List of Famous people born in Auckland Region, New Zealand
Joey Carbery
Joseph Carbery is an Irish rugby union player who plays for Munster in the Pro14 and European Rugby Champions Cup and for the Ireland national team. He plays primarily as a fly-half, but can also play as a fullback.
Karmichael Hunt
Karmichael Neil Matthew Hunt is a New Zealand-born Australian rugby league footballer who plays for the Souths Logan Magpies in the Queensland Cup.
Rieko Ioane
Rieko Edward Ioane is a New Zealand professional rugby union footballer who plays as a wing for New Zealand team Blues in Super Rugby and the New Zealand national team. In his youth career, he was selected to play in the 2014 and 2015 Sevens World Series for New Zealand and took part in Auckland Grammar School first XV, the top representative team in secondary school.
Will Skelton
William "Will" Skelton is an Australian rugby union footballer, who plays as a lock for La Rochelle in the French Top 14 competition. Skelton was born in New Zealand, and he is of Samoan descent; he moved to Australia as a child and qualified for Australia through residency. He won 18 caps for Australia between 2014 and 2016.
Don Merton
Donald Vincent Merton was a New Zealand conservationist best known for saving the black robin from extinction. He also discovered the lek breeding system of the kakapo.
Graham Candy
Graham Candy, is a singer-songwriter and actor from New Zealand. In 2013 he moved to Berlin to begin his music career.
Callan Mulvey
Callan Mulvey is a New Zealand-born Australian actor. He is best known for his roles as Mark Moran on the Australian drama Underbelly, Sergeant Brendan 'Josh' Joshua in Rush, and as Bogdan 'Draz' Drazic in Heartbreak High. His American roles include Scyllias in 300: Rise of an Empire, Jack Rollins in Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014) and Avengers: Endgame (2019), and Anatoli Knyazev in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice.
Stefan Marinovic
Stefan Tone Marinovic is a New Zealand professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for A-League side Wellington Phoenix.
Bobby Chinn
Robert Chinn is an international chef, television presenter, restaurateur and cookbook author. He is a culinary celebrity across Asia and the Middle East, thanks to his role as host of Discovery TLC's World Cafe, and as a judge on MBC's Top Chef Middle East. He opened two award-winning restaurants in Vietnam – Restaurant Bobby Chinn in Hanoi (2001) and Bobby Chinn Saigon in Ho Chi Minh (2011), then relocated to London in 2014 and opened the House of Ho Vietnamese restaurant.
James Raideen
Dylan James is a New Zealand professional wrestler and mixed martial artist. He is currently signed to Rizin Fighting Federation and Pro Wrestling Land's End. He is best known for working for All Japan Pro Wrestling, where he is a former World Tag Team Champion and 2018 World's Strongest Tag Determination League tournament winner and in Pro Wrestling Zero1 where he worked under the ring name James Raideen. He defeated Masato Tanaka to become a World Heavyweight Champion.