Greatest kiwi lives

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Ngaio Marsh

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Jake the Mus

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@sparky said in Greatest kiwi lives:

Nancy Wake.

Killed Nazis (lots of them) with her bare hands.

Nancy Wake - Wikipedia

I think it was just the one, crushed his larynx from what I read.

But all in all her exploits were pretty damn nuts.

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Sir Brian Barrett-Boyes. Wrote the book on modern heart surgery

Sir Peter Buck/Te Rangi Hiroa. Politician, national athletic champion, Community Health pioneer, war hero, medical doctor, anthropology professor, museum curator, author.. Along the way, helped found a branch of science - ethnology.

Charles Upham. VC and Bar. Montgomery allegedly said he deserved at least 4

Bill Pickering. Space exploration pioneer, led the US unmanned space program, developed modern telemetry

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@nonpartizan said in Greatest kiwi lives:

@Machpants said in Greatest kiwi lives:

Jean batten

Just read her wiki entry, man, the circumstances surrounding her death and burial are so sad.

Read her book a few years back. Astonishing woman

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@Victor-Meldrew said in Greatest kiwi lives:

Bill Pickering

Beat me to it
Dame Whina
Bill Hamilton
Dame Kiri
Wallace Footrot

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Sir Peter Blake
Jacinda Ardern 🫣
Kate Sheppard
Taika Waititi
John Clarke
Bruce McLaren
Peter Snell
Fred Hollows

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I'd put Michael Joseph Savage, architect of social welfare, in before Arden. His was a noble idea that generations of politicians since have mutated into the generational disease we have now

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Jean Batten
Peter Jackson
Katherine Mansfield

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Ivan Sutherland. Half kiwi but gee.

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Richard Whalley Anthony Curtis

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@canefan said in Greatest kiwi lives:

Katherine Mansfield

An absolute colossus of her field.