Manfredo Perdigão do Carmo (15 August 1928, Maceió – 30 April 2018, Rio de Janeiro) was a Brazilian mathematician.

After working a few years as engineer, he accepted a teaching position at the newly created Institute of Physics and Mathematics at Recife.

[2] On suggestion of Elon Lima, in 1959 he went to Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada to improve his background[2][3] and in 1960 he moved to the US to pursue a Ph.D. in mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley under the supervision of Shiing-Shen Chern.

[19] Among his awards, he received the Prêmio Almirante Álavaro Alberto from the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development in 1984,[20] the TWAS Prize in Mathematics in 1992,[18][21] the National Order of Scientific Merit in 1995[22] and the Comenda Graciliano Ramos from the municipality of Maceió in 2000.

[45][2] He supervised 27 PhD students, including Celso Costa, Marcos Dajczer and Keti Tenenblat.