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.
Artists and architects
Francis Petre, architect of cathedrals
Charles Todd motor-industry pioneer and temperance activist; many in the Todd family were or are Catholics
Peter Dignan, fifteenth Mayor of Auckland City
Bill English, seventeenth and current Deputy Prime Minister of New Zealand
Heremia Te Wake, tribal leader and catechist
Joseph Ward, seventeenth Prime Minister of New Zealand
Fr. Mark Beban, also a cricketer.
Fr. Felix Donnelly, social activist, writer, academic and radio talkback host
Rev. Fr. George Duggan, philosopher and centenarian
Fr. David Kennedy, astronomer and educator
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
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
Marie Elizabeth Roche, honored 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
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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