# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/epeli-hau-ofa
# Generated: 2026-08-15T05:54:03.501Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/epeli-hau-ofa"
name: "Epeli Hau'ofa"
slug: "epeli-hau-ofa"
description: "Epeli Hauʻofa was a Tongan and Fijian writer and anthropologist born of Tongan missionary parents in the Territory of Papua. He lived in Fiji and taught at the University of the South Pacific (USP). He was the founder of the Oceania Centre for Arts at the USP."
tagline: "Tongan writer and anthropologist (1939-2009)"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1939-12-07"
deathDate: "2009-01-11"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.68
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.350217333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A5%D0%B0%D1%83%D0%BE%D1%84%D0%B0%2C_%D0%AD%D0%BF%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B8"
    title: "Хауофа, Эпели"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%BE%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%89_%D9%87%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%88%D9%81%D8%A7"
    title: "اپيلى هاووفا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epeli_Hau'ofa"
    title: "Epeli Hau'ofa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epeli_Hau%CA%BBofa"
    title: "Epeli Hauʻofa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epeli_Hau'ofa"
    title: "Epeli Hau'ofa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epeli_Hau%CA%BBofa"
    title: "Epeli Hauʻofa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epeli_Hau%CA%BBofa"
    title: "Epeli Hauʻofa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1326832"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump