Sam Nunuke Pera (born 4 April 1969 in Rarotonga) is a retired Cook Islands weightlifter.

[1] He represented the Cook Islands in three editions of the Olympic Games (1992, 1996, and 2004), and has been named the nation's sportsman of the year five times.

[5] Following his mediocre performances in weightlifting, he was forced to retire immediately from the sport in the same year.

[6] Pera returned from a long absence to compete at the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester, where he finished fifth in the same division with a total haul of 277 kg.

[7] At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Pera qualified for his third Cook Islands squad, as a 35-year-old, in the men's heavyweight class (105 kg) by receiving a continental berth from the Oceanian Weightlifting Championships.