List of Famous people born in New Zealand

Aaron Gate is a New Zealand road and track cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Continental team Black Spoke Pro Cycling.

Rhona Robertson is a former female badminton player from New Zealand. She is a veteran of two Olympic Games and four Commonwealth Games.

Leonard Charles Brown is a former mayor of Auckland, New Zealand, and former head of the Auckland Council. He won the 2010 Auckland mayoral election on 9 October 2010 and was sworn in as Mayor of Auckland on 1 November 2010, being the first to hold that title for the amalgamated Auckland "Super City", and was re-elected in 2013. Brown had previously been elected mayor of Manukau City in October 2007, the second time he ran for that office. Brown is married to Shirley Anne "Shan" Inglis, and has three daughters: Samantha, Olivia and Victoria. As Mayor of Auckland, Brown was a vocal advocate for the City Rail Link and helped pass the city's first Unitary Plan.

Mark Burton is a retired association football player who represented New Zealand at international level. He played as an attacking midfielder.

Simon John Elliott is a retired New Zealand International footballer who most recently served as head coach of USL Championship side Sacramento Republic FC.

John Christopher Parry, known as Chris Parry, is a New Zealand record producer and former musician, known for being the former manager and producer for The Cure and for founding Fiction Records.

Philip Joel Urry, known by his stage name Phil Joel, is a New Zealand musician and the bassist for the Christian rock group Newsboys.

Dean Wareham is an American musician and actor who formed the band Galaxie 500 in 1987. He left Galaxie 500 in April 1991 and founded the band Luna. Since Luna's breakup in 2005, Wareham has released albums with fellow Luna bandmate Britta Phillips. They also work as film composers, notably on the Noah Baumbach films The Squid and the Whale and Mistress America. He released a self-titled album in 2014 and reformed Luna in 2015.

Carl Nixon is a New Zealand novelist, short story writer and playwright. He has written four novels and a number of original plays which have been performed throughout New Zealand, as well as adapting both Lloyd Jones' novel The Book of Fame and Nobel prize winner J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace for the stage.