List of New Zealand military personnel

The following is a list of notable New Zealand people associated with the military, including those who saw active service in New Zealand.

New Zealand Wars

 * Duncan Alexander Cameron - British General in the Second Taranaki War
 * Hone Heke - Ngapuhi tribal chief
 * Hongi Hika - first military leader of the Musket Wars
 * Kepa Te Rangihiwinui - Maori leader on British side in the Taranaki Wars.
 * William Odgers VC - first man to win the Victoria Cross in the New Zealand land wars.
 * Thomas Simson Pratt - British commander in the First Taranaki War
 * Beauchamp Seymour, 1st Baron Alcester - British naval commander in New Zealand, 1860-1861

Boer War

 * Alfred William Robin commanded First Contingent
 * Edward Chaytor commanded Second and Eighth Contingents
 * William James Hardham awarded Victoria Cross

World War I

 * Leslie Cecil Lloyd Averill - Platoon Commander and first New Zealander to scale the walls of Le Quesnoy
 * Ronald Bannerman - World War I fighter ace
 * Harold Beamish DSC - World War I fighter ace
 * Charles Henry Brown - officer who served at Gallipoli and on the Western Front
 * Thomas Culling - the first New Zealand fighter ace of World War I
 * James Lloyd Findlay (RNZAF Officer) - Soldier and Fighter Pilot
 * Herbert Ernest Hart - officer who served at Gallipoli and on the Western Front
 * Francis Earl Johnston - officer who served at Gallipoli and on the Western Front
 * George Napier Johnston - Commander Royal Artillery of the New Zealand Division
 * George Augustus King - officer who served at Gallipoli and on the Western Front
 * William George Malone - officer who was killed in action at Gallipoli
 * Charles Melvill - officer who served on the Western Front, later Commandant of New Zealand Military Forces
 * Arthur Plugge - officer who served at Gallipoli and on the Western Front
 * Alfred William Robin - Commandant, New Zealand Military Forces
 * Andrew Hamilton Russell - Commander, New Zealand Division
 * William Sinclair-Burgess - New Zealand Officer serving with Australian Forces
 * James Waddell (French Foreign Legion) - New Zealand soldier serving with the French Foreign Legion
 * Bright Williams - Last surviving New Zealand Soldier of the First World War

World War II
(some served also in World War I)
 * Fred Baker - Commander, 28th Maori Battalion
 * Harold Eric Barrowclough - Commander, 3rd New Zealand Division
 * Sir Roderick Carr - RAF Bomber Command and Chief of the Indian Air Force
 * Sir Arthur Coningham - RAF Second Tactical Air Force commander
 * Bill Crawford-Crompton - RAF Fighter ace
 * John Evelyn Duigan - Chief of General Staff, New Zealand Military Forces, from 1937 to 1941
 * Baron Freyberg of Wellington - Commander, 2NZEF and 2nd New Zealand Division. Later Governor-General of New Zealand
 * Colin Falkland Gray - RAF Fighter ace
 * Alfred Hulme - awarded the Victoria Cross
 * Lindsay Merritt Inglis - Senior officer who served with the 2NZEF in Greece, Crete, North Africa and Italy
 * Edgar James "Cobber" Kain - RAF fighter ace (first pilot to win a DFC in World War II)
 * Howard Karl "Kip" Kippenberger - Commander, 2nd New Zealand Division
 * Owen Mead - Senior officer who served with the 2NZEF
 * Reginald Miles - Senior officer who served with the 2NZEF in Greece and North Africa
 * Sir Keith Park - No. 11 Group RAF commander during the Battle of Britain. Later commanded in Malta and Southeast Asia
 * Graham Beresford Parkinson - Senior officer who served with the 2NZEF in Greece, North Africa and Italy
 * John Pattison (RNZAF officer) - RAF Fighter pilot
 * Sir Peter Phipps - founding Chief of Defence Staff
 * Edward Puttick - Senior officer who served with the 2NZEF in Greece and Crete. Later Chief of General Staff, New Zealand Military Forces, from 1941 to 1945
 * William George Stevens - Senior officer who served with the 2NZEF
 * Keith Lindsay Stewart - Senior officer who served with the 2NZEF in Greece, Crete and Italy
 * Leonard Trent - World War II pilot, Victoria Cross recipient
 * Lloyd Alan Trigg - World War II pilot, (only person awarded the VC solely on recommendation of the enemy)
 * Charles Upham - World War II soldier (one of three awarded the Victoria Cross twice but the only combat soldier to receive it twice)
 * Nancy Wake - the most decorated servicewoman of World War II
 * James Allen Ward - VC winning sergeant pilot of 75 Squadron RNZAF
 * Norman Weir - Senior officer who served with the 2NZEF. Later Chief of General Staff, New Zealand Military Forces, from 1946 to 1949

Post-WWII

 * Sir William Gentry - Chief of Staff of New Zealand services.
 * Denis Barnett - Commander British Forces Cyprus.