António de Almeida Santos GCC, GCIH, GCL (15 February 1926 – 18 January 2016) was a Portuguese lawyer, politician and government minister.

[1] Born in Seia, Portugal, António de Almeida Santos was a jurist who graduated as a licentiate in Law from the Faculty of Law of the University of Coimbra in 1950.

He was elected the 10th President of the Assembly of the Republic in the 7th and 8th Legislatures (31 October 1995 – 4 April 2002).

António de Almeida Santos was also a Member of the Portuguese Council of State from 1985 until his death, as the President of the Assembly of the Republic from 31 October 1995 to 4 April 2002, and from then on as a Member elected by the Assembly of the Republic.

[citation needed] In January 2016, aged 89, he died at his home in Oeiras after a brief illness.