Kahurangi Taylor
Kahurangi Taylor is a New Zealand beauty pageant titleholder who represented New Zealand at Miss World 2008 in South Africa. She was one of the 25 semifinalists in the competition.
In 2015, Kahurangi won a NZD$100,000 Vodafone Foundation World of Difference Award, working alongside the outreach team at Te Ara Rangatu o te Iwi o Te Ata Waiohua to benefit the community of Waiuku. This follows two years of work as a youth health project co-ordinator at Manurewa Marae.
Kahurangi's iwi is Ngati Te Ata.