Marika Latianara

Ratu Marika Vukinamualevu Ratoto Latianara (13 March 1913 – 20 August 1983) was a Fijian chief and Senator.

Latianara was born in Sorokoba on Viti Levu in 1913, the son of Adi Luisa Matai and Ratu Kaliova Vukinamualevu, the Roko Tui of Ba.

[1] He then became a sugarcane farmer and was a member of the Fijian Sugar Council.

[1][2] In 1959 he was appointed Tui Ba, succeeding his elder brother Filimone, who had died a year earlier, and also became a member of Ba Provincial Council.

[1] In 1979 he was appointed to the Senate by the Great Council of Chiefs.