Avatele has also produced its fair share of prominent Niueans past and present, including Niue's late inaugural Premier Sir Robert Rex, his late brother and long-serving Senior Advisor to Government Leslie Rex OBE, the late Rev. Ikiua Lupo first President of the Ekalesia Kerisiano Niue, the late Takelesi Lagaluga first Niuean Head of a Government Deapartment & his son Hon.
Takelesi Lagaluga is the son of Lagaluga and Tikatupe (née Hakeagaiki) of Anafonua & Liolau, Avatele.
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In his community of Avatele, he is remembered as a keen and avid planter, hunter and fisherman.
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(10 June 1924 - 30 March 2009) was a Niuean administrator, politician and respected elder from the village of Avatele.