Robert Maheu, an American businessman who was implicated in a plot to assassinate Fidel Castro
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Naama Maheu Latasi, first woman to be elected to the parliament of Tuvalu
Gama was born in 1830, to a Portuguese fidalgo who lost all his fortune with gambling, and Luísa Mahin (also spelled Maheu), a young woman from what is now the city of Elmina, in Ghana.