Cletus Maanu Paul ONZM JP (18 November 1938 – 15 September 2022) was a New Zealand Māori leader.

[3] Paul stood as a parliamentary candidate in Eastern Maori representing the Social Credit Political League at three successive elections in the 1960s, finishing in third place on each occasion.

[5] In 2012, Paul was involved in a legal challenge of the Fifth National Government's programme of partial privatisation of state-owned assets.

[7] Paul also highlighted the danger that falling carbon credits in the New Zealand Emissions Trading Scheme pose to Māori commercial ventures.

[8] In the 2019 Queen's Birthday Honours, Paul was appointed an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to Māori.