Eduardo Malapit, American lawyer and politician, Mayor of Kauai (died 2007)

Eduardo Enabore Malapit was an American Democratic politician who served as Mayor of Kauai, Hawaii. Elected for four consecutive two-year terms as mayor of Kauai beginning in 1974, he was the first Filipino American mayor of any United States municipality. He was widely respected in Kauai and throughout Hawaii for his belief in community service, and was known as "Mala" by friends and constituents.

The mayor of Kauaʻi is the chief executive officer of the County of Kauaʻi in the state of Hawaiʻi. The mayor has municipal jurisdiction over the islands of Kauaʻi and Ni’ihau. Derek Kawakami was elected on November 6, 2018, as the mayor of Kauaʻi over JoAnn A. Yukimura, who was Kauaʻi's mayor from 1988 to 1992, with 15,857 votes out of 40,323 registered voters in the County of Kauaʻi. The Mayor of Kauaʻi is the successor of the Royal Governors of Kauaʻi of the Kingdom of Hawaii.