58 Notable alumni of
Federal University of Minas Gerais
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The Federal University of Minas Gerais is 704th in the world, 22nd in Latin America, and 5th in Brazil by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 58 notable alumni from the Federal University of Minas Gerais sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Juscelino Kubitschek
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- physicianpolitician
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Juscelino Kubitschek de Oliveira, also known by his initials JK, was a prominent Brazilian politician who served as the 21st president of Brazil from 1956 to 1961. His term was marked by economic prosperity and political stability, being most known for the construction of a new capital, Brasília.
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Tancredo Neves
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- politicianentrepreneurlawyer
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Tancredo de Almeida Neves was a Brazilian politician, lawyer, and entrepreneur. He served as Minister of Justice and Internal Affairs from 1953 to 1954, President of the Council of Ministers from 1961 to 1962, Minister of Finance in 1962, and as Governor of Minas Gerais from 1983 to 1984. He was elected President of the Republic in 1985, but died before taking office.
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Carlos Drummond de Andrade
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- children's writerwriterscreenwriterpoetjournalist
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Carlos Drummond de Andrade was a Brazilian poet and writer, considered by some as the greatest Brazilian poet of all time.
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João Guimarães Rosa
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- prose writerwriterphysician writerphysicianEsperantist
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João Guimarães Rosa was a Brazilian novelist, short story writer, poet and diplomat.
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Tostão
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- physicianjournalistassociation football player
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Eduardo Gonçalves de Andrade, generally known as Tostão, is a Brazilian former professional footballer who played as a forward or attacking midfielder.
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Paulo Roberto Nunes Guedes
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- university teacherinternational forum participanteconomist
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Paulo Roberto Nunes Guedes is a Brazilian economist and co-founder of the investment bank BTG Pactual. He is also a co-founder of the think-tank Instituto Millenium, and was the economic advisor for the campaign of President Jair Bolsonaro. Guedes served as the Minister of Economics of Brazil through the entirety of the Bolsonaro presidency, from 1 January 2019 to 1 January 2023.
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Ziraldo Alves Pinto
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- cartoonistcomics artist
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Ziraldo Alves Pinto, known mononymously as Ziraldo, is a Brazilian author, painter, comic creator, and journalist. His books have sold about ten million copies, have been translated to many foreign languages and adapted to the theater and cinema. His children's books, such as the popular O Menino Maluquinho, have also been the basis of successful films and television series in Brazil.
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Rodrigo Janot
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- international forum participantlawyer
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Rodrigo Janot Monteiro de Barros is a Brazilian jurist who served as the Prosecutor General of the Republic from 2013 to 2017.
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Artur Bernardes
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- politicianlawyer
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Artur da Silva Bernardes was a Brazilian politician who served as 12th president of Brazil during the First Brazilian Republic. Born in Viçosa, Minas Gerais, he was elected Governor of Minas Gerais in 1918. In 1922, he was elected President of Brazil and served until 1926. Facing a military rebellion, Bernardes ruled under a state of siege during most of the course of his term.
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Ana Paula Valadão
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- singer-songwritercomposerpastortelevision presentermissionary
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Ana Paula Machado Valadão Bessa is a Brazilian Christian worship leader, singer-songwriter and pastor. She is the leader of the contemporary praise band Diante do Trono, which has sold more than 15 million worship albums globally and has led worship gatherings of as many as two million people in attendance. She has led millions in worship throughout the world and believes that worship is a major instrument for the restoration of a nation.
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Herbert de Souza
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- HIV/AIDS activistsociologist
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Herbert Jose "Betinho" de Souza was a sociologist and activist against economic injustice and government corruption in Brazil and founder of the Brazilian Institute of Social Analysis and Economics (IBASE). In 1963, he became chief of staff in the Ministry of Education, but exiled himself after the military took power in the 1964 Brazilian coup d'état.
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Fernando Sabino
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- novelistjournalistwriter
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Fernando Tavares Sabino was a Brazilian writer and journalist.
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Samuel Rosa
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- guitaristsinger
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Samuel Rosa de Alvarenga is the former lead singer, primary composer and guitarist of Brazilian rock band Skank. He has a psychology degree from Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais.
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Jonas Bloch
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- writertelevision actordirectorfilm actoractor
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Jonas Bloch is a Brazilian actor. Most known for his television roles as villains, Bloch is descendant of Ukrainian-Jewish people and father of actress Débora Bloch.
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Fernanda Takai
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- composerwriterguitaristsingerrecording artist
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Fernanda Barbosa Takai is a Brazilian singer, better known as the lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist of rock band Pato Fu. She has also been working on a solo career since 2007.
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Enderson Moreira
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- association football managerassociation football player
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Enderson Alves Moreira, known as Enderson Moreira, is a Brazilian football coach, currently in charge of Peruvian club Sporting Cristal.
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Fernando Damata Pimentel
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- economistpoliticianteacher
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Fernando Damata Pimentel is a Brazilian politician and economist. He is a member of the Workers' Party (PT). He was the Mayor of Belo Horizonte from 2001 to 2009, the Minister of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade in the Cabinet of former Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff from 2011 to 2014 and the Governor of Minas Gerais from 2015 to 2019.
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Antônio Anastasia
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- politicianinternational forum participantlawyer
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Antonio Augusto Junho Anastasia is a Brazilian lawyer and politician, affiliated to the Social Democratic Party. He graduated with a bachelor's and later a master's from the Federal University of Minas Gerais's Law School.
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Sepúlveda Pertence
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- judgelawyer
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José Paulo Sepúlveda Pertence was a Brazilian jurist, magistrate, lawyer, and professor. He served as the Chief Justice of the Supreme Federal Court from 1995 to 1997, where he also worked as a Justice from 1989 to 2007. He was a Minister of the Superior Electoral Court from 1990 to 1994 and from 1999 to 2005, having presided over the court twice, during the biennia of 1993/1994 and 2003 to 2005. He was the Attorney General of the Republic from 1985 to 1989; Vice-President of the Brazilian Bar Association from 1977 to 1981; Vice-President of the National Union of Students from 1959 to 1960, and President of the Commission of Public Ethics of the Presidency of the Republic from 2007 to 2012. He was an Assistant Professor at the University of Brasília from 1962 to 1965.
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Rubens Menin
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- businessperson
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Rubens Menin Teixeira de Souza is a Brazilian billionaire businessman and co-founder, in 1979, of MRV Engenharia, Brazil's leading home builder, which has a market capitalization of $1.4 billion. As of March 2022, his net worth is estimated at US$1.3 billion.
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José Maria Alkmin
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- politicianlawyer
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José Maria Alkmin was the 15th vice president of Brazil from 1964 to 1967.
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Pedro Aleixo
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- journalistlawyerstatespersonpolitician
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Pedro Aleixo served as President of the Chamber of Deputies in 1937 and as the 16th vice president of Brazil from 15 March 1967 to 14 October 1969.
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Waldir Maranhão
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- politiciansurgeon
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Waldir Maranhão Cardoso is a Brazilian politician and a member of the Brazilian Social Democracy Party (PSDB). He was rector of the State University of Maranhão (Universidade Estadual do Maranhão) before being elected to the Chamber of Deputies in 2006. As Vice President of the Chamber (since 2007) he became Acting President of the Chamber of Deputies on 5 May 2016 following the suspension of Eduardo Cunha, until new elections were held on July 13, with Rodrigo Maia as the new president.
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Francisco Rezek
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- diplomatlawyeruniversity teacherjudgepolitician
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José Francisco Rezek is a Brazilian judge who served as a member of the International Court of Justice, based in The Hague, Netherlands, from 1996 to 2006. His surname "Rezek" comes from Lebanon.
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José Murilo de Carvalho
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- historianwriteruniversity teacherpolitical scientist
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José Murilo de Carvalho was a Brazilian historian. He obtained his PhD in political science from Stanford University, defending a thesis on the Brazilian Empire. He was professor emeritus at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and also taught at the Federal University of Minas Gerais. He was a visiting professor and researcher at the universities of Oxford, Leiden, Stanford, California (Irvine), London, Notre Dame, at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, and at the Ortega y Gasset Foundation in Madrid.
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Fernando Brant
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- songwriterscreenwriterpoetcomposerjournalist
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Fernando Rocha Brant was a Brazilian poet, lyricist and journalist, born in Caldas, Minas Gerais.
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Carlos Viana
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- journalist
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Carlos Alberto Dias Viana is a Brazilian journalist and politician, affiliated with Podemos (PODE) and currently a senator for Minas Gerais.
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Eleonora Menicucci
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- women's rights activistuniversity teachersociologist
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Eleonora Menicucci de Oliveira is a Brazilian sociologist and was Minister of the Secretariat of Policies for Women until Dilma Rousseff's Impeachment in 2016. She is a full professor in public health at Federal University of São Paulo. A member of the Workers' Party, and dedicated to feminism, she is favorable to the legalization of abortion in Brazil. Menicucci has a degree in Social Sciences from the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (1974), MA in Sociology from the Federal University of Paraíba (1983), Ph.D. in political science from the University of São Paulo (1990), post-doctorate in Health and Work of Women from University of Milan (1994/1995) and a teaching degree in Public Health from the School of Public Health, University of São Paulo (1996). She publishes research studies and articles on critical issues related to women in the fields of health, violence and labor. She is divorced and has two children.
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Otto Lara Resende
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- novelistjournalistwriter
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Otto Lara Resende was a Brazilian journalist and writer.
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Patrus Ananias
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- politicianlawyer
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Patrus Ananias de Sousa is a Brazilian lawyer and politician, member of the Workers' Party (PT). He was Minister of Agrarian Development during the second term of president Dilma Rousseff.
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Murilo Rubião
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- journalistprose writerwriterdiplomat
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Murilo Rubião was a Brazilian writer. His entire work consists of short stories, best described as surreal fables in the tradition of Franz Kafka - this being so, Rubião's work must be seen as part of the Magic Realism movement of late 20th-century Latin America. It is said that Rubião was obsessive about his work, revising it at every new edition, always changing a few details, such as characters' names.
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Inês Etienne Romeu
- Enrolled in the Federal University of Minas Gerais
- 1961-1963 studied political science and sociology
- 1965-1966 studied study of history
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- partisanhistoriangovernment employeeresistance fighter
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Inês Etienne Romeu was a Brazilian political prisoner held in extrajudicial detention in a Brazilian torture camp in the early 1970s. Romeu has been described as the sole captive to survive the camp. In 2014, Colonel Paulo Malhães testimony to the National Truth Commission revealed that Colonel of the Army Cyro Guedes Etchegoyen was the person in charge of the House of Death. He was head of the Army Information Center (CIE) from 1971 to 1974. He was also in charge of a group Brazilian military sent to train Augusto Pinochet's military personnel. Colonel Etchegoyen was trained at US Army School of the Americas. Paulo Malhães, would later claim that the purpose of the center was to convince suspected political opponents to serve as double agents against regime opponents. The main technique used to turn suspects into double agents was torture, which would be backed up by blackmail and clandestine payments.
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Theotônio dos Santos
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- economistuniversity teachersociologistpolitical scientist
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Theotônio dos Santos Junior was a Brazilian economist. He was one of the formulators of the Dependency Theory and supported the World-System theory.
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Leonardo Péricles
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- politician
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Leonardo Péricles Vieira Roque, also known as Leo Péricles, is a Brazilian politician. He is the president and founder of the Popular Unity (UP).
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Pedro Nava
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- physician writer
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Pedro da Silva Nava was a Brazilian writer and physician.
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Hélio Garcia
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- politician
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Hélio de Carvalho Garcia was a Brazilian lawyer and politician. He served as governor of Minas Gerais from 1984 to 1987 and again from 1991 until 1995.
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Affonso Romano de Sant'Anna
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- writeruniversity teacherpoetlibrarianjournalist
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Affonso Romano de Sant'Anna, is a Brazilian poet, essay writer, and professor.
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Antônio Augusto Cançado Trindade
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- university teacherjudgejurist
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Antônio Augusto Cançado Trindade was a Brazilian jurist and international judge. He was appointed as judge of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) from 6 February 2009. He was reelected to the Court in December 2017, and took office for his second term on 6 February 2018, serving until his death in 2022.
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Simon Schwartzman
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- sociologist
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Simon Schwartzman is a Brazilian social scientist. He has published extensively, with many books, book chapters and academic articles in the areas of comparative politics, sociology of science, social policy, and education, with emphasis on Brazil and Latin America. He was the President of the Brazilian Institute for Geography and Statistics (IBGE) and is a retired professor from the Federal University of Minas Gerais. He is member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences, holder of the Grand Cross of the Brazilian Order of Scientific Merit (1996). He is currently associate researcher at the Institute for Studies in Economic Policy Instituto de Estudos de Política Econômica / Casa das Garças - Rio de Janeiro.
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Autran Dourado
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- novelistjournalistwriter
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Waldomiro Freitas Autran Dourado was a Brazilian novelist.
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Célia Xakriabá
- Enrolled in the Federal University of Minas Gerais
- Graduated with doctorate in anthropology
- Graduated with bachelor's degree in indigenous education
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- activistpolitician
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Célia Nunes Correa, better known as Célia Xakriabá [ˈsɛli.ɐ ʃɐˌkɾi.ɐˈba], is an indigenous educator and activist of the Xakriabá people of Brazil. She is best known for holding debates and lectures at universities in Brazil promoting, among other things, advancement of the status and rights of indigenous women, indigenous land rights, and indigenous education.
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Áurea Carolina
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- politician
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Áurea Carolina de Freitas e Silva is a Brazilian politician, political scientist and sociologist. Although born in Pará, she has spent her political career representing Minas Gerais, having served as federal deputy representative since 2019.
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Célio de Castro
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- physicianpoliticianprofessor
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Célio de Castro was a Brazilian politician, professor and doctor. He served as the Mayor of Belo Horizonte, the capital of the state of Minas Gerais, from January 1, 1997 until November 2002.
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Rosângela Rennó
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- visual artistphotographer
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Rosângela Rennó Gomes is a Brazilian artist who lives and works in Rio de Janeiro. Her work consists of photographic images from public and private archives that question the nature of an image and its symbolic value. With the use of photographs, installations and objects, she appropriates and sheds new light on an anonymous body of photographs and negatives found mostly in flea markets, family albums, newspapers and archives. Rennó's interest in discarded images and habit of collecting were decisive in establishing her work strategies.
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Nilmário Miranda
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- politician
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Nilmário Miranda is a Brazilian politician, affiliated with the Workers' Party.
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Cyro dos Anjos
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- writernovelistpoet lawyerpoetjournalist
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Cyro Versiani dos Anjos was a Brazilian journalist, and writer.
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Magalhães Pinto
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- lawyerbankerpoliticiandiplomat
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José de Magalhães Pinto was a Brazilian politician and banker.
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Ana Martins Marques
- Enrolled in the Federal University of Minas Gerais
- Graduated with Master of Philosophy in Brazilian literature
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- editing staffwriterpoet
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Ana Martins Marques is a Brazilian poet.
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Fabiano Silveira
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- politicianlawyer
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Fabiano Augusto Martins Silveira is a Brazilian lawyer and politician. He is a legislative advisor to the Federal Senate of Brazil and was briefly the Minister of Transparency, Supervision and Control of Brazil.
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Paulo Nazareth
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- artist
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Paulo Nazareth is a Brazilian contemporary artist based in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. Nazareth has achieved notable acclaim for his distinctive approach to contemporary art, exemplified by multimedia, performance-based works, international exhibitions, and prestigious awards such as the PIPA Prize, solidifying his status as an influential figure in the global art scene.
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Melo Viana
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- politicianlawyer
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Fernando de Melo Viana was a Brazilian politician who was the 11th vice president of Brazil from 15 November 1926 to 24 October 1930 serving under President Washington Luís. As vice president, he also served as the President of the Senate. Later, he served as President of the 1946 Constituent Assembly.
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Fernando Brandão
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- researcherquantum physicist
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Fernando Brandão is a Brazilian physicist and computer scientist working on quantum information and quantum computation. He is currently the Bren Professor of Theoretical Physics at the California Institute of Technology and Director of Quantum Applications at Amazon Web Services. Previously, he was a researcher at Microsoft and a reader in Computer Science at University College London.
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Bonifácio José Tamm de Andrada
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- journalistlawyerwriterpolitician
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Bonifácio José Tamm de Andrada was a Brazilian politician affiliated to Democrats (DEM), law academic, university professor, political scientist and journalist.
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Lucy Seki
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- linguist
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Lucy Seki was a Brazilian linguist specializing in indigenous languages of the Americas. She authored a grammar of the Kamayurá language.
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Messias Pereira Donato
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- lawyertranslatormagistratejuristphilosopher
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Messias Pereira Donato was a Brazilian lawyer, teacher, writer, philosopher, magistrate and jurist. Born in Bahia, graduated in law at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), having held the judiciary work in Minas Gerais (MG) over 20 years, teaching for 22 years, as Professor of Labour Law Holder UFMG, having been Director of the Law School. In 1934, at age 13, was taken by his father, the farmer Henrique Pereira Donato, of Guanambi until Malhada- BA on the banks of the São Francisco River. Covered about 110 km mounted "by mule" a journey that took three days. From Malhada followed alone steam to Pirapora - MG and this came from railroad train to the end of twelve days of travel to get to Belo Horizonte, where he continued his studies.
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Jerônimo Garcia de Santana
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- politicianlawyer
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Jerônimo Garcia de Santana was a Brazilian politician and lawyer who served as the governor of Rondônia from 1987 until 1991. He was the first governor of Rondônia to be elected through direct election.
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Leonardo Marques
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- folk musiciansinger-songwriterrecord producer
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Leonardo Rios Marques is a Brazilian singer songwriter, music producer, sound engineer and owner of the Ilha do Corvo studios, and is one of the founders of the La Femme Qui Roule. record label. He studied at Fundação de Educação Artística in Belo Horizonte, the Silverlake Conservatory of Music in Los Angeles, California and at UFMG.
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Daniel Florêncio
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- film directorscreenwriterfilm editorfilm producer
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Daniel Pereira Florêncio is a Brazilian-born British film director, writer and producer.
