Juarez do Nascimento Fernandes Távora (Jaguaribemirim, 14 January 1898 – Rio de Janeiro, 18 July 1975) was a Brazilian general and politician active during the Brazilian Revolution of 1930 that put an end to the oligarchic First Brazilian Republic by deposing the president Washington Luís and preventing his elected successor Júlio Prestes from taking office. The revolutionaries handed power over to Getúlio Vargas.