- John Williams
John Williams (1796-1839) was an English missionary, active in the South Pacific. Born near London, England, he was trained as a foundry worker and mechanic. In 1816, the London Missionary Society commissioned him as a missionary. In 1817 John Williams and his wife voyaged to the Society Islands, a group of islands that included Tahiti, accompanied by William Ellis and his wife. John Williams and his wife established their first missionary post on the island of Raiatea. - Fletcher Christian
Fletcher Christian (September 25 1764 - October 3 1793) was a Master's Mate on board the "Bounty" during William Bligh's fateful voyage to Tahiti for breadfruit plants (see Mutiny on the Bounty). It was Christian who seized command of the "Bounty" from Bligh on April 28, 1789. Born September 25, 1764 Fletcher Christian was the second youngest son of Charles Christian and Mary (or Ann?) Dixon Christian who were to have ten children, … - James Morrison
James Morrison (1760 - 1807) was a British seaman and mutineer who took part in the Mutiny on the Bounty. James Morrison was a native of Stornoway on the Isle of Lewis in Scotland where his father was a merchant and land entrepreneur. He joined the navy at 18, serving as Clerk on the "Suffolk", Midshipman on the "Termagant", and Acting Gunner on the "Hind". In 1783, he passed his Master Gunner's examination. - John Adams
John Adams (1768?-5 March 1829) was the last survivor of the "Bounty" mutineers who settled on Pitcairn Island in January 1790, the year after the mutiny. His real name was Alexander Smith; John Adams was an alias used by him after the British found the island. His children continued to use the surname "Adams". The mutineers of HMS "Bounty" and their Tahitian companions settled on the island and set fire to the "Bounty". - Samuel Wallis
Samuel Wallis (April 1728 - January 21, 1795) was a Cornish navigator who circumnavigated the world. Wallis was born near Camelford, Cornwall. In 1766 he was given the command of HMS "Dolphin" to circumnavigate the world, accompanied by the "Swallow" under the command of Philip Carteret. The two ships were parted shortly after sailing through the Strait of Magellan, Wallis continuing to Tahiti, … - Joe Dassin
Joseph Ira Dassin was a French-speaking American expatriate musician. Dassin was born in New York City to "film noir" director Jules Dassin and Béatrice Launer. He began his childhood first in New York and Los Angeles, California. However after his father became a victim of the anti-communist policies of Senator Joseph McCarthy, he and his family moved from place to place across Europe. After studying at Institut Le Rosey in Switzerland, … - Pomare V
Pōmare V, King of Tahiti was the last king of Tahiti, reigning from 1877 until his forced abdication in 1880. He was the son of Queen Pōmare IV. He was born as Terii Taria Te-rā-tane and became Heir Apparent and Crown Prince (Arii-aue) upon the death of his elder brother on 13 May 1855. He became king of Tahiti on the death of his mother on 17 September 1877. His coronation was on 24 September 1877 at Papeete. - Malik Joyeux
Malik Joyeux (31 March, 1980 - 2 December, 2005) was an accomplished all-around waterman and a professional surfer famous for riding large waves. Known by many as the "petit prince", the Tahitian goofy-foot surfer often gained attention for charging the treacherous barrels at Teahupoo. He was credited in 2003 with the Billabong XXL Tube of the Year for riding one of the largest wave ever ridden in Tahiti. - Mareva Galanter
Mareva Galanter is a French actress and former beauty queen who has competed at Miss Universe. Galanter won the 1998 "Miss World of Islands" and then the 1998 "Miss Tahiti" beauty contest that allowed her to compete for the Miss France 1999 crown, which she won. Galanter later represented France at the Miss Universe 1999 pageant held in Trinidad and Tobago in May 1999. Ms. Galanter expanded her work into music and singing, releasing Ukuyéyé, under Warner Music, in 2006. - Pomare IV
Pōmare IV, Queen of Tahiti, more properly Aimata Pōmare IV Vahine-o-Punuateraitua (otherwise known as Aimata {meaning: eye-eater, after an old custom of the ruler to eat the eye of the defeated foeor simply as Pōmare IV), was the queen of Tahiti between 1827 and 1877. She was the daughter of Pōmare II. She succeeded as ruler of Tahiti after the death of her brother Pōmare III when she was only 14 years old. - William Hodges
William Hodges (October 28, 1744, London - March 6, 1797) was an English painter. He was a member of James Cook's second voyage to the Pacific Ocean, and is best known for the sketches and paintings of locations he visited on that voyage, including Table Bay, Tahiti, Easter Island, and the Antarctic. Hodges was a student of William Shipley and Richard Wilson. During his early career, he made a living by painting theatrical scenery. - Matthew Flinders
Captain Matthew Flinders RN (16 March 1774 – 19 July 1814) was one of the most accomplished navigators and cartographers of his age. In a career that spanned just over twenty years, he sailed with Captain William Bligh, circumnavigated Australia and encouraged the use of that name for the continent, survived shipwreck and disaster only to be imprisoned as a spy, … - Sydney Parkinson
Sydney Parkinson ("c." 1745 - 26 January 1771) was a Scottish Quaker, botanical illustrator and natural history artist. Parkinson was employed by Joseph Banks to travel with him on James Cook's first voyage to the Pacific in 1768. Parkinson made nearly a thousand drawings of plants and animals collected by Banks and Daniel Solander on the voyage. He had to work in difficult conditions, living and working in a small cabin surrounded by hundreds of specimens. - Pomare II
Pōmare II, King of Tahiti, fully Tu Tunuieaiteatua Pomare II or in modern orthography Tū Tū-nui-ēa-i-te-atua Pōmare II (historically misspelled as Tu Tunuiea'aite-a-tua), was the second king of Tahiti between 1782 and 1821. He was installed by his father Pōmare I at Tarahoi, 13 February 1791. He ruled under regency from 1782 to 1803. Initially recognised as supreme sovereign and Arii-maro-ura by the ruler of Huahine, … - Mau Piailug
Pius Mau Piailug (born 1932) is a Micronesian navigator, one of the best-known living practitioners of the ancient art of navigation without the aid of instruments. - Fabrice Santoro
Fabrice Santoro (born December 9, 1972) is a French professional male tennis player. He was born in Tahiti, the largest island in the French Polynesia, located in the Pacific Ocean. He has been most successful in doubles; he has twice won the Australian Open (2003, 2004) doubles title partnering Michael Llodra and has been runner-up at the Australian Open (2002), at the French Open (2004) and at Wimbledon (2006). - Béatrice Vernaudon
Béatrice Vernaudon is a French politician born on 27 October 1953 in Papeete, Tahiti, French Polynesia. She was elected a deputy to the French National Assembly on 16 June 2002, becoming one of the Deputies of the 12th French National Assembly (2002-2007), in the second district of French Polynesia. She was part of the French political party UMP. - William Ellis
William Ellis (1794-1872) was an English missionary and author. Born in London of working class parents in straightened circumstances, he developed a love of plants in his youth and became a gardener, first in the East of England, then at a nursery north of London and eventually for a wealthy family in Stoke Newington. Being of a religious nature, he applied to train as Christian missionary for the London Missionary Society and was accepted. - Karina Lombard
Karina Lombard (born on January 21, 1964 in Tahiti) is an actress. Lombard's mother is from Tahiti. Lombard is a naturalized U.S. citizen, but when she was one, her father, who is of Russian, Italian and Swiss descent, took her to Barcelona, Spain. She later attended a number of Swiss boarding schools where she became fluent in Spanish, English, Italian, French, and German. She came to New York when she was 18 and began modeling and taking acting classes. - Paul Honiss
Paul Honiss (born 18 June, 1963) is a New Zealand international rugby union referee. He made his international referee debut in 1997 in a Rugby World Cup qualifier between Tahiti and the Cook Islands. He decided to first try refereeing in 1984. Honiss would subsequently be selected to officiate at the 1999 Rugby World Cup in Wales, and the 2003 Rugby World Cup in Australia. He was also selected as a referee for the 2007 Rugby World Cup in France. - Cheyenne Brando
Tarita Cheyenne Brando was the daughter of the multi-Oscar-winning American actor Marlon Brando by his third wife Tarita Teriipia, a Tahitian whom he met while filming "Mutiny on the Bounty" in 1962. Born in Tahiti in 1970, 11 years after her brother Christian Brando, Cheyenne was raised by her mother Tarita on the Pacific island of Tahiti, south of Papeete. She began to suffer from bouts of mental illness from the age of 16, when she also started using drugs, … - Conrad Martens
Conrad Martens (1801 - 21 August 1878) was an English born artist active in Australia from 1835. Conrad Martens' father was a merchant who came originally to London as Austrian Consul. Conrad decided he had no aptitude for a commercial career and, like his two brothers John William and Henry, studied landscape under the prominent watercolourist Copley Fielding. In 1832 he joined the ship Hyacinth as a topographic artist. - Peter Heywood
Captain Peter Heywood (1772- 1831) was a Manx naval officer and convicted mutineer best known for being part of the Mutiny on the Bounty. The voyage on the Bounty in 1787 was Heywood's first, and he served as a midshipman. He was close friends with Fletcher Christian, who would go on to lead the Bounty mutineers. Heywood himself was not considered as one of the ringleaders involved in the mutiny, and this was counted in his favour during his trial. - Jon Hall
Jon Hall (February 23, 1915 - December 13, 1979) was an American film actor. Born Charles Hall Locher in Fresno, California and raised in Tahiti by his father, the Swiss-born actor Felix Locher, he was a nephew of James Norman Hall, one of the authors of The Mutiny on the Bounty. Hall began acting in films in 1935 in minor roles. He achieved success in 1937 when cast opposite another relative newcomer, Dorothy Lamour in "The Hurricane", … - Matthew Quintal
Matthew Quintal (March 3, 1766 - 1799) was an able seaman and mutineer aboard the HMS Bounty. He was a strong, muscular Cornishman from Padstow, 5 feet 5 inches tall, with fair complexion, light brown hair, strong made, and heavily tattooed on his backside and elsewhere. His mother died when he was young, and he lived with an uncle for two years. After two years at Plymouth with his father, he shipped aboard the sloop-of-war, 'Nymphas' as servant to his uncle, a gunner. - Elsa Triolet
Elsa Yur'evna Triolet (September 12 (or September 24) 1896 - June 16 1970) was a French writer, a wife of Louis Aragon and a sister of Lilya Brik. Born Elsa Kagan into a Jewish family of a lawyer and a music teacher in Moscow, both sisters received excellent education and were able to speak fluent German and French and play the piano. Elsa graduated from Moscow Institute of Architecture. - Thursday October Christian
Thursday October Christian (October 14, 1790-April 21, 1831) was the first son of Fletcher Christian (leader of the mutiny on the "HMAV Bounty") and his Tahitian wife Maimiti. He was conceived on Tahiti, and was the first child born on Pitcairn after the mutineers took refuge on the island. Born on a Thursday in October, he was given his unusual name because Fletcher Christian wanted his son to have "no name that will remind me of England". - Ned Young
Edward Young (1766-1800), also known as Ned Young, was a British sailor and co-founder of the Pitcairn Island settlement. He was noted for his ability to sleep through important events. Young was born in St. Kitts. He apparently came from a poor family, but did attend school. He joined the crew of the HMS Bounty as a midshipman in 1787 when it sailed from England to Tahiti. - Célestine Hitiura Vaite
Célestine Hitiura Vaite is a Tahitian writer. The daughter of a Tahitian mother and French father, Vaite grew up in the town of Faaa(Faa'a) on the island of Tahiti, French Polynesia. In her youth, Vaite grew up immersed in traditional storytelling. Having won a scholarship to a leading girls’ school in Papeete (Pape'ete), she became interested in works by French authors like Balzac, Flaubert, Zola and Maupassant. - Jay Warren
Jay Calvin Warren (born July 29, 1956) is a Pitcairn politician, who was elected Mayor of the last remaining British dependency in Oceania in the general election held on 15 December 2004, defeating Brenda Christian, who had held the Mayoralty in an interim capacity following the dismissal from the post of her brother, Steve Christian, by the British authorities on 30 October 2004, following his rape convictions. - Conrad Hall
Conrad L. Hall (June 21, 1926 - January 4, 2003) was a top-billed Hollywood cinematographer and three-time Academy Award-winner. Born in Papeete, Tahiti, French Polynesia, he was the son of writer James Norman Hall and Sarah (Lala) Winchester Hall, who was part-Polynesian. Hall attended the University of Southern California intending to study journalism but drifted instead to the university's cinema school, from which he graduated in 1949. - Duncan Oughton
Duncan Oughton (born June 14, 1977 in Wellington, New Zealand) is a New Zealand footballer who plays for the Columbus Crew of Major League Soccer. Oughton played college soccer at Cal State Fullerton from 1997 to 2000. Before joining CS Fullerton, he played at Otago University in New Zealand. As a senior as CS Fullerton, he scored 17 goals and 8 assists. Upon graduating, Oughton was selected 10th overall in the 2001 MLS SuperDraft by the Columbus Crew. - Vaitiare Bandera
Vaitiare Bandera (born Vaitiare Eugenia Hirshon on August 15, 1964 in Tahiti, French Polynesia) is an actress based in the United States. - Pomare III
Pōmare III, King of Tahiti, more properly Terii-ta-ria Pōmare III, was the king of Tahiti between 1821 and 1827. He was the second son of Pōmare II. He was born at Papaoa, Arue, 25 June 1820 as Teri'i-ta-ria, and was baptised 10 September 1820. He succeeded to the throne on the death of his father 7 December 1821. He was crowned at Papaoa, Arue, 21 April 1824. Pomare III's education took place at the South Sea Academy, Papetoai, Moorea. - Edgar Leeteg
Edgar Leeteg (1904 St. Louis, Missouri - 1953) was an American painter often considered the father of American velvet painting. Before Leeteg, black velvet painting was primarily considered a hobby, not an art. - Eddie Solomon
Eddie Solomon is one of America's top pro bodyboarders. Born in Covina, California, Eddie Solomon moved to the beach at age 15 and by the time he was 17 he was in Hawaii bodyboarding waves at the Banzai Pipeline. He has excelled in big wave bodyboarding in Hawaii, Tahiti, Puerto Escondidio, South Africa and other exotic locations around the world. Eddie Solomon is sponsored by 662MOB.com Bodyboard Shop. - Henriette Winkler
Henriette Winkler (1931-2002) was, for nearly fifty years, Tahiti's best-known female singer. - Ella Koon
Ella Koon (Cantonese: "Gun Yan Na"), born July 9, 1979, in Tahiti, French Polynesia) and raised in Hong Kong, is a Hong Kong-based Chinese singer, actress and model. - Robert I. Levy
Robert I. Levy (b 1924, d. 29 August 2003, Asolo, Veneto, Italy) was an American psychiatrist and anthropologist known for his fieldwork in Tahiti and Nepal and on the cross-cultural study of emotions. Though he did not receive a formal degree in anthropology, he spent most of his adult life conducting anthropological fieldwork or teaching in departments of anthropology. In developing his approach to anthropology, he credited his cousin, the anthropologist Roy Rappaport, … - Peter Chanel
Pierre Chanel (1803-1841), Catholic priest, missionary and martyr. He was declared a saint and the first martyr of Oceania (the South Pacific). Pierre Louis Marie Chanel was born on July 12 1803 in Cuet, near Belley, France. His piety and intelligence attracted the attention of the local priest, and he was put into Church-sponsored education. He followed this with seminary training and was ordained priest in 1827. Among his first assignments was a run-down parish, …
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