List of New Zealand scientists

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This page is a list of New Zealand scientists with articles on Wikipedia and is necessarily incomplete.

• Helen Anderson – seismonologist, public servant
• Alexander Aitken – mathematician/statistician, writer, mental calculator, musician
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• Sir Brian Barratt-Boyes – heart surgeon
• Peter Barrett – geologist, Antarctic researcher
• Jacqueline Beggs (born 1962) – New Zealand entomologist and ecologist
• Patricia Bergquist – zoologist, anatomist
• Nancy Bertler – Antarctic researcher
• Rod Bieleski – plant physiologist
• Gary Bold – physicist
• Helen Bostock – paleoceanographer
• Warwick Bowen – experimental physicist
• Margaret Bradshaw – Antarctic researcher, palaeontologist
• Margaret Brimble – chemist
• Alexandra Brewis Slade – anthropologist
• Bob Brockie – artist, ecologist
• John C. Butcher – mathematician
• Walter Buller – naturalist
• Carolyn Burns – freshwater ecologist
• Sir Paul Callaghan – famous for work in magnetic resonance
• Wendy Campbell-Purdie – known for greening the Sahara Desert
• Howard Carmichael – theoretical physicist doing quantum optics
• Garth Carnaby – physicist
• Janet Carter – professor and Dean of Science at the University of Canterbury
• Amy Castle – entomologist
• Ann Chapman – limnologist
• Thomas Frederic Cheeseman – botanist, naturalist
• Charles Chilton – zoologist
• Helen Shearburn Clark (Rotman) – marine zoologist
• John G. Cleary – computer scientist
• Leonard Cockayne – botanist
• Naomi Cogger - epidemiologist
• Leslie Comrie – computer pioneer
• Lucy Cranwell – botanist
• G. H. Cunningham – "father" of New Zealand mycology
• Kathleen Curtis – mycologist, plant pathologist, first female fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand
• Michelle Dickinson – nanotechnologist
• Joan Dingley – mycologist
• John Newton Dodd – optical physicist
• Richard Dowden – radio and space physicist
• Peter David Drummond – quantum optics specialist
• Doug Dye – plant bacteriologist
• Sir Richard Faull – neuroscientist
• Charles Fleming – ornithologist, palaeontologist
• Margot Forde – botanist
• Professor Elizabeth Franz – neuroscientist
• Derek Freeman – anthropologist
• Crispin Gardiner – physicist specialising in Quantum Optics
• Nicola Gaston – chemist
• Juliet Gerrard – biochemist and Prime Minister's chief science advisor
• Charles Gifford – teacher and promoter of astronomy
• Sir Peter David Gluckman – medical science
• Janet Grieve – biological oceanographer
• Timothy Haskell – Antarctic physicist
• Robert Cecil Hayes – seismologist
• Ron Heath - physical oceanographer
• Sir James Hector – geologist{{cite book |last1=Dell |first1=R.K. |title=Dictionary of New Zealand Biography |date=1990 |publisher=Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand |url=https://teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/1h15/hector-james |access-date=13 October 2021 |chapter=Hector, James}}
• Heather Hendrickson – microbiologist
• Barbara Heslop – immunologist
• Helen Heslop – immunotherapist, hematologist
• Merilyn Hibma - viral immunologist
• Sue Huang - virologist
• Stephanie Hughes – neurobiologist
• Patricia Hunt – chemist
• Vicki Hyde – sceptic, psychologist
• Harold John Finlay – palaeontologist, malacologist
• Christina Hulbe – Antarctic glaciologists
• Frederick Hutton – naturalist
• Julian Jack - physiologist
• Diamond Jenness – anthropologist
• Sir Vaughan Jones – mathematician, awarded Fields Medal
• Sir Neville Jordan – engineer, businessman, philanthropist
• Mike Joy – freshwater ecologist, science communicator
• Roy Kerr – proved a solution to Einstein's equations which modelled a spinning black hole
• Pat Langhorne – Antarctic physicist
• Libby Liggins – Marine ecologist
• Alan G MacDiarmid – co-winner of the 2000 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Bruce Marshall – taxonomist, malacologist
• Sir Harold Marshall – acoustician
• John Marwick – palaeontologist, geologist
• Ruth Mason – botanist
• Sir Archie McIndoe – pioneer plastic surgeon
• Tracey McIntosh – sociologist
• Don Merton – conservationist
• Brian Molloy – botanist
• Pérrine Moncrieff – ornithologist
• Mary Morgan-Richards – evolutionary biologist
• Tim Naish – glaciologist
• John Morton – biologist, theologian
• Wendy Nelson – marine algae expert
• Frank Newhook – plant pathologist
• Dame Charmian O'Connor – organic chemist
• Stephen Parke – theoretical physicist
• David Penny – biologist
• William Pickering – central figure and pioneer of NASA space exploration
• Winston Ponder – malacologist
• Arthur William Baden Powell – naturalist, malacologist, palaeontologist
• Margaret Reid – physicist specialising in quantum optics
• James Renwick – climate scientist
• Christina Riesselman – paleoceanographer
• Natalie Robinson – polar oceanographer
• Jacqueline Rowarth – agricultural scientist
• Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson – scientist and winner of the 1908 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Jim Salinger – climate scientist
• Luitgard Schwendenmann, ecosystem scientist
• Liz Slooten – zoologist
• Ruth Spearing – haematologist
• David Spence – mathematician
• Gerald Stokell – horticulturist, ichthyologist
• Kathryn Stowell – biochemist
• Vida Stout – limnologist
• Mary Sutherland – botanist
• Jeff Tallon – physicist
• Warren Tate – biochemist
• Reremoana Theodore – epidemiologist
• Beatrice Tinsley – astronomer and cosmologist{{cite news |last1=Overbye |first1=Dennis |title=Overlooked No More: Beatrice Tinsley, Astronomer Who Saw the Course of the Universe |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/18/obituaries/overlooked-beatrice-tinsley-astronomer.html |access-date=13 October 2021 |work=The New York Times |date=18 July 2018}}
• Kevin Trenberth – meteorologist and atmospheric scientist
• Ingrid N. Visser – marine biologist known for studying orcas
• Sir Julius von Haast – geologist
• Dan Walls – physicist and pioneer in quantum optics
• Kath Walker, conservation scientist
• Ian Warrington – horticulturalist, administrator
• Robert Webster – discovered the link between human flu and bird flu
• William Henry Webster – malacologist and conchcologist
• Joan Wiffen – paleontologist, discovered first dinosaur fossils in New Zealand
• Siouxsie Wiles – microbiologist
• Maurice Wilkins – shared the 1962 Nobel Prize in Medicine for his part in elucidating the structure of DNA
• Allan Charles Wilson – biochemist; revolutionary evolutionist
• Christine Winterbourn – pathologist
• Trecia Wouldes - professor of psychological medicine
• David Wratt – ex-Chief Climate Scientist, National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA)
• Gillian Wratt – Antarctic researcher, first woman director of the New Zealand Antarctic Programme
• John Stuart Yeates – botanist