Asdrubal Mendes Bentes (27 July 1939 – 27 April 2020) was a Brazilian politician and lawyer from the state of Pará.

Most recently, he served in the Chamber of Deputies for four consecutive terms from 1 February 2001, to 26 March 2014.

He was also a former president of the Paysandu Sport Club, a Brazilian football team based in Belém.

[1][2] Bentes was hospitalized in a Belém intensive care unit for COVID-19 during the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil on 23 April 2020.

[3] He died from complications of COVID-19 at the Hospital Aberlardo Santos in the Icoaraci district of Belém on April 27, 2020, at the age of 80.