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Dame Jacinda Ardern

Dame Jacinda Ardern, the 40th Prime Minister of New Zealand, is a leader widely admired for her strength and compassion. Her leadership during times of crisis and astute handling of complex global issues earned her global recognition, despite New Zealand’s relatively small size and population.

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Graeme Bydder, Terry Peters

For over 40 years, Graeme Bydder’s, Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit, work has been at the forefront of clinical MRI, and has shaped the course of medical diagnosis and improved the lives of countless patients.

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Maurice Wilkins

Maurice Wilkins, CBE, FRS, was a renowned New Zealand scientist who made significant contributions to the field of molecular biology. Most notably, he was one of the key individuals involved in the discovery and verification of the structure of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), the molecule that is the basis for heredity and life.

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Sir Harold Gillies, Sir Archibald McIndoe

For over 5,000 Allied soldiers in the fields of France, Belgium and other battlegrounds of World War I, luck was not on their side. Facial injuries – usually gunshot wounds – were all too common, and it fell to a young New Zealand-born surgeon to come up with a way to cope with the often-horrific results.

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Jemaine Clement, Bret McKenzie, Rhys Darby

Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement (Ngāti Kahungunu) formed Flight of the Conchords in Wellington in 1998. They began working in the live comedy circuit around the country, where they quickly became (in their own words): “New Zealand’s fourth most popular guitar-based digi-bongo acapella-rap-funk-comedy folk duo.”

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Katherine Mansfield

Internationally renowned writer Katherine Mansfield has been called one of the 20th century’s most fearless and funny writers. Her short stories, poetry, reviews, journals, and letters have been translated into more than 25 languages.