There's Picton, after General Sir Thomas Picton. He was an excellent soldier who fought in the American Revolution and served with Wellington during his successful Peninsular Campaign in Spain and Portugal against Napoleon's top marshals.
Picton was badly wounded at Quatre Bras, two days before Waterloo, but was determined to fight at that great battle where he was shot through the head and killed.
Hawke's Bay's Napier is named in honour of Sir Charles Napier, who fought with Wellington during the Peninsular campaign and went on to command the British Army in India where he conquered the Sindh, which is modern-day Pakistan.
The west coast surf centre of Raglan is dedicated to Lord Raglan, the British commander during the Crimean War, but who fought and lost an arm as FitzRoy Somerset while an aide to Wellington at Waterloo.
Speaking of which an eastern suburb of Lower Hutt is known as Waterloo.
And the Royal Navy of the Napoleonic era is in no way ignored in the place names honour roll.
Collingwood, for Admiral Cuthbert Collingwood, who fought in the American Revolution and in a succession of clashes with the French before becoming the man to victoriously lead Britain's fleet home after its destruction of a combined French and Spanish fleet at Trafalgar in 1805.
Last, but certainly not least, is Nelson - named after Admiral Horatio Nelson, the first superstar of the modern world and the British naval hero who died at Trafalgar.
Nelson was the most famous man in Britain for years before his death and a naval genius who sought out and destroyed enemy fleets to the extent that Britain ruled the waves for more than 100 years.
Now this coming Thursday is the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo.
It was a battle to decide the future of Europe between France's Emperor, Napoleon Bonaparte, and his opponents, Prussia's Field Marshal Gebhard von Blucher and Britain's Duke of Wellington.
Without going into too much detail here, Napoleon launched a lightning strike before the duo's armies could link up and smashed the Prussians at the battle of Ligny.
A smaller French force under Marshal Michel Ney was beaten by Wellington at nearby Quatre Bras and both allied armies retreated towards Brussels.
Just south of that city, Wellington drew up his army for battle on a promise from Blucher that he would not abandon the British and their Dutch-Belgian allies.
What followed was a slaughter as the French tried to break Wellington's men - and nearly did so - before the Prussians arrived later to deliver the coup de grace.
Napoleon was beaten, fled and was sent into exile. Wellington twice became Prime Minister of Britain.
At the battle of Waterloo, there were about 200,000 men fighting for their lives.
This week, the area will be flooded by an expected million visitors who are there to join the 200th celebrations.
I will be one of them.
I'll have my Napoleonic Guide editor's hat on and will be on the field of battle as more than 5000 re-enactors battle each other with muskets, sabres and cannon. I will no doubt have some fabulous pictures to show afterwards.
As a member of the official media party, I'm hoping to be able to upload images live from the battlefield to The Napoleonic Guide (www.napoleonguide.com) but I'm still sorting out the best way to do that.
In the meantime, I'm getting my earplugs sorted for what will be a noisy, but thrilling few days.
richard@richardmoore.com-Richard Moore is an award-winning Western Bay journalist and photographer, and owner of the online encyclopaedia of the Napoleonic Wars, The Napoleonic Guide at www.napoleonguide.com
