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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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- Art & Design
- Writing
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Fred Jones (politician)
1885 - 1966
Shona Dunlop MacTavish
1920 - 2019
Bob Bryce
1879 - 1958
Brian McCleary
1897 - 1978
Frederick Baume
1862 - 1910
Neil Begg
1915 - 1995
Bill Bell (cricketer)
1931 - 2002
Christopher John Lewis
1964 - 1997
Rachel Armitage
1873 - 1955
Mitch Brown (snowboarder)
Born 1987
Elizabeth Gunn (paediatrician)
1879 - 1963
James Edward Fulton
1854 - 1928
Charles Statham
1875 - 1946
Jane Dodd
Born 1962
Pat Carrick
Born 1941
Henry John Matthews
1859 - 1909
Shane Collins (field hockey)
Born 1963
Kathleen Miller (swimmer)
1909 - 1963
Noel McGregor
1931 - 2007
Ronnie Kotkamp
Born 1972
Allison Calder
1960 - 2002
Nicola Campbell
Born 1985
Mary Louise Roberts
1886 - 1968
Andrew Pohl
Born 1989
Mark Billcliff
Born 1977
Nathaniel Millar
1915 - 2011
Geoffrey Osborne
Born 1956
Wayne Blair (cricketer)
1948 - 2019
Raymond Skinner
Born 1940
James Waddell (army officer)
1872 - 1954
Michael Rae
Born 1995
Peter Malone (mayor)
1924 - 2006
Simon Richards
Born 1964
Tom Watson (Australian footballer)
1874 - 1936
Tom Willis (rugby union)
Born 1979
Douglas Archibald Campbell
1906 - 1969
Rob Moodie (lawyer)
Born 1938
Eileen Fairbairn
1893 - 1981
Russell Stewart (cricketer)
Born 1946
Alfred Ackroyd (New Zealand cricketer)
1885 - 1952
Margery Blackman
Born 1930
Arthur George William Sparrow
1896 - 1967
Barry Milburn
Born 1943
Edward Kellett (New Zealand politician)
1864 - 1922
Bruce Blair
Born 1957
John McConnochie
Born 1954
Charlie Meadway
1879 - 1962
Harriet Miller-Brown
Born 1991
John McMullan (cricketer)
1893 - 1967
Hugh O'Neill (bishop)
1898 - 1955
John Grenell
Born 1944
Derek Walker (cricketer)
Born 1959
Hayden Anderson
Born 1980
Mick Brough
1899 - 1960
William Vorrath
1910 - 1934
Ray Hutchison (cricketer)
Born 1944
Lizzie Frost Rattray
1855 - 1931
Jack Southern
1874 - 1919
Alf Hanlon
1866 - 1944
Mary Webb (cricketer)
Born 1936
Jim Watt (rugby union)
1914 - 1988
John Veitch (cricketer)
1937 - 2009
Alec Neill
Born 1950
Pelu Taele
Born 1981
Helen Varley Jamieson
Born 1966
Albert Jelley
1894 - 1966
Diane Foote
Born 1954
Ian Smith (New Zealand rugby player)
1941 - 2017
Alexander A. Cameron
1868 - 1950
Ivan Walsh
1924 - 2005
Daphne Robinson
1932 - 2008
William Butler (cricketer)
1871 - 1953
James Wright Munro
1870 - 1945
Ollie Newton
Born 1988
John McIndoe (artist)
1898 - 1995
Alexander Paterson O'Shea
1902 - 1990
Ted Spillane
1904 - 1991
Kathleen Salmond
1895 - 1946
John Reader Hosking
1896 - 1946
Allan Edwards (New Zealand cricketer)
1920 - 1942
Ernest Currie
1875 - 1932
Matthew Moss
1863 - 1946
Blair Scoullar
Born 1979
Ada Gertrude Paterson
1880 - 1937
Anna Smith (cricketer)
Born 1978
Thomas Culling
1896 - 1917
Andrew Given
1886 - 1916
John Martin (admiral)
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Dave McColl
1876 - 1946
Robert Alexander Wright
1853 - 1947
Noeline Gourley
Born 1925
Susan Jowett
Born 1956
Gordon Innes
1910 - 1992
Richard Walls
1937 - 2011
Jim Blandford
1913 - 1954
Thomas Albert McFarlane
1890 - 1967
Ernie Dodd
1880 - 1918
Graham Fortune
1941 - 2016
Trudy Anderson
Born 1959
Rusty Page
1908 - 1985
Graham Botting
1915 - 2007
Tristan Prattley
Born 1988
Robert Chadwick
1879 - 1939
William Frame (cricketer)
1932 - 1965
Vaughn Johnson
Born 1960
Eric Halley
1893 - 1953
Brian MacDonell
Born 1935
Barry Allan (cricketer)
1928 - 1962
Peter Hills
Born 1958
Raymond Hunt
1921 - 1994
Stuart Sidey
1908 - 2007
Lindsay Clark
Born 1944
Richard Torrance
1884 - 1972
Ronald Fox (cricketer)
1880 - 1952
Rhys Phillips
Born 1988
Moana Manley
1935 - 2017
Theo Allen
1914 - 2003
Frederick Vorrath
1908 - 1972
Arthur Barnett (businessman)
1873 - 1959
Geoff Anderson (cricketer)
Born 1939
Donald Rutledge
1891 - 1956
Trevor Sutherland (cricketer)
Born 1954
Justin Paul (cricketer)
Born 1972
Frank McAtamney
Born 1934
Glenn Dickson
Born 1986
William Priest
1909 - 1972
Geoffrey Michael William Hodgkins
1902 - 1965
Archibald Graham (cricketer)
1917 - 2000
David Hunter (New Zealand cricketer)
Born 1968
George Morris (umpire)
Born 1957
Frances Ida Kain
1908 - 1997
Barry Freeman
Born 1948
Charles Smith (rugby)
1909 - 1976
Frank Torley
1940 - 2016
Lawrence Anderson (cricketer)
Born 1947
Shona Gilchrist
Born 1958
Bill Gwynne
1913 - 1991
Jan Hall (cricketer)
Born 1958
Bill Bremner
1879 - 1961
Raymond Hesselyn
1921 - 1963
Ian Rutherford
Born 1957
John Dunlop (chess player)
Born 1886
Merle Hollis
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Alfred Lawson (cricketer)
1912 - 1974
Kevin Darling (bowls)
Born 1950
Eion Edgar
Born 1945
Leslie Groves (cricketer)
1911 - 1990
Samuel Blakely
Born 1993
Harry Butterworth
1868 - 1954
Ian Payne (New Zealand cricketer)
1921 - 2011
Stan Rodger
Born 1940
Muriel Wallace May
1897 - 1982
Thomas Adams (cricketer)
1884 - 1953
Frederick Stephenson (New Zealand cricketer)
1871 - 1944
William Gough
1929 - 1978
Matt Harvie
Born 1984
Paul Facoory
Born 1951
Carlson Dickel
Born 1946
Percy Thomson
1884 - 1962
Leonard Watson
1927 - 2013
Ron Silver (cricketer)
1910 - 1984
Peter Dobbs
Born 1968
Colin McDonald (New Zealand cricketer)
1948 - 2005
Angus McDougall
1913 - 1983
Norman Ellis
1913 - 2005
Jennie Macandrew
1866 - 1949
William Kilgour
1878 - 1935
Nathan Morland
Born 1976
Frederick Liggins
1873 - 1926
Albertus Eckhoff
1875 - 1949
Leslie Milnes
1922 - 2013
Norman Harold Moss
1896 - 1974
Clive Geary
1922 - 2004
Justine Fryer
Born 1972
Graeme Powell
Born 1947
Ron Johnston
1930 - 2014
Frank Wells (cricketer)
1871 - 1932
Alex Stenhouse
1910 - 1992
George Cummings (cricketer)
1882 - 1943
Beverley Bergen
Born 1950
Paul Campbell (cricketer)
Born 1968
James Smith (New Zealand cricketer)
1891 - 1971
Clement Beck
1863 - 1957
Anthony Wilkinson (New Zealand cricketer)
Born 1981
Ray Bell
1925 - 2016
Harold Tyrie
1915 - 2007
Roderick Braithwaite
1901 - 1963
Robert Brown (New Zealand cricketer)
1850 - 1934
Russell Mawhinney
Born 1960
John Cameron (New Zealand cricketer)
1898 - 1988
Peter Neilson (politician born 1879)
1879 - 1948
Gerald Austin (cricketer)
1875 - 1959
Alan Hunt (New Zealand cricketer)
Born 1959
Nicholas Smith (cricketer)
Born 1946
Wayne Martin (cricketer)
Born 1955
Andrew Grieve (cricketer)
1863 - 1941
Peter Semple
Born 1941
Philip Morris (New Zealand cricketer)
Born 1952
John Flaherty (cricketer)
Born 1942
Arthur Berry (cricketer)
1928 - 2016
William Holden (cricketer)
1883 - 1949
William Higgins (New Zealand cricketer)
1888 - 1968
Norman Woods
Born 1936
John O'Sullivan (cricketer)
1918 - 1991
Murray Muir
1928 - 2004
Lance Pearson
1937 - 2019
Frank Hutchison (cricketer)
1897 - 1990
Victor Beeby
1891 - 1944
Shane Robinson (cricketer)
Born 1967
Raymond Stewart (cricketer)
Born 1944
Robin Allan
1900 - 1966
Betty Sinclair (cricketer)
Born 1935
Duncan McLachlan (cricketer)
1893 - 1958
Kevin Briggs (cricketer)
1939 - 2004
Garry Williams (New Zealand cricketer)
Born 1953
Geoffrey Murdoch
Born 1954
William Haydon
1872 - 1904
Graham Kemp (cricketer)
Born 1962
Robert Long (New Zealand cricketer)
1932 - 2010
Ronald Haley
Born 1941
Lynn McAlevey
Born 1953
Esther Blackie
1916 - 1991
Blair Soper
Born 1991
Frank McNeill
1877 - 1930
John Kenny (cricketer)
1883 - 1937
Alexander Morris (cricketer)
1858 - 1918
Robert Rutherford (cricketer)
1886 - 1960
Russell Hendry
Born 1939
Dion Lobb
Born 1980
William Douglas (cricketer, born 1903)
1903 - 1981
Daniel Claffey
1869 - 1924
Scott Waide
Born 1977
George Mills (cricketer, born 1916)
1916 - 1979
Stuart Jones (cricketer)
Born 1929
Peter Johnstone (rugby union)
1922 - 1977
Edwin Cummings
1885 - 1951
Frederick Stanley (cricketer)
1923 - 1993
Alfred Kinvig
1874 - 1965
Stanley Tomkinson
1907 - 1969
Charles Bowden (politician)
1886 - 1972
Lewis Baker (cricketer)
1920 - 1997
James Barron (cricketer)
1900 - 1990
Stewart McKnight
Born 1935
Geoffrey Blakely
Born 1959
Ewen Cameron (cricketer)
1921 - 1997
Ernest Kruskopf
1919 - 1981
William Fea
1898 - 1988
Albert Keast
1895 - 1969
Arthur Symonds (cricketer)
1890 - 1946
James Clark (New Zealand cricketer)
1910 - 2003
Donald McKechnie
Born 1944
Kenneth McKnight
Born 1964
Ronald Murdoch
Born 1945
John Allen (cricketer, born 1850)
1850 - 1897
Charles Howden
1881 - 1963
Bob Stenhouse
Born 1944
Stuart Duncan (cricketer)
1906 - 1971
Ian Botting
1922 - 1980
Wally Williams (water polo)
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Ernest Wilson (New Zealand cricketer)
1877 - 1959
William Webb (cricketer)
1851 - 1913
Charles Chadwick (cricketer)
1880 - 1942
Norman Henderson
1913 - 2000
Ralph Spraggon
1872 - 1939
Raymond Procter
Born 1938
Arthur Galland
1891 - 1975
Andrew Henson Allen
1877 - 1963
William Brinsley
1887 - 1959
Kevin Stuart (rugby union)
1928 - 2005
Gordon McGregor (cricketer)
1915 - 1982
Walter Arthur Hudson
1898 - 1972
Arthur Lomas
1895 - 1924
Leslie Chadwick
1889 - 1970
Vernon McArley
1923 - 2019
Thomas Flaws
Born 1932
Tracey Garland
Born 1970
Thomas Dickel
1897 - 1969
Adam Glen
1853 - 1937
Nicola Jackson (artist)
Born 1960
William Robertson (Otago cricketer)
Born 1940
Cecil Toomey
1915 - 1981
Colin Graham (New Zealand cricketer)
1929 - 2020
Francis Toomey
1904 - 1992
Albert Cramond
1881 - 1954
William Carson (cricketer)
1866 - 1955
Verdon Chettleburgh
1912 - 1960
Charles Kettle (cricketer)
1850 - 1918
Michael MacKenzie (cricketer)
Born 1974
Robert Harwood (cricketer)
1923 - 1992
Leonard Monk
1873 - 1948
Charles Rattray (cricketer)
1863 - 1939
Thomas Fraser (New Zealand cricketer)
1917 - 1998
John Hope (cricketer, born 1866)
1866 - 1950
Damian Watson
Born 1987
Norma Restieaux
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Warren McSkimming
Born 1979
Mayzod Reid
1928 - 2001
Gladys Pidgeon
1906 - 2002
Ernest Gordon Lewis
1918 - 2006
John Jenkinson (New Zealand politician)
1858 - 1937