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The list Māori language revivalists includes Ben Mitchell, Margaret Abbott, John Rangihau, Katerina Mataira and Koro Dewes. The list consists of 28 members.

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Māori language
Polynesian language spoken by New Zealand Māori
  • 1.

    Ben Mitchell
    New Zealand actor
    Ben Mitchell
    Overview: Benjamin Mitchell (born 7 July 1979), is a New Zealand actor best known for his role as Dr. TK Samuels in the soap opera Shortland Street.
    Date of birth: 7 July 1980
    Age: 44
    Nationality: New Zealander
    Occupation: Actor
    Gender: Male
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    People educated at St John's College, Hamilton 12T
    New Zealand male Māori actors 27T
    New Zealand male television actors 195T
  • 2.

    Margie Abbott
    Wife of Tony Abbott
    Margie Abbott
    Overview: Margaret Veronica Abbott (née Aitken; born 1 February 1958) is an Australian woman best known as the wife of Tony Abbott, the 28th Prime Minister of Australia (2013–2015). She runs a childcare centre in ...
    Date of birth: 1 February 1958
    Age: 67
    Gender: Female
    Partner: Tony Abbott (Married)
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    People educated at Wainuiomata High School 5T
    New Zealand women in business 77T
    Australian women in business 78T
  • 3.

    John Rangihau
    New Zealand academic
    John Rangihau
    Overview: John Te Rangianiwaniwa Rangihau BEM (5 September 1919 – 14 October 1987) was a New Zealand academic and Māori leader of the Ngāi Tūhoe iwi. He was also called Te Nika and Te Rangihau.
    Date of birth: 5 September 1919
    Date of death: 14 October 1987
    Age: 68 (age at death)
    Nationality: New Zealander
    Occupation: Military
    Gender: Male
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    New Zealand recipients of the British Empire Medal 12T
    Ngāi Tūhoe 41T
    New Zealand Māori academics 37T
  • 4.

    Te Huirangi Waikerepuru
    New Zealand trade unionist and Māori language activist
    Te Huirangi Waikerepuru
    Overview: Huirangi Eruera Waikerepuru CNZM (1 April 1929 – 9 April 2020) was a New Zealand Māori language activist and trade unionist of Taranaki and Ngāpuhi descent. He was active in the foundation and governance ...
    Date of birth: 1 April 1929
    Date of death: 9 April 2020
    Age: 91 (age at death)
    Occupation: Educator
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    2020 deaths 11,737T
    21st-century New Zealand educators 7T
    20th-century New Zealand educators 27T
  • 5.

    Te Wharehuia Milroy
    New Zealand academic
    Te Wharehuia Milroy
    Overview: James Te Wharehuia Milroy CNZM QSO (24 July 1937 – 7 May 2019) was a New Zealand academic and expert in the Māori language. He was of Ngāi Tūhoe descent. Together with Tīmoti Kāretu and Pou Temara, Milroy ...
    Date of birth: 24 July 1937
    Date of death: 7 May 2019
    Age: 81 (age at death)
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    2019 deaths 9,204T
    2019 deaths 6,613T
    Members of the Waitangi Tribunal 20T
  • 6.

    Katerina Mataira
    New Zealand activist
    Overview: Dame Kāterina Te Heikōkō Mataira DNZM (13 November 1932 – 16 July 2011) was a New Zealand Māori language proponent, educator, intellectual, artist and writer. Her efforts to revive and revitalise the Māori ...
    Date of birth: 13 November 1932
    Date of death: 16 July 2011
    Age: 78 (age at death)
    Nationality: New Zealander
    Occupation: Educator
    Gender: Female
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    Māori-language writers 5T
    New Zealand women activists 77T
    People educated at St Joseph's Māori Girls' College 5T
  • 7.

    Koro Dewes
    Māori language revivalist
    Overview: Te Kapunga Matemoana "Koro" Dewes (7 April 1930 – 17 August 2010) was a kaumatua of the Ngāti Porou iwi of New Zealand. He was a pioneer of Māori education and an advocate for the Māori language.
    Date of birth: 1930
    Date of death: 17 August 2010
    Age: 80 (age at death)
    Nationality: New Zealander
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    Ngāti Porou 110T
    New Zealand Māori academics 37T
    People educated at Wesley College, Auckland 32T
  • 8.

    Ngoi Pēwhairangi
    New Zealand composer
    Overview: Te Kumeroa "Ngoingoi" Pēwhairangi QSM (29 December 1921- 29 January 1985) was a prominent teacher of, and advocate for, Māori language and culture, and the composer of many songs. She spearheaded the Māori ...
    Date of birth: 1921
    Date of death: 1985
    Age: 63 (age at death)
    Nationality: New Zealander
    Occupation: Composer
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    People educated at Hukarere Girls' College 10T
    Ngāti Tara Tokanui 1T
    APRA Award winners 841T
  • 9.

    Margaret Mutu
    Ngāti Kahu leader, author and academic
    Overview: Margaret Shirley Mutu is a Ngāti Kahu leader, author and academic from Karikari in the Far North and works at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. Her iwi or nations are Ngāti Kahu, Te Rarawa and Ngāti ...
    Occupation: Writer
    Gender: Female
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  • 10.

    Mere Berryman
    New Zealand academic
    Mere Berryman
    Overview: Mere Anne Berryman ONZM is a New Zealand kaupapa Māori academic. She is Māori, of Ngāi Tūhoe, Ngāti Awa, and Ngāti Whare descent and as of 2019 is a full professor at the University of Waikato.
    Occupation: Writer
    Gender: Female
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    New Zealand Māori women academics 24T
    Ngāti Whare 2T
    New Zealand educational theorists 27T
  • 11.

    Tania Ka'ai
    New Zealand education academic
    Overview: Tania M. Ka'ai, sometimes known as Tania Kaai-Oldman, is a New Zealand Education academic. She is of Ngāti Porou, Ngāi Tahu, Native Hawaiian, Cook Island Māori, and Sāmoan descent and is a full professor ...
    Occupation: Writer
    Gender: Female
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  • 12.

    Mamari Stephens
    New Zealand legal academic and chaplain
    Overview: Māmari Stephens is a law academic best known for her work creating He Papakupu Reo Ture: A Dictionary of Māori Legal Terms, a Māori-English a bi-lingual dictionary of legal terms. She is of Te Rarawa ...
    Occupation: Writer
    Gender: Female
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  • 13.

    Hana O'Regan
    Māori language advocate and academic
    Overview: Hana Merenea O'Regan (born 1973) is a Māori language advocate and academic in New Zealand. She is a member of the Ngāi Tahu iwi (tribe).
    Date of birth: 1973
    Age: 51
    Occupation: Poet
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  • 14.

    John Moorfield
    Māori language academic
    John Moorfield
    Overview: John Cornelius Moorfield QSO (18 October 1943 – 19 May 2018), also known as Te Murumāra, was a New Zealand academic whose expertise was in the teaching of the Māori language. His work, including the p ...
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    2018 deaths 9,212T
    2018 deaths 7,472T
    People from Huntly, New Zealand 32T
  • 15.

    Mere Broughton
    New Zealand activist and unionist (1938–2016)
    Mere Broughton
    Overview: Mary Mereiwa Broughton QSM (née Whakaruru, 24 December 1938 – 31 January 2016), known as Mere Broughton, was a New Zealand Māori language activist and unionist.
    Date of birth: 24 December 1938
    Date of death: 31 January 2016
    Age: 77 (age at death)
    Occupation: Labor Leader
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    2016 deaths 9,448T
    Ngāi Tūhoe 41T
    Te Āti Awa 43T
  • 16.

    Jean Puketapu
    Ngāi Tūhoe Māori language native speaker and co-founder of the first kōhanga reo (1931–2012)
    Overview: Jean Gloria Edith Puketapu or Jean Puketapu-Waiwai QSO (26 July 1931 – 31 July 2012) was a Ngāi Tūhoe Māori language activist and co-founder of the first kōhanga reo.
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  • 17.

    Kingi Matutaera Ihaka
    New Zealand Anglican priest (1921–1993)
    Overview: Sir Kingi Matutaera Ihaka MBE JP (18 October 1921 – 1 January 1993) was a New Zealand clerk, interpreter, Anglican priest, broadcaster and Māori Language Commissioner. Of Māori descent, he identified ...
    Date of birth: 18 October 1921
    Date of death: 1 January 1993
    Age: 71 (age at death)
    Nationality: New Zealander
    Occupation: Translator
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    New Zealand Knights Bachelor 193T
    New Zealand Members of the Order of the British Empire 303T
    Burials at Purewa Cemetery 82T
  • 18.

    Te Paekiomeka Joy Ruha
    New Zealand activist
    Overview: Te Paekiomeka Joy Ruha ONZM QSM (21 February 1931 – 16 December 2011) was a prominent Māori leader and member of Māori Women's Welfare League. Of Te Whānau-ā-Apanui and Ngāti Porou descent, she lived most ...
    Date of birth: 21 February 1931
    Date of death: 16 December 2011
    Age: 80 (age at death)
    Nationality: New Zealander
    Occupation: Educator
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    People of the Māori Women's Welfare League 12T
    The Correspondence School faculty 5T
    Ngāti Porou 110T
  • 19.

    Iritana Tāwhiwhirangi
    New Zealand school teacher
    Iritana Tāwhiwhirangi
    Overview: Dame Iritana Te Rangi Tāwhiwhirangi DNZM MBE (born 21 March 1929) is a New Zealand advocate of Māori language education and the Kohanga Reo movement.
    Date of birth: 1928
    Age: 96
    Nationality: New Zealander
    Occupation: Educator
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    People of the Māori Women's Welfare League 12T
    People from Hicks Bay 2T
    People educated at Hukarere Girls' College 10T
  • 20.

    Dun Mihaka
    New Zealand activist, author, and political candidate (1942–2023)
    Overview: Te Ringa Mangu "Dun" Mihaka (1942 – August 2023) was a New Zealand Māori activist, author, and political candidate.
    Date of birth: 1942
    Date of death: 22 August 2023
    Age: 81 (age at death)
    Occupation: Activist
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    Unsuccessful candidates in the New Zealand general election, 1999 63T
    Māori activists 24T
    Year of birth missing (living people) 37,022T
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