- Source: List of New Zealand Catholics
This is a list of notable New Zealand Catholics. All additions should be sourced and ideally their faith or Catholic identity should be significant to their notability.
Activists
Patricia Bartlett, former nun and social conservative. She founded the Society for Promotion of Community Standards.
Marilyn Pryor, served on the Executive Council of what is now called Voice for Life.
Artists and architects
Francis Petre, architect of cathedrals
Businesspeople
Charles Todd motor-industry pioneer and temperance activist; many in the Todd family were or are Catholics
Politicians
Anand Satyanand, Governor-General from 2006 to 2011, first Roman Catholic and first ethnic Indian (of Indo-Fijian origins) viceregal officeholder, ombudsman, lawyer and judge
Jim Bolger, thirty-fifth Prime Minister of New Zealand
Sir Charles Clifford, 1st Baronet (1813–1893), first Speaker of the New Zealand House of Representatives
Peter Dignan, fifteenth Mayor of Auckland City
Bill English, thirty-ninth Prime Minister of New Zealand
Walter Lee, Auckland member of parliament
Mark Mitchell, Minister of Police
Michael Joseph Savage, twenty-third Prime Minister of New Zealand
Heremia Te Wake, tribal leader and catechist
Joseph Ward, seventeenth Prime Minister of New Zealand
Frederick Weld, sixth Prime Minister of New Zealand
Religious
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Fr. Douglas Al-Bazi, refugee from Islamism
Fr. Mark Beban, also a cricketer.
Fr. Felix Donnelly (1929-2019), social activist, writer, academic and radio talkback host
Rev. Fr. George Duggan, philosopher and centenarian
Fr. David Kennedy, astronomer and educator
Bernard O'Brien SJ, Seminary professor.
Antony Sumich, F.S.S.P., New Zealander who was a former international Rugby Union and Cricket player for Croatia.
Fr. Wiremu Te Awhitu, first Māori to be ordained
= Religious sisters and nuns
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Mary St Domitille Hickey, historian, school principal, and reportedly the first New Zealand woman to be awarded a doctorate in literature
Mary Gonzaga Leahy, nun and hospital matron
Sister Mary Leo, music educator, Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire
Sister Marie Roche, honoured for her work in a prison
Writers and journalists
K. O. Arvidson, poet and academic
James K. Baxter, poet and convert who was offered a job composing catechetical material for the Catholic Education Board
Eileen Duggan (1894-1972), Poet.
Patrick Anthony Lawlor, writer known for the autobiographical work Old Wellington days, also worked for the Catholic Writers' Movement of New Zealand
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