People

• Canterbury Heroes

Educators

• Kate Baldwin, 1865 - 1907: headmistress
• Huia Wiremu Beaumont, 1901 - 1997
• A. W. Bickerton, 1842 - 1929
• Marie Clay: educator
• Elizabeth Gard’ner, 1858 - 1926: founding superintendent of the School of Domestic Instruction
• Mary Victoria Gibson, 1864 - 1929: educator
• Amelia Frances Rogers, 1849 - 1928: headmistress, postmistress & storekeeper

Politicians & political activists

• Graham Condon: local politician
• Eveleyn Charlotte Couzins, 1896 - 1945: Mayoress
• Rod Donald, 1957 - 2005: Green politician
• Elizabeth McCombs, 1873 - 1935: New Zealand’s first woman M.P.
• James Arthur Flesher, 1865 - 1930: Mayor
• Elsie Locke, 1912 - 2001: Peace activist
• William Reece, 1856 - 1930: businessman and mayor
• Ettie Rout, 1877 - 1936: safe sex campaigner
• Kate Sheppard, 1847 - 1934: New Zealand’s leading suffragist
• Women in the Council Chamber

Religion

• Canon Thomas Albert Hamilton, 1849-1919: Vicar of Fendalton
• Thomas Merton, 1915 - 1968: Trappist monk
• Pope John Paul II
• The Rev Cecil Alexander Tobin, 1856 - 1938

Volunteers

• Emilie Croxton, 1854?-1928
• Nigel Howard: volunteer fire fighter
• Sarah Elizabeth Tobin, 1867 - 1930

More people

• More people are listed in our Heritage section
• Arts people
• Business people
• Literary people
• Sports people