Francisco Paulo de Almeida, first and only Baron of Guaraciaba (10 January 1826 - 9 February 1901), was a Brazilian landowner and banker.

Later on he became a tropeiro and in 1860 he bought his first farm in Arraial de São Sebastião do Rio Bonito.

[3] Almeida concentrated his coffee business in Minas Gerais and Rio de Janeiro (in the Paraíba Valley).

[3] Historian Carlos Alberto Dias Ferreira, author of the book Barão de Guaraciaba, Francisco Paulo de Almeida: um negro no Brasil Império-Escravagista, states about the baron:[4] "It is not a contradiction that he was black and a slave owner, as he was aware of the period in which he lived and needed labour to run his farms.

[3] His children were: His sons were sent to France to study, with his death they returned to Brazil and some adopted Guaraciaba as a surname.