Bento de Jesus Caraça, GCSE, GOL (18 April 1901 – 25 June 1948) was an influential Portuguese mathematician, economist and statistician.

[2] For his role in the resistance against the Estado Novo regime led by António Oliveira Salazar, Caraça was arrested and lost his professorship at the ISCEF [pt].

[1] He enrolled at the Higher Institute of Commerce [pt] (Portuguese: Instituto Superior de Comércio, later known as the ISCEF and ISEG) the same year.

[1] Caraça was one of the founders of the Portuguese Mathematical Society in 1940,[1] and from 1945–1945 served as joint president alongside Aureliano de Mira Fernandes [pt].

[4] Caraça founded the journal Gazeta de Matemática [pt] in 1940 with mathematicians António Aniceto Monteiro, Hugo Ribeiro, José da Silva Paulo and Manuel Zaluar Nunes.