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A majority of New Zealanders of Samoan ethnicity today are New Zealand-born. [2] At the 2013 census, 62.7 percent of Samoan New Zealanders were born in New Zealand. Of the overseas-born population, 84 percent had been living in New Zealand for at least five years, and 48 percent had been living in New Zealand for at least 20 years. [13]
Pages in category "New Zealand people of Samoan descent" The following 140 pages are in this category, out of 140 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Thomas Andrew (19 January 1855 – 7 August 1939) was a New Zealand photographer who lived in Samoa from 1891 until his death in 1939.. Andrew took photographs that are of significant historical and cultural value including the recording on camera of key events in Samoa's colonial era such as the Mau movement, the volcanic eruption of Mt Matavanu (1905–1911) and the funeral of writer Robert ...
Folole Muliaga (c. 1963 – 29 May 2007) was a Samoan schoolteacher living in Māngere, Auckland, New Zealand.She was terminally ill with obesity-related heart and lung disease [2] and using a home oxygen machine.
Luagalau Levaula Kamu (died 16 July 1999) was a Samoan lawyer and Cabinet Minister. His 1999 assassination was the first political assassination in Samoa since independence in 1962. [1] Kamu trained as a lawyer in New Zealand, at Victoria University of Wellington and the University of Auckland. [1]
Malietoa Tanumafili II, the O le Ao o le Malo (head of state) of Samoa and paramount chief of the Malietoa lineage, died on 11 May 2007 in Apia at the age of 94. At the time of his death, he was the oldest incumbent state leader and head of state for over 45 years, having been appointed for life to the post when Samoa gained independence in 1962. [1]
His son, Fiame Mataʻafa Faumuina Mulinuʻu II (1921–1975) became the first Prime Minister of Western Samoa at the country's independence from New Zealand colonial administration. [26] His granddaughter, Fiame Naomi Mataʻafa is a high-ranking chief Lotofaga, the head of Aiga Sā Levalasi and is the current Prime Minister of Samoa.
Kightley was born in 1969 in Apia, Samoa, the youngest of eight children, and was raised in his father's village of Faleatiu. [1] He came to New Zealand after the death of his father, when he was 4 years old and was adopted by his aunt and uncle, who lived in West Auckland. He attended Rutherford College, where writing was his favourite subject.