Luiz Alberto Dias Menezes (5 October 1950 – 9 July 2014) was a Braziliangeologist, mineralogist and mineral dealer. He collected the material which was used in the discovery of the mineral menezesite, which was named in his honor. He was born in São Paulo.
Menezes died on 9 July 2014 in São Paulo, aged 63.[1]