Adolfo Ferreira Caminha (May 29, 1867 – January 1, 1897) was a Brazilian Naturalist novelist, famous for his polemical novel Bom-Crioulo, which deals with race and homosexuality.

In 1887 he was promoted to Second Lieutenant and published the short story books Judite and Lágrimas de um Crente (Tears of a Believer).

They had two daughters, and fled to Rio de Janeiro, where Caminha spent his life as a civil servant.

By 1891, Caminha was working on journals such as the Jornal do Commercio, Gazeta de Notícias and O País, using the pseudonym Félix Guanabarino.

In 1894, he published an account of his travel to the U.S.A., entitled No País dos Ianques (In the Country of the Yankees).