Adrianus Antonius van Nijnatten (9 February 1880 – 15 August 1948) was a Dutch military officer who served in World War II.

In 1899 he entered as a cadet at the Royal Military Academy in Breda, where he was sworn in around 1904 as a 2nd lieutenant and was stationed in Doesburg.

[3] During the Dutch mobilization following the outbreak of World War II, he operated out of the headquarters in Vught.

During the German invasion of the Netherlands in May 1940 he commanded the Third Army Corps in the south and oversaw their retreat behind the water lines.

He was promoted to lieutenant general and began organizing a new Royal Netherlands East Indies Army.