New Zealand's Top 100 History Makers
New Zealand's Top 100 History Makers was a weekly program on Prime Television New Zealand that first aired on October 6, 2005. 430 well-known New Zealanders were selected by a jury to find the 100 most influential New Zealanders in history. The last episode, broadcast on November 17, 2005, featured the top ten determined by electronic voting .
The jury
The jury rating and list of nominees was created when the ratings of the eight jury members, who are all well-known New Zealanders, were agreed:
- Stacey Daniels - TV and radio maker
- Raybon Kan - comedian
- Robyn Langwell - Editor of North & South
- Douglas Lloyd-Jenkins - writer and historian
- Melanie Nolan - historian
- Joseph Romanos - radio presenter and sports journalist
- Tainui Stephens - TV producer
- Kerre Woodham - radio maker
Jury evaluation
- Ernest Rutherford - physicist
- Kate Sheppard - suffragette
- Edmund Hillary - Mountaineer and Researcher
- George Edward Gray - politician, 4th Governor and 11th Prime Minister of New Zealand
- Michael Joseph Savage - politician and 23rd Prime Minister of New Zealand
- Apirana Ngata - Māori politician
- Hone Heke - Māori Chief
- Friedrich Truby King - Founder of Plunket Society
- William Hobson - co-author of the Waitangi Treaty
- Jean Batten - Aviator
- Brian Barratt-Boyes - cardiac surgeon
- Peter Snell - runner
- William Hayward Pickering (1910-2004) - space scientist
- Peter Jackson - filmmaker
- Janet Frame - writer
- Te Rauparaha - Māori chief
- Colin Meads - rugby union player
- Whina Cooper - Māori leader and first president of the Māori Women's Welfare League
- Katherine Mansfield - writer
- Thomas Brydone and William Davidson Soltau - pioneers in the transportation of refrigerated goods
- Richard Pearse - aviation pioneer
- Te Whiti o Rongomai - pacifist and Māori leader
- Richard Seddon - politician and 15th Prime Minister of New Zealand
- Te Rangi Hīroa (Peter Buck) - Māori guide
- Julius Vogel - politician and 8th Prime Minister of New Zealand
- Maurice Wilkins - scientist
- Helen Clark - politician and 37th Prime Minister of New Zealand
- Mabel Howard - Canterbury General Laborers' Union politician and union leader
- Bernard Freyberg, 1st Baron Freyberg - British General and Governor General of New Zealand
- Harold Gillies - plastic surgeon
- Kiri Te Kanawa - opera singer
- Keith Park - Royal Air Force Air Marshal
- Alan MacDiarmid - Nobel Prize Winner Chemistry
- Peter Blake - Sailor
- Clarence Edward Beeby - educator
- Jack Lovelock - sportsman
- John Bedbrook - biotechnologist
- James K. Baxter - poet
- Fred Hollows - eye surgeon
- Murray Halberg - athlete and philanthropist
- Neil Finn - musician
- Edward Gibbon Wakefield - British politician who promoted the colonization of Australia and New Zealand
- David Lange - politician and 32nd Prime Minister of New Zealand
- Robert Muldoon - politician and 31st Prime Minister of New Zealand
- Thomas J. Edmonds - Industrialist
- Colin McCahon - painter
- Colin Murdoch - inventor
- Archibald McIndoe - plastic surgeon
- Samuel Marsden - Church Missionary Society (CMS) missionary
- Peter Fraser - politician and 24th Prime Minister of New Zealand
- John Morrison Clarke - comedian
- Ettie Rout - fighter for safe sex
- Arthur Lydiard - pioneer of jogging
- Kupe - ancestor of the Māori and discoverer of Aotearoa
- Te Puea Herangi - Māori guide from the Waikato region
- John Walker - runner
- Tim Finn - musician
- John A. Lee - socialist, politician and writer
- James Wattie - industrialist
- Bill Hamilton - inventor
- Norman Kirk - politician and 29th Prime Minister of New Zealand
- Bill Gallagher - inventor
- Michael King - historian
- Frances Hodgkins - painter
- George Nepia - rugby union player
- James Fletcher - Industrialist
- Mother Aubert - Catholic nun and founder of the order
- Charles Heaphy - explorer
- AH Reed - publisher
- Frank Sargeson - writer
- Roger Douglas - Politician and Treasury Secretary of the 4th Labor Government
- Matthew During - Scientist
- Te Kooti Arikirangi Te Turuki - warriors
- Hongi Hika - Māori chief
- David Low - cartoonist
- Kate Edger - suffragette
- Marie Clay - educator
- Rewi Alley - Sinophile
- Thomas Rangiwahia Ellison - rugby union player
- Rua Kenana Hepetipa - Prophet
- Tahupotiki Wiremu Ratana - Prophet
- Aunt Daisy - broadcaster
- Charles Hazlitt Upham - soldier
- Ralph Hotere - artist
- Richard Hadlee - cricket player
- Billy T James - comedian
- Keith Sinclair - historian
- Charles Goldie - painter
- John Minto - activist
- Rudall Hayward - filmmaker
- Witi Ihimaera - author
- John Te Rangianiwaniwa Rangihau - Promoter of the Maori language
- Dave Dobbyn - songwriter
- Russell Coutts - Sailors
- Jonah Lomu - rugby union player
- Peter Mahon - lawyer
- Georgina Beyer - transsexual politician
- AJ Hackett - bungee jumping pioneer
- Denis Hulme - racing car driver (Formula 1)
- Russell Crowe - actor
The number 101 on the list was also announced at the closing event:
101. Mountford "Toss" Woollaston - painter
The evaluation by e-voting
- Ernest Rutherford - Scientist
- Kate Sheppard - suffragette
- Edmund Hillary - Researcher and Humanitarian
- Charles Hazlitt Upham - war hero
- Billy T. James - comedian
- David Lange - Prime Minister
- Apirana Ngata - politician
- Colin Murdoch - inventor of the disposable syringe
- Rua Kenana Hepetipa - Prophet
- Roger Douglas - politician and economist
Book of the same name
The television show was based on the book of the same name New Zealand's Top 100 History Makers , the author of which Joseph Romanos helped create the show and was one of the researchers.
literature
- Joseph Romanos: New Zealand's Top 100 History Makers . Trio Books Limited, Wellington 2005, ISBN 0-9582455-6-8 (English).
Individual evidence
- ^ New Zealand's Top 100 History Makers. Scoop Independent News, September 30, 2005, accessed February 3, 2011 .
- ^ Joseph Romanos: New Zealand's Top History Makers. Trio Books Ltd., accessed January 20, 2016 .