Inácio de Azevedo was a 16th-century Portuguese Jesuit priest and missionary. Born into a noble family in Porto, he renounced his significant inheritance to join the Society of Jesus in 1548. After serving in various leadership roles within Jesuit colleges in Lisbon, Coimbra, and Braga, he was appointed to inspect missions in Brazil. While traveling to the colony in 1570, he and thirty-nine companions were killed by French Huguenot corsairs near the Canary Islands. He is recognized as one of the Forty Martyrs of Brazil.