Frederick "Fred" Karlomuana Timakata (1936 – 21 March 1995[1]) was a Ni-Vanuatu politician who served as the president of Vanuatu from 1989 to 1994.
Timakata was born at Makatea Village on the island of Emae, in the Shepherd Group.
After serving as a parish pastor for several years, he became Assistant Assembly Clerk and later Assembly Clerk for the Presbyterian Church of New Hebrides.
[2] Timakata assisted in the founding of the New Hebrides National Party, and in 1973 became its Vice President.
He was elected as a member of the pre-independence Representative Assembly in 1979, and became its chair.