World Famous in New Zealand

Social Studies Online

• Mary Ann Muller
• Mary Ann Colclough
• Amey Daldy
• Annie Jane Schnackenberg
• Lily May Kirk
• Margaret Sievwright
• Anna Stout
• Meri Te Tai Mangakahia

The Adventure Seekers

• Jean Batten (also check out the Auckland International Airport and her achievements).
• Nancy Wake (Number One on the Gestapo hit list in WWII) - there is an excellent new biography out on Nancy Wake; see resources.

The Politicians

• Elizabeth Reid McCombs (first woman MP)
• Iriaka Ratana (first Maori woman MP)
• Elizabeth Yates (first woman mayor in New Zealand and the British Empire - Onehunga)
• Dame Te Atairangikaahu (Maori Queen)

The Maori Woman's Welfare League

• Dame Whina Cooper
• Dame Mira Szaszy

The Educators and Graduates

• Learmonth Dalrymple (pioneer of secondary education for girls)
• Caroline Freeman (first woman graduate of Otago University)
• Ethel Benjamin (first woman to qualify as a Lawyer)

The Rotorua Tourist Guides

• Guide Sophia (Hinerangi, Sophia)
• Guide Maggie (Makereti) Papakura
• Guide Rangi (Dennan, Rangitiara)

The Scientist

• Beatrice Tinsley

• Ramai Hayward (actress, filmmaker)
• Francis Hodgkins (Painter)
• Katherine Mansfield (writer)
• Dame Ngaio Marsh (writer)
• Dame Kiri Te Kanawa (opera Singer)
• Frances Alda (Diva)

The Health Care Workers

• Ettie Rout
• Hilda Ross
• Emily Siedeberg (New Zealand's first Medical Graduate)
• Akenehi Hei (first Maori to qualify as a nurse)
• Muriel Bell
• Cora Wilding

The groups of woman

• Plunket Nurses
• Karitane Nurses
• Land Girls (also see Silk Stockings and Sand-traps)
• Maori Woman's Welfare League

The Sportswomen

• Pearl Dawson
• Ina (Pic) Lamason
• Yvette Williams
• Dame Susan Devoy

The Infamous

• Minnie Dean from the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography and also from Encyclopaedia of New Zealand
• Parker and Hume (some English departments use the movie "Heavenly Creatures" - see Innocence Imagination Obsession: Heavenly Creatures on English Online).