António Adriano Faria Lopes dos Santos (28 December 1919 – 11 May 2009) was a Portuguese army general and colonial administrator.
[1] He held top military posts both before and after the 1974 Carnation Revolution.
[1] He was appointed the Senior Assistant to the Portuguese Guinea Commander in Chief under Governor António de Spínola from 1968 until 1970.
Lopes dos Santos last official appointment was as the director of the Portuguese National Defense Institute.
[3] He remained involved in relations between Macau and Portugal, and was the president of the Jorge Álvares Foundation from 2000 until his death in 2009.