University of Auckland - Prominent Alumni

Prominent Alumni

• Jo Aleh, world champion and Olympic sailor
• Philippa Boyens, Academy Award-winning screenwriter
• Niki Caro, film director, producer and screenwriter.
• Vincent Cheng, Chairman of HSBC
• Helen Clark, former Prime Minister of New Zealand, current Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme
• Russell Coutts, yachtsman
• Mahé Drysdale, Olympic and world champion rower
• Sian Elias, New Zealand Chief Justice since 17 May 1999
• Jeanette Fitzsimons, New Zealand politician and environmentalist
• Jeffrey Grice, pianist
• Gavin Hastings, Scottish rugby player took his sabbatical from Cambridge University at Auckland University, and played for their rugby team.
• Harry Hawthorn, Canadian anthropologist
• John Hood, former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford
• Jonathan Hunt, former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Order of New Zealand
• Michael Jones, rugby player
• Vaughan Jones, Fields medallist
• David Lange, former Prime Minister of New Zealand
• Viliami Latu, Tongan Minister of Police
• Lucy Lawless, actress
• Ashley Lawrence (1934–1990), conductor
• Tuilaepa Aiono Sailele Malielegaoi, Prime Minister of Samoa
• Marya Martin, flautist
• Stephen Parke, physicist
• Winston Peters, politician
• Peter C. B. Phillips, economist
• Anthony Randerson, New Zealand Chief High Court Judge from December 2004
• Mike Rann, Former Premier of South Australia, and future Australian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom
• William Sage Rapson, chemist
• Anand Satyanand, Governor General, New Zealand
• Wilma Smith, Fijian-born concert violinist and music teacher
• Rory Sweetman, historian
• Ronald Syme, pre-eminent New Zealand classicist of the 20th century
• Christine Tan, CNBC News Anchor
• David Wills, noted translator of Jacques Derrida
• Vangelis Vitalis, diplomat