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- The arts Comedy Drag Drama Film Music Visual arts Writing
- Broadcasting
- Business
- Politics and public service
- Religion
- Science and technology
- Sport
- Other
{{unreferenced|date=October 2013}}This is a list of notable people who were born in Wellington, New Zealand, or who spent a significant part of their lives living in the region. {{smaller|(Alphabetically by surname)}}The arts Comedy Drag - Pollyfilla (Colin McLean) – drag queen
Drama - Russell Crowe – Oscar-winning actor
- Kerry Fox – actress
- Anna Paquin – Oscar-winning actress
- Antonia Prebble – actress
- Emmett Skilton – actor
- Karl Urban – actor
Film - Jane Campion – Oscar winning film-maker
- Peter Jackson – Oscar-winning film-maker
- Clive Revill – film and theatre actor
- Richard Taylor – head of film prop and special effects company Weta Workshop; multiple Oscar winner
- Fran Walsh – Oscar-winning screenwriter
- Taika Waititi – film director, screenwriter, actor, and comedian
Music - Jemaine Clement – musician, member of Flight of the Conchords
- Brooke Fraser – multi-platinum selling singer
- Andy Kent – bass player for You Am I
- Ben Lummis – singer, 2004 New Zealand Idol winner
- Tina Matthews – musician (The Crocodiles), puppeteer, writer
- Bret McKenzie – musician, member of Flight of the Conchords
- John Psathas – composer
- Eddie Rayner – musician – Crowded House, Split Enz
- Frankie Stevens – entertainer, singer and judge of New Zealand Idol
- Jon Toogood – singer and guitarist for the rock band Shihad
- Rosita Vai – singer, 2005 New Zealand Idol winner
Visual arts - Tom Scott – cartoonist, political commentator
Writing - Ivan Bootham – novelist, short story writer, poet and composer
- Neil Cross – writer
- Richard Curtis – movie and TV writer and director
- Lauris Edmond (dec.) – poet
- Robin Hyde – poet
- John Gallas – poet and educator
- Patricia Grace – writer
- Lloyd Jones – award-winning writer
- Elizabeth Knox – celebrated author
- Katherine Mansfield (dec.) – writer
- Bruce Mason – playwright
- Christopher Pugsley – writer
- Sydney Goodsir Smith – Scots language poet
Broadcasting- John Campbell – broadcaster and news journalist
- Selwyn Toogood (dec.) – broadcaster
Business- Sam Morgan – founder of online auction site TradeMe
- Peter Vincent – entrepreneur, founder/CEO of Vincent Aviation
- Dame Therese Walsh – chief operating officer for the 2011 Rugby World Cup and head of the organising body for the 2015 Cricket World Cup
- Jack Yan – publisher and graphic designer
Politics and public service- Lettie Annie Allen – public servant and political activist
- Robin Cooke, Baron Cooke of Thorndon (dec.) – barrister and jurist
- Francis Fisher – politician, tennis player
- Bill Hastings – lawyer, Chief Censor
- Joe Mack – trade union leader
- Jack Marshall (dec.) – former Prime Minister
- Gerald O'Brien – public servant and politician
- Nancy Wake (dec.) – World War II British agent
- Fran Wilde – Mayor, Member of Parliament
Religion- Francis Douglas, Catholic missionary priest killed in World War II
- Thomas Stafford Cardinal Williams (born 1930) – Cardinal-Priest of Gesù Divin Maestro alla Pineta Sacchetti (1983–present); Fifth Catholic Archbishop of Wellington and Metropolitan of New Zealand (1979–2005)
Science and technology- Rod Drury – technology entrepreneur
- Alan MacDiarmid (dec.) – scientist
- Richard Cockburn Maclaurin (dec.) – physicist, foundation professor of Victoria University and president of MIT
- William Hayward Pickering (dec.) – electrical engineer, former head of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California
- Matt Visser – physicist and mathematician
Sport- Leo Bertos – footballer
- Russell Coutts – professional sailor
- Phillip Drew (born 1986) – international croquet player
- Simon Elliott – footballer
- Chris Killen – footballer
- Melissa Moon – two-time world mountain running champion
- Wynton Rufer – footballer
- Jonathan Sarfati – chess master and author, raised in Wellington
- Ross Taylor – cricketer
- Tana Umaga – former captain of the All Blacks
- Rob Szabo – darts player
Other- Ben Hana – a well-known homeless man
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