list of names of the NZers who have biographies (and photos) at
DICTIONARY of New Zealand BIOGRAPHY as at June 2011

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

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Salaman, Abraham Walley Mahomed
1885/1886??1941
Merchant, dyer, herbalist, charlatan

Sale, George Samuel
1831?1922
Station manager, newspaper editor, goldminer, public administrator, university professor

Salmond, James David
1898?1976
Teacher, Presbyterian minister, religious educationalist

Salmond, John William
1862?1924
Lawyer, university professor, law draftsman, solicitor general, judge

Salmond, Sarah
1864?1956
Governess, astronomer

Salmond, William
1835?1917
Presbyterian minister, university professor, writer

Sandel, Jean Mary
1916?1974
Surgeon

Sanders, John Oswald
1902?1992
Law clerk, Bible college principal, writer, missionary organiser

Sanders, William Edward
1883?1917
Mariner, naval officer

Sanderson, Ernest Valentine
1866?1945
Businessman, conservationist

Sansom, Rosa Olga
1900?1989
Teacher, museum director, botanist, broadcaster, writer

Sargeson, Frank
1903?1982
Short-story writer, novelist, playwright

Sargood, Percy Rolfe
1865?1940
Businessman, philanthropist

Sarjeant, Henry
1829?1912
Farmer, benefactor

Satchell, William Arthur
1861?1942
Orchardist, writer, stockbroker, novelist, accountant

Saunders, Alfred
1820??1905
Miller, farmer, reformer, politician, provincial superintendent,
historian

Saunders, Garnet Hornby
1880?1943
Shoemaker, musician, cinema proprietor, businessman

Saunders, John Llewellyn
1891?1961
Dentist, public health administrator

Saunders, Linden Charles Mansell
1908?1995
Teacher, music critic, broadcaster

Savage, Michael Joseph
1872?1940
Trade unionist, socialist, politician, prime minister

Savell, Edith Alma Eileen
1883?1970
Farmer, volunteer nurse

Sayers, Edward George
1902?1985
Doctor, Methodist missionary, military medical administrator, university professor

Scales, Helen Flora Victoria
1887?1985
Artist

Scanlan, Ellen Margaret
1882?1968
Journalist, novelist

Schmitt, Carl Gustav
1833/1834??1900
Violinist, composer, conductor, university professor

Schnackenberg, Annie Jane
1835?1905
Wesleyan missionary, temperance and welfare worker, suffragist

Scholefield, Guy Hardy
1877?1963
Journalist, historian, archivist, librarian, editor

Schoon, Theodorus Johannes
1915?1985
Artist, photographer, carver

Schramm, Bernardina Adriana
1900?1987
Pianist, music teacher

Schramm, Leo Paul
1892?1953
Pianist, music teacher, composer

Schroder, Nellie Winifred Bernice
1903?1993
Teacher, community leader

Schroeder, Bertha
1872?1953
Salvation Army officer, social worker, probation officer

Scott, Desmond James
1918?1997
Salesman, military aviator and leader

Scott, Jessie Ann
1883?1959
Doctor, medical officer, prisoner of war

Scott, John Colin
1924?1992
Te Arawa and Taranaki; architect

Scott, John Halliday
1851?1914
University professor, artist, medical school dean

Scott, Joseph
1860?1908
Bootmaker, pedestrianist

Scott, Mary Edith
1888?1979
Teacher, novelist

Scott, Robert Julian
1861?1930
Railway engineer, professor of engineering

Scott, Sidney Wilfred
1900?1970
Communist, journalist, editor

Scott, Thomas
1816?1892
Police officer, mail carrier, storekeeper, ferryman, hotel-keeper

Scott, Walter James
1902?1985
Teacher, lecturer, educationalist, teachers? college principal, civil libertarian

Scrimgeour, Colin Graham
1903?1987
Methodist missioner, radio broadcaster

Seabrook, John
1896?1985
Military aviator, motor car importer and assembler, company director, military leader

Seager, Edward William
1828?1922
Policeman, gaoler, asylum superintendent

Seager, Esther
1835??1911
Prison matron, asylum matron

Seager, Samuel Hurst
1855?1933
Builder, draftsman, architect, town planner

Seamer, Arthur John
1878?1963
Salvation Army missionary, Methodist minister

Searancke, William Nicholas
1817??1904
Surveyor, land purchase commissioner, resident magistrate, land agent

Searle, Jane Holden
1897?1969
Salvation Army officer, community leader

Seddon, Richard John
1845?1906
Politician, premier

Seelye, Frederick Thomas
1879?1962
Analytical chemist, lecturer

Seffern, William Henry John
1829?1900
Printer, newspaper editor, journalist, historian

Segar, Hugh William
1868?1954
Mathematician, university professor

Seifert, Alfred
1877?1945
Flax-miller and promoter, farm developer

Selig, Phineas
1856?1941
Journalist, newspaper editor and manager, sports administrator

Selwyn, George Augustus
1809?1878
Missionary, bishop, metropolitan

Semple, Robert
1873?1955
Coalminer, trade unionist, politician

Servant, Louis Catherin
1808?1860
Priest, missionary

Seuffert, Anton
1814/1815??1887
Cabinet-maker, inlayer

Seville, Caroline Ada
1874?1955
Nurse, hospital matron, community leader

Sew Hoy, Charles
1836-1838??1901
Merchant, Chinese leader, gold-dredger

Sew Hoy, Hugh
1901?1996
Businessman, community leader

Sewell, Henry
1807?1879
Lawyer, administrator, politician, premier

Sewell, William Arthur
1903?1972
University professor of English

Shacklock, Henry Ely
1839?1902
Ironfounder, coal range manufacturer

Shadbolt, Ren? Mary
1903?1977
Civilian and military nurse, hospital matron

Shalfoon, Gareeb Stephen
1904?1953
Te Whakatohea; dance band musician, storekeeper, music shop proprietor

Shanahan, Foss
1910?1964
Senior public servant, diplomat

Shand, Alexander
1840?1910
Farmer, interpreter, ethnographer

Shand, John
1834?1914
University professor, educationalist, administrator

Shand, Thomas Philip
1911?1969
Farmer, military aviator, politician

Sharpe, Alfred
1836??1908
Artist, architectural draughtsman, writer

Shaw, Helen Lilian
1913?1985
Short-story writer, poet, editor

Shaw, Henry
1850?1928
Accountant, bibliophile

Shaw, Samuel
1819???
Labour reformer

Shearman, Robert Clarke
1825?1910
Policeman, farmer

Sheehan, John
1844?1885
Lawyer, politician

Shelford, Charles
1918?1984
Ngati Porou and Te Whakatohea; labourer, soldier, drainlayer

Shelley, James
1884?1961
University professor, educationalist, lecturer, critic, director of broadcasting

Sheppard, Doris Gertrude
1902?1982
Pianist, singer, composer, teacher

Sheppard, Katherine Wilson
1847?1934
Suffragist, social reformer, writer

Sherwood, Maud Winifred
1880?1956
Artist

Shilling, William
1848?1939
Mariner, pilot

Shillington, Edward
1835??1920
Librarian

Shortland, Edward
1812??1893
Doctor, administrator, scholar, linguist

Shum, Jim
1853?1914
Goldminer

Shurrock, Francis Aubrey
1887?1977
Sculptor, art teacher

Sibson, Richard Broadley
1911?1994
Teacher, ornithologist

Sidey, Thomas Kay
1863?1933
Lawyer, politician

Siedeberg, Emily Hancock
1873?1968
Doctor, anaesthetist, hospital superintendent

Sievwright, Margaret Home
1844?1905
Feminist, political activist, community leader

Silva, Paul Thomas
1897?1974
Soldier, timber worker, axeman, bridge builder

Silverstone, Mark Woolf
1883?1951
Cabinet-maker, socialist, local politician, financier

Sim, Wilfrid Joseph
1890?1974
Lawyer, soldier

Sim, William Alexander
1858?1928
Lawyer, judge

Simons, Dorothy Edith
1912?1996
Sportswoman, sports journalist and writer

Simpson, Helen Macdonald
1890?1960
Teacher, university lecturer, writer

Simpson, Mary Elizabeth
1865?1948
Religious teacher, healer and writer

Simpson, Myrtle May
1905?1981
Teacher, school inspector, educationalist

Sinclair, Andrew
1794?1861
Naval surgeon, naturalist, colonial secretary

Sinclair, Elizabeth
1800?1892
Homemaker, farmer, plantation owner

Sinclair, John
1843?1925
Carpenter, builder, station manager, harbourmaster

Sinclair-Burgess, William Livingston Hatchwell
1880?1964
Military leader

Sinclaire, Frederick
1881?1954
Unitarian minister, pacifist, social critic, university professor, essayist

Singh, Phomen
1869/1870??1935
Confectioner

Sinton, Walter James
1911?1980
Butcher, musical retailing manager, percussionist, broadcaster, concert impresario

Sipos, Eleonora Vera
1900?1988
Businesswoman, humanitarian, welfare worker

Sissons, Richard
1819?1893
Doctor, Anglican lay reader

Siteman, Isabella Flora
1842/1843??1919
Domestic servant, farmer, philanthropist

Skae, Frederick William Adolphus
1842?1881
Psychiatrist, health administrator

Skellerup, George Waldemar
1881?1955
Businessman, company director, industrialist

Skerrett, Charles Perrin
1863?1929
Lawyer, judge

Skey, William
1835?1900
Chemist, poet

Skinner, Arthur
1874?1940
Policeman, athlete

Skinner, Henry Devenish
1886?1978
Soldier, ethnologist, university lecturer, museum curator and
director, librarian

Skinner, Lewis
1882?1970
Policeman

Skinner, Thomas Edward
1909?1991
Plumber, politician, trade unionist

Skinner, William Henry
1857?1946
Surveyor, historian, ethnographer

Sladden, Bernard
1879?1961
Farmer, wildlife ranger, historian, naturalist