Prominent Alumni
Main category: University of Auckland alumni- Jo Aleh, world champion and Olympic sailor
- Philippa Boyens, Academy Award-winning screenwriter
- Niki Caro, film director, producer and screenwriter.
- Vincent Cheng, Chairman of HSBC
- Helen Clark, former Prime Minister of New Zealand, current Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme
- Russell Coutts, yachtsman
- Mahé Drysdale, Olympic and world champion rower
- Sian Elias, New Zealand Chief Justice since 17 May 1999
- Jeanette Fitzsimons, New Zealand politician and environmentalist
- Jeffrey Grice, pianist
- Gavin Hastings, Scottish rugby player took his sabbatical from Cambridge University at Auckland University, and played for their rugby team.
- Harry Hawthorn, Canadian anthropologist
- John Hood, former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford
- Jonathan Hunt, former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Order of New Zealand
- Michael Jones, rugby player
- Vaughan Jones, Fields medallist
- David Lange, former Prime Minister of New Zealand
- Viliami Latu, Tongan Minister of Police
- Lucy Lawless, actress
- Ashley Lawrence (1934–1990), conductor
- Tuilaepa Aiono Sailele Malielegaoi, Prime Minister of Samoa
- Marya Martin, flautist
- Stephen Parke, physicist
- Winston Peters, politician
- Peter C. B. Phillips, economist
- Anthony Randerson, New Zealand Chief High Court Judge from December 2004
- Mike Rann, Former Premier of South Australia, and future Australian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom
- William Sage Rapson, chemist
- Anand Satyanand, Governor General, New Zealand
- Wilma Smith, Fijian-born concert violinist and music teacher
- Rory Sweetman, historian
- Ronald Syme, pre-eminent New Zealand classicist of the 20th century
- Christine Tan, CNBC News Anchor
- David Wills, noted translator of Jacques Derrida
- Vangelis Vitalis, diplomat
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