Search our list of inductees below or filter to a specific sport using the list on the left. Filter Inductees by Category Choose a sporting category View all inductees AdministrationAthleticsAviationBadmintonBasketballBilliardsBowlsBoxingCanoeingCricketCyclingDisabled sportEquestrianGolfHarness racingHockeyJetboatingMotorsportMountaineeringMultisportNetballRowingRugby LeagueRugby UnionShearingSkiingSoccerSoftballSports broadcastingSquashSwimmingTennisThoroughbred racingWeightliftingWoodchoppingWrestlingYachting Close Categories Find an inductee by name Reset search Our Inductees Darcy Hadfield The third of the single sculling elite New Zealand was able to boast before and after World War I, Hadfield could also claim an Olympic medal. Read more Richard Hadlee It was no coincidence that when Sir Richard Hadlee was making his mark on the cricket fields of the world, so was New Zealand; that the national team’s days in the sun were in large part because of his efforts. Read more Walter Hadlee Walter Hadlee’s name is linked inextricably to New Zealand cricket for many reasons. Read more Murray Halberg Sir Murray Halberg is one of the outstanding figures in New Zealand sport. Read more William Hamilton William Hamilton is famed throughout the world for being the man who first developed a jet engine for boats, but it was far from his only first. Read more Joan Harnett Joan (now Harnett-Kindley) was one of the outstanding players who helped transform the image of “basketball” as a schoolgirls’ game to netball as a fast, entertaining international sport. Read more Tom Heeney Heeney was a boxer who won an enduring fame not so much for what he did, but for what he attempted to do: win the world professional heavyweight championship. Read more Kevin Herlihy Kevin Herlihy was such a dominant pitcher in New Zealand softball for nearly 20 years that he was once described as the Richard Hadlee of softball. Read more Stan Hill Stan Hill played basketball for New Zealand for 14 years, nine of them as captain, and was head and shoulders, sometimes literally, above other New Zealand basketballers. Read more Edmund Hillary Sir Edmund Hillary was voted in the 1980s as “the greatest living New Zealander”, one of a lifetime of accolades that have been bestowed upon him. Read more Karen Holliday The first New Zealander to win a full world cycling title. Read more Oliver Hollis Oliver Hollis was the outstanding New Zealand woman golfer in two distinct eras. Read more Maurice Holmes In a sporting career that spanned six decades, Morrie Holmes became the greatest driver in New Zealand harness racing that the sport has seen. Read more Denis Hulme Denny Hulme lived to race, whether small sports cars or huge trucks and in the most competitive motorsport of all, the intensity of Formula One, he was New Zealand’s only world champion. Read more Gary Hurring The Commonwealth Games 200 metres backstroke champion in 1978, Hurring was denied a chance to extend his success to the Olympic arena by swimming’s withdrawal for political reasons from the Games in Moscow in 1980. Read more