Beatriz Bandeira (November 8, 1909 – January 2, 2012) was a Brazilian communist, human rights activist, poet and writer, who spent two periods in exile from Brazil in the 1930s and 1960s.

From 1949 to 1957 she was involved with the Federação de Mulheres do Brasil (Women's Federation of Brazil), an organization promoted by the Communist Party.

She worked as a professor of vocal technique at the National Theatre Conservatory in Rio de Janeiro, but in 1964, after the coup that established the military dictatorship, she was fired.

She asked for political asylum from Yugoslavia, spending three months at the Yugoslav Embassy in Rio de Janeiro, before travelling to the country, together with her husband and other opponents of the regime.

Later, the two moved to France where her husband worked for French TV and Bandeira covered fashion shows for a Brazilian news agency.