frances Hodgkins
1869 - 1947
Andrew Boyens
Born 1983
Hamish Bond
Born 1986
James K. Baxter
1926 - 1972
Joyce McDougall
1920 - 2011
Byron Kelleher
Born 1976
Yvette Williams
1929 - 2019
Charles Bennett (actor)
1889 - 1943
Suzie Bates
Born 1987
Ronald Sinclair
1924 - 1992
Clarrie Grimmett
1891 - 1980
Robert Wade (chess player)
1921 - 2008
Jabez Olssen
Born 1975
John Buckland Wright
1897 - 1954
John A. Lee
1891 - 1982
Ben Smith (rugby union)
Born 1986
Chris Laidlaw
Born 1943
Glenn Turner
Born 1947
Denis Glover
1912 - 1980
Thomas Ellison
1867 - 1904
Andrew Hore
Born 1978
Jossi Wells
Born 1990
Silvia Cartwright
Born 1943
Kelly Brazier
Born 1989
Paul Griffen
Born 1975
Kevin Skinner (rugby union)
1927 - 2014
E. T. C. Werner
1864 - 1954
Pat Evison
1924 - 2010
Alison Shanks
Born 1982
Charles Brasch
1909 - 1973
Anna Frost (runner)
Born 1981
Arnold Nordmeyer
1901 - 1989
Clark McConachy
1895 - 1980
Warwick Braithwaite
1896 - 1971
Colin Tapley
1907 - 1995
Ella Orr Campbell
1910 - 2003
Nathan McCullum
Born 1980
Jon Preston
Born 1967
Joel Stevens
Born 1995
Jean Stewart
1930 - 2020
Jenny Armstrong
Born 1970
Laurie Mains
Born 1946
Jonathan Lemalu
Born 1976
Doris Lusk
1916 - 1990
Beau-James Wells
Born 1995
Rob Knight (biologist)
Born 1976
Charles Cotton (geologist)
1885 - 1970
Keith Murdoch (rugby union)
1943 - 2018
Harold Septimus Power
1877 - 1951
Douglas Copland
1894 - 1971
Kashi Leuchs
Born 1978
Ethel Benjamin
1875 - 1943
Hugh Blake
Born 1992
Lindsay Merritt Inglis
1894 - 1966
John Macdonald (psychiatrist)
1920 - 2007
Anna Grimaldi
Born 1997
Paul Ackerley
1949 - 2011
Frank Oliver (rugby union)
1948 - 2014
James Murdoch Austin
1915 - 2000
Andy Dalton (rugby union)
Born 1951
Jamie Mackintosh
Born 1985
Charles Wheeler (painter)
1881 - 1977
Ken Rutherford (cricketer)
Born 1965
Eric Arthur
1898 - 1982
Lindsay Daen
1923 - 2001
Guy Scholefield
1877 - 1963
William Noel Benson
1885 - 1957
Charlie Hore
Born 1976
James Allan (rugby union)
1860 - 1934
Lynley Hannen
Born 1964
Hugo Inglis
Born 1991
Archibald Baxter
1881 - 1970
David Harris (software developer)
Born 1961
Sean Becker
Born 1975
Ernest Heber Thompson
1891 - 1971
Paul Amey
Born 1973
Stephen Boock
Born 1951
Glen Thomson
Born 1973
Vera Moore
1896 - 1997
Hamish Rutherford
Born 1989
Jeanette Fitzsimons
1945 - 2020
Frances Parker
1875 - 1924
Harold Nelson (athlete)
1923 - 2011
Ria Vandervis
Born 1984
Wendy Nelson
Born 1954
Arthur Merric Boyd
1862 - 1940
Alistair Bond
Born 1989
Gary Seear
1952 - 2018
Brad Evans (cyclist)
Born 1992
Peter Renner
Born 1959
D. J. Cameron
1933 - 2016
Colin Campbell (New Zealand bishop)
Born 1941
Grace Joel
1865 - 1924
Elizabeth Farrelly
Born 1957
Chris Hunter (chemist)
Born 1965
David Kilgour (musician)
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Bob Stuart
1920 - 2005
Roger Johnson (hurdler)
Born 1943
Pelu Taele-Pavihi
Born 1981
Peter McIntyre (artist)
1910 - 1995
Robin Tait
1940 - 1984
Mike Hesson
Born 1974
Shayne Carter
Born 1964
Kane Russell
Born 1992
Tyrell Baringer-Tahiri
Born 1994
Chris Gaffaney
Born 1975
Clarke Johnstone
Born 1987
Katey Martin
Born 1985
Ryan O'Kane
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Benjamin Koons
Born 1986
Fiona Paterson
Born 1983
Johnstone Richardson
1899 - 1994
Louise Trappitt
Born 1985
Kendall Brown
Born 1989
Massa Johnston
1881 - 1951
Peter Petherick
1942 - 2015
Roy Williams (athlete)
Born 1934
Matt McCarten
Born 1959
Adrian Raeside
Born 1957
Adam Hall (alpine skier)
Born 1987
George Gair
1926 - 2015
Warren Dobson
Born 1980
Robin Dods
1868 - 1920
Duncan Robertson
Born 1947
Dorothy Whitson Freed
1919 - 2000
Anna Stout
1858 - 1931
Bridget Becker
Born 1981
Bert Lowe
1912 - 1933
Grahame Sydney
Born 1948
Bryan Drake
1925 - 2002
George Dickinson
1903 - 1978
Doug Bruce (rugby player)
Born 1947
Alister Hopkinson
1941 - 1999
Glen Denham
Born 1964
Jacqueline Fraser
Born 1956
Bevan Wilson
Born 1956
Alan J. Cooper
Born 1966
Jan Shearer
Born 1958
Jimmy Duncan (rugby union)
1869 - 1953
Donald Forrester Brown
1890 - 1916
Scott Cameron (swimmer)
Born 1976
Steve Casey (All Black)
1882 - 1960
Lyn Jaffray
Born 1950
Robert Sarkies
Born 1967
Craig Millar (rugby union)
Born 1990
John Laing (director)
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Stephen Walsh (athlete)
Born 1960
Jim Salinger
Born 1950
Ernie Booth
1876 - 1935
Chris Nevin
Born 1975
Frank Glasgow
1880 - 1939
Matthew Bell (cricketer)
Born 1977
Miles Aylmer Fulton Barnett
1901 - 1979
Fred Waite (politician)
1885 - 1952
Russell Watt
Born 1935
Honor Harger
Born 1975
Nathan Flannery
Born 1992
Desmond Pacey
1917 - 1975
Len Moorhouse
1904 - 1970
Frank Mitchinson
1884 - 1978
Robert Kennedy (cricketer)
Born 1972
Pippa Hayward
Born 1990
Warren Lees
Born 1952
Maud Winifred Sherwood
1880 - 1956
Mike McRoberts
Born 1966
John Findlay (New Zealand politician)
1862 - 1929
Daniel Borgman
Born 1981
Stewart Guthrie
1948 - 1990
Jane Ussher
Born 1953
John Hore (rugby union)
1907 - 1979
Peter Gutteridge
1961 - 2014
Malcolm Templeton
1924 - 2017
Clive Hulme
1911 - 1982
Greg Turner
Born 1963
Neil McGregor (rugby union)
1901 - 1973
Patricia Payne (mezzo-soprano)
Born 1942
Bob McKerrow
Born 1948
Artie Dick
Born 1936
Kieran Noema-Barnett
Born 1987
Craig Miller (wrestler)
Born 1985
Brian Henderson (television presenter)
Born 1931
Betty Batham
1917 - 1974
Alison Holst
Born 1938
Alex Moir
1919 - 2000
Iain Gallaway
Born 1922
Mandy Smith (field hockey)
Born 1972
Ann Chapman
1937 - 2009
Sam Timmins
Born 1997
James Fletcher Jnr
1914 - 2007
David Benson-Pope
Born 1950
John McCraw
1925 - 2014
Peter Welsh (athlete)
Born 1943
Doug Coombs (geologist)
1924 - 2016
Thomas Sidey
1863 - 1933
Tinirau Arona
Born 1989
John Mills (New Zealand cricketer)
1905 - 1972
Justin Ives
Born 1984
Cedric Stanton Hicks
1892 - 1976
Frank Cameron
Born 1932
Jackson Garden-Bachop
Born 1994
Alistair Browning
1954 - 2019
Sene Naoupu
Born 1984
Louisa Alice Baker
1856 - 1926
Murray Steele
Born 1961
Adam Stewart (cyclist)
Born 1987
Martyn Finlay
1912 - 1999
James Ernest Strachan
1883 - 1973
Jack Hunter (cricketer)
Born 1995
Scott Becker
Born 1984
William Downie Stewart Jr.
1878 - 1949
Joe Latta
Born 1992
David Cox (Australian politician)
Born 1954
Alfred Cockayne
1880 - 1966
Mary Dreaver
1887 - 1961
Sio Tomkinson
Born 1996
Allan Highet
1913 - 1992
Josh Renton
Born 1994
William Calder (engineer)
1860 - 1928
Eric Watson (cricketer)
1925 - 2017
Tasha Williams (athlete)
Born 1973
Thomas Brash
1874 - 1957
Warren Cooper
Born 1933
Lincoln Hurring
1931 - 1993
Allan Thomson (geologist)
1881 - 1928
Mattias Hubrich
Born 1966
Philip Connolly
1899 - 1970
Michael Herbert Watt
1887 - 1967
Tom Cross (rugby)
1876 - 1930
John Henderson (geologist)
1880 - 1959
Hamish Walker
Born 1985
John Burt (rugby union)
1874 - 1933
Dave Comer
1956 - 2014
Leslie Whetter
1888 - 1956
John Braithwaite (journalist)
1885 - 1916
Tom Coughlan (rugby union)
1934 - 2017
Stephen Weir
1904 - 1969
Alex McDonald (rugby union)
1883 - 1967
Susan Brady (actress)
Born 1966
Charles Mackie Begg
1879 - 1919
Graham Billing
1936 - 2001
Fraser Barron
1921 - 1944
Ricky Cockerill
Born 1978
Michael Woodhouse
Born 1965
Rowan Milburn
Born 1977
Rachel Reese
Born 1964
Alexander Herdman
1869 - 1953
Sam Anderson-Heather
Born 1988
Emma Neale
Born 1969
Eric Roy
Born 1948
Wilhelmina Magdalene Stuart
1895 - 1985
Michael McGarry
Born 1965
Don Cleverley
1909 - 2004
Gerald Garrick Cunningham
1945 - 2019
Robert Malcolm Laing
1865 - 1941
Jack Somerville
1910 - 1999
Stewart Bell Maclennan
1903 - 1973
Dougal Stevenson
Born 1942
Christine Johnston (writer)
Born 1950
John Campbell (runner)
Born 1949
Sam Wells (cricketer)
Born 1984
David Smith (judge)
1888 - 1982
Lee Norfolk
Born 1975
Hayden Allen
Born 1979
Mark Winter
Born 1958
Mary Isabel Fraser
1863 - 1942
Kerry Walmsley
Born 1973
Owen Mead
1892 - 1942
Wilfrid Sim
1890 - 1974
Ben Webb (artist)
1977 - 2014
Lance Cross
1912 - 1989
Guy Overton
1919 - 1993
Harry Siedeberg
1877 - 1945
Mary Jerram
Born 1945
Allan Hubbard (businessman)
1928 - 2011
Nathan Smith (New Zealand cricketer)
Born 1998
Sonny Moloney
1910 - 1942
Keith Campbell (cricketer)
Born 1943
John Callan
1882 - 1951
Helen Anderson
Born 1955
Margaret Austin
Born 1933
James Hussey
1880 - 1950
Arthur Whittingham
1869 - 1927
Herbert Gilles Watson
1889 - 1942
Alice Woodhouse
1883 - 1977
Bruce Robertson (judge)
Born 1944
Jim Barnes (politician)
1908 - 1995
Donald Burns
1921 - 1987