# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ngahuia-te-awekotuku
# Generated: 2026-08-31T18:50:16.237Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ngahuia-te-awekotuku"
name: "Ngahuia Te Awekotuku"
slug: "ngahuia-te-awekotuku"
description: "Ngāhuia Te Awekōtuku is a New Zealand academic specialising in Māori cultural issues and a lesbian activist. In 1972, she was famously denied a visa to visit the United States on the basis of her sexuality."
tagline: "New Zealand academic, short story writer and essayist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ngahuia_Te_Awekotuku_MNZM_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "New Zealand"
  isoCode: "NZ"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1949"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           41.66
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.21458
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Ngahuia Te Awekotuku"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ngahuia_Te_Awekotuku"
    title: "Ngahuia Te Awekotuku"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ng%C4%81huia_Te_Awek%C5%8Dtuku"
    title: "Ngāhuia Te Awekōtuku"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ngahuia_Te_Awekotuku"
    title: "Ngahuia Te Awekotuku"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ngahuia_Te_Awekotuku"
    title: "Ngahuia Te Awekotuku"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ngahuia_Te_Awekotuku"
    title: "Ngahuia Te Awekotuku"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ngahuia_Te_Awekotuku"
    title: "Ngahuia Te Awekotuku"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ng%C4%81huia_Te_Awek%C5%8Dtuku"
    title: "Ngāhuia Te Awekōtuku"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17152983"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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