Statistics for The 30 Greatest New Zealanders

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#	What they did / were	New Zealander	% Correct
3	First to climb Mt. Everest	Edmund Hillary	92%
14	Producer of the Lord of the Rings-Trilogy	Peter Jackson	87%
1	Physicist known for his gold foil experiment and namesake of an element	Ernest Rutherford	74%
27	Female prime minister from 1999 to 2008	Helen Clark	56%
17	Famous rugby union player nicknamed Pinetree	Colin Meads	44%
7	Leader of a Māori rebellion (the Flagstaff War)	Hōne Heke	41%
12	Runner with three Olympic gold medals	Peter Snell	41%
2	New Zealand's most famous suffragette	Kate Sheppard	33%
18	Māori elder who improved Māori women's rights - "Mother of the Nation"	Whina Cooper	31%
10	Aviatrix who made the first solo flight from England to New Zealand	Jean Batten	26%
4	Prime Minister 1877-1879 and the most complex governor	George Grey	21%
15	Author who was scheduled for lobotomy; Owls Do Cry	Janet Frame	21%
5	Prime Minister when WWII broke out, also the first PM for the Labour Party	Michael Joseph Savage	21%
23	Longest-serving prime minister	Richard Seddon	21%
19	Female short story writer; died at age 34	Katherine Mansfield	18%
6	Foremost Māori politician in parliament and protector of the Māori culture ($50 note)	Āpirana Ngata	15%
9	1st Governor of New Zealand and co-author of the Treaty of Waitangi	William Hobson	13%
25	Jewish prime minister and writer of a 1899 science-fiction novel	Julius Vogel	10%
29	Commander of the Expeditionary Force and later Governor-General	Bernard Freyberg	8%
21	Aviation pioneer who flew before the Wright brothers	Richard Pearse	8%
13	Rocket scientist and head of the U.S. Jet Propulsion Laboratory	Bill Pickering	5%
26	Worked on the structure of DNA and X-ray crystallography	Maurice Wilkins	5%
24	Member of the Ngāti Mutunga iwi; also known as Peter Buck	Te Rangi Hīroa	5%
8	Founder of the Plunket Society	Truby King	5%
11	Heart surgeon	Brian Barratt-Boyes	3%
20	Pioneer of refrigerated shipping	Davidson / Brydone	3%
30	Otolaryngologist, the Father of Plastic Surgery	Harold Gillies	3%
28	First woman cabinet minister, Standardisation of clothes	Mabel Howard	3%
16	Māori chief and leader in the Musket Wars	Te Rauparaha	3%
22	Pacifist Māori leader	Te Whiti o Rongomai	3%