Herea Te Heuheu Tūkino I

Herea or Hereara (c. 1750–1820), later known as Te Rangi-māheuheu and Te Heuheu Tūkino I, was a Māori rangatira of the Ngāti Tūrū-makina, Ngāti Parekāwa, and Ngāti Te Koherā hapū and paramount chief of the Ngāti Tūwharetoa iwi of the region around Lake Taupō, New Zealand, in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century.

Herea succeeded his father as head of Ngāti Tūrū-makina in the late eighteenth century. He led a force during the Tūhoe–Ngāti Tūwharetoa War. Afterwards, he was one of the candidates to succeed as paramount chief after the death of Te Rangi-tua-mātotoru. Initially, a distant cousin, Te Wakaiti, was the preferred candidate, but he outraged the senior chiefs of Ngāti Tūwharetoa with his arrogant treatment of them and they encouraged Herea to take the position instead, favouring him because of his connections with Ngāti Maniapoto of Waikato. After training in the Rangitoto Ranges, he became a master of the pouwhenua and used his newfound skill to defeat the hapū of Ngāti Te Rangiita and then to take the paramount chieftainship by defeating Te Wakaiti in single combat.

As paramount chief he based himself at Waitahanui pa on the Tongariro River delta, where he slowly built up his prestige and authority. He died around 1820 and, after a brief pause, his son Mananui Te Heuheu Tūkino II succeeded him as paramount chief. His descendants, the Te Heuheu family, continue to hold the paramount chieftainship of Ngāti Tūwharetoa today.