| Aurélio de Lira Tavares | |
| Office: | Member of the Brazilian Military Junta |
| Term Start: | 31 August 1969 |
| Term End: | 30 October 1969 |
| Alongside: | Augusto Rademaker, Márcio Melo |
| Predecessor: | Artur da Costa e Silva (as President) |
| Successor: | Emílio Garrastazu Médici (as President) |
| Office1: | Ambassador of Brazil to France |
| Nominator1: | Emílio Garrastazu Médici |
| Term Start1: | 22 July 1970 |
| Term End1: | 17 December 1974 |
| Predecessor1: | Olavo Billac Pinto |
| Successor1: | Antônio Delfim Netto |
| Office2: | Minister of the Army |
| President2: | Artur da Costa e Silva Military Junta (interim) |
| Term Start2: | 15 March 1967 |
| Term End2: | 30 October 1969 |
| Predecessor2: | Ademar de Queirós |
| Successor2: | Orlando Geisel |
| Office3: | Chief Minister of the Military Cabinet |
| President3: | João Goulart |
| Term Start3: | 12 June 1963 |
| Term End3: | 18 October 1963 |
| Predecessor3: | Albino Silva |
| Successor3: | Argemiro de Assis Brasil |
| Primeminister4: | Tancredo Neves |
| Term Start4: | 19 September 1961 |
| Term End4: | 12 July 1962 |
| Predecessor4: | Amaury Kruel |
| Successor4: | Amaury Kruel |
| Birth Name: | Aurélio de Lira Tavares |
| Birth Date: | 7 November 1905 |
| Birth Place: | João Pessoa, Paraíba, Brazil |
| Death Place: | Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
| Branch: |  Brazil Brazilian Army |
| Rank: | General |
Aurélio de Lira Tavares (7 November 1905m João Pessoa - 18 November 1998) was a general in the Brazilian Army. He was one of the military in the joint military board that ruled Brazil between the illness of Artur da Costa e Silva in August 1969 and the investiture ceremony of Emílio Garrastazu Médici in October of that same year.[1]
During the government of the junta, the American ambassador to Brazil Charles Burke Elbrick was kidnapped by the communist guerilla group Revolutionary Movement 8th October — radical opposition to the military dictatorship.[2]