J. W. H. Kauwahi

J. W. H. Kauwahi (1824–1870) was an early leader of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) in Hawaii beginning in 1851 and was a member of the legislature of the Kingdom of Hawaii. He was the author of the first published dictionary of Hawaiian.

Kauwahi was one of those converted and baptized into the LDS Church through the efforts of George Q. Cannon. Kauwahi was baptized on 17 August 1851 by William Farrer, one of the first ten LDS missionaries in Hawaii. At the time, Kauwahi lived on Maui and was a member of the legislature of the Kingdom of Hawaii, and had good relations with King Kamehameha III.

Kauwahi seems to have left the LDS Church by 1856, and, on 31 January 1857, a pamphlet co-authored with fellow apostate John Hyde Jr. was published in Hawaiian which was "slandering and vilifying the Church to the lowest grade," according to Mormon mission historians.