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Haurongo: Cooper, Whina

Haurongo tūhonohono

Acheson, Frank Oswald Victor

1887–1948

Clerk, land purchase officer, land court judge, writer

Andersen, Johannes Carl

1873–1962

Clerk, poet, ethnologist, librarian, editor, historian

Belshaw, Horace

1898–1962

Teacher, economist, university professor

Peter Henry Buck

Buck, Peter Henry

1877 (year uncertain)–1951

Ngāti Mutunga; doctor, military leader, health administrator, politician, anthropologist, museum director

James Carroll

Carroll, James

1857–1926

Ngāti Kahungunu; farm worker, interpreter, politician

Cooper, William Turakiuta

1885 to 1886 (year uncertain)–1949

Ngāti Kahungunu; interpreter, land officer

Corbett, Ernest Bowyer

1898–1968

Farmer, dairy industry leader, politician, conservationist

Forbes, George William

1869–1947

Farmer, politician, prime minister

Taurekareka Hēnare, 1929

Hēnare, Taurekareka

1877 to 1878 (year uncertain)–1940

Ngāpuhi leader, politician

Te Kirihaehae Te Puea Hērangi

Hērangi, Te Kirihaehae Te Puea

1883–1952

Waikato woman of mana, Kīngitanga leader

Nash, Walter

1882–1968

Clerk, commercial traveller, shopkeeper, politician, prime minister

Apirana Turupa Ngata, about 1905

Ngata, Apirana Turupa

1874–1950

Ngāti Porou leader, land reformer, politician, scholar

Group portrait at the 60th birthday celebrations for Tahupōtiki Wiremu Rātana

Paikea, Paraire Karaka

1894–1943

Te Uri-o-Hau and Ngāti Whatua; Methodist minister, Rātana leader, politician

Rowling, Wallace Edward

1927–1995

Teacher, army educator, politician, prime minister

Smith, George Marshall McCall

1882–1958

Doctor, medical superintendent, community leader

Sutherland, Ivan Lorin George

1897–1952

Ethnologist, university professor

Ngāti Tūwharetoa leader, Tūreiti Te Heuheu Tūkino V

Te Heuheu Tūkino V, Tūreiti

1865 to 1866 (year uncertain)–1921

Ngāti Tūwharetoa leader, politician

Te Wake, Heremia

?–1918

Te Rarawa leader, farmer, assessor, catechist

Biographies that mention Cooper, Whina

Ensor, Kura Te Whiria

1925–2015

Waikato–Tainui; fashion designer, businesswoman

Kapua, Eramiha Neke

1867 to 1875 (year uncertain)–1955

Ngāti Tarāwhai carver, tohunga, farmer

King, Michael

1945–2004

Historian, biographer, journalist, writer

Ānaru Iehu Ngāwaka

Ngāwaka, Ānaru Iehu

1872–1964

Te Rarawa leader, Anglican clergyman

Rata, Matiu Waitai

1934–1997

Ngāti Kurī, Te Aupōuri, Ngāti Whātua; politician, union leader

Rupe, Carmen Tione

1936–2011

Ngāti Maniapoto, Ngāti Hauā, Ngāti Heke-a-Wai; drag queen entertainer, sex worker, entrepreneur, LGBTIQ+ icon

Szászy, Miraka

1921–2001

Ngāti Kurī, Te Aupōuri, Te Rarawa woman of mana, educator, leader

Te Hau, Matiu Te Auripo

1912–1978

Te Whakatōhea; teacher, educationalist, community leader

TuiSamoa, Agnes Rosa

1932–2004

Social worker, community advocate

Tāngia te kōrero katoa

Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Michael King. 'Cooper, Whina', Ngā Tāngata Taumata Rau, i tāngia tuatahitia ki 2000. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/biographies/126450/related-biographies (accessed 4 June 2026).