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He aha te mea nui? / He aha te mea nui o te ao? / Maku e ki atu / He Tangata, He Tangata, He Tangata. (What is the most important thing? / What is the most important thing in the world? / I will say to you / It is people, It is people, It is people.) Selwyn's strength is in its community members, past, present and future. These are some of Selwyn College's people.
Lord Porritt GCMG GCVO CBE (1900-1994)
New Zealand's first home-grown Governor General; former SCSA president; Rhodes Scholar; Personal Physician to the Queen for many years; Olympic medalist.
Dr David Kirk MBE
The only World Cup-winning All Blacks captain; Rhodes Scholar; Former Chief Executive of Fairfax.
Sir Geoffrey Cox CNZM CBE (1910-2008)
Former editor and chief executive of ITN in the UK and founder of News at Ten; war correspondent; First Secretary at NZ Embassy in Washington; took part in Pacific War Council, attended by Churchill and Roosevelt.
Nicola Vallance
Selwyn's second female student president; started out on student television in Dunedin; now the face of Department of Conservation's television documentaries.
Revd Canon Dr Paul Oestreicher
Founding Chair of Amnesty International; retired Director of the Centre for International Reconciliation at Coventry Cathedral; in 2009 received an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Otago.
Hon Bill English
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance.
John Wright
Coached Indian cricket team, having been one of the most successful New Zealand cricket captains; opening batsman during 1980s.
Dr Rachel Zajac
Psychology Department, University of Otago; published work on children's reliability as legal witnesses.
Te Radar (Andrew J. Lumsden)
Comedian and TV personality.
More notable Selwynites
- Bishop Philip Richardson, former Warden
- Lucy Todd, Former #1 beach volleyball player
- Bishop Richard Randersen, author and social justice campaigner
- Pippa Cuthbert, Food Editor, Next Magazine
- Sir Mason Durie, campaigner on Maori health issues
- Sir Patrick Moore, eminent physician and former SCSA President
- Simon Moore QC, Crown Solicitor
- Jay Cassells, lawyer, film producer, cartoonist, writer, member of the Otago Forward Group
- Ross Armstrong, former chair of TVNZ, NZ Post
- Libby Caygill, Fulbright Scholar, Genetics and Development PhD, 2002
- Laura Fraser, Rhodes Scholar, 2009