Matua

Matua may refer to:

People

 * Hotu Matuꞌa, legendary first settler and chief of Easter Island and ancestor of the Rapa Nui people
 * Matua (priest) (fl. 1838), High Priest of Mangareva
 * Fred Matua (1984–2012), American football player
 * Henare Matua (c.1838–1894), New Zealand tribal leader, reformer, and politician

Places

 * Matua (island), in the Kuril Islands chain
 * Matua, New Zealand, a suburb of Tauranga

Other uses

 * Matua (spider), a spider genus
 * Matua Mahasangha, a sect of Hinduism in Bengal
 * Matua, a social caste of the Chamorro people