University of Canterbury - Notable Alumni

Notable Alumni

Main category: University of Canterbury alumni
  • Rita Angus - painter
  • Rosemary Banks - Ambassador to the United Nations
  • Don Brash - politician and Governor of the Reserve Bank
  • Neil Cherry - environmental scientist
  • Mark Chignell - academic
  • Michael P. Collins - academic
  • Jack Copeland - philosopher
  • Michael Cullen - politician
  • Rhys Darby - comedian
  • G. F. J. Dart - Headmaster of Ballarat Grammar School 1942-1970
  • Peter Dunne - politician
  • Denis Dutton - philosopher
  • Robert H. Grubbs - chemist
  • Clive Granger - economist
  • Brian Easton - economist
  • Michael Endres - pianist
  • Stevan Eldred-Grigg - historian and novelist
  • Ian Foster - computer scientist
  • Rob Fyfe - businessperson
  • Joel Hayward - academic
  • Rhona Haszard - artist
  • Ken Henry - Secretary to the Treasury (Australia)
  • Rodney Hide - politician
  • Jock Hobbs - All Black Captain
  • Marian Hobbs - politician
  • Alexander Ivashkin - musician
  • Bruce Jesson - writer
  • Catherine Judd - politician
  • Roy Kerr - mathematician
  • Roger Kerr - executive director of the New Zealand Business Roundtable
  • John Key - politician Prime Minister of New Zealand
  • Howard Kippenberger, military leader
  • Jordan Luck - musician
  • Euan MacLeod - painter
  • Margaret Mahy - children's author
  • Ngaio Marsh - author and thespian
  • Julie Maxton - academic administrarot
  • John McMillan - economist
  • Trevor Moffitt - painter
  • Sam Neill - actor
  • Alan MacDiarmid - Nobel Prize in Chemistry
  • Craig Nevill-Manning - engineer
  • Sir Apirana Ngata - Māori politician
  • William Alfred Orange - Anglican churchman and founder of Latimer House.
  • Graham Panckhurst - High Court Judge
  • William Pickering - engineering administrator
  • J. G. A. Pocock- historian
  • Ernest Rutherford - physicist - Nobel Prize
  • Feleti Vakaʻuta Sevele - politician Prime Minister of Tonga
  • Nick Smith - politician
  • Kevin Smith - actor
  • Beatrice Tinsley - astronomer
  • Anote Tong - politician, President of Kiribati
  • Vincent Ward - film director, screen writer
  • Ada Wells - feminist
  • Cal Wilson - comedian, television personality
  • Glenn Wilson - psychologist
  • William Young - Judge of the Supreme Court of New Zealand

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