Matua Explained

Matua may refer to:

People

• Hotu Matuꞌa, legendary first settler and chief of Easter Island and ancestor of the Rapa Nui people
• Matua (priest) (fl. 1838), High Priest of Mangareva
• Fred Matua (1984–2012), American football player
• Henare Matua (c.1838–1894), New Zealand tribal leader, reformer, and politician

Places

• Matua (island), in the Kuril Islands chain
• Matua, New Zealand, a suburb of Tauranga

Other uses

• Matua (spider), a spider genus
• Matua Mahasangha, a sect of Hinduism in Bengal
• Matua, a social caste of the Chamorro people