List of New Zealand inventors

• Godfrey Bowen – developer of an improved sheep-shearing technique
• John Britten – designer of the Britten motorcycle
• Thomas Brydone and William Soltau Davidson – refrigerated shipping pioneers
• Morton Coutts – invented the revolutionary continuous fermentation method of brewing
• Bill Gallagher – developer of the electric fence and founder of Gallagher Group Limited
• A J Hackett – creator of commercial Bungy jumping
• Bill Hamilton – developed the modern jetboat
• Frederick Melrose Horowhenua Hanson – inventor of chipseal, known in New Zealand as tar seal
• John Ashley Hart – inventor of the thermette
• Len Light – invented the EasyYo do-it-yourself yoghurt maker
• Peter Lynn – leading kitemaker, aeronautical theoretician and inventor of the tipping blade portable sawmill
• Colin Murdoch – inventor of the disposable syringe and the tranquilliser gun
• Richard Pearse – aviation pioneer
• Bill Pickering – rocketry and space pioneer, former NASA Jet Propulsion Lab director
• Alan Pritchard – pioneer of aerial topdressing
• Bill Robinson – inventor of the lead rubber bearing used for seismic base isolation in earthquake engineering
• Daniel Thomson – inventor of the "Circuband" which is used for exercise and physiotherapy