Emanuel Nunes Carvalho (1771, London, England – 1817, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US) was an American Jewish religious leader and lexicographer.
In 1799, Carvalho, whose merchant father had emigrated from Portugal to Amsterdam to Britain, was hired as hazzan for the Jewish community in Bridgetown, Barbados.
However, he and his wife, the former Sarah Moreira, found the climate bad for their health, so they sailed to New York in 1806, where he tried to support them by teaching oriental languages.
[2] In 1814, Nunes Carvalho was selected as the hazzan of Philadelphia's Congregation Mikveh Israel, where he served for three years until his death.
His great-nephew David Nunes Carvalho was an ink, paper and handwriting expert who helped prove the innocence of Alfred Dreyfus.