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List of people from Dunedin

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1157:, a South-African-born doctor and Head of Psychiatry at the University of Otago, spent 16 years in prison for the murder of his third wife three years after they became residents of Dunedin. 725: 1282: 283:, author of the novels Shark Bell and Blessed Art Thou Among Women, which won the 1990 Heinemann Reed Fiction Award, and the short-story collection The End of the Century. 478:
A large proportion of the country's leading companies in and beyond the twentieth century originated in Dunedin. A selection of relevant company or brand names includes
1398: 113:(1869–1947), New Zealand's most celebrated expatriate painter, born in Dunedin, trained at the Dunedin School of Art and first matured here as an artist 831: 289:, born in Dunedin in 1944. A prolific author, his novel "Final Things" won the NSW Premier's Award for fiction in 1998. He died in Sydney 2010. 627: 320: 1310: 1256: 1209: 33:
has produced a large number of notable people. Many are natives of the city, while others travelled to Dunedin to be educated at the
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Many of New Zealand's top bands of the 1980s and early 1990s started out in Dunedin, establishing the
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in 2003, was born in Dunedin, and received one of her degrees from the University of Otago.
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in 1963 for describing the electric transmission of impulses along nerves.
336:, New Zealand actor who also has been on many Australian and U.S. TV shows 553: 391: 914: 782: 693: 387: 30: 1234: 1033: 1123:, community leader, welfare worker, and first female BA graduate at 755:
Pakistani test cricket international and TVNZ cricket commentator,
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became a professor and head of the Department of Physiology at the
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in which 14 people were killed, was born in Dunedin and raised in
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and who was the first person to publish the phrase "
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New Zealand General Secretary and women´s advocate.
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were born in Dunedin in 1882 and 1900 respectively.
607:while he was employed by the University of Otago. 194:, commercial artist, photographer and businessman 468:(born 1993 or 1994) singer-songwriter-guitarist 1239:, Vol. 110, No. 1519 (September, 1969), p. 974 568:(1885–1944), public servant and union official 1075:in the defence of London during World War II. 207:, late-nineteenth century poet who wrote the 107:, painter, lived in Dunedin for several years 8: 1093:, standout bomber pilot during World War II 731:New Zealand test cricket international and 703:New Zealand test cricket international and 131:, artist, critic, drama director and patron 1130:Presbyterian minister and social activist 979:Internationally recognised swimming coach 227:, born there in 1924, died there in 2004: 498:, Methven, Mosgiel, NZI, Ravensdown, the 1143:David Gray, the perpetrator of the 1990 1177: 1015:international (and award-winning poet) 1399:Lists of people by city in New Zealand 1338:"Mayor sorry for slogan, blames media" 626:from 1944 to 1951; before winning the 259:, poet and former Hockey International 1134:spent his entire ministry in Dunedin. 628:Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 528:, Former Mayor of Dunedin (2010-2019) 321:The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers 7: 1186:"Power, Harold Septimus (1877–1951)" 540:SC, appointed Solicitor-General for 435:started his music career in Dunedin. 1365:Dictionary of New Zealand Biography 1311:Dictionary of New Zealand Biography 1285:. 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Index

Notable people from Dunedin
Dunedin
University of Otago
John Buckland Wright
H. Septimus Power
Colin Wilson
Murray Webb
Māori
Ralph Hotere
Port Chalmers
Grahame Sydney
Jeffrey Harris
Claire Beynon
Pete Wheeler
Frances Hodgkins
Alfred Henry O'Keeffe
Colin McCahon
Rodney Kennedy
David Elliot
Port Chalmers
Francis Petre
Edmund Anscombe
Robert Lawson
Lindsay Daen
Shona McFarlane
ISBN
0-7233-0171-9
Ernest Heber Thompson
Jan McLean
Arthur George William Sparrow

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