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The most famous Scientists in New Zealand

The most publicly visible scientists in New Zealand.

Most famous

The most famous scientists in New Zealand right now — ranked by the public attention they command across search, news, Wikipedia, and social.

New ZealandScientists64 peopleHow fame is measured

#	Δ	Person	Country	Category	Fame	Momentum
#1	—	Ernest Rutherford	New Zealand	Scientists	82.5	1.4
#2	—	Edmund Hillary	New Zealand	Scientists	78.8	13.5
#3	—	Alan MacDiarmid	New Zealand	Scientists	53.0	0.0
#4	—	Frank Worsley	New Zealand	Scientists	52.4	7.3
#5	—	Peter Hillary	New Zealand	Scientists	50.3	6.0
#6	—	Julius von Haast	New Zealand	Scientists	48.5	0.2
#7	—	Bill Pickering	New Zealand	Scientists	48.5	0.0
#8	—	Naomi James	New Zealand	Scientists	46.6	3.7
#9	—	Thomas Mackenzie	New Zealand	Scientists	46.1	7.7
#10	—	Jonathan Sarfati	New Zealand	Scientists	44.7	16.0
#11	—	Pamela Kilmartin	New Zealand	Scientists	44.4	0.0
#12	—	George Vernon Hudson	New Zealand	Scientists	43.6	0.0
#13	—	Thomas Kirk	New Zealand	Scientists	43.6	0.0
#14	—	Volker Heine	New Zealand	Scientists	43.6	6.3
#15	—	Pete Bethune	New Zealand	Scientists	43.0	0.0
#16	—	David J. Stevenson	New Zealand	Scientists	42.9	15.0
#17	—	Greta Stevenson	New Zealand	Scientists	42.8	4.5
#18	—	Ella Orr Campbell	New Zealand	Scientists	42.8	15.0
#19	—	Walter Oliver	New Zealand	Scientists	42.4	14.1
#20	—	Matthew A. Hunter	New Zealand	Scientists	42.3	0.0
#21	—	Thomas Cheeseman	New Zealand	Scientists	41.8	0.0
#22	—	Kevin E. Trenberth	New Zealand	Scientists	41.6	3.7
#23	—	Daniel Frank Walls	New Zealand	Scientists	41.4	13.2
#24	—	Charles Heaphy	New Zealand	Scientists	40.4	0.0
#25	—	Mary Therese Kalin Arroyo	New Zealand	Scientists	40.4	2.9
#26	—	WA William A. Bradfield	New Zealand	Scientists	40.3	0.0
#27	—	Paul Callaghan	New Zealand	Scientists	40.3	0.0
#28	—	Charles R. Alcock	New Zealand	Scientists	40.2	2.9
#29	—	LC Leslie Comrie	New Zealand	Scientists	40.0	0.0
#30	—	Robert Alexander Falla	New Zealand	Scientists	39.9	12.9
#31	—	HT Helen Thayer	New Zealand	Scientists	39.6	0.0
#32	—	Roderick Carr	New Zealand	Scientists	39.5	11.3
#33	—	Jan Anderson	New Zealand	Scientists	39.3	1.0
#34	—	Margaret Brimble	New Zealand	Scientists	39.0	0.0
#35	—	EA Eliza Amy Hodgson	New Zealand	Scientists	38.4	7.5
#36	—	Arthur Dudley Dobson	New Zealand	Scientists	38.1	10.0
#37	—	Lucy May Cranwell	New Zealand	Scientists	38.1	3.3
#38	—	WF William Fyfe	New Zealand	Scientists	37.7	0.0
#39	—	TW Trevor Worthy	New Zealand	Scientists	37.3	0.0
#40	—	Averil Margaret Lysaght	New Zealand	Scientists	36.8	4.3
#41	—	GH Gordon Herriot Cunningham	New Zealand	Scientists	36.7	1.8
#42	—	Betty Molesworth Allen	New Zealand	Scientists	36.4	15.0
#43	—	Charles Chilton	New Zealand	Scientists	36.2	2.8
#44	—	Johannes Andersen	New Zealand	Scientists	36.2	2.5
#45	—	Vincent R. Gray	New Zealand	Scientists	36.1	0.0
#46	—	Thomas Potts	New Zealand	Scientists	35.9	0.2
#47	—	FW Felix Wakefield	New Zealand	Scientists	35.6	15.0
#48	—	Peter Schwerdtfeger	New Zealand	Scientists	35.6	0.0
#49	—	BT Brian Tinsley	New Zealand	Scientists	35.4	4.9
#50	—	CE Cedric Errol Carr	New Zealand	Scientists	35.4	4.6
#51	—	Allan Ross Ferguson	New Zealand	Scientists	34.9	1.7
#52	—	Frederick Revans Chapman	New Zealand	Scientists	34.5	10.0
#53	—	EH Elizabeth Herriott	New Zealand	Scientists	33.7	0.0
#54	—	PI Paul Irwin Forster	New Zealand	Scientists	33.5	0.0
#55	—	RF Robert Francis Ross McNabb	New Zealand	Scientists	33.3	0.7
#56	—	Harry Borrer Kirk	New Zealand	Scientists	32.9	3.9
#57	—	Kate Violet Edgerley	New Zealand	Scientists	31.0	3.8
#58	—	Alan Gilmore	New Zealand	Scientists	20.0	0.0