List of Famous people born in Hawke's Bay Region, New Zealand

Karne Hesketh

Karne Lawrence Hesketh

First Name Karne

Born on August 1, 1985 (age 39)

Born in New Zealand, Hawke's Bay Region

Height 178 cm | 5'10

Karne L. Hesketh is a player for the Japan rugby union team.

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Emma Twigg

First Name Emma

Born on March 1, 1987 (age 37)

Born in New Zealand, Hawke's Bay Region

Height 182 cm | 6'0

Emma Twigg is a New Zealand rower. A single sculler, she was the 2014 world champion and won gold in her fourth Olympics in Tokyo in July 2021. Previous Olympic appearances were in 2008, 2012, and 2016. She has retired from rowing twice, first for master-level studies in Europe in 2015 and then after the 2016 Olympics, disappointed at having narrowly missed an Olympic medal for the second time. After two years off the water, she started training again in 2018 and won silver at the 2019 World Rowing Championships. Since her marriage in 2020, she has become an outspoken advocate for LGBT athletes. At the 2020 Summer Olympics, Twigg won gold in the woman's single scull.

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Shane Young

First Name Shane

Last Name Young

Born on July 7, 1993 (age 31)

Born in New Zealand, Hawke's Bay Region

Shane Young is a New Zealander mixed martial artist (MMA) who currently competes in the Featherweight division in the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC). Young is affiliated with the Maori tribe Ngāti Kahungunu.

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Martin Campbell

First Name Martin

Last Name Campbell

Born on October 24, 1943 (age 81)

Born in New Zealand, Hawke's Bay Region

Filmmaker

Martin Campbell is a New Zealand film and television director based in the United Kingdom. He is best known for directing the highly regarded British miniseries Edge of Darkness (1985), for which he won a BAFTA, The Mask of Zorro (1998), and the James Bond films GoldenEye (1995) and Casino Royale (2006).

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Dan Hennah

First Name Dan

Last Name Hennah

Born on November 30, 1949 (age 74)

Born in New Zealand, Hawke's Bay Region

Dan Hennah is a production designer from New Zealand who worked on The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit films. He won an Oscar for The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King.

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Anna-Louise Plowman

First Name Anna-Louise

Born on May 9, 1972 (age 52)

Born in New Zealand, Hawke's Bay Region

Actor

Anna-Louise Plowman is a New Zealander actress.

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Westley Gough

First Name Westley

Last Name Gough

Born on May 4, 1988 (age 36)

Born in New Zealand, Hawke's Bay Region

Height 185 cm | 6'1

Westley Gough is a New Zealand professional racing cyclist. In 2011 he won the New Zealand National Road Championships ITT.

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Megan Gay

First Name Megan

Born on January 1, 1967 (age 57)

Born in New Zealand, Hawke's Bay Region

Actor

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Billy Bush

First Name Billy

Last Name Bush

Born on January 24, 1949 (age 75)

Born in New Zealand, Hawke's Bay Region

William Kingita Te Pohe Bush is a former New Zealand rugby union player. A prop, Bush represented Canterbury at a provincial level, and was a member of the New Zealand national side, the All Blacks, from 1974 to 1979. He played 37 matches for the All Blacks including 12 internationals.

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Tom Biss

First Name Tom

Last Name Biss

Born on January 20, 1993 (age 31)

Born in New Zealand, Hawke's Bay Region

Footballer

Sportsperson

Thomas Matthew Biss is a New Zealand footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for Slough Town.

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