Peter Aquino Aduja (19 October 1920 – 19 February 2007) was the first Filipino American elected to public office in the United States.

[5][9] Born in the Philippines, Aduja emigrated to Hawaii in his youth, and then served in the United States Army during World War II.

Aduja was born in Ilocos Sur in the Philippines and emigrated with his family at the age of eight to Hilo, Hawaii.

[11] He attended Hilo High, where he was the student body president[1] and an Eagle Scout,[12] graduating with the class of 1941 as salutatorian.

He taught on the island of Hawaii, at Naalehu Intermediate School, before attending Boston University, where he earned a law degree in 1951.

[18] Aduja departed the Hawaii House of Representatives in 1974,[10] and returned to the public sector in his final position as a member of the City of Honolulu's Kaneohe Neighborhood Board, which he was on from 1986 until 1994.