| Fernando Buesa | |
| Birth Date: | 29 May 1946 |
| Birth Name: | Fernando Buesa Blanco |
| Birth Place: | Bilbao, Spain |
| Death Place: | Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain |
| Death Cause: | Assassination |
| Office1: | Vice Lehendakari for Social Affairs |
| Term Start1: | 4 October 1991 |
| Term End1: | 4 January 1995 |
| Successor1: | Post abolished |
| 2Blankname1: | Lehendakari |
| 2Namedata1: | José Antonio Ardanza |
| Office2: | Head of the Department of Education, Universities and Research |
| Term Start2: | 4 October 1991 |
| Term End2: | 4 January 1995 |
| Successor2: | Inaxio Oliveri |
| 2Blankname2: | Lehendakari |
| 2Namedata2: | José Antonio Ardanza |
| Office3: | Deputy General of Álava |
| Term Start3: | 17 July 1987 |
| Term End3: | 17 July 1991 |
| Predecessor3: | Juan María Ollora |
| Successor3: | Alberto Ansola |
| Office4: | Member of the Basque Parliament[1] |
| Constituency4: | Álava |
| Term Start4: | 22 March 1984 |
| Term End4: | 22 February 2000 |
| Office5: | Member of the General Assembly of Álava[2] |
| Constituency5: | Vitoria-Gasteiz |
| Term Start5: | 24 May 1983 |
| Term End5: | 22 February 2000 |
Fernando Buesa Blanco (29 May 1946 – 22 February 2000) was a Spanish politician[3] in the Basque Christian Democracy and in the Socialist Party of the Basque Country–Basque Country Left (PSE-EE) branch of the social democratic Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE). He was assassinated by ETA.[4]
Born in 1946 in Bilbao, Spain, Buesa studied law in Madrid and Barcelona and practiced from 1970 to 1986 in Vitoria-Gasteiz. He served in the Vitoria-Gasteiz city council from 1983 to 1997, in the Basque Parliament from 1984 to 2000 and as Deputy General of Álava from 1987 to 1991. Buesa was also vice lehendakari (president of the Basque government) and minister of Education in a coalition PSE-Basque Nationalist Party Basque government from 1991 to 1994.
From this position, he steered the process that moved the Basque-language schools (ikastolak) into either the Basque public education network or the Basque chartered private education sector.[5]
Fernando Buesa was married and had three children.[6]
On February 22, 2000, Buesa was killed by the separatist group ETA while he was walking through the university campus in Vitoria-Gasteiz. The car bombing also killed his bodyguard, the ertzaina (member of the Basque police) Jorge Díez Elorza.[7]
At the time of his death, Buesa was the leader of the PSE-EE in Álava and the PSE-EE spokesman in the Basque Parliament.
His assassination inspired a well received documentary by the Basque filmmaker titled .[8]
The home arena of the Vitoria-Gasteiz Baskonia basketball team, formerly known as Araba Arena, was renamed Fernando Buesa Arena after his death.[9]