Sir Stephen Robert Tindall is the founder of New Zealand retailer The Warehouse, The Warehouse Group, and the Tindall Foundation.
Sir Bryan George Williams is a former New Zealand rugby union footballer and former coach of the Samoan national rugby team.
Sir Gilbert Simpson is a New Zealand businessman and computer programmer.
Sir Patrick Ledger Goodman, known as Pat Goodman or Sir Pat Goodman, was a prominent New Zealand businessman, arts patron and philanthropist. Along with his brother, Peter, he co-founded the Australasian food giant Goodman Fielder. He was CEO and chairman of the company.
Dame Ellen Adrienne Stewart, Lady Stewart is a New Zealand arts patron.
Sir John Desmond Todd was a New Zealand businessman and philanthropist who was head of the Todd Corporation.
Sir Robert Arthur Owens was a New Zealand businessman and local politician. He served as mayor of both Tauranga and the nearby Mount Maunganui in the Bay of Plenty. He later moved from Mount Maunganui to Auckland. He was knighted in 1997.
Sir Michael Friedlander is a New Zealand businessman.
Sir Neville Jordan is a New Zealand electrical engineer and businessman.
Sir Eion Sinclair Edgar was a New Zealand businessman and philanthropist. He was the chairman of Forsyth Barr Group, a major investment company based in Dunedin, for 20 years until his retirement in 2018, and was chancellor of the University of Otago between 1999 and 2003.
Sir Derek Arana Te Ahi Lardelli is a New Zealand tā moko artist, painter, carver, kapahaka performer, composer, graphic designer, researcher of whakapapa and oral histories and kaikōrero. He affiliates to the Ngāti Konohi hapū of Ngāti Porou, and the Ngāi Te Aweawe hapū of Rongowhakaata, and lives in Gisborne, where he is pouwhirinaki/principal lecturer at Toihoukura at Eastern Institute of Technology.
Sir Christopher Robert Mace is a New Zealand businessman. In the 2005 New Year Honours, he was appointed a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to the Antarctic and the community, and in the 2016 Queen's Birthday Honours, he was promoted to Knight Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to science and education.
Sir Ronald Leslie Young is a New Zealand jurist. He served as chief District Court judge from 1993 to 2001, and was a High Court judge from 2001 until 2015, when he retired. In the 2016 Queen's Birthday Honours, he was appointed a Knight Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to the judiciary.
Sir Peter Ivan Talijancich, generally known as Peter Talley, is a New Zealand businessman, known for his involvement in the fishing and food industries as the Managing Director of Talley's Group. In the 2002 New Year Honours, Talley was appointed as an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to the fishing industry, export and the community, and he was promoted to Knight Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to business and philanthropy, in the 2015 Queen's Birthday Honours.
Sir Graeme Seton Avery is a New Zealand businessman and philanthropist. After training as a pharmacist, he founded medical publishing company Adis International in 1963, and it had an annual turnover of $100 million when he sold it to Wolters Kluwer in 1996. The following year, he co-founded Sileni Wine Estates in Hawke's Bay.
Sir Peter James Vela is a New Zealand businessman and Thoroughbred breeder and owner. With his brother Philip he founded Vela Fishing and Pencarrow Stud. He is most notably associated with the mare Ethereal, winner of the 2001 Melbourne Cup.
Sir William Alexander Denny is a New Zealand medicinal chemist, noted for his work investigating drugs for the treatment of cancer.
Sir Colin John Giltrap is a New Zealand businessman involved in the motor vehicle industry. In the 2012 New Year Honours, he was appointed a Knight Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to motorsport and philanthropy. He was inducted into the New Zealand Business Hall of Fame in 2013.
Sir Daniel Patrick Higgins is a New Zealand businessman and philanthropist. He was chairman of the Palmerston North-based construction firm, Higgins Group, until it was sold to Fletcher Building in 2016.
Sir Noel Stuart Robinson is a New Zealand businessman and philanthropist.
