Father Jean Louis Guinard Sm spent 60 years in Fiji as a priest of the Roman Catholic Mission. He arrived in January 1901 and died in 1961. Forty-two years of his service were spent at Namosi.

A British consul, born in Papeete, Tahiti, to George Pritchard and Eliza Aileen. He was educated in Britain before returning to join his father, the British consul in Samoa. There he acquired an exceptional knowledge of the Polynesian languages and traditions. In 1858, Pritchard was appointed the first British consul at Fiji, and in the same year traveled to England with an offer from Seru Epenisa Cakobau to cede Fiji to the British crown. He was dismissed from his post in 1863.

James Valentine Tarte was born in England and migrated to Ballarat, Victoria, Australia in 1857. He went to Fiji in 1869 and took up land on Taveuni where he remained until his death.

Archbishop George Hamilton Pearce was born in Boston. Massachusetts. He was the first Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Apia, Samoa, and first Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Suva, Fiji.

George Herbert Eastman ran the London Missionary Society (LMS) Mission in Rarotonga, Cook Islands, 1913-1918. Between 1918 and 1947, he ran the LMS Gilbert Islands [Kiribati] Mission, based at Rongorongo on Beru island. In 1949, Eastman and his wife Winifred (nee Grimwade, married 1914) retired to Swanage in Dorset, England.

Steen Andersen Bille was a Danish naval officer who rose to the rank of Admiral and became a Privy Counselor during Denmark's period of 'armed neutrality' policy following the Gunboat War. Instrumental in rebuilding the Danish Navy after 1814.

In 1952, Gleeson was Officer in charge of the Economic Branch of the Commonwealth (Australian) Department of Territories.

John T. Arundel was a leading figure in the Pacific phosphate industry on Kiribati and Nauru. He initially travelled to the Pacific in 1860 and 1868, and established John T. Arundel & Co. in the Pacific 1871 with financial support from Houlder Brothers and Co. In 1897, John T. Arundel & Co merged its business with trading and plantation firm Henderson and Macfarlane. They formed the Pacific Islands Company Ltd (PIC), which was based in London with trading activities in the Pacific, particularly Kiribati. In 1902, PIC became the Pacific Phosphate Company and began phosphate mining on Banaba, Kiribati in 1901 and on Nauru in 1906. Arundel died 30 November 1919 in Bournemouth, England.