José Lopes da Silva (15 January 1872 – 2 September 1962) was a Cape Verdean professor, journalist and poet.
During the pre-Claridade generation which was before 1936, he was the three literary and cultural figures of Cape Verde, the others were Eugénio Tavares and Pedro Cardoso.
He died at the age of 90 in Mindelo on the island of São Vicente, at the time he was considered to be the first longest living writer in Cape Verde.
He belonged to a family of great literary figures of Cape Verde including António Aurélio Gonçalves and Baltasar Lopes da Silva.
His cousins included Orlanda Amarílis and Ivone Ramos, one of the first female Cape Verdean writers as well as Carlos Filipe Gonçalves, a journalist and a historian on music.