Belarmino Tomás Álvarez (29 April 1892[1] – 14 September 1950[2]) was a socialist politician.
A secretary of the Sindicato Minero Asturiano (the local coal miners' branch of the Unión General de Trabajadores, UGT), and a delegate to the International Miners' Federation.
[3] When the Spanish Civil War erupted, Belarmino Tomás led the miners' militias attacking Oviedo (held by Antonio Aranda's forces).
He was voted President of the Consejo Soberano de Asturias y León upon its creation on August 24, 1937.
In Gijón on October 20, the day the city was taken by Galician rebel forces, Tomás left for the Republican zone and begun Comisario General del Aire (general comisaire of the airforce), exiling himself when the Popular Front was defeated in early 1939.