| Honorific-Prefix: | His Excellency |
| Brochado da Rocha | |
| Office: | Prime Minister of Brazil |
| Term Start: | 12 July 1962 |
| Term End: | 18 September 1962 |
| President: | João Goulart |
| Predecessor: | Tancredo Neves |
| Successor: | Hermes Lima |
| Office1: | General Consultant of the Republic |
| Term Start1: | 23 November 1955 |
| Term End1: | 30 January 1956 |
| President1: | Nereu Ramos |
| Predecessor1: | Temístocles Cavalcanti |
| Successor1: | Gonçalves de Oliveira |
| Office2: | Member of the Legislative Assembly of Rio Grande do Sul |
| Term Start2: | 10 March 1947 |
| Term End2: | 31 January 1951 |
| Constituency2: | At-large |
| Birth Date: | 8 August 1910 |
| Birth Place: | Porto Alegre,, Brazil |
| Death Place: | Porto Alegre,, Brazil |
| Party: | PSD (1946–1962) |
| Spouse: | Jurema Caruso |
| Alma Mater: | Faculty of Law of Porto Alegre (LL.B) |
| Signature: | F Brocardo Rocha signed.png |
Francisco de Paula Brochado da Rocha (pronounced as /pt/; 8 August 1910 – 26 September 1962) was a Brazilian counsel, professor and politician.
He was the son of the former mayor Porto Alegre, Otavio Rocha and Rocha Inácia, brother Antonio da Rocha and José Diogo da Rocha. While still a student, participated in the Revolution of 1930, when he was wounded during the assault on the headquarters of the Third Army, Rua da Praia, in Porto Alegre, on October 3. Due to injury, he lost a leg and started using a mechanical prosthesis.
In 1932, he graduated from the Law School of Porto Alegre, which now belongs to the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, where he was later Professor of Constitutional Law.
It was the city attorney of Porto Alegre, state deputy elected by the PSD for the 38th Legislature of the Legislative Assembly of Rio Grande do Sul, from 1947 to 1951.[1]
He was proprietor of the state departments of Education and Culture, and the Interior and Justice, during the government of Leonel Brizola in Rio Grande do Sul participated actively in the Legality Campaign in 1961, making the connection between the government and Brizola nationalist sectors of the Third Army that would support the movement that secured the possession of João Goulart, after the resignation of Jânio Quadros.
At the federal level, was a consultant of the Republic, a member of the Federal Council of Education, Minister of Finance and Chairman of the Council of Ministers (July 12, 1962 to September 18, 1962) during the brief parliamentary regime that followed the inauguration of João Goulart. As chairman, he worked for short parliamentary experience now seen as virtually doomed. He died eight days after leaving office.