Millie Khan

Millie Khan, whose full name was Millie Cecilia Khan, was a New Zealand lawn bowls competitor, born on 29 July 1938 and died on 24 November 2003. She bowled for the Matamata Bowling Club and competed at four Commonwealth Games, winning a silver medal in the women's singles in 1990 and a bronze medal in the same event in 1998. She won eight medals at the Asia Pacific Bowls Championships, four of them gold, and eleven New Zealand national titles: four in the singles, two in the pairs and five in the fours. She was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire in the 1990 Queen's Birthday Honours for services to bowls and was an inaugural inductee of the Bowls New Zealand Hall of Fame in 2013. Two of her daughters, Jan Khan and Marina Khan, also represented New Zealand at bowls.