Quintino Antônio Ferreira de Sousa Bocaiuva (4 December 1836 – 11 July 1912) was a Brazilian politician and writer.

He served as the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Brazil between 1889 and 1891.

[1][2] Bocaiuva was born in Itaguaí and then moved to São Paulo, where he started working as a typographer.

As a Nativist, he adopted the name "Bocaiuva", in reference to a local kind of palm tree.

He started his career as a journalist, defending Republican ideas in some newspapers of Rio de Janeiro.