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Hawaiian swimmer, surfer and actor

Duke Paoa Kahinu Mokoe Hulikohola Kahanamoku (August 24, – January 22, ) was a Hawaiian competition swimmer who popularized the sport of surfing. A Native Hawaiian, he was born three years before the overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom.

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He lived to see the territory's admission as a state and became a United States citizen. He was a five-time Olympic medalist in swimming, winning medals in , and ^[3]

Kahanamoku joined fraternal organizations: he was a Scottish Rite Freemason in the Honolulu lodge,^[4] and a Shriner. He worked as a law enforcement officer, an actor, a beach volleyball player, and a businessman.^[5]

Family background

According to Kahanamoku, he was born in Honolulu at Haleʻākala, the home of Bernice Pauahi Bishop, which was later converted into the Arlington Hotel.^[6]

He was born into a family of Native Hawaiians headed by Duke Halapu Kahanamoku and Julia Paʻakonia Lono Duke Kahanamoku – Wikipédia, a enciclopédia livre RYP