The Most Famous
CELEBRITIES from New Zealand
This page contains a list of the greatest New Zealander Celebrities. The pantheon dataset contains 265 Celebrities, 2 of which were born in New Zealand. This makes New Zealand the birth place of the 40th most number of Celebrities behind Australia, and Indonesia.
Top 2
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary New Zealander Celebrities of all time. This list of famous New Zealander Celebrities is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography's online popularity.
1. Lucky Diamond Rich (b. 1971)
With an HPI of 45.92, Lucky Diamond Rich is the most famous New Zealander Celebrity. His biography has been translated into 18 different languages on wikipedia.
Gregory Paul McLaren (born 1971), who goes by the name of Lucky Diamond Rich, is a New Zealand-British performance artist, street performer and international performing arts festival performer, whose acts include sword swallowing and juggling on a unicycle. He is best known, however, for holding the Guinness World Record as "the world's most tattooed person", a title formerly held by Englishman Tom Leppard. Rich has tattoos covering his entire body, including the insides of his eyelids, mouth, ears and foreskin. He has held the certified record since 2006, being 100 percent tattooed.
2. Lorraine Downes (b. 1964)
With an HPI of 39.76, Lorraine Downes is the 2nd most famous New Zealander Celebrity. Her biography has been translated into 16 different languages.
Lorraine Elizabeth Downes (born 12 June 1964) is a New Zealand dancer and beauty queen who won the Miss Universe title in 1983 and the New Zealand version of the reality TV show Dancing with the Stars in 2006.
People
Pantheon has 2 people classified as New Zealander celebrities born between 1964 and 1971. Of these 2, 2 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living New Zealander celebrities include Lucky Diamond Rich, and Lorraine Downes. As of April 2024, 1 new New Zealander celebrities have been added to Pantheon including Lorraine Downes.
