Arthur Lydiard was a marathon runner and athletics coach whose most notable students included Olympic and Commonwealth Games champions. He is also credited with stimulating enthusiasm for jogging worldwide.

William Leslie "Bill" Davis (born 15 December 1942) New Zealand rugby union and softball player.A wing and centre, Davis represented Hawke's Bay at a provincial level, and was a member of the New Zealand national side, the All Blacks, from 1963 to 1970. He played 53 matches for the All Blacks including 11 internationals

William John "Bill" Mumm OBE JP (26 March 1922 – 11 December 1993) was a New Zealand rugby union player. A prop, Mumm represented Buller at a provincial level. He was a member of the New Zealand national side, the All Blacks, in 1949, playing one test match against Australia.

He later served as chairman of the Buller County Council and was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 1990 Queen's Birthday Honours, for services to local government

Sir Bryan George Williams KNZM MBE (born 3 October 1950) is a former New Zealand rugby union footballer and former coach of the Samoan national rugby team.
Williams was born in Auckland, New Zealand in 1950. His father was Samoan, and his mother a Rarotongan of Samoan descent. He was educated at Mt Albert Grammar School, where he started his rugby career. He became an All Black in 1970 as a wing and distinguished himself in the 1970 South African Rugby Tour where he was a sensation, scoring 14 tries in his 13 appearances and in the international series he scored in each of the first and fourth Tests. This was during apartheid, so with his parentage he was only able to tour after honorary white status was granted.

Williams' international rugby career lasted from 1970 to 1978 in which he played 113 matches (including 38 international Tests) and scored 66 tries in all matches as an All Black (ten tries in Tests), which was a record until beaten by John Kirwan.

Carlos James Spencer (born 14 October 1975) is a former New Zealand rugby union footballer and most recently the head coach of the Eastern Province Kings.
During his playing days, he played at first five-eighth for the Blues and Lions in Super Rugby and for New Zealand internationally.

Chris Bouzaid was one of the yachtsmen who set the course for New Zealand to gain such international renown in ocean racing.

He first attempted to win the One Ton Cup, devised as an everyman’s America’s Cup, in 1968 and after finishing second to the German yacht Optimist, crewed for the Germans in the 1968-69 Sydney-Hobart race.

Thus armed with sail and other tactical information, Bouzaid and his yacht Rainbow II took on Optimist again in the One Ton Cup off Germany in 1969 and this time he was successful, firmly putting New Zealand on the international yachting map. Bouzaid won the cup again in 1972 and had two seconds as well.

He also captained the New Zealand Admiral’s Cup challenge in 1975 and helmed in the 1979 contest, the year the Fastnet race claimed 18 lives.

Clark McConaghy often known simply as Mac, was a New Zealand professional player of English billiards and snooker.
McConachy was born at Glenorchy in Otago in 1895.He was the New Zealand professional billiards champion from 1914 until 1980. He also held the title of World Professional Billiards Champion from 1951 until 1968, when he was defeated by Rex Williams.

He was the runner-up in the World Snooker Championships of 1932 and 1952. McConachy scored one of the early snooker maximum breaks.