Carlos José Pereira de Lucena (Recife, Brazil, September 30, 1943) is a Brazilian computer science researcher.

In the late 1970s, he was one of the founders, in Valparaíso, Chile of the Latin American Center for Informatics Studies (CLEI), which he chaired for two years.

In the late 1980s, at the request of the University of the United Nations, he helped create in China the International Institute for Software Engineering, headquartered in Macau.

Lucena was the first academic to adopt the term "informática" in Portuguese, adapting it from the French "informatique", as an altertative to "ciência da computação", derived from the English "computer science".

In Brazil, Lucena has received honors from the federal government twice: in the late 80s, president José Sarney awarded him the Álvaro Alberto Prize for Science and Technology.