The Most Famous People in New Zealand
Top 12 of 12 ranked · September 2026 · See today's live standing →
First issue under methodology v5.70. Movement begins with the next issue frozen under the same version.
The Most Famous People in New Zealand is the September 2026 edition of the ranking, frozen and published by iFAMOUS, the monthly journal of the iFANN Global Fame Rankings.
| Rank | Name | Score | Live |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Jacinda Ardern politicianAlive | 14.1 | iFANN → |
| 2 |  Bruno Mars  celebrityAlive | 14.1 | iFANN → |
| 3 |  Dolly Parton celebrity | 13.0 | iFANN → |
| 4 |  Olivia Dean  celebrityAlive | 10.8 | iFANN → |
| 5 |  Christopher Luxon politicianAlive | 10.4 | iFANN → |
| 6 |  Nicki Minaj  celebrityAlive | 7.8 | iFANN → |
| 7 |  Katy Perry celebrityAlive | 7.4 | iFANN → |
| 8 |  Harry Styles celebrityAlive | 6.8 | iFANN → |
| 9 |  Chlöe Swarbrick politicianAlive | 5.9 | iFANN → |
| 10 |  Calvin Harris celebrityAlive | 5.5 | iFANN → |
| 11 |  David Seymour politicianAlive | 4.5 | iFANN → |
| 12 |  Mariah Carey celebrityAlive | 0.0 | iFANN → |
About this list
This list ranks the most famous people connected to New Zealand as of September 2026, by overall fame rather than one month's attention: the top 12 of 12 names the rankings measured for New Zealand, frozen as the permanent record of that edition. This is the standard reading: everyone, living or dead, on one scale. 11 of the 12 listed are living; the Alive reading restricts the same ranking to living people.
Jacinda Ardern is No. 1 on this list for September 2026. Behind Jacinda Ardern come Bruno Mars and Dolly Parton. Evidence coverage for this list is medium; positions near the bottom of the table may shift as coverage improves.
What famous means here
Fame, in iFAMOUS, is how widely the world knows a name: how recognisable a person's name, face or work is, and how well people know who they are. It is assessed from extensive historical and current public data, some of it reaching back more than twenty years, and it is not merit, talent, importance or popularity on iFANN. The rankings model real-world global fame, not internet fame; the data is the instrument, not the subject. Activity on iFANN itself is excluded.
The month in the title is the date of this edition, not the period measured. The list is a snapshot of overall fame as it stood when the issue was frozen: a name does not lose its place because one month was quiet, and a trending moment alone does not put a name here. Trending attention is published separately on ifann.net.
How the list was ranked
The iFANN Global Fame Rankings combine worldwide Wikipedia readership across languages, worldwide news coverage and search interest anchored against stable reference names, with search history reaching back to 2004. A twelve-month baseline sits behind the current reading and short-lived surges are capped, so the list reflects durable recognition rather than one week of headlines. Rankings are computed daily on ifann.net and frozen on the second day of the following month as that month's issue; a published issue never changes.
About New Zealand
New Zealand is one of the countries and regions the journal ranks every month. Country lists use the same rankings and the same scale as The 100, so a name can be compared with its neighbours and against the world.
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iFAMOUS is published by iFANN and powered by the iFANN Global Fame Rankings v5.70. Today's live standing for this list is on ifann.net; the journal freezes it once a month so it can be cited permanently.
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"Jacinda Ardern, No. 1 on The Most Famous People in New Zealand", iFAMOUS No. 2 (September 2026), ifamous.org