Gregory Martyn Aim (4 September 1933 – 1 April 2005) was a New Zealand cricketer who played nine first-class cricket matches for Otago and Wellington between the 1955–56 and 1962–63 seasons.Gregory Aim, CricInfo. Retrieved 31 December 2021.
Aim was born in Wellington,Greg Aim, CricketArchive. Retrieved 31 December 2021. and attended Nelson College from 1946 to 1947,Nelson College Old Boys' Register, 1856–2006, 6th edition and Otago Boys' High School from 1948 to 1951.McCarron, Tony (2010). New Zealand Cricketers 1863/64–2010, p. 9. Cardiff: The Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. (Available online at the Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. Retrieved 5 June 2023.) He played in four first-class cricket matches for Otago―all during the 1955–56 season―and five for Wellington, four in 1960–61 and a single match in 1962–63.
As well as being a cricketer, Aim was active in sports and arts administration. He was at various times the CEO of the Hillary Commission, executive chairman of the Wellington City Opera Company, deputy chair of the New Zealand Opera Company, a member of the management committee of the New Zealand Portrait Gallery, and patron of the Victoria University Cricket Club. He was awarded the New Zealand 1990 Commemoration Medal.
Aim died in Wellington in 2005 aged 71. An obituary was published in that year's New Zealand Cricket Almanack.
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