Lista de Personas Famosas nacidas en Nueva Plymouth

Beauden John Barrett es un jugador neozelandés de rugby que se desempeña como apertura. Ganó el premio a mejor jugador de rugby del mundo en 2016 y 2017, y es un jugador indiscutido de los All Blacks.

Melanie Jayne Lynskey es una actriz neozelandesa. Es más conocida por su papel como Rose en la sitcom Dos hombres y medio y por su trabajo en Up in the Air, The Informant!, Away We Go, Flags of Our Fathers, Shattered Glass, Sweet Home Alabama, Ever After: A Cinderella Story y Criaturas celestiales, entre otros proyectos.

Josef Schmidt es un entrenador y ex–jugador neozelandés de rugby que se desempeñaba como centro. Actualmente entrena al XV del Trébol.

Jordan Matthew "Jordie" Barrett es un jugador neozelandés de rugby que se desempeña mayoritariamente como fullback. Es hermano de los también jugadores de rugby Kane Barrett, Beauden Barrett, Scott Barrett

Scott Kevin Barrett es un jugador neozelandés de rugby que se desempeña como segunda línea y juega en los Crusaders del Super Rugby. Es internacional con los All Blacks desde 2016.

Kane Sinclair Barrett is a retired New Zealand rugby union footballer. As former captain, domestically he represented Taranaki in the ITM Cup. Barrett made his Taranaki debut in 2010 and his strong performances saw him named in the Blues squad for the 2013 and 2014 Super Rugby seasons. He had international experience as well with the New Zealand Secondary Schools side.

Ross Handley Brown was a New Zealand rugby union footballer. He played 16 test matches, most frequently in the first-five back position, for New Zealand's national rugby team, the All Blacks, from 1955 until 1962.

Michael Joseph Kelly FRS FREng is a New Zealand-British physicist. He is Professor of Solid State Electronics and Nanoscale Science in the Division of Electrical Engineering, University of Cambridge. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1993 and won its Hughes Medal in 2006. He was formerly the Chief Scientific Adviser to the Department for Communities and Local Government. He was elected in 1998 as a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering

Anthony McCarten is a New Zealand novelist, playwright, journalist, television writer and filmmaker. He is best known for writing the biopics The Theory of Everything (2014), Darkest Hour (2017), Bohemian Rhapsody (2018) and The Two Popes (2019). He received Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay nominations for The Theory of Everything and The Two Popes.