| Barbosinha | |
| Honorific-Prefix: | His Excellency |
| Office: | Vice-Governor of Mato Grosso do Sul |
| Governor: | Eduardo Riedel |
| Term Start: | 1 January 2023 |
| Succeeding: | Murilo Zauith |
| Office1: | State Deputy of Mato Grosso do Sul |
| Term Start1: | 1 February 2015 |
| Term End1: | 1 February 2023 |
| Constituency1: | At-large |
| Office2: | 21st Secretary of State for Justice and Public Security of Mato Grosso do Sul |
| Governor2: | Reinaldo Azambuja |
| Term Start2: | 1 April 2016 |
| Term End2: | 9 December 2017 |
| Predecessor2: | Silvio Maluf |
| Successor2: | Antônio Carlos Videira |
| Party: | Progressistas |
| Birth Name: | José Carlos Barbosa |
| Birth Date: | 26 October 1964 |
| Birth Place: | São Simão, São Paulo, Brazil |
| Education: | University of Brasília |
José Carlos Barbosa (born October 26, 1964), professionally known as Barbosinha, is a Brazilian politician and lawyer who is the 11th and current Vice-Governor of Mato Grosso do Sul in the government of Eduardo Riedel. Member of the Progressives Party, she previously served as State Deputy for Mato Grosso do Sul between 2015 and 2023 and 21st Secretary of State for Justice and Public Security of Mato Grosso do Sul from 2016 to 2017 in the government of Reinaldo Azambuja.
At the age of 13, Barbosa was the first official hired by the then-new municipal government in Angélica. Barbosa then moved to Dourados, where he worked as a banker and studied law at the .
In 1989, at the age of 23, he became mayor of Angélica,[1] After his term, he returned to Dourados and worked as a lawyer, banker, and university professor.
Barbosa was named to head the (Mato Grosso Sanitation Company) in 2007;[2] in 2012, he was elected president of the Brazilian Association of State Sanitation Companies, the first from Mato Grosso do Sul. In 2014, he was elected state deputy in Mato Grosso do Sul; he took leave from the legislature in 2016 when he was named secretary of the state Secretariat of Justice and Public Security, serving in the position for 20 months.[3] In 2019, he was reelected as state deputy.[4]
In 1993, he married Maristela de Castro Menezes, a doctor. The two have a son, José Pedro Menezes Barbosa.