Michael Friedlander (businessman)

Sir Michael Friedlander KNZM (born 1936) is a New Zealand businessman.

Friedlander in 2016, after his investiture as a Knight Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit by the governor-general, Dame Patsy Reddy

Friedlander is one of New Zealand's wealthiest people. In the 2010 Queen's Birthday Honours, he was appointed a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for community services.^[1] He was promoted to Knight Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to philanthropy, in the 2016 Queen's Birthday Honours.^[2][3]