Ilaitia Bulidiri Tuisese (1946/1947 – 5 October 2024) was a Fijian rugby union player, business executive, politician, and Cabinet Minister.
He was a former captain of the Fiji national rugby union team and later served in Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase's Cabinet from 2000 to 2006.
[2] Tuisese first played for the Fijian national rugby union team in a match against Wales in Suva in 1969.
[3] He later went on to captain and coach the Fiji national rugby sevens team.
In the election held to restore democracy in September 2001, he won the Naitasiri Fijian Communal Constituency for the Soqosoqo Duavata ni Lewenivanua Party (SDL), and was subsequently appointed Minister for Agriculture, Sugar, and Land Resettlement.