Famous Residents
Pukerua Bay is the birthplace and childhood home of film director Peter Jackson, whose first feature film, Bad Taste, was filmed there.
Prominent current residents are former CEO of Meridian Energy Dr Keith Turner, artist Pauline Morse (whose work has appeared on NZ postage stamps) and composer Jenny McLeod.
Former residents include poets Louis Johnston, Sam Hunt, James K. Baxter, Denis Glover, Meg Campbell, Alistair Campbell and actress Davina Whitehouse.
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Famous quotes containing the words famous and/or residents:
“A famous theatrical actress
Played best in the role of malefactress.
Yet her home-life was pure
Except, to be sure,
A scandal or two just for practice.”
—Anonymous.
“In most nineteenth-century cities, both large and small, more than 50 percent—and often up to 75 percent—of the residents in any given year were no longer there ten years later. People born in the twentieth century are much more likely to live near their birthplace than were people born in the nineteenth century.”
—Stephanie Coontz (20th century)