List of New Zealand businesspeople

The following is a list of notable businesspeople from New Zealand.

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by expanding it with reliably sourced entries.

A through M

• Mary Alcorn (1866-1928) - interior designer and design store owner
• Samuel Brown (1845–1909) – Mayor of Wellington and merchant
• Alfred Buckland (1825–1903) – auctioneer, farmer, businessman and landowner
• Sir Logan Campbell (1817–1912) – merchant, local politician, businessman, philanthropist, the Father of Auckland
• Thomas Wong Doo (1903–1963) – merchant, interpreter, community leader
• Lewis Alfred Eady (1891–1965) – music retailer, company director, benefactor
• Sir Michael Fay (born 1949) – merchant banker
• Josiah Firth (1826–1897) – flourmiller, politician, pastoralist, entrepreneur
• Gregory Fortuin – businessman and Race Relations Conciliator (2001–2002)
• Sir Jack Harris, 2nd Baronet – chief executive of Bing, Harris & Co.
• Graeme Hart – New Zealand's richest businessman
• Murray Haszard – entrepreneur and businessman
• Joseph Hatch (1837–1928) – Invercargill businessman, "harvester" of penguins
• Keith Hay (1917–1997) – builder, businessman, local politician, morals campaigner
• Michael Hill – jeweller, businessman, golfer
• Dick Hubbard – 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
• Sir Robert Jones – property tycoon, founder of New Zealand Party
• Henry Joseph Kelliher (1896–1991) – businessman, publisher, art patron, credit reformer
• Johannes La Grouw – OBE and Business Hall of Fame, entrepreneur, philanthropist, co-founder of a revolutionary construction system (Lockwood)
• Robert Laidlaw – retailer, founder of FTC, the Farmers Trading Company
• Thomson Wilson Leys (1850–1924) – journalist, editor, newspaper proprietor, philanthropist
• Sir John Luke (1858–1931) – businessman, politician
• Sir Roy McKenzie (1922–2007) – retailer, philanthropist
• Sir James Mills (1847–1936) – founded the Union Company
• Sam Morgan – businessman; founder of Trade Me, an Internet-auction website
• Simon Moutter – engineer, businessman
• Sir Arthur Myers (1867–1926) – businessman, politician, philanthropist
• Douglas Myers – businessman, brewer

N through Z

• Joseph Nathan (1835–1912) – manufacturer, founded Joseph Nathan & Co. and Glaxo
• Sir Charles Norwood (1871–1966) – businessman, philanthropist
• John Plimmer (1812–1905) – businessman, has been called the "Father of Wellington"
• Thomas Russell (c. 1830–1904) – lawyer, businessman, politician, financier, land speculator
• Marianne Smith (1851–1938) – businesswoman, founder of Smith & Caughey's, community worker, philanthropist
• Sir Dryden Spring – businessman
• Sir Angus Tait (1919–2007) – businessman and electronics innovator
• Stephen Tindall – retailer, founder of The Warehouse Group, a New Zealand department-store chain
• Matthew Tukaki (1974) – businessman, ex-Officio Director of the United Nations Global Compact, CEO of the Sustain Group, a global social investment business
• Edward Earle Vaile (1869–1956) – real estate agent, farmer, philanthropist
• Eric Watson – businessman
• James Williamson (1814–1888) – merchant, landowner, financier, speculator
• Jack Yan – publisher, designer and businessman

See also

• Lists of New Zealanders