# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/pita-sharples
# Generated: 2026-09-07T19:26:16.629Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/pita-sharples"
name: "Pita Sharples"
slug: "pita-sharples"
description: "Sir Pita Russell Sharples is a New Zealand Māori academic and politician, who was a co-leader of the Māori Party from 2004 to 2013, and a minister outside Cabinet in the National Party-led government from 2008 to 2014. He was the member of Parliament for the Tāmaki Makaurau electorate in Auckland from 2005 to 2014. He stepped down as co-leader of the Māori Party in July 2013."
tagline: "New Zealand politician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Pita_Sharples_2012_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "New Zealand"
  isoCode: "NZ"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1941-07-20"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           42
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.953349333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://www.parliament.nz/en/mps-and-electorates/former-mps/document/50PlibMpsFormerPitaSharples1/sharples-hon-dr-pita"
sources:
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pita_Sharples"
    title: "Pita Sharples"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B1_%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%A8%D9%84%D8%B2"
    title: "بيتر شاربلز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pita_Sharples"
    title: "Pita Sharples"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pita_Sharples"
    title: "Pita Sharples"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pita_Sharples"
    title: "Pita Sharples"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pita_Sharples"
    title: "Pita Sharples"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sco.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pita_Sharples"
    title: "Pita Sharples"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q186074"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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