CELEBRITIES from New Zealand

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 42.27, Lucky Diamond Rich is the most famous New Zealander Celebrity.  His biography has been translated into 17 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. Nico Porteous (b. 2001)

With an HPI of 11.14, Nico Porteous is the 2nd most famous New Zealander Celebrity.  His biography has been translated into 16 different languages.

Nico Porteous (born 23 November 2001) is a New Zealand freestyle skier and an Olympic champion. He is New Zealand's youngest Olympic Games medallist, having won a bronze medal at the 2018 Winter Olympics at the age of 16. He became New Zealand's second Winter Olympic gold medallist, and first male, with his win in men's halfpipe at the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics.