Rochelle Tamarua

Rochelle Tamarua is a New Zealand rugby league referee. Born in Auckland, New Zealand, Tamarua is of Maori and Cook Island descent.

Tamarua took up officiating rugby league in 2012 and within three years was a member of the New Zealand Rugby League (NZRL) officials team for test matches between and . She was the first woman to referee in the Fox Premiership, the leading domestic rugby league competition of the Auckland Rugby League. On the pitch she continued to referee domestic games and in 2022 took charge of several games in the National Rugby League (NRL) Women's National Championship in Australia. In August 2022 she became the first New Zealander to referee a match in the NRL Women's Premiership (NRLW). Her first world cup appearance will be as a touch judge in the match between and on 18 October 2022.

After moving to Brisbane in 2023 to take up a post as officiating co-ordinator for the Queensland Rugby League, she became the first New Zealander to officiate in the Women’s State of Origin when she was one of the touch judges in the first match of the 2024 series.