Editing New Plymouth (section)

=== Academia ===

* [[Zena Daysh]] (1914–2011), influential in the human ecology movement, founder of the Commonwealth Human Ecology Council
* [[David Gauld (mathematician)|David Gauld]] (1942–present), president of the New Zealand Mathematical Society 1981–82
* [[Leila Hurle]] (1901–1989), schoolteacher, schools inspector
* [[Michael Kelly (physicist)|Michael Kelly]] (1949–present), Prince Philip Professor of Technology, University of Cambridge
* Professor Emeritus [[David Penny]] (1939–present), third New Zealander to be named a [[National Academy of Sciences]] foreign associate
* [[Harry Skinner (ethnologist)|Harry Skinner]] (1886–1978), soldier, ethnologist, university lecturer, museum curator and director, librarian; the H.D. Skinner Annex of the Otago Museum, was opened in August 2013, and named in honour of Skinner
* [[William Skinner (ethnographer)|William Skinner]] (1857–1946), surveyor, historian, and ethnographer; founder of [[Puke Ariki]], co-founder of the [[Polynesian Society]]
* [[Beatrice Tinsley]] (1941–1981), astronomer and cosmologist
* [[Neil Waters]] (1931–2018), inorganic chemist, academic administrator, served as vice-chancellor of [[Massey University]] (1983–1995)