- Australian Antarctic explorer, aviator, and aerial navigator.
- Mary E(leanor Wilkins) Freeman.
- English biophysicist born in New Zealand: Nobel Prize in medicine 1962.
- U.S. journalist and civil rights leader: executive secretary of the NAACP, 1955–77.
- Sir George Hubert. 1888–1958, Australian polar explorer and aviator
- Maurice Hugh Frederick. 1916–2004, British biochemist, born in New Zealand. With Crick and Watson, he shared the Nobel prize 1962 for his work on the structure of DNA
