The following are islanders from the Cook Islands:

Entertainers and musicians

• Will Crummer, musician
• Sonny Terei, musician
• Calum Hood, musician
• Sam V, singer, songwriter
• James Tito, actor, musician
• Stan Walker, musician and singer

Politicians

• Inatio Akaruru, Cook Islands politician. Former Cabinet Minister and Deputy Prime Minister
• Albert Henry, former Premier of the Cook Islands
• Geoffrey Henry, Cook Islands politician
• Robert Woonton, former Prime Minister of the Cook Islands

Other

• Jacqueline Evans, environmentalist
• Vereara Maeva-Taripo, textile artist, political activist, and composer