This week's feature are New Zealand notables. Per wikitree.com I am:

23 degrees from Ed Hillary
26 degrees from Jean Batten
22 degrees from Marie Clay
25 degrees from Peter Hogg
21 degrees from Kate Lovell-Smith
23 degrees from Ngaio Marsh
23 degrees from Bruce McLaren
25 degrees from Burt Munro
20 degrees from Katherine Murry
26 degrees from Rena Owen
23 degrees from Ernest Rutherford
22 degrees from Mark Todd

More about them:

Sir Edmund Hillary, mountaineer, explorer, philanthropist, and the first to summit Mount
Everest (with Tenzing Norgay) on 29 May 1953.

Jane "Jean" Batten, the "Greta Garbo of the skies."

Dame Marie Clay, notable for her significant contributions to educational literacy.

Peter Hogg, leading authority on Canadian constitutional law.

Kate Shepard Lovell-Smith, instrumental in achieving the right for women to vote in New
Zealand, the first self-governing country in the world to introduce universal suffrage.

Dame Ngaio Marsh, author of 32 detective novels published between 1934 and 1982.

Bruce McLaren, Formula One race car driver, designer, and inventor.

Burt Munro, motorcycle racer, famous for setting an under-1,000 cc world record, at
Bonneville in 1967. The record still stands today.

Katherine Mansfield Murry, writer and critic who was an important figure in the
modernist movement.

Rena Owen, television, film, and theatre actress.

Sir Ernest Rutherford, physicist often referred to as the "father of nuclear physics."

Mark Todd, Olympic equestrian gold medalist.

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I have some ancestors that were actors, architects, astronauts, Afro-American, bank robbers, boxers, comedians, detectives, pro hockey players, singers and musicians, painters, physicians, politicians, poets, popes, writers. I guess that
I am a collection of all of them, as we ALL are.

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