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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