Science
- Tramway and mining engineer George Smith Duncan
- Two of the founders of modern plastic surgery, Harold Gillies and Archibald McIndoe were born in Dunedin in 1882 and 1900 respectively.
- Popular email program Pegasus Mail was written by David Harris while he was employed by the University of Otago.
- Michael Woodruff a pioneer in the science of organ transplantation
- Andrew Wilson created the first Bose-Einstein condensate in the southern hemisphere in 1998 at the University of Otago.
- John Carew Eccles became a professor and head of the Department of Physiology at the University of Otago from 1944 to 1951; before winning the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1963 for describing the electric transmission of impulses along nerves.
- Political scientist Jim Flynn, discoverer of the Flynn effect in IQ, is based at the University of Otago.
- Forensic psychiatrist John Macdonald
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