Matua may refer to:
People
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Hotu Matuꞌa
Hotu Matuꞌa was the legendary first settler and ''ariki mau'' ("supreme chief" or "king") of Easter Island and ancestor of the Rapa Nui people. Hotu Matuꞌa and his two-canoe (or one double hulled canoe) colonising party were Polynesians from th ...
, legendary first settler and chief of Easter Island and ancestor of the Rapa Nui people
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Matua (priest)
Matua (baptized Maria Tepano or Marie-Etienne; fl. 1838) was the High Priest (''taura tupua'') of the island of Mangareva. He served as one of the regents for his nephew Maputeoa and was instrumental in the conversion of Mangareva and the Gambier ...
(fl. 1838), High Priest of Mangareva
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Fred Matua
Fred Matua (January 14, 1984 – August 5, 2012) was an American football guard. After playing college football for Southern California, he was selected by the Detroit Lions in the seventh round of the 2006 NFL draft. He was also a member of the ...
(1984–2012), American football player
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Henare Matua
Henare Matua (c.1838–1894) was a New Zealand tribal leader, reformer and politician. Of Māori descent, he identified with the Ngati Kahungunu iwi. He was born in Nukutaurua, Hawke's Bay, New Zealand
New Zealand () is an island c ...
(c.1838–1894), New Zealand tribal leader, reformer, and politician
Places
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Matua (island)
Matua (, ) is an uninhabited volcanic island near the center of the Kuril Islands chain in the Sea of Okhotsk in the northwest Pacific Ocean, across Golovnin Strait from Raikoke. Its name is derived from the Ainu language, from “hellmouth”.
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, in the Kuril Islands chain
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Matua, New Zealand
Matua is a suburb of Tauranga, in the Bay of Plenty Region of New Zealand's North Island.
Demographics
Matua covers and had an estimated population of as of with a population density of people per km2.
Matua had a population of 5,628 i ...
, a suburb of Tauranga
Other uses
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''Matua'' (spider), a spider genus
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Matua Mahasangha
The Matuaism () is a Hindu reform movement that originated around 1860 AD in modern-day Bangladesh. Today, it has a considerable number of adherents both in Bangladesh and in West Bengal, India.
The Matua movement originated among the Namas ...
, a sect of Hinduism in Bengal
* Matua, a social caste of the
Chamorro people
The Chamorro people (; also Chamoru) are the Indigenous peoples of Oceania, Indigenous people of the Mariana Islands, politically divided between the Territories of the United States, United States territory of Guam and the encompassing Norther ...
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