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Isabella Abbott (1919–2010), educator, phycologist, and ethnobotanist; she was the first native Hawaiian woman to receive a PhD in science; Lilia Wahinemaikaʻi Hale (1913 – 2003), educator, musician, and prominent champion of ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi
Jason Brooks, actor, splits time between Hawaii and Los Angeles; Andy Bumatai, Hawaii-based comedian and actor; Ray Bumatai, Hawaii-based actor and producer, died in Honolulu; Redmond Burke, pediatric heart surgeon; John A. Burns, second Governor of Hawaii, 1962–1974, interred at National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu
Women in Hawai'i reside in the Hawaiian Island and are citizens of the United States. [1] Immigrants and Native Hawaiians make up the population of women in Hawai'i. Native Hawaiian women descended from Polynesians. [2] Immigrants women came from many countries that created a cultural exchange in the island. [2]
In 2001, at the age of 11, she won both the Hawaii State Women's Stroke Play Championship and the Jennie K. Wilson Women's Invitational. The Jennie K. Wilson Women's Invitations is the oldest and most prestigious women's amateur tournament in Hawaii. [18] She also advanced into match play at the Women's U.S. Amateur Public Links Championship.
Queen Lili'uokalani. Lydia Liliʻu Loloku Walania Wewehi Kamakaʻeha of the Kamehameha Dynasty was the last ruling monarch of the Kingdom of Hawaii.She was arrested and overthrown in a coup d'etat ...
By 1972, Stanford University promoted her directly to full professor of Biology, where she was the first woman and first person of color in this position. [7] In 1982 both Abbotts retired and moved back to Hawaii, where she was hired by the University of Hawaii to teach ethnobotany, the interaction of humans and plants. [3]
Keani Reiner (1952–1994) was a Hawaiian surfer and sailor. Keani Reiner and her crewmate Penny Rawlins were the first women to sail on a long-open ocean voyage aboard Hōkūleʻa on the return trip from Tahiti to Hawai'i in 1976. [1] [2] She was also a part of the first all-girl crew to complete the Na Holo Kai Sailing Canoe Race from Oahu to ...
Haunani-Kay Trask (October 3, 1949 – July 3, 2021) was a Native Hawaiian activist, educator, author, poet, and a leader of the Hawaiian sovereignty movement. She was professor emerita at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, where she founded and directed the Kamakakūokalani Center for Hawaiian Studies. A published author, Trask wrote ...