Dom Fernando de Almada, 2nd Count of Avranches (in Portugal the title became indigenated as Conde de Avranches) (c. 1430 – c. 29 April 1496) was a Portuguese nobleman.
He succeeded his father at the office of Captain Major of the Galleys by Letter of 28 February 1456.
He had the confirmation of the title in 1476 or 1477, being designated as "of our Council and Captain Major in all our Kingdoms".
The grace was again confirmed on 7 May 1478 by Dom João, Prince Heir and Regent (later Dom João II), with the settlement of 102,864 reais brancos (white reals).
He married in 1463 to Dona Constança de Noronha, "niece of the King" and Damsel of Princess Dona Joana (Saint Joana), daughter of Dom Rui Vaz Pereira and his wife Dona Beatriz de Noronha, bastard daughter of the 1st Count de Noroña and 1st Count of Gijón (a bastard son of King Henry II of Castile), maternal grand-aunt of Pope Paul IV, and had issue: Out of wedlock, he had two more children by an unknown mother: