Sir Russell Hilton Pettigrew (10 September 1920 – 20 March 2015) was a New Zealand businessman and philanthropist.
He was the founder of transport company Freightways Ltd. Pettigrew was born at Hangatiki (between Ōtorohanga and Te Kūiti) in 1920,[1] attended Te Kuiti District High School and served in the navy during World War II.
[2] In 1986, Pettigrew and Kel Tremain established the New Zealand Rugby Foundation.
[4] He was the patron of the Sensible Sentencing Trust[5] and bred, owned and raced Thoroughbred racehorses, beginning in the 1970s.
[6] In the 1983 New Year Honours, Pettigrew was appointed a Knight Bachelor, for services to the transport industry.