This is a list of Famous South Islanders: A Alexander Aitken - mathematician/statistician, writer, mental calculator, musician Ronald Algie - politician Fred Allen - rugby union player James Allen - politician James Allen - rugby union player Rewi Alley - supporter of Chinese communism Peter Arnett - TV journalist, Pulitzer Prize winner Basil Arthur - politician Ian Athfield - architect B David Bain Alison Ballance - author and film-maker Rick Barker - politician James Baxter - poet Francis Bell - first New Zealand-born Prime Minister David Benson-Pope - politician Todd Blackadder - rugby player Ben Blair - rugby player William Brassington - stonemason and sculptor Kelly Brazier - rugby player John Britten - designer of the Britten motorcycle Donald Forrester Brown - awarded the Victoria Cross Nigel Brown - painter Gerry Brownlee - politician Kerry Burke - politician C Dan Carter - rugby player Nathan Cohen - world champion and Olympic champion rower Thomas Cooke - awarded the Victoria Cross Warren Cooper - politician Michael Cullen - politician G. H. Cunningham - plant pathologist Allen Curnow - poet D Alan Dale - actor Lianne Dalziel - politician Stephnie de Ruyter - politician Bob Deans - rugby union player Bruce Deans - rugby union player Robbie Deans - rugby player and coach Rod Dixon - runner Rod Donald - politician Sarah Dougherty - early settler Jimmy Duncan - rugby union player, coach and referee Peter Dunne - politician E Andy Ellis - rugby union player Thomas Ellison - rugby union player and lawyer Bill English - politician F Bob Fitzsimmons - world boxing heavyweight champion Corey Flynn - rugby player George Forbes - Prime Minister Tom Fyfe - mountaineer G George Gair - politician Daryl Gibson - rugby player Charles Gifford - teacher and very successful promoter of astronomy George Gillett - rugby union player Sir Harold Gillies - pioneering plastic surgeon Robin Gray - politician Arthur Guinness - politician Stewart Graeme Guthrie - police sergeant posthumously awarded the George Cross H Sir Richard Hadlee - cricketer John Hall - Premier of New Zealand William Hall-Jones - Prime Minister of New Zealand Adam Hamilton - politician Bill Hamilton - developed the modern jetboat Scott Hamilton - rugby union player Mark Hammett - rugby union player Dame Joan Hammond - violinist, soprano Joseph Hatch - Invercargill businessman, "harvester" of penguins Rudy Heeman - inventor Louise Henderson - painter Graham Henry - rugby