Ratu Epeli Nailatikau I (1842 - 1901) was a Fijian Paramount Chief, who was posthumously made the Vunivalu of Bau. He was the eldest son of the first Tui Viti, Ratu Seru Epenisa Cakobau and his first wife, Adi , daughter of the Roko Tui Bau. He acted as his father's right-hand man in the Bauan struggles for power, and was subsequently made a governor of many of the Fijian states, (including being made the ) and a minister in various early portfolios. He was also a signatory to the 1874 to Great Britain (see Fiji's Cession to Great Britain).