Matua may refer to:
People
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Hotu Matuꞌa, 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 (1984–2012), American football player
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Henare Matua (c.1838–1894), New Zealand tribal leader, reformer, and politician
Places
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Matua (island), in the Kuril Islands chain
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Matua, New Zealand, 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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