Ani Kaaro
Ani Kaaro was the senior leader of Ngāti Hao, a small, declining hapū of Ngāpuhi from Rangiahua and Waihou in the upper Hokianga district.
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Aotea te Paratene
Aotea te Paratene ruled the Waikato people in Aotearoa, or New Zealand, as one of four known wives of King Tāwhiao.
Hinematioro
Hinematioro was a woman of high standing among the East Coast peoples from Whāngārā to Ūawa (Tolaga Bay) in 1700s New Zealand.
Makea Takau
Makea Takau Ariki was chiefess of the Makea Nui dynasty, one of the three chiefdoms on the island of Rarotonga.
Ana Hamu
Ana Hamu was a leading member of the Ngāpuhi iwi people in Paihia, Aotearoa.
Tāmairangi
Tāmairangi was a high-ranking woman of strong character and great beauty, who lived in the area around Cook Strait in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
Mary Geddes
Mary Geddes, along with other YWCA representatives, took a leading role in the revival of the National Council of Women of New Zealand in Auckland in 1917.
Erihapeti Rehu-Murchie
Erihapeti Rehu-Murchie was a Ngāi Tahu (or Kāi Tahu) leader and woman of mana, and a prominent activist in the fields of Māori welfare and health from the 1970s to the 1990s. She was a long-serving member and president of the Māori Women’s Welfare League, and an acclaimed researcher in the area of Māori women’s health. She also served on the Human Rights Commission and in a wide variety of other public positions. An accomplished actor, singer and orator, she also composed waiata and poetry.
Kiri Jeanette Claire Te Kanawa
On 1 December 1971 the young Kiri Te Kanawa took the operatic world by storm when she made her debut as the Countess in Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro at Covent Garden.
Matekoraha Te Peehi Jaram
Maori Ngati Maru, Ngati Awa and Ngati Pukeko; weaver, tailoress, community leader