Notable People
- Hotu Matuʻa—island founder
- King Nga'ara—One of the last ‘ariki
- Kings of Easter Island
- Thor Heyerdahl—ethnographer
- Fr Sebastian Englert, OFM Cap.—missionary and ethnologist
- William Mulloy—archaeologist
- Pedro Pablo Edmunds Paoa—former Governor
- Melania Carolina Hotu Hey—former Governor (2006–2010)
- Juan Edmunds Rapahango—former Mayor
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