the following list of names is of those New Zealanders who have biographies (and photos) on the
DICTIONARY of New Zealand BIOGRAPHY as at June 2011

R names RADCLIFFE - RATANA

R names RIKIHANA - RYMILL


Rikihana, Wiremu
1851–1933
Te Rarawa leader, politician

Rikiriki, Atareta Kawana Ropiha Mere
1855/1856?–1926
Ngati Apa prophet

Riley, Arthur Dewhurst
1860–1929
Artist, educationalist, businessman

Ring, James
1856–1939
Photographer

Ritchie, Harriet Maria
1818–1907
Hospital matron, servants’ home matron, dressmaker

Ritchie, James McLaren
1907–1981
Businessman, Anglican church administrator

Ritchie, John Macfarlane
1842–1912
Merchant, shipping agent, financier, stock and station agent

Ritchie, Thomas
1843/1844?–1934
Farmer, runholder, trader, shipping agent

Rivers, Mavis Chloe
1929–1992
Singer

Riwai, Kiti Karaka
1870–1927
Moriori and Ngati Mamoe; founding mother

Riwai, Te Kiato
1912–1967
Ngai Tahu and Ngati Mutunga; nurse, Maori welfare officer

Robb, George Douglas
1899–1974
Surgeon, medical reformer, writer, university chancellor

Roberton, James Basil Wilkie
1896–1996
Soldier, doctor, historian, writer

Roberts, Geoffrey Newland
1906–1995
Military aviator and leader, airline manager

Roberts, James
1878–1967
Gas stoker, labourer, waterside worker, trade unionist, politician

Roberts, John Mackintosh
1840–1928
Soldier, resident magistrate, administrator

Roberts, John William
1885–1962
Clothing worker, trade unionist, political activist

Roberts, Mary Louise
1886–1968
Masseuse, physiotherapist, mountaineer

Roberts, Murray Beresford
1919–1974
Confidence trickster, thief

Robertson, Ann
1825–1922
Accommodation-house owner, businesswoman, litigant

Robertson, Carrick Hey
1879–1963
Surgeon

Robertson, John
1870–1954
Teacher, school inspector, mountaineer, soldier

Robertson, Philip Wilfred
1884–1969
Chemist, university professor, writer

Robin, Alfred William
1860–1935
Military leader

Robin, Ihakara Te Tuku
1886–1968
Ngati Kahungunu and Ngati Raukawa; shearer, lay reader, wrestler

Robinson, Christabel Elizabeth
1898–1988
Teacher, vocational guidance and community worker

Robinson, Dove-Myer
1901–1989
Salesman, clothing manufacturer, businessman, local politician, environmentalist

Robinson, John Perry
1810/1811?–1865
Turner, storekeeper, provincial superintendent

Robinson, William
1814–1889
Runholder, pastoralist, sportsman, politician

Robson, Frank Donald
1912–1993
Logging contractor, fisherman, marine conservationist

Robson, John Lochiel
1909–1993
Senior public servant, penal reformer

Roche, Violet Augusta
1885–1967
Journalist, welfare worker

Rochfort, John
1832–1893
Surveyor, engineer

Rolland, Jean-Baptiste
1834–1903
Priest, teacher, educationalist

Rolleston, Elizabeth Mary
1845–1940
Homemaker, political hostess, community leader

Rolleston, William
1831–1903
Public administrator, politician, provincial superintendent, educationalist

Rollett, Hilda
1873–1970
Teacher, journalist, writer

Rongonui, Kahupake
1868/1869?–1947
Te Wai-o-Hua leader

Rood, Grace Alexandra
1893–1981
School dental nurse

Roose, Caesar
1886–1967
Ship owner and operator, flax and timber miller, businessman, entrepreneur, community leader, philanthropist

Ropiha, Tipi Tainui
1895–1978
Ngati Kahungunu and Rangitane; surveyor, senior public servant

Rose, Ellen Alma
1907–1996
Clerk, nurse, nursing administrator, hospital matron

Rose, Randolph Arthur John Scott
1901–1989
Athlete, farmer

Ross, Forrestina Elizabeth
1860–1936
Teacher, mountaineer, journalist, writer

Ross, Frances Jane
1869–1950
School principal

Ross, Grace Hilda Cuthberta
1883–1959
Music teacher, welfare worker, community leader, politician

Ross, Malcolm
1862–1930
Journalist, mountaineer, writer

Ross, Robert Samuel
1873–1931
Compositor, socialist, newspaper and journal editor

Ross, Ruth Miriam
1920–1982
Historian

Ross, Sydney Gordon
1909–1946
Labourer, criminal, conspirator

Rosser, Arthur
1864–1954
Builder, trade unionist

Roth, Herbert Otto
1917–1994
Socialist, labourer, librarian, historian

Rotohiko Tangonui Haupapa
1836?–1887
Ngati Whakaue leader, administrator, educationalist

Rout, Ettie Annie
1877–1936
Journalist, businesswoman, sex hygiene campaigner, writer

Rowling, Wallace Edward
1927–1995
Teacher, army educator, politician, prime minister

Royal, Te Rangiataahua Kiniwe
1896–1965
Ngati Raukawa and Ngati Tamatera leader, land officer, Maori welfare officer, soldier, sportsman

Rua Kenana Hepetipa
1868/1869?–1937
Tuhoe prophet

Ruatara
?–1815
Nga Puhi leader, traveller, seaman, agriculturalist

Rudman, Annie
1844–1928
Salvation Army officer, social worker

Rudolph, Henry Joseph
1902–1984
Watch repairer, musician, choirmaster, music director

Rukupo, Raharuhi
?–1873
Rongowhakaata leader, carver

Runciman, Jane Elizabeth
1873–1950
Tailoress, union official, social reformer

Ruru, Lena Matewai
1902–1977
Te Aitanga-a-Mahaki; community leader, sportswoman, pianist, Maori welfare worker

Rushworth, Harold Montague
1880–1950
Farmer, politician

Russell, Andrew Hamilton
1868–1960
Sheepfarmer, military leader

Russell, David
1911–1945
Soldier, prisoner of war

Russell, George Warren
1854–1937
Journalist, newspaper proprietor, politician

Russell, Henry Robert
1817–1891
Runholder, politician

Russell, John Benjamin
1834–1894
Lawyer, businessman, landscape gardener

Russell, Marama
1875/1876?–1952
Nga Puhi and Te Roroa tohunga, midwife, woman of mana

Russell, Nancy Elizabeth
1909–1993
Speech teacher, journalist, drama critic and producer

Russell, Thomas
1830–1904
Lawyer, businessman, politician, financier, land speculator

Russell, William Russell
1838?–1913
Soldier, farmer, politician

Russo, Bartolomeo
1866/1867?–1941
Fisherman, horticulturist, farmer

Rutherford, Andrew William
1842–1918
Runholder, sheep breeder, politician

Rutherford, Ernest
1871–1937
Scientist

Rutherford, James
1906–1963
University professor, historian

Ryan, Albert James
1884–1955
Commercial traveller, newspaper publisher, Irish nationalist, land agent

Ryan, Thomas
1864–1927
Sportsman, artist, master mariner

Ryan, Thomas Jervis
1834-1837?–1901
Policeman

Ryburn, Hubert James
1897–1988
Presbyterian minister, university college master

Rye, Maria Susan
1829–1903
Feminist, reformer, emigration organiser

Rymill, Mary Anne
1817?–1897
Missionary, teacher, nurse, companion