University of Otago

The University of Otago in Dunedin is New Zealand's oldest university. It is the South Island's largest employer and claims to have the world's 2nd longest continuously running annual student revue (the Capping Show) and New Zealand's oldest ballet company (the Selwyn Ballet).

Notable alumni and alumnae

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Internal Wikipedia links

(with Hall of Residence, if any, in parentheses where known)

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• Arthur Henry Adams, journalist and writer
• Barbara Anderson
• David Benson-Pope, Cabinet minister
• Dame Silvia Cartwright, Governor-General of New Zealand
• David Cunliffe (Carrington), Minister for Communications
• Sir Thomas Davis, first Cook Islands medical graduate in New Zealand, former Prime Minister of the Cook Islands, High Commissioner to New Zealand, and research physiologist with NASA. M.B.Ch.B. (1945) LL.D. (2005).
• Marc Ellis (University), rugby league personality
• Bill English, National Party leader
• Janet Frame, author
• Ian Fraser, broadcaster, head of Television New Zealand
• Julian Grimmond, co-producer of "The Amazing Race", which won two consecutive Primetime Emmys
• Jan Hellriegel, singer/songwriter
• Fergus Hume
• Chris Laidlaw, All Black and politician
• Michael Laws, politician, broadcaster, Mayor of Wanganui
• John Edward "Jack" Lovelock, athlete
• Sir Kamisese Mara (Knox), Fijian politician
• Simon McCallum, organiser of New Zealand's first Game Developers' Conference
• Archibald McIndoe, plastic surgeon
• Arnold Nordmeyer, Prime Minister
• Lord Porritt (Selwyn), Governor-General of New Zealand and physician to the Queen.
• Robert Stout
• Peter Tapsell, Cabinet minister
• Jeremy Waldron, legal philosopher
• Allan Wilson, biologist

Rhodes Scholars from the University of Otago

(College at Oxford in brackets)

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• 1904 d James A Thomson (St John?s)
• 1906 d Robert A Farquharson (St John?s)
• 1907 d Colin Macdonald Gilray (University)
• 1913 d Prof. Frederick Fisher Miles (Balliol)
• 1921 d Rev. Hubert James Ryburn (Lincoln)
• 1923 d Rt Hon. Lord Arthur Espie Porritt (Magdalen)
• 1924 d Sir Robert Stevenson Aitken (Balliol)
• 1928 d Charles Andrew Sharp (St John?s)
• 1929 d Dr Wilton Ernest Henley (New)
• 1930 Prof. James Campbell Dakin (Trinity)
• 1931 d Dr John Edward (Jack) Lovelock (Exeter)
• 1932 Sir Geoffrey Sandford Cox (Oriel)
• 1934 d Norman Davis (Merton)
• 1935 d The Hon. Sir Lester Francis Moller (Brasenose)
• 1936 d Daniel Marcus Davin (Balliol)
• 1947 Dr Robert Owen Davies (Oriel )
• 1950 Dr John Derek Kingsley North (Magdalen), Peter Selwyn O?Connor (Balliol)
• 1952 Prof. Graham Harry Jeffries (Magdalen), The Hon. Hugh Campbell Templeton (Balliol)
• 1954 Dr Kenneth Alfred Kingsley North (Magdalen)
• 1956 Dr Colin Gordon Beer (Magdalen), Rev David George Simmers Victoria Balliol
• 1957 Em. Prof. Graeme Max Neutze (University)
• 1959 Graeme Francis Rea (Balliol)
• 1960 Dr James Julian Bennett Jack (Magdalen)
• 1966 John Stephen Baird (Merton)
• 1968 Christopher Robert Laidlaw (Merton)
• 1970 Dr Murray Grenfell Jamieson (Merton)
• 1972 Prof. David Christopher Graham Skegg (Balliol)
• 1973 Dr Anthony Evan Gerald Raine (Merton)
• 1975 Dr John Alexander Matheson (Worcester)
• 1976 Dr Derek Nigel John Hart (Brasenose)
• 1981 Christine Ruth French (Worcester)
• 1983 Dr Nancy Jennifer Sturman (New)
• 1985 Dr David Edward Kirk (Worcester)
• 1988 Dr Ceri Lee Evans (Worcester)
• 1990 Dr Prudence Anna Elizabeth Scott (Lincoln)
• 1992 Prof. John Navid Danesh (Balliol), Susan Reta Lamb (Balliol)
• 1993 Dr Jennifer Helen Martin (Lady Margaret Hall)
• 1995 Jennifer Sarah Cooper (Magdalen)
• 1996 Andrew Norman Benson Lonie (selected, not taken up)
• 1998 Jane Larkindale (New)
• 1999 Dr Damen Andrew Ward (University)
• 2000 Clare Beach (Merton), Sally Virginia McKechnie (Hertford)
• 2002 Rachel Sarah Carrell (Balliol), Christopher John Curran (Merton)
• 2003 Thomas Marcel Douglas (Balliol)
• 2004 Glenn Fraser Goldsmith (Balliol)

External links

• Tan Sri Dato' (Dr) Hj Ahmad Azizuddin Bin Hj Zainal Abidin (Dr Ahmad, former Speaker of the Perak State Legislative Assembly)
• Professor Murray Brennan of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York
• Sir Peter Buck (Te Rangi Hiroa), former visiting professor at Yale University then Director of the Bishop Museum of Hawaii
• Sir Geoffrey Cox, co-founder of World Wide Television (today one of the main television news agencies)
• George Griffiths, publisher, journalist, regional historian, and Hocken Fellow 1998
• Alison Holst (nee Payne)
• Dame Judith Mayhew Jonas, City and Business Adviser to the Mayor of London, sitting in the London cabinet, Board Member of the London Development Agency (chairing its Business Committee, and (inter alia) Chairman of the Board of Governors of Birkbeck College, University of London)
• Professor Datuk Dr Mazlan Othman, Director-General of Malaysia's National Space Agency