Prominent People
- Len Brown, former Mayor, now Mayor of Auckland
- Jim Anderton, former city councillor, who rose to be the country's Deputy Prime Minister
- Sir Barry Curtis, former long-serving Mayor, from 1983 to 2007
- David Lange, former Prime Minister of New Zealand and Member of Parliament for Mangere
- Award-winning rapper and former member of The Deceptikonz, Savage
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