What is New Zealand's Top 100 History Makers?
{{redlinks|date=May 2020}} {{Use New Zealand English|date=June 2017}} {{Use dmy dates|date=November 2012}} '''''New Zealand's Top 100 History Makers''''' was a weekly television programme first shown on [[Prime Television New Zealand]] on 6 October 2005. 100 New Zealanders were ranked by a panel. There were six episodes counting down the list from 100 to 11. The seventh and final episode was shown live on 17 November 2005, it showed the top ten people ranked by panelists and the top ten ranked by the public. The public voted by [[SMS|texting]] a number or by a [[poll]] on the Internet.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/culture/tv-history/history |title=History on TV – Timeline |author=New Zealand Ministry for Culture and Heritage |work=nzhistory.net.nz |access-date=5 October 2011 |archive-date=22 February 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120222151749/http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/culture/tv-history/history |url-status=dead }}</ref> The episodes were [[narrated]] by [[Alison Mau]] [[Joseph Romanos]], one of the panellists, wrote a book in 2005 called '''New Zealand's Top History Makers''', It contained the same 100 people.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.triobooks.co.nz/History.htm |title=TrioBooks Ltd-Publishers |work=triobooks.co.nz |access-date=5 October 2011 |isbn=0-9582455-6-8 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120425045522/http://www.triobooks.co.nz/History.htm |archive-date=25 April 2012 |df=dmy-all }}</ref> == Panel == {{div col|2}} *[[Stacey Daniels]] – Television and radio personality *[[Raybon Kan]] – Comedian *[[Robyn Langwell]] – Editor of ''[[North & South (New Zealand magazine)|North & South]]'' magazine *[[Douglas Lloyd-Jenkins]] – Writer and historian *[[Melanie Nolan]] – Historian *[[Joseph Romanos]] – radio host, sports writer *[[Tainui Stephens]] – Television producer *[[Kerre Woodham]] – Radio personality {{div col end}} == Panel rankings == Top 100 people ranked by panelists: {{div col|2}} #[[Ernest Rutherford]] (1871-1937) – physicist #