Brigadier General Filomeno da Paixão de Jesus (born 27 March 1953) is an East Timorese politician and former senior officer in the Timor Leste Defence Force (F-FDTL).

In November 1975, Fretilin unilaterally declared the independence of Portuguese Timor, and its Central Committee appointed Filomeno as Vice Secretary of Justice, assisting Justino Mota.

Between September and November 1976, he was Secretary of the then Liquiçá District, and from January to October 1977, Political Assistant in the Northern Frontier Sector (Portuguese: Fronteira Norte).

[3] On 1 February 2001, according to a process that had begun in 1999, FALANTIL was transformed into the Defence Force of the soon-to-be independent Democratic Republic of East Timor, under the supervision of the United Nations.

The Joint Command was established to go after and capture Gastão Salsinha, the key living person suspected of committing the unsuccessful 11 February 2008 attacks on the President and Prime Minister of East Timor.

However, such an appointment would have been at odds with the view of the Council of Ministers of the VI Constitutional Government, which had proposed on 12 October 2015 that Timur's mandate be renewed.

[9] In June 2018, Filomeno was nominated as Minister of Defense of the VIII Constitutional Government of East Timor that was being formed by Taur Matan Ruak, and resigned as Deputy Chief of the F-FDTL.

[14][15] He remained in that office notwithstanding the breakdown of the Alliance for Change and Progress (AMP) coalition during the first few months of 2020, and the consequent restructuring of the government in mid-2020.