Matua may refer to: Look up matua, mātua, or matuā in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. 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 See also All pages with titles beginning with Matua All pages with titles containing Matua This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Matua.If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Wikiwand - on Seamless Wikipedia browsing. On steroids.