Karori Cemetery - Graves of Note

Many eminent New Zealanders are buried at Karori Cemetery, including people involved in the Shackleton expedition and the Tangiwai disaster.

A new person will be added to this list each month.

Select a name below for details and to view the gravestone.

Notable People
John Guthrie Wood Aitken	Politician, businessman, social activist
Mina Arndt	Artist
Lily May Atkinson	Suffragist and Feminist
Suzanne Aubert	Founder of the Sisters of Compassion
John Blundell	Newspaperman / businessman
Frederick William Fish	Infant boy and Karori Cemetery's first burial
Louise Henderson	Artist
Matthew Holmes	Medical practitioner
Walter Nash	Prime Minister, 1957 - 1963
Grace Neill	Public servant and social reformer
Robert Stout and Anna Paterson Stout	Premier Suffragist and Feminist
John Sidney Swan	Architect
Frederick Turnovsky	Businessman and arts patron
Herman van Staveren	Rabbi, philanthropist

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