union coach Jack Hinton - awarded the Victoria Cross Frances Hodgkins - painter Sidney Holland - Prime Minister Sir Fred Hollows - eye surgeon Andrew Hore - rugby union player Ned Hughes - rugby union player Alfred Hulme - awarded the Victoria Cross Denny Hulme - world champion racing driver J Chris Jack - rugby player Rowena Jackson - ballerina K Phil Keoghan - TV presenter Norman Kirk - Prime Minister Terry Knights - awarded the Military Cross for service in Iraq L Robert Lawson - architect Richard Loe - rugby player Jack Lovelock - runner Isaac Luck - architect Len Lye - sculptor, experimental film maker M Laurie Mains - rugby union player and coach Justin Marshall - rugby union player Aaron Mauger - rugby union player Ivan Mauger - six time Motorcycle speedway world champion Nathan Mauger - rugby union player Colin McCahon - painter, museum curator, teacher Richie McCaw - rugby union player Leon MacDonald - rugby union player Thomas Mackenzie - Prime Minister of New Zealand Shona McFarlane - painter Michael McGarry - football player Duncan McGregor - rugby union player Sir Archie McIndoe - pioneer plastic surgeon Cameron McIntyre - rugby player Peter McIntyre - painter Andrew Mehrtens - rugby union player Henry Monson - gaoler William Sefton Moorhouse - prominent Canterbury politician and settler Benjamin Mountfort - architect Burt Munro - speed record breaker Colin Murdoch - inventor of the disposable syringe N Edgar Neale - Mayor (1941–1945) and MP (1946–1957) for Nelson Henry James Nicholas - awarded the Victoria Cross Tane Norton - former All Black captain P Geoffrey Palmer - Prime Minister of New Zealand Richard Pearse - early aviator and inventor Francis Petre - architect R Bill Rowling - Prime Minister of New Zealand Bic Runga - singer, songwriter Ernest Rutherford - 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson, scientist and winner of the 1908 Nobel Prize in Chemistry S Richard Seddon - Prime Minister of New Zealand George 'Johnny' Sellars - pioneering parachutist Henry Sewell - Premier of New Zealand Kate Sheppard - suffragist Jenny Shipley - New Zealand's first female Prime Minister Edward Stafford - Premier of New Zealand Billy Stead - rugby union player Robert Stout - Premier of New Zealand Grahame Sydney - painter T Sir Angus Tait - businessman and electronics innovator Brad Thorn - rugby union and rugby league player Reuben Thorne - rugby union player Richard