List of New Zealand scientists

• Helen Anderson - seismonologist, public servant
• Alexander Aitken - mathematician/statistician, writer, mental calculator, musician
• Sir Brian Barratt-Boyes - heart surgeon
• Peter Barrett - geologist, Antarctic researcher
• Jacqueline Beggs - New Zealand entomologist and ecologist
• Patricia Bergquist - zoologist, anatomist
• Nancy Bertler - Antarctic researcher
• Rod Bieleski - plant physiologist
• Gary Bold - physicist
• Helen Bostock - paleoceanographer
• Warwick Bowen - experimental physicist
• Margaret Bradshaw - Antarctic researcher, palaeontologist
• Margaret Brimble - chemist
• Alexandra Brewis Slade - anthropologist
• Bob Brockie - artist, ecologist
• John C. Butcher - mathematician
• Walter Buller - naturalist
• Carolyn Burns - freshwater ecologist
• Sir Paul Callaghan - famous for work in magnetic resonance
• Howard Carmichael - theoretical physicist doing quantum optics
• Garth Carnaby - physicist
• Simon John Carryer - geologist
• Janet Carter - professor and Dean of Science at the University of Canterbury
• Amy Castle - entomologist
• Ann Chapman - limnologist
• Thomas Frederic Cheeseman - botanist, naturalist
• Charles Chilton - zoologist
• John G. Cleary - computer scientist
• Leonard Cockayne - botanist
• Leslie Comrie - computer pioneer
• Lucy Cranwell - botanist
• G. H. Cunningham - "father" of New Zealand mycology
• Kathleen Curtis - mycologist, plant pathologist, first female fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand
• Michelle Dickinson - nanotechnologist
• Joan Dingley - mycologist
• John Newton Dodd - optical physicist
• Richard Dowden - radio and space physicist
• Peter David Drummond - quantum optics specialist
• Doug Dye - plant bacteriologist
• Sir Richard Faull - neuroscientist
• Charles Fleming - ornithologist, palaeontologist
• Margot Forde - botanist
• Professor Elizabeth Franz - neuroscientist
• Derek Freeman - anthropologist
• Crispin Gardiner - physicist specialising in Quantum Optics
• Nicola Gaston - chemist
• Juliet Gerrard - biochemist and Prime Minister's chief science advisor
• Charles Gifford - teacher and very successful promoter of astronomy
• Sir Peter David Gluckman - medical science
• Janet Grieve - biological oceanographer
• Timothy Haskell - Antarctic physicist
• Robert Cecil Hayes - seismologist
• Sir James Hector - geologist
• Heather Hendrickson - microbiologist
• Barbara Heslop - immunologist
• Vicki Hyde - skeptic, psychologist
• Harold John Finlay - palaeontologist, malacologist
• Christina Hulbe - Antarctic glaciologists
• Frederick Wollaston Hutton - naturalist
• Diamond Jenness - anthropologist
• Sir Vaughan Jones - mathematician, awarded Fields Medal
• Sir Neville Jordan - engineer, businessman, philanthropist
• Mike Joy - freshwater ecologist, science communicator
• Roy Kerr - proved a solution to Einstein's equations which modelled a spinning black hole
• Pat Langhorne - Antarctic physicist
• Libby Liggins - Marine ecologist
• Alan G MacDiarmid - co-winner of the 2000 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Bruce Marshall - taxonomist, malacologist
• Sir Harold Marshall - acoustician
• John Marwick - palaeontologist, geologist
• Ruth Mason - botanist
• Sir Archie McIndoe - pioneer plastic surgeon
• Tracey McIntosh - sociologist
• Don Merton - conservationist
• Brian Molloy - botanist
• Pérrine Moncrieff - ornithologist
• Mary Morgan-Richards - evolutionary biologist
• Tim Naish - glaciologist
• John Morton - biologist, theologian
• Wendy Nelson - marine algae expert
• Frank Newhook - plant pathologist
• Dame Charmian O'Connor - organic chemist
• Stephen Parke - theoretical physicist
• David Penny - biologist
• William Pickering - central figure and pioneer of NASA space exploration
• Winston Ponder - malacologist
• Arthur William Baden Powell - naturalist, malacologist, palaeontologist
• Margaret Reid - physicist specialising in quantum optics
• James Renwick - climate scientist
• Christina Riesselman - paleoceanographer
• Natalie Robinson - polar oceanographer
• Jacqueline Rowarth - agricultural scientist
• Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson - scientist and winner of the 1908 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Jim Salinger - climate scientist
• Liz Slooten - zoologist
• David Allan Spence - mathematician
• Gerald Stokell - horticulturist, ichthyologist
• Kathryn Stowell - biochemist
• Vida Stout - limnologist
• Mary Sutherland - botanist
• Jeff Tallon - physicist
• Warren Tate - biochemist
• Beatrice Tinsley - astronomer and cosmologist
• Kevin Trenberth - meteorologist and atmospheric scientist
• Ingrid N. Visser - marine biologist known for studying orcas
• Sir Julius von Haast - geologist
• Dan Walls - physicist and pioneer in quantum optics
• Ian James Warrington - horticulturalist, administrator
• Robert Webster - discovered the link between human flu and bird flu
• William Henry Webster - malacologist and conchcologist
• Joan Wiffen - paleontologist, discovered first dinosaur fossils in New Zealand
• Siouxsie Wiles - microbiologist
• Maurice Wilkins - shared the 1962 Nobel Prize in Medicine for his part in elucidating the structure of DNA
• Allan Charles Wilson - biochemist; revolutionary evolutionist
• Christine Winterbourn - pathologist
• David Wratt - ex-Chief Climate Scientist, National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research
• Gillian Wratt - Antarctic researcher, first woman director of the New Zealand Antarctic Programme
• John Stuart Yeates - botanist

  Other lists of New Zealand scientists

• Hector Memorial Medal recipients
• Rutherford Medal recipients
• New Zealand Antarctic Medal recipients
• Sciblogs.co.nz
• List of New Zealand women botanists