Joaquim Manuel Rodrigues Lima (May 4, 1845 – December 18, 1903) was a Brazilian physician and politician who served in the Paraguayan War and was an attorney in the hometown and ruled the state of Bahia.

At the age of ten he went to study in Salvador and in 1862 he entered the Medical School of the capital of Bahia and, attending the 5th year, serves in the blood hospitals of the Paraguayan War, as a surgeon.

In 1891,when political parties are organized, he occupied the Municipal Intendency, being nominated for the State Constituent Assembly, where he proposed the change of the capital to Vitória da Conquista.

Rodrigues Lima also spread public works throughout the state, especially those to combat the effects of droughts (many of them existing to date), and by the internalization of quality education.

It also records that this was given as "a preito of longing and gratitude to the beneficent citizen who, by his civic and private virtues, left his name entirely linked to the history of Bahia, for his immaculate honor, for his greatness of mind and for his unfailing political loyalty".