| Honorific-Prefix: | General |
| Surapong Suwana-adth | |
| Native Name: | สุรพงษ์ สุวรรณอัตถ์ |
| Native Name Lang: | th |
| Honorific-Suffix: | MPCh MWM |
| Office: | Chiefs of Defence Forces |
| Term Start: | 1 October 2016 |
| Term End: | 30 September 2017 |
| Predecessor: | Sommai Kaotira |
| Successor: | Thanchaiyan Srisuwan |
| Birth Date: | 28 December 1956 |
| Birth Place: | Bangkok, Thailand |
| Allegiance: |  Thailand |
| Commands: | Chief of Joint Staff Chief of Defence Forces |
Surapong Suwana-adth (Thai: สุรพงษ์ สุวรรณอัตถ์; born 28 December 1956) is a Thai military officer who formerly served as Chief of Defence Forces.
Surapong attended the Armed Forces Academies Preparatory School as a pre-cadet as a prerequisite for attending Chulachomklao Royal Military Academy (CRMA).
Surapong obtained his Master of Military Art and Science (M.M.A.S.) from the United States Army Command and General Staff College (CGSC) in 1994;[1] Physics in University of Virginia (M.S.); Physics in Virginia Military Institute (B.S.); and once again attended CGSC in 2017.[2] [3]
Surapong's major positions included being the Army Attache at the Embassy of Thailand, Washington, D.C., Director of Joint Intelligence, and the Chief of Joint Staff at the Royal Thai Armed Forces Headquarters (RTARF) from 2015 to 2016; Chief of Defence Force at the RTARF from 2016 to 2017; Member of the National Legislative Assembly from 2014 to 2019; Chairman of TOT PCL from 2014 to 2019.[4]
On 1 October 2016, Surapong was appointed the 32nd Chief of Defense Forces. Through a variety of initiatives, such as bilateral drills like Exercise Kocha Singa and multilateral exercises like Exercise Cobra Gold, military-to-military relations of Singapore and Thailand have improved under his direction.[5] At the IPU-UN Regional Conference on 3 October 2019, as a senator and a representative of the Thai parliament, he discussed the legislative branch's duty to highlight the UN Countering Terrorist Travel Program and the need to assist the government, which is the administrative branch, in joining the program.[6]
On 11 July 2017 at the Lewis and Clark Center, he was admitted into the International Hall of Fame by the United States Army Command and General Staff College.[7] Prior to this, he was awarded the Eisenhower Fellowships in 1994.