Pedro Lopes de Sousa (Bordonhos, Portugal, c. 1540 - Danture, present day Sri Lanka, 1594) was the 1st Governor of Portuguese Ceylon.

In addition, Pedro Lopes de Sousa had the main commander of the Lascarins executed, on suspicion of being in collusion with Vimaladharmasurya.

[4] Faced with a new reality in the correlation of military force, which had become highly unfavorable for the Portuguese, Lopes de Sousa decided that the only viable option would be to withdraw as quickly as possible from the capital of Kandy.

It ensured an independence that Kandy would be able to keep for more than two centuries – despite repeated attempts at annexation by Portugal, and later by the Netherlands and the British Empire – until the year 1815.

The Portuguese crown reacted to the defeat at Danture with the appointment of a new captain-general (D. Jerónimo de Azevedo) who arrived in Colombo, with military reinforcements, in December 1594.