Leiataualesa Vaiao Alailima

Leiataualesa Vaiao John Ala'ilima (29 November 1921 – 27 November 2016) was a Samoan politician and Cabinet Minister. He was the husband of writer Fay Calkins.

Leiataualesa was born in Gataivai, Samoa and educated at Lahainaluna High School in Hawaii. He served in the United States Marine Corps. He married writer Fay Calkins while studying in Washington. Their early life together is chronicled in her book, My Samoan Chief. In February 1964 he suspended the Government Printer, Frank Sprague, for regularly being found in the Apia Club during work hours. Sprague was subsequently dismissed during Leiataualesa's leave of absence, challenged his dismissal in court, and had it overturned. Later in 1964 he was instructed by Cabinet to implement a new policy to dismiss any public servant who had deliberately deceived a government department. The policy was intended to target harbourmaster Captain Harry Moors, who had been critical of government policy, but Leiataualesa pointed out that he had not been convicted of deceiving a government department, and instead dismissed eleven senior public servants, many of whom were allies of the government. Leiataualesa contract as Public Service Commissioner was not renewed, and he was replaced by Tufuga Samuelu Atoa in 1965. Leiataualesa subsequently moved to Hawaii, where he was a research fellow at the East–West Center. he served as Minister of Justice, Labour, Public Service, and Public Works before retiring from politics in 1996.

Following his retirement from politics Leiataualesa worked as a research fellow at the National University of Samoa in the Samoan Studies program. He published a book of oral histories and genealogies, O tatou Tupuaga: Our Ancestors.