Ranginui Parewahawaha Leonard (23 September 1872 – 29 December 1984) was a New Zealand weaver, farmer and kuia (respected elder).
At the time of her death in 1984, age 112, she was the oldest woman in New Zealand, and one of the last people living who remembered the 1886 eruption of Mount Tarawera.
[1] She was the only child of Ngāti Raukawa parents,[2] and married her husband in 1894 through an arranged marriage.
[1] She was a weaver and continued weaving late in life; her daughter Rangimahora Reihana-Mete, grandson Karl Leonard and great-granddaughter Pip Devonshire are all noted weavers.
[5][6] Another of her grandchildren, Te Ururoa Flavell, is a member of the New Zealand parliament.