Notable Alumni
Main category: People educated at Waitaki Boys' High School- Peter Arnett - journalist
- Fraser Barron - bomber pilot during WWII
- James Bertram - professor, journalist
- Denis Blundell - lawyer, Governor-General
- Dean Hall - video game designer
- Charles Brasch - poet
- Douglas Carter - former National MP for the Raglan electorate
- Malcolm Grant - Provost and President of University College London
- Ron Guthrey - Mayor of Christchurch (1968–1971)
- A. M. Hamilton - engineer
- Lindsay Merritt Inglis (1894–1966), a senior officer in the New Zealand Military Forces
- Douglas Lilburn - Professor, composer
- Sir Robert Reynolds Macintosh (1897–1989), first Nuffield Professor of Anaesthetics, Oxford
- Terence McCombs - politician, Headmaster
- Arnold Nordmeyer (1901–1989), politician, Labour Party Minister of Finance 1957–1960
- Foss Shanahan - diplomat
- Sir Angus Tait - electronics innovator and businessman
- Des Wilson - campaigner in Britain
- David Sewell- Former New Zealand and Otago Cricketer
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