List of New Zealand businesspeople explained
The following is a list of notable businesspeople from New Zealand.
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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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- 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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- 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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- 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
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- Jack Yan (born 1972), publisher, designer and businessman
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