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 the ...
, legendary first settler and chief of Easter Island and ancestor of the Rapa Nui people
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Matua (priest) (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 drafted by the Detroit Lions in the seventh round of the 2006 NFL Draft. He was a member of the Lions ...
(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
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(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
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 5,394 at ...
, a suburb of Tauranga
Other uses
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''Matua'' (spider), a spider genus
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Matua Mahasangha, a sect of Hinduism in Bengal
* Matua, a social caste of the
Chamorro people
The Chamorro people (; also CHamoru) are the indigenous people of the Mariana Islands, politically divided between the United States territory of Guam and the encompassing Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands in Micronesia. Today, signif ...
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