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Alama Ieremia (born 1970), a New Zealand rugby union coach; April Ieremia (born 1967), a New Zealand former netball player and TV host; Dean Ieremia (born 2001), a Samoan rugby union player
Ieremia Tienang Tabai GCMG AO (born 16 December 1949) is an I-Kiribati politician who served as the first president of Kiribati from 1979 to 1991. He previously served in the equivalent role, chief minister, under the colonial government from 1978 to 1979.
Ieremia played provincial rugby with Wellington between 1992 and 2000, which included a National Provincial Championship title in his final season with the club. He played Super Rugby with the Hurricanes from its inaugural season in 1996, with Alama having the distinction of scoring the first ever try in Super rugby, against Auckland Blues in Palmerston North - Auckland Blues went on to win ...
Opposition leader Ieremia Tabai won with 55.6% of the vote, following a voter turnout of 73.5%. The election for chief minister came after the parliamentary election of the same year and the new parliament's unanimous vote to replace the appointed chief minister with one that was popularly elected.
Jeremiah inspired the French noun jérémiade, and subsequently the English jeremiad, meaning "a lamentation; mournful complaint," [88] or further, "a cautionary or angry harangue." [ 89 ] Jeremiah has periodically been a popular first name in the United States , beginning with the early Puritan settlers, who often took the names of biblical ...
Ieremia Tabai was elected chief minister of the Gilbert Islands in 1978, [1] and he became the president of Kiribati upon the nation's independence the following year. [2]South Tarawa, the capital of Kiribati, had been subject to major strikes since 1974 that had a serious effect on the area's ability to function.
Ieremia in 2017, after his investiture as an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit by the governor-general, Dame Patsy Reddy Neil Ieremia ONZM is a New Zealand choreographer and entrepreneur. He is the founder, artistic director and chief executive of contemporary dance company, Black Grace.
April Ieremia was a New Zealand attacking player from Christchurch who represented Canterbury from 1983–1992. In 1985 she made the Young Internationals before being selected for New Zealand Under 21 in 1986 and then again in 1988 at the inaugural World Youth Cup.