Augusts Voss (Russian: Август Эдуардович Восс; 30 October 1919, Saltykovo – 10 February 1994, Moscow) was a Soviet politician of Latvian origin and party functionary.

Before World War II he worked as a school teacher.

In 1940, he was mobilized into the Red Army and served as a politruk.

From 1966 till 1984, he was First Secretary (later: General Secretary) of the Communist Party of Latvia[1] and member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1971 till 1990.

[2] He did not return to Latvia and died in Moscow in 1994, where he is also buried.