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Billy Apple

Celebrated artist Billy Apple has fronted two international art movements – pop and conceptual art. Born Barrie Bates in Auckland on New Year’s Eve 1935, he attended Mount Albert Grammar School until he was 15.

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David Lange

David Lange was the 32nd Prime Minister of New Zealand, serving from 1984 to 1989. He is widely considered to be a symbol of New Zealand’s peace, social justice, and independent thinking due to his leadership and commitment to principles.

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Sir Peter Blake

If there was ever a life cut cruelly short, it was that of Peter Blake: sailor, adventurer, environmentalist, and national icon. Just 53 when he was shot and killed by Brazilian pirates in 2001, Peter won many of the ultimate prizes in ocean sailing, raced around the world five times and won the adoration of a nation.

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Bill Gallagher

One of New Zealand’s greatest contributions to the world of agriculture came with the combination of two quite different technologies – fencing and electricity. Imagine a fence that did not rely on sheer strength for its effectiveness. This allows the fence to be light, and therefore easily portable. And a portable fence, easily moved around the farm, opens the way to revolutionise agriculture with brand-new grazing practices.

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Ernest Rutherford

In about 400 BC, the Greeks conjectured that the world was made up of tiny particles, invisible to the eye. Different combinations of these particles gave rise to the vastly different materials that we see around us in the world. They called these particles ‘atoms’ – the Greek word for ‘indivisible’.

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Sir Harold Gillies, Sir Archibald McIndoe

For over 5,000 Allied soldiers in the fields of France, Belgium and other battlegrounds of World War I, luck was not on their side. Facial injuries – usually gunshot wounds – were all too common, and it fell to a young New Zealand-born surgeon to come up with a way to cope with the often-horrific results.