| José Pinheiro de Azevedo | |
| Office: | Prime Minister of Portugal |
| Term Start: | 19 September 1975 |
| Term End: | 23 July 1976 |
| President: | Francisco da Costa Gomes |
| Predecessor: | Vasco Gonçalves |
| Successor: | Mário Soares |
| Office1: | Minister of National Defence |
| Term Start1: | 19 September 1975 |
| Term End1: | 23 July 1976 |
| Primeminister1: | Himself |
| Predecessor1: | Silvano Ribeiro |
| Successor1: | Mário Firmino Miguel |
| Office2: | Chief of the Navy General Staff |
| Term Start2: | 26 April 1974 |
| Term End2: | 28 November 1975 |
| Predecessor2: | Armando Júlio de Roboredo e Silva |
| Successor2: | António Egídio de Sousa Leitão |
| Birth Date: | 1917 6, df=yes |
| Birth Place: | Luanda, Portuguese Angola |
| Death Place: | Lisbon, Portugal |
| Party: | Independent (before 1976) Christian Democratic (from 1976) |
| Occupation: | Naval officer |
| Alma Mater: | Portuguese Navy School |
| Allegiance: |  Portugal |
| Serviceyears: | 1937–1976 |
| Rank: | Admiral |
José Baptista Pinheiro de Azevedo (pronounced as /pt/; 5 June 1917 – 10 August 1983) was a Portuguese political figure, reformer and revolutionary. He helped overthrow Marcelo Caetano in 1974. He served as the 104th Prime Minister of Portugal between 19 September 1975 and 23 June 1976. He ran for president in 1976, and lost.
Pinheiro de Azevedo was born on 5 June 1917 in Luanda, but moved to Portugal several years later. In the 1960s, he joined the Movement for Democratic Unity and was a supporter of the Presidential candidacies of José Norton de Matos, Manuel Quintão Meireles and Humberto Delgado.
Pinheiro de Azevedo served in the Portuguese Colonial War, as an admiral in charge of the maritime defense of Portuguese Angola.
After the Revolution of 25 April 1974, he was appointed to the National Salvation Junta, and was committed to the cause of democratization in Portugal.
On 29 August 1975 he became Prime Minister of the Sixth Provisional Government replacing ousted Prime Minister Vasco Gonçalves.
At the end of his tenure as Prime Minister, he was replaced for the final 30 days by Vasco Almeida e Costa, Minister of Internal Administration. Pinheiro had suffered a heart attack on 23 June while campaigning in Oporto[1] for the Portuguese presidency as one of the independent candidates in the 27 June presidential election. He was taken to a hospital and was still recovering when President António Ramalho Eanes appointed Mario Soares as the new premier.
See main article: 1976 Portuguese presidential election. |-! colspan="2" |Candidate! Votes! align="center" style="width: 50px"|%|-| style="background:;"|| align=left |António Ramalho Eanes || 2,967,137 || 61.6|-| style="background:#810000;"|| align=left |Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho || 792,760 || 16.5|-| style="background:;"|| align=left |José Pinheiro de Azevedo || 692,147 || 14.4|-| style="background:;"|| align=left |Octávio Pato || 365,586 || 7.6|-| colspan="2" align="left"| Blank/Invalid ballots | 63,495 || – |- style="background-color:#E9E9E9"| colspan="2" align="left"| Turnout| 4,881,125 || 75.47|-| colspan="4" align=left|Source: Comissão Nacional de Eleições[2] |}