Jaime Ovalle or Jayme Ovalle was a Brazilian composer and poet.
Ovalle was born in Belem, Brazil.
He was self-taught as a composer. As an officer of the Ministério da Fazenda, he resided mostly in New York and London. He was one of the "Second Nationalist Generation" of Brazilian composers along with Oscar Lorenzo Fernandez and Walter Burle-Marx.
He died in Rio de Janeiro.