List of Famous people born in New Zealand
Jemaine Clement
Jemaine Clement is a New Zealand actor, musician, comedian, singer, director and writer. With Bret McKenzie, as the Grammy Award-winning comedy duo Flight of the Conchords, he has released several albums and created comedy series for both the BBC and HBO. For the comedy series, he received six Primetime Emmy nominations.
Eliza McCartney
Eliza McCartney is a New Zealand track and field athlete who competes in the pole vault and won the bronze medal in this event at the 2016 Summer Olympics. She is the current New Zealand and Oceania record holder at 4.94 m, and is the outdoor world junior record holder at 4.64 m. She also won the silver medal at the Summer Universiade in 2015. In 2018, she placed second at the Commonwealth Games.
Neil Finn
Neil Mullane Finn is a New Zealand singer-songwriter and musician who is currently a member of Fleetwood Mac. With his brother Tim Finn, he was the co-frontman for Split Enz, a project that he joined after it was initially founded by Tim and others, and then became the frontman for Crowded House. He has also recorded several successful solo albums and assembled diverse musicians for the 7 Worlds Collide project; contributor Ed O'Brien, also guitarist for Radiohead, has hailed Finn as popular music's "most prolific writer of great songs".
Virimi Vakatawa
Virimi Vakatawa is a New Zealand-born French Rugby Union player who plays for Racing 92 in the Top 14 and the French national team. His position is wing and centre. He joined the French 7s team in 2014 and in January 2016, he was included in the French national team for the 2016 Six Nations Championship.
Ray Comfort
Ray Comfort is a New Zealand-born Christian minister and evangelist who lives in the United States. Comfort started Living Waters Publications, as well as the ministry The Way of the Master, in Bellflower, California, and has written several books.
Lockie Ferguson
Lachlan Hammond "Lockie" Ferguson is a New Zealand cricketer who represents the New Zealand national team and plays first-class cricket for Auckland.
Michelle Ang
Michelle Ang is a New Zealand film and television actress based in New York City. In 2016, Ang was nominated for an Emmy for her work on Fear the Walking Dead: Flight 462.
Willy Moon
William George Sinclair, better known by his stage name Willy Moon, is a New Zealand-born musician, singer, songwriter and producer. He is known for his 2012 single "Yeah Yeah" which appeared on the 2012 Apple iPod advert and peaked at number 26 on the UK Singles Chart. In March 2015, Moon and his wife, Natalia Kills, were fired as judges from New Zealand X Factor for their comments and behaviour towards one of the contestants.
Peter Burling
Peter Burling is the 2017 America's Cup champion helmsman, and an Olympic gold and silver medallist.
Kieran Read
Kieran James Read is a New Zealand-born rugby union player, currently playing as a Number 8 for Toyota Verblitz in the Japanese Top League and is a former captain of the All Blacks, New Zealand's national rugby union team.