List of Prime Ministers of New Zealand by place of birth

This is a list of Prime Ministers of New Zealand by place of birth. Of New Zealand's thirty-eight Prime Ministers, sixteen were born in New Zealand, nineteen in the United Kingdom (including one in what is now the Republic of Ireland, but was then part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland), two in Australia, and one in Portugal. Of those born in New Zealand, nine were born in the North Island, and seven in the South Island. All Prime Ministers in office since 1960 have been born in New Zealand.

Australia (2)

• Joseph Ward — Melbourne, Victoria
• Michael Joseph Savage — Tatong, Victoria

New Zealand (16)

North Island (9)

• John Key — Auckland
• David Lange — Auckland
• Robert Muldoon — Auckland
• Helen Clark — Hamilton, Waikato
• Gordon Coates — Kaipara Harbour
• Jim Bolger — Opunake, Taranaki
• Keith Holyoake — Pahiatua, Manawatu-Wanganui
• Jack Marshall — Wellington
• Mike Moore — Whakatane, Bay of Plenty

South Island (7)

• Francis Bell — Nelson
• Geoffrey Palmer — Nelson
• George Forbes — Lyttelton, Canterbury
• Jenny Shipley — Gore, Southland
• Sidney Holland — Greendale, Canterbury
• Norman Kirk — Waimate, Canterbury
• Bill Rowling — Motueka, Tasman Region

Portugal (1)

• George Grey — Lisbon

United Kingdom (19)

England (12)

• Frederick Whitaker — Bampton, Oxfordshire
• Frederick Weld — Bridport, Dorset
• Harry Atkinson — Broxton, Cheshire
• Alfred Domett — Camberwell, Surrey
• Richard Seddon — Eccleston, Merseyside
• William Hall-Jones — Folkestone, Kent
• Walter Nash — Kidderminster, Worcestershire
• John Hall — Kingston upon Hull, Yorkshire
• Julius Vogel — London
• Henry Sewell — Newport, Isle of Wight
• George Waterhouse — Penzance, Cornwall
• William Fox — South Shields, Tyne and Wear

Ireland (3)

• Daniel Pollen — Dublin, Leinster (now the Republic of Ireland)
• John Ballance — Glenavy, Ulster
• William Massey — Limavady, Ulster

Scotland (4)

• Thomas Mackenzie — Edinburgh
• Edward Stafford — Edinburgh
• Robert Stout — Lerwick, Shetland Islands
• Peter Fraser — Tain, Ross and Cromarty

See also

• List of Prime Ministers of New Zealand
• List of Prime Ministers of New Zealand by age
• List of Prime Ministers of New Zealand by term