The names of the NZers who have biographies and photos, as at June 2011, at Dictionary of New Zealand Biography (DNZB). It is the foremost reference work on the lives of people who shaped this country’s history and culture from the seventeenth to the twenty-first centuries. It includes more than 3000 biographies, written by specialists and produced to a high standard by a team of researchers and editors. The DNZB’s 500 biographies on Maori subjects are also available in te reo Maori, which – together with the te reo sections of Te Ara – forms the largest Maori-language publishing programme yet undertaken.
The DNZB was originally published in five print volumes between 1990 and 2000, covering the lives of people who came to prominence before 1960 and died before 1998. All the biographies were released on a stand-alone website in 2001, and relaunched as part of Te Ara in 2010. Since that time the Dictionary has been solely digital. Fifteen new biographies were launched in 2010–11 and a new batch of 25 biographies of women were published in 2018 to celebrate 125 years of women’s suffrage. New batches of entries have been published twice yearly since 2019. Go to their link above for recent additions


Abbot-Ayton ~ Baber-Bell ~ Bellamy-Bragge

Braithwaite-Buxton ~ Cabot-Chapman/Taylor

Chapple-Copeland ~ Corban-Cussen ~ Dacre-Dyson

Eady-Eyre ~ Fabish-Fyffe ~ Gage-Guthrie/Smith

Haast-Hayes ~ Hayward-Hodgson ~ Hofmann-Hyde

Ihaka-Ivey ~ Jack-Jury ~ Kaaro-Kynnersley

La Trobe-Lyttleton ~ Maaka-Mann ~ Mannering-McCormick

McCullough-Merton ~ Messenger-Myers ~ Nahe-Nutsey

O'Brien-Otway ~ Paewai-Peters ~ Petersen-Pyke

Quaife ~ Radcliffe-Rigg ~ Rikihana-Rymill

Salaman-Sladden ~ Slattery-Syme ~ Taglicht-Te Rauparaha

Te Rei Hanataua-Tyree ~ Ulrich-Uru ~ Vaile-Vosseler

Waaka-Wynyard ~ Yate-Yue ~ Zedlitz-Zotov

C
Cabot, Dolce Ann
1862?1943
Teacher, journalist, feminist

Caddell, James
fl. 1810?1826
Pakeha-Maori, sealer, interpreter

Cadman, Alfred Jerome
1847?1905
Sawmiller, politician

Cairney, John
1898?1966
Anatomist, medical superintendent, writer

Caldwell, Keith Logan
1895?1980
Military aviator, farmer

Callaghan, Francis Raymond
1891?1980
Teacher, agricultural instructor, scientific administrator

Callan, John Bartholomew
1882?1951
Lawyer, university lecturer, judge, Catholic layman

Cameron, Andrew
1855?1925
Presbyterian minister, educationalist, community leader

Cameron, Duncan Alexander
1808?1888
Soldier, military leader

Cameron, Flora Jean
1902?1966
Nurse, nursing instructor and administrator

Cameron, Robina Thomson
1892?1971
District nurse, community leader, nursing inspector

Campbell, Arnold Everitt
1906?1980
University lecturer, educationalist, writer

Campbell, Douglas Archibald
1906?1969
Teacher, soil conservator

Campbell, Hugh McLean
1875?1951
Farmer, politician

Campbell, John
1857?1942
Architect

Campbell, John Logan
1817?1912
Merchant, provincial superintendent, writer, philanthropist

Campbell, Laurel Amy Eva
1902?1971
Racehorse trainer

Campbell, Mary Greig
1907?1989
Librarian, Quaker

Campbell, Richard Mitchelson
1897?1974
Public servant, economist, diplomat

Campbell, Robert
1843?1889
Runholder, businessman, politician

Campbell, William Rickarby
1840?1918
Presbyterian minister

Candy, Alice Muriel Flora
1888?1977
Teacher, university lecturer and warden

Candy, Ronald Alan
1903?1974
Farmer, dairy industry leader

Canty, Mary Agnes
1879?1950
Catholic nun, teacher, nursing school matron

Caples, Patrick Quirk
1829/1830??1904
Gold prospector, explorer, mine director

Caradus, Elizabeth
1832?1912
Suffragist, temperance and welfare worker

Cardale, Effie Julia Margaret
1873?1960
Community and welfare worker

Carey, Elijah John
1876?1916
Waiter, trade unionist, soldier

Carey, Ida Harriet
1891?1982
Artist, art teacher

Cargill, William
1784?1860
Soldier, merchant, coloniser, provincial superintendent

Carleton, Hugh Francis
1810?1890
Trader, newspaper editor, politician, educationalist, writer

Carman, Arthur Herbert
1902?1982
Sports journalist and writer, bookseller, publisher, pacifist, local politician, historian

Carnachan, Blanche Eleanor
1871?1954
Teacher, educationalist, community worker

Caro, Margaret
1848?1938
Dentist, Seventh-day Adventist, social reformer

Carpenter, Emily Elizabeth
1917?1991
University tutor in home science, adult educationalist, consumer advocate

Carpenter, Robert Holt
1819/1820??1891
Bookbinder, local politician, bookseller, character

Carr, Clyde Leonard
1886?1962
Clerk, Methodist and Congregationalist minister, politician, editor, writer

Carr, Harold Herbert
1880?1973
No Ngati Kahungunu; he kaiwhakawa, he kaiwhakahaere no te Koti Whenua Maori

Carran, Catherine
1842?1935
No Waikato, no Ngati Pukeko; he tipuna wahine, he wahine whakawhanau tamariki.

Carran, William
1898?1960
No Te Ati Awa; he pirihimana, he komihana tuarua no nga pirihimana

Carrington, Frederic Alonzo
1808??1901
Surveyor, public administrator, politician, provincial superintendent

Carroll, Alphonsus John
1895?1974
Farmer, racehorse trainer, rugby union and league player

Carroll, Heni Materoa
1852/1856??1930
No Rongowhakaata, no Te Aitanga-a-Mahaki; he kaiarahi

Carroll, James
1857?1926
No Ngati Kahungunu; he kaimahi pamu, he kaiwhakamaori, he kaitarangapu

Carroll, Turi
1890?1975
No Ngati Kahungunu; he kaiarahi, he tangata ahu whenua, he kaitorangapu a-rohe

Carruthers, John
1836?1914
Engineer, economic theorist

Carson, William Nicol
1916?1944
Warehouseman, rugby and cricket player, soldier

Carter, Charles Rooking
1822?1896
Builder, businessman, politician, writer, philanthropist

Carter, Francis John
1869?1949
Sawmiller

Carter, Una Isabel
1890?1954
Cooking teacher, demonstrator and writer

Caselberg, Myer
1841?1922
Storekeeper, businessman, local politician

Cash, Martin
1808??1877
Convict, policeman, brothel-keeper

Cassidy, Hugh
1840?1922
Storekeeper, hotel proprietor, coach company proprietor and driver

Cassie, Alice Mary
1887?1963
Political activist, feminist

Castle, Amy
1880??
Museum worker, entomologist

Castle, Ronald Brian
1907?1984
Pharmacist, musician, instrument collector

Castle, Zillah Vivien
1911?1997
Musician, instrument collector, music teacher

Cataldo, Giovanni
1927?1989
Fisherman, search and rescue organiser

Cavanagh, Victor George
1909?1980
Sportsman, compositor, rugby coach and administrator, newspaper manager

Cave, Henry Butler
1922?1989
Cricket player, farmer

Caverhill, Hannah Rebecca Frances
1834?1897
Diarist, homemaker

Cawthron, Thomas
1833??1915
Businessman, philanthropist

Chaffey, Annie Selina
1877?1953
Homemaker, recluse

Chaffey, Henry Fox
1868?1951
Farm labourer, carting contractor, prospector, recluse

Chalmers, Nathanael
1830?1910
Pastoralist, explorer, politician, planter, sugar miller, magistrate

Chambers, Eileen Marjorie Fosbery
1906?1989
Nurse, hospital matron, nursing tutor and administrator

Chambers, John
1819?1893
Pastoralist, community leader, businessman

Chambers, John
1839??1903
Businessman, ironsands entrepreneur

Chambers, Joseph Bernard
1859?1931
Sheepfarmer, viticulturist, wine-maker

Chamier, George
1842?1915
Engineer, surveyor, novelist

Chan, Tommy
1889?1969
Storekeeper, market gardener, landowner

Chapman, Anne Maria
1791?1855
Missionary

Chapman, Frederick Revans
1849?1936
Lawyer, judge, ethnologist

Chapman, George Thomson
1824?1881
Merchant, bookseller, publisher

Chapman, Henry Samuel
1803?1881
Journalist, lawyer, newspaper proprietor and editor, judge, philologist

Chapman, Pansy Helen Auld
1892?1973
Hospital matron, nursing administrator

Chapman, Sylvia Gytha de Lancey
1896?1995
Doctor, medical superintendent, welfare worker

Chapman, Thomas
1792?1876
Missionary

Chapman, Valentine Jackson
1910?1980
Botanist, university professor, conservationist

Chapman-Taylor, James Walter
1878?1958
Architect, builder, photographer, astrologer