List of New Zealand doctors

The following is a list of notable medical doctors from New Zealand.

• Louis Barnett – surgeon
• Sir Brian Barratt-Boyes – cardiac surgeon
• Agnes Bennett – doctor and medical officer in World War I
• John Daniel Bergin – neurologist
• Alice Bush – doctor, paediatrician and campaigner for family planning services and abortion access
• Margaret Cruickshank – first registered female doctor in New Zealand
• Sylvia Gytha de Lancey Chapman – medical superintendent
• Charles Farthing – pioneer in the treatment of AIDS
• Isaac Featherston – politician
• Erich Geiringer – founder of the New Zealand Medical Association
• David Gerrard – swimmer, Professor of Sports Medicine at University of Otago Dunedin School of Medicine. Former New Zealand Olympic chef de mission
• Sir Harold Gillies – pioneering plastic surgeon
• Felicity Goodyear-Smith – doctor and medical academic at the University of Auckland
• Herb Green – specialist at the centre of the Cartwright Inquiry
• Elizabeth Gunn – doctor and founder of the Children's Health Camp movement
• Ian Hassall – paediatrician
• Te Rangi HÄ«roa (also known as Sir Peter Henry Buck) – member of the Ngāti Mutunga Māori iwi
• Fred Hollows – ophthalmologist
• Paul Hutchison – politician
• Tracy Inglis – Auckland medical practitioner
• Julian Jack - physiologist
• Sir Truby King – child-care pioneer
• Ivan Lichter – thoracic surgeon
• Sir Robert Macintosh – pioneering anaesthetist
• Sir Archibald McIndoe – pioneering plastic surgeon
• Brad McKay, doctor, author and television personality
• Rainsford Mowlem – pioneering plastic surgeon
• Courtney Nedwill – doctor and public health officer
• James Newman (geriatrician) – geriatrician and medical superintendent
• Thomas Moore Philson – doctor and hospital superintendent
• Cecily Pickerill – plastic surgeon
• Sir Henry Pickerill – plastic surgeon
• Denis Rogers – local-body politician
• Sir Edward Sayers – Methodist missionary; military medical administrator; consultant physician, then Dean, of the University of Otago Dunedin School of Medicine
• Jessie Scott – notable New Zealand doctor, medical officer and prisoner of war.
• Emily Siedeberg – doctor, hospital superintendent and first female medical graduate in New Zealand
• Ebenezer Teichelmann – surgeon, mountaineer and photographer
• Henry Thacker – Member of Parliament and Mayor of Christchurch
• Ronald Trubuhovich – pioneer in critical-care medicine
• Thomas Valintine – doctor and public health administrator
• Leslie Whetter – surgeon and Antarctic explorer
• Christine Coe Winterbourn – Professor of Pathology at the University of Otago

See also

• Lists of New Zealanders
• List of physicians