Aureliano José Lessa (1828–1861) was a Brazilian poet, adept of the "Ultra-Romanticism" movement.

During his stay at São Paulo he met the authors Álvares de Azevedo and Bernardo Guimarães.

With them, he planned a volume of poetry called As Três Liras (in English: The Three Lyres), that ended unsuccessful.

Aureliano only wrote some texts to newspapers of São Paulo and Minas Gerais during his lifetime.

A heavy drinker, Lessa died on February 21, 1861, because of a lesion in his heart, caused by his alcoholism.