Paulo Machado de Carvalho (9 November 1901 – 7 March 1992), was a Brazilian businessman, journalist and football chairman.
Graduated from Faculdade do Largo São Francisco, Paulo Machado de Carvalho assumed a prominent position in the 1932 Constitutionalist Revolution, where he was patron and founder of Rádio Sociedade Record, based near Praça da República.
Carvalho was the first businessman to organize a media conglomerate in Brazil, years before Roberto Marinho and Grupo Globo.
He was also the head of the Brazil national football team delegation in the 1958 and 1962 FIFA World Cups.
[2] responsible for making Brazil's blue away shirt official, chosen by him to be worn in the final against Sweden in 1958 because it represents the mantle of Our Lady of Aparecida, the country's patron saint.