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

E
Eady, Lewis Alfred
1891?1965
Music retailer, company director, benefactor

Earle, Augustus
1793?1838
Artist, traveller, writer

Earp, Frederick
1841?1928
Goldminer, farmer, surveyor, market gardener

Easterfield, Thomas Hill
1866?1949
Chemist, university professor

Eddy, Richard
1882?1955
Labourer, trade unionist

Edgar, James Douglas Charlton
1903?1976
Art teacher, artist, art gallery director

Edgecumbe, George
1845?1930
Newspaper proprietor, businessman

Edger, Kate Milligan
1857?1935
University graduate, educationalist, community worker

Edger, Samuel
1822/1823??1882
Non-denominational minister, writer, social reformer, community worker

Edwards, Edwin
1862?1909
Businessman, local politician, newspaper proprietor and editor,
balladeer

Edwards, James Henry
1892?1952
Socialist, communist, political activist, salesman

Edwards, Worley Bassett
1850?1927
Lawyer, judge

Edwin, Robert Atherton
1839?1911
Naval officer, meteorologist

Efford, Lincoln Arthur Winstone
1907?1962
Pacifist, social reformer, adult educationalist

Ehau, Kepa Hamuera Anaha
1885?1970
No Ngati Tarawhai, no Ngati Whakaue; he kaihautu, he karaka ture, he kaiwhakamaori, he hoia, he tumu korero, he pukorero

Eise, Ida Gertrude
1891?1978
Art teacher, artist

Eketone, Pepene
1855/1856??1933
No Ngati Maniapoto; he kaiwhakamaori, he kaiwhakahaere Maori, he ateha, he kaitorangapu

Elder, Norman Lascelles
1896?1974
Electrical engineer, teacher, botanist

Ell, Henry George
1862?1934
Soldier, stationer, politician, conservationist

Ellen, Mary Ann
1897?1949
Rural women's advocate, community leader, hairdresser

Elliott, Howard Leslie
1877?1956
Baptist minister, sectarian agitator, editor

Elliott, James Sands
1880?1959
Doctor, editor, medical administrator, writer

Elliott, Keith
1916?1989
Farmer, soldier, Anglican clergyman

Ellis, Albert Fuller
1869?1951
Phosphate prospector, chemical analyst, mining manager and commissioner

Ellis, Ellen Elizabeth
1829?1895
Feminist, writer

Ellis, Leon MacIntosh
1887?1941
Forestry administrator and consultant

Ellis, Leslie James
1910?1971
Jockey, racehorse trainer

Ellison, Edward Pohau
1884?1963
No Ngai Tahu, no Te Ati Awa; he tangata purei whutupaoro, he takuta, he kaiwhakahaere hauora mo te katoa

Ellison, Raniera
1915?1974
No Ngai Tahu, no Ngati Mamoe; he kaiwhakahaere kamupene hi ika

Ellison, Tamati Rangiwahia
1866-1868??1904
No Ngai Tahu, no Te Ati Awa; he kaitakaro whutupaoro, he roia

Elsom, Sarah Ann
1867?1962
Florist

Elworthy, Edward
1836?1899
Farmer, businessman

Emery, Samuel Horouta
1885?1967
No Ngati Pukeko, no Ngati Maniapoto, no Ngati Mahuta; he ihu oneone, he tangata mahi pamu, he tangata purei whutupaoro, he kaiwhakahaere
toa, he kaimau, he ngira tuitui, he kaitorangapu a-rohe

Emmett, Frederick Richard Edmund
1903?1974
Music dealer, colour therapist

Empson, Ernest Charles
1880?1970
Pianist, piano teacher

Empson, Walter
1856?1934
Teacher, headmaster, educationalist

England, Maud Russell
1863?1956
Teacher, feminist, educationalist, art dealer

Enright, Mary Teresa
1880?1966
Teacher, journalist, community worker

Entrican, Alexander Robert
1898?1965
Civil engineer, forestry administrator

Enys, John Davies
1837?1912
Runholder, naturalist

Erwin, Jean Neill
1890?1969
Civilian and military nurse, masseuse, army nursing administrator

Escott, Cicely Margaret
1908?1977
Novelist, drama teacher, poet

Evans, Ann
1832-1840??1916
Nurse, midwife, refreshment rooms proprietor

Evans, Frederick George
1881?1912
Stationary-engine driver, trade unionist

Ewart, John
1858?1939
Doctor, hospital superintendent

Ewing, John
1844?1922
Goldminer

Ewington, Frederick George
1844?1922
Soldier, estate agent, philanthropist, pamphleteer

Eyre, Betsy Robertson
1911?1983
Teacher, community worker, local politician