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,The Encyclopedia of New Zealand served on the Executive Council of what is now called Voice for Life.
Artists and architects Francis Petre, architect of cathedralsDictionary of New Zealand BiographyFrancis Petre, 1847-1918 by Philippe Hamilton
Businesspeople Charles ToddThe Encyclopedia of New Zealand 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,G.W.A. Bush, Decently and in Order: The Government of the City of Auckland 1840-1971, Collins, 1971, p.521. fifteenth Mayor of Auckland City Bill English,Colin James, Bill English conservative: a 2000s update , New Zealand Herald Weekend Review, 2 December 2006. 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,The Encyclopaedia of New Zealand biographySir Joseph Ward: A Political Biography by Michael Bassett (1993, Auckland University Press) seventeenth Prime Minister of New Zealand Frederick Weld, sixth Prime Minister of New Zealand
Religious Clergy
Fr. Douglas Al-Bazi, refugee from Islamism Fr. Mark Beban, also a cricketer. Fr. Felix Donnelly (1929-2019),Felix Donnelly, One Priest's Life, Australia and New Zealand Book Company, Auckland, 1982.Queen's Birthday Honours List 1998. Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. Retrieved 4 January 2013. social activist, writer, academic and radio talkback host Rev. Fr. George Duggan,Lyndsay Freer, "George Henry Duggan – the man, the myth", Marist Messenger, 1 July 2012 (Retrieved 9 January 2012) philosopher and centenarian Fr. David Kennedy, astronomer and educator Bernard O'Brien SJ, Seminary professor. Antony Sumich, F.S.S.P.,"Kiwi ordained for St Peter fraternity", NZ Catholic, Apr. 6-19, 2008, p. 2.(E) Croatian Antony Sumich Story, Crown Croatian World Network, Antony Sumich, 2005 (accessed 29 June 2010)St Anthony's Parish, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, clergy list (Retrieved 12 August 2013) 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,The Encyclopedia of New Zealand 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,"Arvidson, K.O.", Robinson and Wattie, The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature, Oxford, Auckland 1998, pp. 27 and 28. poet and academic James K. Baxter, from the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography 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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