Tawata "George" Tiloio (Gilbertese: tə'wataː tʕe'loːjo); born c. 1839 — 6 November 1944) was chief of Norauea village on the island of Marakei, Kiribati.He accepted Congregational missionaries into his community in the 1870s who converted the people of Norauea to the church.Tiloio is famous in Kiribati for the Rawata Pass incident of 1912 where, after conflict with neighbouring Bwainuna village about dowry for a marriage, Tiloio organised his village to obstruct the Rawata Pass with canoes.
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