Damião Barbosa de Araújo (27 September 1778 – 20 April 1856) was a Brazilian composer.

Araújo was the son of a shoemaker and worked for the Brotherhood of Santa Cecilia from 1819.

He joined the orchestra of the Imperial Chapel in Rio de Janeiro as a violinist in 1822.

In this period he met the organist and composer Marcos Portugal (1762-1830) and José Maurício Nunes Garcia (1767-1830).

Araújo composed a work for full orchestra for the reopening and dedication mass of the Church of the Third Order of Saint Francis; it was performed on July 5, 1835.