35 Notable alumni of
Federal University of Parana
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The Federal University of Parana is 990th in the world, 34th in Latin America, and 10th in Brazil by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 35 notable alumni from the Federal University of Parana sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Letícia Sabatella
- Occupations
- human rights activistactorsingerfilm directortelevision actor
- Biography
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Letícia Sabatella is a Brazilian actress and singer.
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Tiago Iorc
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- composersingersongwriter
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Tiago Iorczeski is a Brazilian singer-songwriter and record producer. As a child, he lived in England and in the United States. Despite having no musical background in his family, Tiago started playing the acoustic guitar at age 8.
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Rosângela Lula da Silva
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- politiciansociologist
- Biography
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Rosângela Lula da Silva, commonly known by her nickname Janja ( Portuguese pronunciation: [ʒɐ̃ʒɐ]), is the First Lady of Brazil as the wife of president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Previously, she was an assistant to the Director-General and coordinator of sustainable development programs at hydroelectric dam Itaipu Binacional, and a communications and institutional affairs advisor at electric utilities company Eletrobras.
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Edson Fachin
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- lawyerjudge
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Luiz Edson Fachin is a Brazilian jurist and lawyer. On June 16, 2015, he became a justice of the Supreme Federal Court. Before that, he was a professor of civil law of the Federal University of Paraná (UFPR).
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Sergio Moro
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- federal judgepoliticianlawyerjudge
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Sergio Fernando Moro is a Brazilian jurist, former federal judge, college professor, and politician. He was elected as a member of the Federal Senate for Paraná in October 2022. In 2015, he gained national attention as one of the lead judges in Operation Car Wash (Portuguese: Operação Lava Jato), a criminal investigation into a high-profile corruption and bribery scandal involving government officials and business executives. Moro was also Minister of Justice and Public Security under the presidency of Jair Bolsonaro from 2019 to 2020.
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Deltan Dallagnol
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- lawyer
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Deltan Martinazzo Dallagnol is a Brazilian politician affiliated to the New Party (NOVO). Dallagnol was also a federal prosecutor specialized in crimes against the national financial system and money laundering from 2003 to 2021. He is known for being the lead prosecutor of Operation Car Wash, an investigation into corruption in the Brazilian petroleum company Petrobras.
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Zilda Arns
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- pediatricianactivist
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Zilda Arns Neumann was a Brazilian pediatrician and aid worker.
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Rafael Greca
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- engineerpoliticianeconomist
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Rafael Valdomiro Greca de Macedo is a Brazilian engineer and politician, and the current mayor of Curitiba. He was minister of sport and tourism (1999–2000), state deputy (2003–06) and federal deputy from Paraná (2000–03). Greca was also mayor of Curitiba (from 1993 to 1996).
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Roberto Requião
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- politicianjournalistlawyer
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Roberto Requião de Mello e Silva is a Brazilian politician and journalist. He has represented Paraná in the Federal Senate two times, between 1995 and 2002 and from 2011 to 2019. Previously, he was governor of Paraná from 2003 to 2010. He was a member of the Brazilian Democratic Movement Party from 1980 to 2022, when he decided to leave the party to join the Workers' Party in order to run in the 2022 Paraná gubernatorial election. In April 2024, he left the Workers' Party in order to join the National Mobilization.
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Jaime Lerner
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- university teacherurban plannerpoliticianarchitect
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Jaime Lerner was a Brazilian politician. He was the governor of the state of Paraná, in southern Brazil. He is renowned as an architect and urban planner, having been mayor of Curitiba, capital of Paraná, three times (1971–1974, 1979–1983 and 1989–1992). In 1994, Lerner was elected governor of Paraná, and was re-elected in 1998.
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Blairo Maggi
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- agricultural engineerpoliticianbusinesspersonfarmer
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Blairo Borges Maggi is a Brazilian billionaire businessman, and former governor of the state of Mato Grosso.
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Eliezer Batista
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- businesspersonengineer
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Eliezer Batista da Silva was a Brazilian businessman, engineer and politician. In 1979, he was appointed president of Vale do Rio Doce, a multinational metals and mining corporation headquartered in Brazil, and within six years, increased the company's annual profits from $36 million to $920 million. Today, Vale S.A. is the largest producer of iron ore and nickel worldwide.
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Manoel Gomes
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- journalistwriter
- Biography
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Laurentino Gomes is a Brazilian journalist and writer. He is best known as the author of the trilogy of books that cover the history of Brazil and Portugal during the 19th century. He has already released two of the three books: 1808, about the transfer of the Portuguese Court to Brazil; and 1822, about the Independence of Brazil. He is about to release the third and final book of the series, 1889, about the Proclamation of the Republic.
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Enedina Alves Marques
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- teachercivil engineer
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Enedina Alves Marques was a Brazilian engineer and teacher who worked for the Paraná State's Department of Water and Energy. Upon graduating from the Federal University of Paraná in 1945 with a degree in civil engineering, she became the first black woman to receive an engineering degree in Brazil and the first woman to receive an engineering degree in Paraná State.
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Flávio Arns
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- politicianlinguist
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Flávio José Arns is a federal senator of Brazil representing his home state of Paraná. He was previously vice-governor of Paraná from 2011 to 2015, and also served in the chamber of deputies from 1991 to 2003.
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Leandro Narloch
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- writerjournalistpseudohistorian
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Leandro Narloch is a Brazilian journalist and writer. He worked as a reporter at Veja magazine and as an editor at Aventuras na História and Superinteressante magazines, all published by Grupo Abril.
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Miguel Krigsner
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- businessperson
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Miguel Gellert Krigsner is a Bolivian-Brazilian entrepreneur. He is the founder of the Brazilian company O Boticário, the second major cosmetic company in the Southern Hemisphere (Natura is the first). Krigsner is also the founder of the Fundação de Proteção à Natureza, one of the main Brazilian environmental NGOs. He also helped for the creation of the Holocaust Museum in Curitiba.
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Newton da Costa
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- mathematicianphilosopher
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Newton Carneiro Affonso da Costa was a Brazilian mathematician, logician, and philosopher. Born in Curitiba, he studied engineering and mathematics at the Federal University of Paraná in Curitiba and the title of his 1961 Ph.D. dissertation was Topological spaces and continuous functions.
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André Puccinelli
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- politicianphysician
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André Puccinelli is an Italian-Brazilian physician and politician, affiliated with the Brazilian Democratic Movement (MDB), being the first Italian and the first foreigner to become mayor of a city in Brazilian history. He was secretary of health for the State of Mato Grosso do Sul, state deputy, federal deputy, mayor of Campo Grande for two terms and elected and re-elected governor of Mato Grosso do Sul. André Puccinelli was born in Italy and moved to Brazil still a child.
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Ideli Salvatti
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- trade unionistpolitician
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Ideli Salvatti is a Brazilian politician. She became the first woman to be elected senator of the state of Santa Catarina. She was the Minister of Fisheries and Aquaculture in the Dilma Rousseff Government. She later worked in the Secretariat of Institutional Relations and Secretariat of Human Rights.
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Oriovisto Guimarães
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- politician
- Biography
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Oriovisto Guimarães is a Brazilian politician. He has represented Paraná in the Federal Senate since 2019 and he is a member of Podemos. He was president of Grupo Positivo and rector of the Universidade Positivo.
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José Richa
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- politician
- Biography
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José Richa was a Brazilian politician who served as a senator of the state of Paraná from 1987 to 1995, earlier having served as governor from 1983 to 1986. Prior to serving these positions, he was the mayor of Londrina from 1973 to 1977, and a federal deputy from the state from 1962 to 1970. After being one of the founding members of the Brazilian Democratic Movement (MDB), he later became one of the founding members of the Brazilian Social Democracy Party (PSDB) and was a member of the party until his death in 2003. His son, Beto Richa, later became the governor of Paraná after having been mayor of the capital Curitiba.
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Affonso Camargo
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- politician
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Affonso Alves de Camargo Netto was a Brazilian civil engineer and politician. He was the son of Pedro Alípio Alves de Camargo and Ismênia Marçallo de Camargo, grandson of the former governor of Paraná and descendant of the founder of Curitiba, bandeirante Baltasar Carrasco dos Reis.
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Reinhold Stephanes
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- politicianeconomist
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Reinhold Stephanes is a Brazilian economist and politician affiliated with the Social Democratic Party, who is currently serving as the Secretary of Public Management of Paraná. He was Minister of Agriculture, Labor and Social Security during the Collor, Fernando Henrique Cardoso and Lula administrations.
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Orlando Pessuti
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- politician
- Biography
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Orlando Pessuti is a Brazilian veterinarian and politician, affiliated with the Brazilian Democratic Movement (PMDB). He served briefly as the governor of the state of Paraná from 2010 to 2011. He had been previously elected vice-governor in 2002 and reelected in 2006. He became governor after the resignation of then-governor Roberto Requião as he was running for the Federal Senate. He was succeeded by Beto Richa.
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Alexandre Gomes
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- poker player
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Alexandre Gomes is a Brazilian professional poker player. He is a World Series of Poker bracelet winner, a World Poker Tour champion and a former Team PokerStars Pro.
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Carlos Fernández Valdovinos
- Enrolled in the Federal University of Parana
- In 1990 graduated with licentiate
- Occupations
- economist
- Biography
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Carlos Fernández Valdovinos is a Paraguayan economist. Between October 2013 and August 2018 he was the president of the Central Bank of Paraguay.
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Colombo Machado Salles
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- engineerpolitician
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Colombo Machado Salles was a Brazilian engineer and politician of the National Renewal Alliance (ARENA).
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Cristovão Tezza
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- screenwriterwriternovelistlinguistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Cristóvão Tezza is a Brazilian novelist and university professor.
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Clèmerson Merlin Clève
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- lawyerwriter
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Clèmerson Merlin Clève is a Brazilian jurist, Law school professor, and lawyer.
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Toni Reis
- Enrolled in the Federal University of Parana
- 1983-1989 graduated with licence ès lettres
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- human rights activistLGBTQ rights activistteacherphilosopherresearcher
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Antonio Luiz Martins Harrad Reis, known as Toni Reis, is a Brazilian activist and teacher. He is the former president of the LGBT organisation called Grupo Dignidade, and the former general secretary of the ABGLT of which he was a founding president in 1995, and a member of the international council of the Hirschfeld Eddy Foundation.
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Carol Dartora
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- activistpoliticianhistorianteacher
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Ana Carolina Moura Melo Dartora, known as Carol Dartora, is a Brazilian politician, teacher, historian, trade unionist and member of the Workers' Party (PT). She is currently a congresswoman for the state of Paraná, Brazil, having been elected at the 2022 Brazilian general election.
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Rogério Salles
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- politicianfarmereconomist
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José Rogério Salles is a Brazilian politician who was the governor of Mato Grosso from 2002 to 2003. He served briefly after the resignation of Dante de Oliveira, who himself resigned to run for the Federal Senate. Prior to this position, he was vice-governor under Oliveira from 1999 to 2002, and was the mayor of the city of Rondonópolis from 1994 to 1996. He is a member of the Brazilian Social Democracy Party (PSDB).
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Ewandro Stenzowski
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- opera singer
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Ewandro Stenzowski is a Brazilian operatic tenor and veteran of the Brazilian Marine Corps. He appeared in concerts and leading tenor roles in South America and Europe.
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Francisco Accioly Rodrigues da Costa Filho
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- politician
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Francisco Accioly Rodrigues da Costa Filho was a Brazilian lawyer, professor, and politician. He was a Senator of the Republic between 1971 and 1978.
