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 (born 1947), pharmaceutical scientist
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Norah Barlow (born 1957), former chief executive of Summerset Group
Samuel Brown (1845–1909), Mayor of Wellington and merchant
Alfred Buckland (1825–1903), auctioneer, farmer, businessman and landowner
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Sir John Logan Campbell (1817–1912), merchant, local politician, businessman, philanthropist, the Father of Auckland George Thomson Chapman (1824–1881), merchant, bookseller and publisher Percy Roderick Coleman (1897–1965), founder of Coleman motorcycle importing and distribution company Dame Trelise Cooper, fashion designer
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Thomas Wong Doo (1903–1963), merchant, interpreter, community leader
Peri Drysdale (born 1953), founder of Untouched World and Snowy Peak clothing companies Rod Drury (born 1966), businessman
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Alfred Eady (1891–1965), music retailer, company director, benefactor
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Sir Michael Fay (born 1949), merchant banker
Josiah Firth (1826–1897), flourmiller, politician, pastoralist, entrepreneur
Ted Firth (1905–1978), manufacturer, aviator, military leader; co-founder of Firth Concrete Tony Firth (1907–1980), manufacturer, aviator, military leader; co-founder of Firth Concrete Gregory Fortuin, businessman and Race Relations Conciliator (2001–2002)
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Theresa Gattung, former chief executive of Telecom New Zealand (1993–2007) Elizabeth George (c.1814–1902), hotel owner
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Sir Jack Harris, 2nd Baronet (1906–2009), chief executive of Bing, Harris & Co. Graeme Hart (born 1955), New Zealand's richest businessman Murray Haszard (born 1954), entrepreneur and businessman Joseph Hatch (1837–1928), Invercargill businessman, "harvester" of penguins Keith Hay (1917–1997), builder, businessman, local politician, morals campaigner Harriet Heron (c.1836–1933), hotel owner Michael Hill (born 1938), jeweller, businessman, golfer Dame Bronwen Holdsworth (born 1942), co-founder of Pultron Composites Dick Hubbard (born 1946), 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
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Mary Jane Innes (1852–1941), brewery owner
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Sir Robert Jones, property tycoon, founder of New Zealand Party
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Henry Kelliher (1896–1991), businessman, publisher, art patron, credit reformer
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Johannes La Grouw (1913–2011), OBE and Business Hall of Fame, entrepreneur, philanthropist, co-founder of a revolutionary construction system (Lockwood) Robert Laidlaw (1885–1971), retailer, founder of FTC, the Farmers Trading Company Thomson Leys (1850–1924), journalist, editor, newspaper proprietor, philanthropist Sir John Luke (1858–1931), businessman, politician
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William Betts Mason (1865–1912), 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 (born 1975), 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 (1938–2017), businessman, brewer
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Joseph Nathan (1835–1912), manufacturer, founded Joseph Nathan & Co. and Glaxo
Sir Charles Norwood (1871–1966), businessman, philanthropist
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John Plimmer (1812–1905), businessman, has been called the "Father of Wellington"
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Thomas Russell (c. 1830–1904), lawyer, businessman, politician, financier, land speculator
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Marianne Smith (1851–1938), businesswoman, founder of Smith & Caughey's, community worker, philanthropist Sir Dryden Spring (born 1939), businessman
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Sir Angus Tait (1919–2007), businessman and electronics innovator
Stephen Tindall (born 1951), 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