People From Invercargill
- Peter Arnett - NBC war correspondent
- Oliver Bulleid - Railway locomotive designer and Chief Mechanical Engineer of the Southern Railway (Great Britain), born in Invercargill in 1882
- Johnnie Checketts - Silver Star, Wingco and Spitfire Ace
- Bill Crawford-Crompton - Silver Star, Air Vice Marshal and WW2 Commander and Ace
- Geoffrey Cox Rhodes Scholar, Chief Intelligence Officer to General Freyberg in WWII, founded Britain's pioneering News at Ten on ITN.
- Marton Csokas - actor
- Dan Davin - author, editor
- Corey Flynn - Hooker for All Blacks
- Ernest Godward - inventor of the spiral hairpin and the petrol economiser
- Dene Halatau - Wests Tigers Utility in the NRL
- Joseph Hatch - businessman, oil factor
- Brigadier James Hargest; CBE, DSO & 2 bars, MC, ED, MP - New Zealand chief military officer for Southland and politician
- Rowena Jackson - Royal Ballet prima ballerina
- Jason Kerrison - Opshop singer/songwriter
- Chris Knox - infamous (in NZ) alternative rock musician
- Alex Lithgow - composer, musician, conductor
- Bill Manhire - inaugural NZ poet laureate
- Khan Manuel - Guitarist/Composer
- Herbert James "Burt" Munro - inventor, motorcycle enthusiast, racer and under-1000 cc land speed record holder
- Mils Muliaina - All Black
- Harry Norris - A music director of the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company
- Anton Oliver - All Black
- Herbert Pither - aviation legend of Southland,
- Suzanne Prentice - musician
- Boyce Richardson - journalist, author, filmmaker
- Lesley Rumball - Former Silver Ferns Captain
- Victor Spencer - last soldier to be executed in World War I, pardoned in 2005
- Garfield Todd - Prime Minister of Rhodesia
- Jeremy Waldron - prominent legal and political philosopher
- Joseph Ward - Prime Minister of New Zealand
- Jeff Wilson - All Black and Black Cap ("Double All Black")
- Bob Yule - WWII fighter pilot
Read more about this topic: Otepuni Gardens
Famous quotes containing the word people:
“The principal thing children are taught by hearing these lullabies is respect. They are taught to respect certain things in life and certain people. By giving respect, they hope to gain self-respect and through self-respect, they gain the respect of others. Self-respect is one of the qualities my people stress and try to nurture, and one of the controls an Indian has as he grows up. Once you lose your self-respect, you just go down.”
—Henry Old Coyote (20th century)