# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/whina-cooper
# Generated: 2026-09-07T19:00:48.546Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/whina-cooper"
name: "Whina Cooper"
slug: "whina-cooper"
description: "Dame Whina Cooper was a New Zealand kuia, who worked for many years for the rights of Māori, and particularly to improve the lot of Māori women. She is remembered for leading the 1975 Māori land march from Te Hāpua to Wellington, a distance of 1,100 km (680 mi), at the age of 79."
tagline: "Māori leader (1895–1994)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Whina_Cooper_in_Hamilton.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "New Zealand"
  isoCode: "NZ"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1895-12-09"
deathDate: "1994-03-26"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.58
  momentum:             0
  historical:           14.81440533333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%A7_%D9%83%D9%88%D8%A8%D8%B1"
    title: "وينا كوبر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Whina Cooper"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whina_Cooperov%C3%A1"
    title: "Whina Cooperová"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whina_Cooper"
    title: "Whina Cooper"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whina_Cooper"
    title: "Whina Cooper"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whina_Cooper"
    title: "Whina Cooper"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whina_Cooper"
    title: "Whina Cooper"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whina_Cooper"
    title: "Whina Cooper"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whina_Cooper"
    title: "Whina Cooper"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A4%D7%99%D7%A0%D7%94_%D7%A7%D7%95%D7%A4%D7%A8"
    title: "פינה קופר"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Whina Cooper"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whina_Cooper"
    title: "Whina Cooper"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whina_Cooper"
    title: "Whina Cooper"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whina_Cooper"
    title: "Whina Cooper"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D1%83%D0%BF%D0%B5%D1%80%2C_%D0%A4%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B0"
    title: "Купер, Фина"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whina_Cooper"
    title: "Whina Cooper"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh_min_nan.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whina_Cooper"
    title: "Whina Cooper"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Whina_Cooper"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q466142"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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