Duarte Leite Pereira da Silva, GCC (11 August 1864 in Porto – 29 September 1950 in Porto; Portuguese pronunciation: [duˈaɾtɨ ˈlɐjtɨ]), was a Portuguese historian, mathematician, journalist, diplomat and politician.

As a historian, he published many studies, later compiled in "História dos Descobrimentos" (History of the Discoveries), in 2 volumes.

After the overthrow of the Portuguese monarchy in 1910, he was Minister of Finance during the first Augusto de Vasconcelos government (1911),[1] and succeeded him, as Prime Minister and Minister of Internal Affairs, from 16 June 1912 to 9 January 1913.

[4] Faithful all his life to his left-wing republican principles, he became a member of the 1945–48 Movement of Democratic Unity, which during its brief lifespan functioned as the first form of legalized opposition to Salazar's far-right Estado Novo (New State) regimen.

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