Sir Patrick Wahanga Hohepa (1936 – 22 September 2023) was a New Zealand Māori language academic. In the 2022 Queen's Birthday and Platinum Jubilee Honours, he was appointed a Knight Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to Māori culture and education.
He co-authored the 1987 book The Pūriri trees are laughing: a political history of Ngā Puhi in the inland Bay of Islands. In 2025, this book was listed in Books of Mana as one of the 180 most significant works of Māori-authored non-fiction.
Hohepa was born in 1936, and died at his home in Waimā on 22 September 2023, at the age of 87.
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