Easter Island - Notable People

Notable People

  • Hotu Matuʻa—island founder
  • King Nga'ara—One of the last ‘ariki
  • Kings of Easter Island
  • Thor Heyerdahl—ethnographer
  • Fr Sebastian Englert, OFM Cap.—missionary and ethnologist
  • William Mulloy—archaeologist
  • Pedro Pablo Edmunds Paoa—former Governor
  • Melania Carolina Hotu Hey—former Governor (2006–2010)
  • Juan Edmunds Rapahango—former Mayor

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