Invercargill - People From Invercargill

People From Invercargill

• Peter Arnett - NBC war correspondent
• Oliver Bulleid - Railway locomotive designer and Chief Mechanical Engineer of the Southern Railway (Great Britain), born in Invercargill in 1882
• Johnnie Checketts - Silver Star, Wingco and Spitfire Ace
• Bill Crawford-Crompton - Silver Star, Air Vice Marshal and WW2 Commander and Ace
• Geoffrey Cox Rhodes Scholar, Chief Intelligence Officer to General Freyberg in WWII, founded Britain's pioneering News at Ten on ITN.
• Marton Csokas - actor
• Dan Davin - author, editor
• Corey Flynn - Hooker for All Blacks
• Ernest Godward - inventor of the spiral hairpin and the petrol economiser
• Dene Halatau - Wests Tigers Utility in the NRL
• Joseph Hatch - businessman, oil factor
• Brigadier James Hargest; CBE, DSO & 2 bars, MC, ED, MP - New Zealand chief military officer for Southland and politician
• Rowena Jackson - Royal Ballet prima ballerina
• Jason Kerrison - Opshop singer/songwriter
• Chris Knox - infamous (in NZ) alternative rock musician
• Alex Lithgow - composer, musician, conductor
• Bill Manhire - inaugural NZ poet laureate
• Khan Manuel - Guitarist/Composer
• Herbert James "Burt" Munro - inventor, motorcycle enthusiast, racer and under-1000 cc land speed record holder
• Mils Muliaina - All Black
• Harry Norris - A music director of the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company
• Anton Oliver - All Black
• Herbert Pither - aviation legend of Southland,
• Suzanne Prentice - musician
• Boyce Richardson - journalist, author, filmmaker
• Lesley Rumball - Former Silver Ferns Captain
• Victor Spencer - last soldier to be executed in World War I, pardoned in 2005
• Garfield Todd - Prime Minister of Rhodesia
• Jeremy Waldron - prominent legal and political philosopher
• Joseph Ward - Prime Minister of New Zealand
• Jeff Wilson - All Black and Black Cap ("Double All Black")
• Bob Yule - WWII fighter pilot