Manuel Lopes (c. 1812 – December 23, 1895) was Seattle's first black resident whose identity is known, as well as its first barber.
Additionally, as a propertied individual, he ran a restaurant on Commercial Street (later First Ave South) in the same building where he lived and plied his barber trade.
Lopes was a musician and known to signal mealtimes by marching up and down Seattle's main thoroughfare, beating out a rhythm on a snare drum.
In the early 1870s, Lopes ultimately moved to Port Gamble, Washington, in search of work as a result of one of many economic downturns that struck Seattle.
Lopes died at Providence Hospital, Seattle, Washington on December 23, 1895, after a long illness.