Notable People
- Laurence Clark, cartoonist.
- Keith Urban, country music singer
- Tim Southee, New Zealand cricketer
- Adam Blair, New Zealand Rugby League representative
- Michael Hill, jeweller
- Laura Dekker, Dutch sailor, born on a boat in Whangarei in 1995, settled there again in 2012
- Winston Peters, New Zealand politician and leader of New Zealand First
- Suzie Muirhead, former member of the New Zealand Black Sticks Women's hockey team
- Jack Marshall, Prime Minister of New Zealand for most of 1972, grew up in Whangarei and went to Whangarei Boy's High School.
- Billy T. James, entertainer, comedian, musician and actor, was at Whangarei Boy's High School between 1962 and 1965.
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