# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jerry-mateparae
# Generated: 2026-08-13T13:55:55.142Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jerry-mateparae"
name: "Jerry Mateparae"
slug: "jerry-mateparae"
description: "Lieutenant General Sir Jeremiah Mateparae is a New Zealand former army officer who served as the 20th governor-general of New Zealand between 2011 and 2016, the second Māori person to hold the office, after Sir Paul Reeves. A former officer in the New Zealand Army, he was the Chief of the Defence Force from 2006 to 2011, and then served as the director of the New Zealand Government Communications Security Bureau for five months in 2011. Following his term as governor-general, Mateparae was the high commissioner of New Zealand to the United Kingdom between 2017 and 2020."
tagline: "Governor-General of New Zealand"
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gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "NZ"
category:
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  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
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  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1954-11-14"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  historical:           19.52171066666667
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  247
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump