Patu Hohepa

Sir Patrick Wahanga Hohepa KNZM (1936 – 22 September 2023) was a New Zealand Māori language academic. In the 2022 Queen's Birthday and Platinum Jubilee Honours, he was appointed a Knight Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to Māori culture and education.^[1]

Sir Patu Hohepa KNZM
Hohepa in 2015
Born	Patrick Wahanga Hohepa 1936 (1936)
Died	22 September 2023 (aged 87) Waimā, New Zealand
Academic background
Alma mater	Indiana University
Thesis	A profile-generative grammar of Maori (1965)
Academic work
Discipline	Māori language
Institutions	University of Auckland

Hohepa was born in 1936,^[2] and died at his home in Waimā on 22 September 2023, at the age of 87.^[3][4]