Sir Malcolm Burns, CBE, KBE - Agricultural Scientist, Principal of Lincoln College (later Lincoln University) and President of the Royal Society of New Zealand
Frederick W Furby - Private Secretary to Prime Minister William Massey (1912-1919), later the Chief Postmaster of Christchurch
Henry Garrett - Rhodes Scholar (1940), Associate Professor and Head of Farm Management Department, Canterbury Agricultural College [later Lincoln University] (1939-1964)
Jeffrey Harris - New Zealand Artist, winner of the James Wallace Art Award
Marion Saunders - Pioneering NZ Speech and Language Therapist (and mentor to Dr Jean Seabrook)
Dr Jean Seabrook, OBE, MBE - Educationalist, Director of Speech Therapy at University of Canterbury (1964-1972)
Scott Shadbolt, NZBM - Firefighter, recipient of the New Zealand Valour Medal (only the fourth recipient since its inception in 1880) for "exceptional personal courage" during the February 2011 earthquake.
Cary Taylor - Chief Engineer for Brabham Motor Racing Team and Denny Hulme's number one engineer for the win at the Monaco Grand Prix. Denny Hulme and Cary Taylor moved to Bruce McLaren's Team in 1965 and Cary became Chief Engineer for the McLaren Team
William Taylor - Senior Trade and Tourism Commissioner to Australia (1935-1942)
Rangiora High School wishes to acknowledge the work of Mr Ian (Ted) Piner (RHS: 1955-1957) whose research has allowed us to add to our list of notable former students.
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