List of New Zealand businesspeople
The following is a list of notable businesspeople from New Zealand.
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- Margaret Alcorn (1868-1967) - interior designer and design store owner
- Mary Alcorn (1866-1928) - interior designer and design store owner
- Sophia Anstice (1849-1926) - dressmaker and draper
- Sir Ray Avery - pharmaceutical scientist
- Norah Barlow - former chief executive of Summerset Group
- Samuel Brown (1845-1909) - Mayor of Wellington and merchant
- Alfred Buckland (1825-1903) - auctioneer, farmer, businessman and landowner
- Sir Logan Campbell (1817-1912) - merchant, local politician, businessman, philanthropist, the Father of Auckland
- Dame Trelise Cooper - fashion designer
- Thomas Wong Doo (1903-1963) - merchant, interpreter, community leader
- Peri Drysdale - founder of Untouched World and Snowy Peak clothing companies
- Rod Drury - businessman
- Alfred Eady (1891-1965) - music retailer, company director, benefactor
- Sir Michael Fay (born 1949) - merchant banker
- Josiah Firth (1826-1897) - flourmiller, politician, pastoralist, entrepreneur
- Gregory Fortuin - businessman and Race Relations Conciliator (2001-2002)
- Theresa Gattung - former chief executive of Telecom New Zealand (1993-2007)
- Elizabeth George (businesswoman) - hotel owner
- Sir Jack Harris, 2nd Baronet - chief executive of Bing, Harris & Co.
- Graeme Hart - New Zealand's richest businessman
- Murray Haszard - entrepreneur and businessman
- Joseph Hatch (1837-1928) - Invercargill businessman, "harvester" of penguins
- Keith Hay (1917-1997) - builder, businessman, local politician, morals campaigner
- Harriet Heron (ca.1836-1933) - hotel owner
- Michael Hill - jeweller, businessman, golfer
- Dame Bronwen Holdsworth - co-founder of Pultron Composites
- Dick Hubbard - founder of Hubbards Foods and Mayor of Auckland (2004-2007)
- Christopher Peter Huljich (born 1950) - entrepreneur and philanthropist
- Michael Huljich (born 1957) - entrepreneur and philanthropist
- Paul Huljich (born 1952) - author, entrepreneur and philanthropist
- Mary Jane Innes (1852-1941) - brewery owner
- Sir Robert Jones - property tycoon, founder of New Zealand Party
- Henry Joseph Kelliher (1896-1991) - businessman, publisher, art patron, credit reformer
- Johannes La Grouw - OBE and Business Hall of Fame, entrepreneur, philanthropist, co-founder of a revolutionary construction system (Lockwood)
- Robert Laidlaw - retailer, founder of FTC, the Farmers Trading Company
- Thomson Wilson Leys (1850-1924) - journalist, editor, newspaper proprietor, philanthropist
- Sir John Luke (1858-1931) - businessman, politician
- William Betts Mason - founder of W.B. Mason, born in New Zealand and emigrated to the US
- Flora MacKenzie (1902-1982) - brothel owner and dressmaker
- Sir Roy McKenzie (1922-2007) - retailer, philanthropist
- Sir James Mills (1847-1936) - founder of the Union Company
- Jeremy Moon - businessman; founder of Icebreaker clothing
- Sam Morgan - businessman; founder of Trade Me, an Internet-auction website
- Nick Mowbray - businessman; co-founder of ZURU, a toy manufacturer
- Simon Moutter - engineer, businessman
- Sir Arthur Myers (1867-1926) - businessman, politician, philanthropist
- Douglas Myers - businessman, brewer
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- Joseph Nathan (1835-1912) - manufacturer, founded Joseph Nathan & Co. and Glaxo
- Sir Charles Norwood (1871-1966) - businessman, philanthropist
- John Plimmer (1812-1905) - businessman, has been called the "Father of Wellington"
- Thomas Russell (c. 1830-1904) - lawyer, businessman, politician, financier, land speculator
- Marianne Smith (1851-1938) - businesswoman, founder of Smith & Caughey's, community worker, philanthropist
- Sir Dryden Spring - businessman
- Sir Angus Tait (1919-2007) - businessman and electronics innovator
- Stephen Tindall - retailer, founder of The Warehouse Group, a New Zealand department-store chain
- Matthew Tukaki (born 1974) - businessman, ex-Officio Director of the United Nations Global Compact, CEO of the Sustain Group, a global social investment business
- Edward Earle Vaile (1869-1956) - real estate agent, farmer, philanthropist
- Eric Watson - businessman
- James Williamson (1814-1888) - merchant, landowner, financier, speculator
- Jack Yan - publisher, designer and businessman
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