List of Famous people born in Wellington Region, New Zealand

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

Noel Treanor is the 32nd and current Bishop of the Irish diocese of Down and Connor. On 22 February 2008, Pope Benedict XVI announced the appointment of Noel Treanor as Bishop. He was ordained to the Episcopate and installed as Bishop of Down and Connor on 29 June 2008.

Alexander Hart Greenwich is the member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, representing the seat of Sydney since the 2012 Sydney by-election. He ran as an independent and was backed by his predecessor, independent Clover Moore. He is also the Co-Chair of Australian Marriage Equality and was one of the key leaders of the successful Yes campaign for the Australian Marriage Law Postal Survey in 2017 and abortion legalization within New South Wales in 2019.

Jonathan Winter is a member of the Ngāi Tahu Maori tribe and a former backstroke swimmer from New Zealand, who competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, United States, for his native country. At the 1995 FINA World SC Championships in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil he won the gold medal with the Men's 4 × 100 medley relay team.

John Gordon is a New Zealand badminton player. He competed at the 2002 Commonwealth Games, and won a bronze medal in the mixed team event.

Peter Hambleton is a New Zealand stage, film and television actor, and stage director. Well known in the Wellington theatre scene, he has played ornithologist Walter Buller in the 2006 play Dr Buller's Birds and Charles Darwin in the 2009 play Collapsing Creation. He played the Dwarf Glóin in The Hobbit film series and Mike Johnson in an episode of the 1999 TV miniseries A Twist in the Tale.

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.

Christopher Jenner is a former French professional cyclist. He became a French national in June 2000.

Aaran Franklyn Lines is a retired New Zealand association football player and former head coach of the Western New York Flash. He has represented New Zealand at international level.