New Zealand Wars
- Duncan Alexander Cameron - British General in the Second Taranaki War
- Hone Heke - Ngapuhi tribal chief
- Hongi Hika - first military leader of the Musket Wars
- Kepa Te Rangihiwinui - Maori leader on British side in the Taranaki Wars.
- William Odgers VC - first man to win the Victoria Cross in the New Zealand land wars.
- Thomas Simson Pratt - British commander in the First Taranaki War
- Beauchamp Seymour, 1st Baron Alcester - British naval commander in New Zealand, 1860-1861
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