100 Notable alumni of
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
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The Federal University of Rio de Janeiro is 270th in the world, 7th in Latin America, and 2nd in Brazil by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Clarice Lispector
- Occupations
- painterscreenwriterwritertranslatornovelist
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Clarice Lispector was a Ukrainian-born Brazilian novelist and short story writer. Her distinctive and innovative works delve into diverse narrative forms, weaving themes of intimacy and introspection, earning her subsequent international acclaim. Born to a Jewish family in Podolia in Western Ukraine, as an infant she moved to Brazil with her family, amidst the pogroms committed during the Russian Civil War.
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Oscar Niemeyer
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- architectwriterdesigneruniversity teacherurban planner
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Oscar Ribeiro de Almeida Niemeyer Soares Filho, known as Oscar Niemeyer ( Brazilian Portuguese: [ˈoskaʁ ni.eˈmajeʁ]), was a Brazilian architect considered to be one of the key figures in the development of modern architecture. Niemeyer was best known for his design of civic buildings for Brasília, a planned city that became Brazil's capital in 1960, as well as his collaboration with other architects on the headquarters of the United Nations in New York. His exploration of the aesthetic possibilities of reinforced concrete was highly influential in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
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Enéas Carneiro
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- military personnelphysicistmathematicianauthortranslator
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Enéas Ferreira Carneiro was a Brazilian polymath, cardiologist, physicist, mathematician, professor, writer, military serviceman and politician. He represented the state of São Paulo in the National Chamber of Deputies (the lower house of the National Congress) and ran for presidency three times. He was founder and leader of the nationalist and conservative Party of the Reconstruction of the National Order (PRONA), which was usually seen as being far-right. Although Enéas rejected the left-right dichotomy, as they were "sides of the same coin", defining himself only as a nationalist.
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Jorge Amado
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- novelistpoliticianwriterjournalistpoet
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Jorge Leal Amado de Faria, known as Jorge Amado, was a Brazilian writer of the modernist school. He remains the best-known of modern Brazilian writers, with his work having been translated into some 49 languages and popularized in film, including Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands in 1976, and having been nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature at least seven times. His work reflects the image of a Mestiço Brazil and is marked by religious syncretism. He depicted a cheerful and optimistic country that was beset, at the same time, with deep social and economic differences.
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Eduardo Bolsonaro
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- advocatepoliticianescrivão de polícia
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Eduardo Nantes Bolsonaro is a Brazilian politician, lawyer and federal police officer. He is the third child of Jair Bolsonaro, the former president of Brazil. Since March 2022 he has been affiliated with the Liberal Party. Between 18 March and 20 July 2025, he was on leave from his position as Member of the Chamber of Deputies, residing in the United States, where he coordinated commercial sanctions for Brazil in an attempt to free his father from being legally judged according to Brazilian laws.
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João Dionísio Amoêdo
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- engineerpolitician
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João Dionisio Filgueira Barreto Amoêdo, also known as João Amoêdo, is a Brazilian banker, engineer and businessman. He is one of the founders of the New Party (NOVO), which he presided from September 2015 to July 2017, and was its candidate in the 2018 Brazilian presidential election.
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Candido Portinari
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- painterdraftspersonpolitician
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Candido Portinari was a Brazilian painter. He is considered one of the most important Brazilian painters as well as a prominent and influential practitioner of the neo-realism style in painting.
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Sabrina Sato
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- comediantelevision actormodelfilm actortelevision presenter
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Sabrina Sato Rahal is a Brazilian television presenter. She was a contestant on Big Brother Brasil 3 (2003) and a hostess on the comedy program Pânico na TV from 2004 until 2013. From 2014 to 2019, she had her own show on RecordTV.
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Henrique Meirelles
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- politicianeconomist
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Henrique de Campos Meirelles is a Brazilian manager and former Minister of Finance and an executive of the Brazilian and the international financial sectors and former president of Central Bank of Brazil (Portuguese: Banco Central do Brasil) where he remained in office from 2003 to 2011. He chairs J&F's board of directors, company that owns Banco Original, JBS and Vigor, among others. He is also a member of the board of directors of Azul Brazilian Airlines.
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Simone Tebet
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- politician
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Simone Nassar Tebet is a Brazilian academic, lawyer, and politician who has served as the Brazilian Minister of Planning and Budget since 5 January 2023. She previously was Senator for Mato Grosso do Sul from 2015 to 2023, Vice-Governor of Mato Grosso do Sul from 2011 to 2014, and mayor of Três Lagoas from 2005 to 2010, becoming the first woman to hold the latter two posts.
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Fátima Bernardes
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- journalistnews presenter
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Fátima Gomes Bernardes is a Brazilian journalist and TV host. She joined Rede Globo in 1987 as the host of RJTV, the regional news from Rio de Janeiro, and became widely known in 1989 when she hosted Jornal da Globo, the late night news program. She also hosted Fantástico, Jornal Hoje, and Jornal Nacional, where she was the news anchor from 1998 to 2011.
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Carlos Alberto de Nóbrega
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- screenwritertelevision presenterlawyerwriteractor
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Carlos Alberto de Nóbrega is a Brazilian comedian, television host, scriptwriter, producer, executive director, actor, writer and lawyer, son of fellow comedian Manuel de Nóbrega. He was a scriptwriter for comedy shows on TV Paulista, TV Rio and RecordTV. He wrote dozens of programs, including Família Trapo and A Praça da Alegria, and was also the writer for Os Trapalhões. Since 1987, he presents the humor show A Praça é Nossa, on SBT.
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Elke Maravilha
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- actorlibrariantelevision personality
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Elke Maravilha was a German-Brazilian actress, model and television personality. She lived in Brazil from her early childhood until her death.
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Viviane Araújo
- Enrolled in the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
- Studied physical education
- Occupations
- modelactor
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Viviane dos Santos Araújo is a Brazilian photographic model, actress and reality television personality.
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Jorge Lafond
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- female impersonatoractor
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Jorge Luiz Souza Lima, better known as Jorge Lafond, was a Brazilian actor, comedian, dancer, and drag queen. His main and most well known drag persona was that of Vera Verão.
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Carlos Lacerda
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- lawyerpoliticianjournalist
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Carlos Frederico Werneck de Lacerda was a Brazilian journalist and politician.
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Mateus Solano
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- film actoractortelevision actor
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Mateus Solano Schenker Carneiro da Cunha is a Brazilian actor.
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Augusto Boal
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- playwrightdirectorwritertheatrical directorscientist
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Augusto Boal was a Brazilian theatre practitioner, drama theorist, and political activist. He was the founder of Theatre of the Oppressed and Forum Theatre, a theatrical form originally used in popular education movements. Boal served one term as a Vereador (the Brazilian equivalent of a city councillor) in Rio de Janeiro from 1993 to 1997, where he developed legislative theatre.
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Ronaldo Caiado
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- physicianorthopedisttraumatologistpolitician
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Ronaldo Ramos Caiado is a Brazilian politician. An orthopedic physician trained at the School of Medicine and Surgery of Rio de Janeiro, he comes from a family landowners and politicians from Goiás. He is the grandson of Antonio Ramos Caiado, an oligarch who served as a member of the Chamber of Deputies from 1909 to 1921 and a senator from 1921 to 1930. Caiado served as chairman of the União Democrática Ruralista in the late eighties (1986–1989), an organization that aims to defend the interests of landowners.
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Roberto Burle Marx
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- landscape architect
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Roberto Burle Marx was a Brazilian landscape architect (as well as a painter, print maker, ecologist, naturalist, artist and musician) whose designs of parks and gardens made him world-famous. He is credited with having introduced modernist landscape architecture to Brazil. He was known as a modern nature artist and a public urban space designer. His work had a great influence on tropical garden design in the 20th century. Water gardens were a popular theme in his work. He was deftly able to transfer traditional artistic expressions such as graphic design, tapestry and folk art into his landscape designs. He also designed fabrics, jewellery and stage sets.
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Marco Aurélio Mello
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- judge
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Marco Aurélio Mendes de Farias Mello is a Brazilian former justice of the Supreme Federal Court of Brazil, appointed to the position by his cousin, former President of Brazil Fernando Collor de Mello.
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Carlos Chagas
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- academicscientific collectorbacteriologistentomologistphysician
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Carlos Justiniano Ribeiro Chagas, was a Brazilian sanitary physician, scientist, and microbiologist who worked as a clinician and researcher. Best known for the discovery of an eponymous protozoal infection called Chagas disease, also called American trypanosomiasis, he also discovered the causative fungi of the pneumocystis pneumonia. He described the two pathogens in 1909, while he was working at the Oswaldo Cruz Institute in Rio de Janeiro, and named the former Trypanosoma cruzi to honour his friend Oswaldo Cruz.
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Ivan Lins
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- film score composercomposerrecord producerjazz musicianpianist
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Ivan Guimarães Lins is a Latin Grammy-winning Brazilian musician. He has been an active performer and songwriter of Brazilian popular music (MPB) and jazz for over fifty years. His first hit, "Madalena", was recorded by Elis Regina in 1970. "Love Dance", a hit in 1989, is one of the most recorded songs in contemporary music.
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Adolfo Bezerra de Menezes
- Enrolled in the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
- 1851-1856 graduated with medicine
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- physician writerjournalistphilanthropistwriternovelist
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Adolfo Bezerra de Menezes Cavalcanti was a Brazilian doctor, politician, military officer, and influential figure in the early Spiritist movement in Brazil. He is often referred to as the "Kardec of Brazil" due to his significant contributions to the dissemination and establishment of Spiritism in the country.
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Rogério Skylab
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- classical guitaristwritercomposerpoetrecording artist
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Rogério Tolomei Teixeira, known professionally as Rogério Skylab, is a Brazilian singer-songwriter, lyricist, classical guitarist, author, blogger, record producer, actor and short-lived television presenter. Describing himself as a "corpse within MPB", his unique musical style which granted him a passionate cult following is characterized by minimalism, repetition and eclecticism, and his writings are permeated by grotesque, shocking and offensive imagery; acerbic allusions to popular culture; metafictional devices; absurdist, surreal and oftentimes macabre scenarios; pessimism; foul language; nihilism; and scatological and black comedy – although he has repeatedly denied that his work is purposefully humorous.
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Artur Ávila
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- mathematicianresearcherresearch fellowuniversity teacher
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Artur Avila Cordeiro de Melo is a Brazilian mathematician working primarily in the fields of dynamical systems and spectral theory. He is one of the winners of the 2014 Fields Medal, being the first Latin American and lusophone to win such award. He has been a researcher at both the IMPA and the CNRS (working a half-year in each one). He has been a professor at the University of Zurich since September 2018.
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Geraldo Vandré
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- lawyerwritercomposerpoetrecording artist
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Geraldo Vandré is a Brazilian singer, composer and guitar player.
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Sérgio Buarque de Holanda
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- literary criticwritersociologistpoliticianjournalist
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Sérgio Buarque de Holanda was a Brazilian historian, writer, journalist and sociologist. One of his main works, Raízes do Brasil, is widely regarded as a landmark in Brazilian social sciences. In the book, he develops the concept of the cordial man.
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Isabella Santoni
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- television actorstage actoractorfilm actor
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Isabella Ribeiro Santoni is a Brazilian actress. She became nationally known as Karina, the main role of the 22nd season of Malhação.
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Roberto Mangabeira Unger
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- politicianuniversity teacherlawyerphilosophereconomist
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Roberto Mangabeira Unger is a Brazilian philosopher and politician. His work is in the tradition of Western philosophy and classical social theory, and is developed across fields in legal theory, philosophy and religion, social and political theory, progressive alternatives, and economics. In natural philosophy he is known for The Singular Universe and the Reality of Time. In social theory he is known for Politics: A Work in Constructive Social Theory. In legal theory he was associated with the Critical Legal Studies movement, which helped disrupt the methodological consensus in American law schools. His political activity helped the transition to democracy in Brazil in the aftermath of the military regime, and culminated with his appointment as Brazil's Minister of Strategic Affairs in 2007 and again in 2015. His work is seen to offer a vision of humanity and a program to empower individuals and change institutions.
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Maria da Conceição Tavares
- Enrolled in the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
- 1956-1960 graduated with bachelor's degree in economics
- 1971-1975 graduated with doctorate in economics
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- university teacherpoliticiananalyststatisticianeconomist
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Maria da Conceição Tavares was a Portuguese naturalized Brazilian economist. She was a full professor at the State University of Campinas (Unicamp) and professor emeritus of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). Her students included the former president of Brazil, Dilma Rousseff and José Serra, candidate to president of Brazil on several occasions. Tavares was affiliated with the Workers' Party, and she was a Federal Deputy representing the state of Rio de Janeiro between 1995 and 1999. Left-wing focused, she was the author of several books on Brazil's economic development as well as numerous journal articles.
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Nathalia Timberg
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- television actorstage actoractorfilm actor
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Nathalia Timberg is a Brazilian actress. She is celebrated as one of the best and most well known Brazilian actresses of cinema, theater and television.
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Miguel Arraes
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- lawyerpolitician
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Miguel Arraes de Alencar was a Brazilian lawyer and politician. He was mayor of Recife, State Deputy, Federal Deputy and three times Governor of Pernambuco.
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Conceição Evaristo
- Enrolled in the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
- Graduated with licentiate in Bachelor of Letters
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- writerpoetlinguistuniversity teacher
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Maria da Conceição Evaristo de Brito is a Brazilian writer. Her work is marked by her life experiences as an Afro-Brazilian woman, which she calls escrevivência—a portmanteau of escrita (writing) and vivência (life experience). She was born into a humble family and is the second oldest of nine siblings, being the first in her household to earn a university degree. She helped her mother and aunt with washing clothes and deliveries, while studying.
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Cissa Guimarães
- Enrolled in the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
- Studied chemistry
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- actortelevision actorwriter
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Beatriz Gentil Pinheiro "Cissa" Guimarães is a Brazilian television presenter and actress.
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Lucio Costa
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- urban plannerarchitect
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Lúcio Marçal Ferreira Ribeiro Lima Costa was a Brazilian architect and urban planner, best known for his plan for Brasília.
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Emílio Santiago
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- singerguitaristrecording artist
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Emílio Vitalino Santiago, known as Emílio Santiago, was a Brazilian singer.
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Carlos Brito
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- businesspersonmanager
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Carlos Alves de Brito is a Brazilian businessman who is CEO of Belron, and was CEO of Anheuser-Busch InBev from 2008 to 2021.
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Eurico Miranda
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- lawyerpolitician
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Eurico Ângelo de Oliveira Miranda was a Brazilian politician, jurist and sporting director. He was best known for having been president of CR Vasco da Gama for two periods, from 2001 to 2008 and 2014 to 2018. Before that, he was sporting director and vice-president of the club between 1986 and 2000. He was also a federal deputy for Rio de Janeiro state between 1995 to 2002.
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Oswaldo Cruz
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- physicianmicrobiologistbacteriologist
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Oswaldo Gonçalves Cruz, was a Brazilian physician, pioneer bacteriologist, epidemiologist and public health officer and the founder of the Oswaldo Cruz Institute.
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André Esteves
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- computer scientistbanker
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André Santos Esteves is a Brazilian billionaire businessman. Among Brazilian billionaires, Esteves is ranked sixth with a net worth of US$6.9 billion, according to Forbes, as of March 2025. He is senior partner and chairman at BTG Pactual, the biggest investment bank in Latin America. He is a board member of Conservation International, Inteli and Council on Foreign Relations.
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Ary Barroso
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- actorfilm score composercomposerpianistsongwriter
- Biography
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Ary Evangelista de Resende Barroso ONM was a Brazilian composer, pianist, soccer commentator, and talent-show host on radio and TV. He was one of Brazil's most successful songwriters in the first half of the 20th century. Barroso also composed many songs for Carmen Miranda during her career.
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Ana Maria Machado
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- painterwriterchildren's writernovelistscholar
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Ana Maria Machado is a Brazilian writer of children's books, one of the most significant alongside Lygia Bojunga Nunes and Ruth Rocha. She received the international Hans Christian Andersen Medal in 2000 for her "lasting contribution to children's literature". She also won the SM Ibero-American Prize for Children's and Young Adult Literature in 2012.
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Celso Furtado
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- diplomateconomistpolitician
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Celso Monteiro Furtado was a Brazilian economist and one of the most distinguished intellectuals of the 20th century. His work focuses on development and underdevelopment and on the persistence of poverty in peripheral countries throughout the world. He is viewed, along with Raúl Prebisch, as one of the main formulators of economic structuralism, an economics school that is largely identified with CEPAL, which achieved prominence in Latin America and other developing regions during the 1960s and 1970s and sought to stimulate economic development through governmental intervention, largely inspired on the views of John Maynard Keynes. As a politician, Furtado was appointed Minister of Planning (Goulart government) and Minister of Culture (Sarney government).
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Heleno de Freitas
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- association football player
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Heleno de Freitas was a Brazilian footballer who played as a forward.
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Marcelo Gleiser
- Enrolled in the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
- Studied in 1982
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- astrophysicistastronomerphysicistjournalist
- Biography
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Marcelo Gleiser is a Brazilian-American physicist and astronomer. He is the Appleton Professor of Natural Philosophy and a professor of physics and astronomy at Dartmouth College.
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Moreira Franco
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- politiciansociologist
- Biography
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Wellington Moreira Franco is a Brazilian politician who served as the 54th Governor of Rio de Janeiro from 1987 to 1991 and Minister of Mines and Energy in 2018. He is a member of the Brazilian Democratic Movement (MDB).
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Joaquim Levy
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- bankereconomistpolitician
- Biography
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Joaquim Vieira Ferreira Levy is a Brazilian economist and Brazil's former Finance Minister. Levy took office on January 1, 2015, during the presidential inauguration of Dilma Rousseff's second term. He also was president of the Brazilian Development Bank (BNDES).
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Anísio Teixeira
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- educatorwriter
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Anísio Spínola Teixeira was a Brazilian educator, jurist, and writer. Teixeira was one of the reformers of Brazilian education of the early 20th century, being an advocate of progressive education in the country. He was one of the co-founders of the University of the Federal District, in 1935, and of the University of Brasília in 1960.
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Adhemar da Silva
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- actorathletics competitor
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Adhemar Ferreira da Silva was a Brazilian triple jumper. He won two Olympic gold medals and set five world records, the last being 16.56 metres in 1955 Pan American Games. In his early career he also competed in the long jump, placing fourth at the 1951 Pan American Games. He broke world records in triple jump on five occasions during his illustrious career. To date, he remains the only track and field athlete from South America to have won two Olympic gold medals.
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Antonio Tabet
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- screenwriterbloggerInternet celebrityactortelevision writer
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Antonio Pedro Tabet is an advertising, scriptwriter and Brazilian comedian. Tabet is one of the creators of the channel Porta dos Fundos, and is the creator of the now defunct website Kibe Loco. He was vice president of communication at Clube de Regatas do Flamengo between 2015 and 2017. Currently, he is among the stars of Borges Importadora.
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Mario Lago
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- stage actoractorradio drama actorwriterlawyer
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Mário Lago OMC was a Brazilian lawyer, poet, radio broadcaster, composer and actor.
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João Saldanha
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- association football coachassociation football playerjournalist
- Biography
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João Alves Jobin Saldanha was a Brazilian journalist and football manager. He coached the Brazil national football team during the South American Qualifying to the 1970 FIFA World Cup. Nicknamed João Sem Medo (Fearless João) by Nelson Rodrigues, Saldanha played for Botafogo. He then started a career in journalism and became one of Brazil's most prolific sports columnists. He often criticised players, managers and teams, and was a member of then-illegal Brazilian Communist Party (Partido Comunista Brasileiro – PCB).
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Ilan Goldfajn
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- politicianeconomist
- Biography
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Ilan Goldfajn is an Israeli-Brazilian economist, former governor of the Central Bank of Brazil and former director of the International Monetary Fund's Western Hemisphere Department. In December 2022, he became president of the Inter-American Development Bank.
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Benjamin Constant
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- mathematicianengineermilitary personnelpolitician
- Biography
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Benjamin Constant Botelho de Magalhães was a Brazilian military officer and political thinker. Primarily a positivist, influenced heavily by Auguste Comte, he was the founder of the positivist movement in Brazil (Sociedade Positivista do Brasil, Brazilian Positivist Society), and later this led to his republican views. He left the Brazilian Positivist Society because of internal disagreements, but remained an ardent pupil of Comte until the end of his life.
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Victor Meirelles
- Occupations
- painter
- Biography
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Victor Meirelles de Lima was a Brazilian painter and teacher who is best known for his works relating to his nation's culture and history. From humble origins, his talent was soon recognized, being admitted as a student at the Imperial Academy of Fine Arts. He specialized in the genre of history painting, and upon winning the Academy's Foreign Travel Award, he spent several years training in Europe. There he painted his best-known work, Primeira Missa no Brasil. Returning to Brazil, he became one of emperor Pedro II's favorite painters, joining the monarch's patronage program and aligning himself with his proposal to renew the image of Brazil through the creation of visual symbols of its history.
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Joaquim Manuel de Macedo
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- physician writerjournalistuniversity teacherwriterscience fiction writer
- Biography
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Joaquim Manuel de Macedo was a Brazilian novelist, medical doctor, teacher, poet, playwright and journalist, famous for the romance A Moreninha. He is considered the first Brazilian novelist.
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Larissa França
- Occupations
- beach volleyball playervolleyball player
- Biography
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Larissa França Maestrini is a Brazilian beach volleyball player. She is the all-time leader of beach volleyball titles, with 57 FIVB career gold medals, including the 2011 Beach Volleyball World Championships with Juliana Felisberta and the 2015 FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour with Talita Antunes.
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Francisco Dornelles
- Occupations
- economistlawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Francisco Dornelles was a Brazilian lawyer, economist, and politician. He was the lieutenant governor of Rio de Janeiro from 2015 to 2019 and was the interim Governor during March and October 2016 following the illness of governor Luiz Fernando Pezão. He represented Rio de Janeiro in the Federal Senate from 2007 to 2015, until he resigned from the post to take office as lieutenant governor. Previously, he served as a deputy from Rio de Janeiro and several positions in presidents José Sarney and Fernando Henrique Cardoso's cabinets from 1987 to 2007. He was a member of the Progressistas.
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Josué de Castro
- Occupations
- opinion journalistwriteracademicnutritionistdiplomat
- Biography
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Josué de Castro, born Josué Apolônio de Castro, was a Brazilian physician, nutritionist, geographer, writer, public administrator, and activist against world hunger.
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Arthur Virgílio Neto
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- diplomatlawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Arthur Virgilio do Carmo Ribeiro Neto better known as Arthur Virgilio or Arthur Neto, is a Brazilian politician and lawyer, career diplomat, member and one of the founders of the Brazilian Social Democracy Party. Since 2013, he serves as the mayor of his hometown Manaus, being re-elected for the office in 2016. Prior, Virgílio Neto already served as mayor of Manaus from 1989 to 1992.
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Dilian Francisca Toro
- Occupations
- politicianphysician
- Biography
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Dilian Francisca Toro Torres is a Colombian physician and politician, she served as Senator of Colombia from 2002 to 2013. She was investigated by the Supreme Court of Justice of Colombia on charges of money laundering, and remained under preventive detention from 25 July 2012 to 1 August 2013 at the Police Centre for Higher Studies (Cespo) in Bogotá. She currently serves as Governor of Valle del Cauca Department.
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Nelson Barbosa
- Occupations
- civil servantresearchereconomistpolitician
- Biography
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Nelson Henrique Barbosa Filho is a Brazilian economist and professor of economics. From 21 December 2015 to 12 May 2016, he was Brazil's Minister of Finance.
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Tomás Bulat
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- economistjournalistuniversity teachercolumnist
- Biography
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Tomás Ariel Bulat was an Argentine economist, journalist, writer, and professor. He was known for his report on channel A24. He wrote some books about the economy. Some of those books are La economía de tu vida, "Estamos Como Somos" and la Economía descubierta. Bulat was born in Buenos Aires.
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Mauro Vieira
- Occupations
- diplomat
- Biography
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Mauro Luiz Iecker Vieira is a Brazilian diplomat serving as Minister of Foreign Affairs of Brazil since 1 January 2023 under President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Vieira occupied the same office between 2015 and 2016 during President Dilma Rousseff's second term.
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João Pimenta da Veiga Filho
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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João Pimenta da Veiga Filho is a former communications minister of Brazil.
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Antônio Pedro de Siqueira Indio da Costa
- Occupations
- lawyerwriterpolitician
- Biography
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Antônio Pedro de Siqueira Indio da Costa, also known as Índio da Costa, is a Brazilian lawyer and politician. On June 30, 2010, it was announced that da Costa had been chosen as the vice presidential running mate by leading presidential candidate José Serra of the PSDB party.
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Mário Henrique Simonsen
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- bankereconomistengineer
- Biography
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Mário Henrique Simonsen was a Brazilian economist, who served as Brazil's finance minister from 1974 to 1979.
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Marcelo Madureira
- Occupations
- actorscreenwriterengineer
- Biography
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Marcelo Madureira is the stage name of Marcelo Barreto Garmatter, a Brazilian comedian. He was part of the troupe that developed and presented between 1992 and 2010, the comedy show Casseta & Planeta Urgente at Rede Globo. Along with another group member, Hubert, he writes the Coluna do Agamenon to the newspaper O Globo. He was professor of mathematics of an old Brazilian education program, MOBRAL and is a graduate in Production Engineering at the School of Engineering at UFRJ, having worked as an engineer in the Planning Department of the Brazilian Development Bank (BNDES). Madureira is a black belt in judo and has been married for 25 years to the psychoanalyst Claudia, with whom he had three children.
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Henrique Eduardo Alves
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Henrique Eduardo Lyra Alves is a Brazilian politician. A member of the Brazilian Democratic Movement Party, he was the President of the Chamber of Deputies (Speaker) of Brazil from 2013 to 2015. His father was Aluízio Alves.
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Elon Lages Lima
- Enrolled in the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
- Studied in 1952-1954
- Occupations
- mathematicianuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Elon Lages Lima was a Brazilian mathematician whose research concerned differential topology, algebraic topology, and differential geometry. Lima was an influential figure in the development of mathematics in Brazil.
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Marcello Alencar
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- computer scientistlawyeruniversity teacherpolitician
- Biography
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Marcello Nunes de Alencar was a Brazilian politician and lawyer. Alencar served as the Governor of the state of Rio de Janeiro from 1995 until 1999, as well as two tenures as Mayor of Rio de Janeiro from 1983 to 1986 and 1989 to 1993.
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Roberto DaMatta
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- writeranthropologistjournalist
- Biography
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Roberto DaMatta is a Brazilian anthropologist. He is an emeritus professor of anthropology at the University of Notre Dame. DaMatta graduated in history at the Fluminense Federal University and received his PhD from Harvard University.
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Suzana Herculano-Houzel
- Enrolled in the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
- 1989-1992 graduated with Bachelor of Science
- Occupations
- neuroscientist
- Biography
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Suzana Herculano-Houzel is a Brazilian neuroscientist. Her main field of work is comparative neuroanatomy; her findings include a method of counting neurons in human and other animals' brains and the relation between the cerebral cortex area and the thickness and number of cortical folds.
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Sidarta Ribeiro
- Enrolled in the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
- 1994-1994 graduated with master's degree in biophysics
- Occupations
- neuroscientistbiologist
- Biography
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Sidarta Tollendal Gomes Ribeiro is a Brazilian neuroscientist, writer, science communicator, and deputy director of the Brain Institute at Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), which he joined in 2008 as full professor.
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Lygia Pape
- Enrolled in the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
- In 1980 graduated with master's degree in aesthetics
- Occupations
- draftspersonsculptorgraphic artistinstallation artistfilmmaker
- Biography
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Lygia Pape was a Brazilian visual artist, sculptor, engraver, and filmmaker, who was a key figure in the Concrete movement and a later co-founder of the Neo-Concrete Movement in Brazil during the 1950s and 1960s. Along with Hélio Oiticica and Lygia Clark, she was an important artist in the expansion of contemporary art in Brazil and pushed geometric art to include aspects of interaction and to engage with ethical and political themes.
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Ismael Nery
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- painterarchitect
- Biography
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Ismael Nery was a Brazilian artist. His iconic work is Autorretrato, 1927 (Autorretrato Rio/Paris), a surrealist painting commonly compared to the Green Violinist of Marc Chagall and now in São Paulo Museum of Art.
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Anita Prestes
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- historianuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Anita Leocádia Benário Prestes is a German-Brazilian historian. She is the daughter of political activists Olga Benário Prestes and Luís Carlos Prestes.
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Dante de Oliveira
- Enrolled in the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
- Studied civil engineering
- Occupations
- politiciancivil engineer
- Biography
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Dante Martins de Oliveira was a Brazilian politician who was the governor of Mato Grosso state and the mayor of Mato Grosso's capital, Cuiabá, for three terms. He was also a federal deputy who became the Minister of Agrarian Development under president José Sarney from 1986 to 1987. He is well known for his work with the Diretas Já movement, which fought for the direct election of presidents in Brazil. As a federal deputy, he became most well known for proposing a constitutional amendment that would have mandated for direct presidential elections, the Dante de Oliveira Amendment.
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Pedro Ludovico Teixeira
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- politician
- Biography
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Pedro Ludovico Teixeira, better known as Pedro Ludovico was the founder of Goiânia, Brazil, and one of the most important figures in the history of the state of Goiás.
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Carlos Minc
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- university teacherpoliticiangeographerenvironmentalisteconomist
- Biography
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Carlos Minc Baumfeld is a Brazilian geographer, professor, environmentalist, politician and Minister of Environment in Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's second term as president of Brazil.
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Oliveira Viana
- Occupations
- juristprofessorsociologistpoliticianjournalist
- Biography
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Francisco José de Oliveira Viana was a Brazilian professor, jurist, historian, sociologist, and an imortal of the Brazilian Academy of Letters. He has been described as a conservative political theorist.
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Saturnino Braga
- Occupations
- engineerpolitician
- Biography
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Roberto Saturnino Braga was a Brazilian engineer and politician. A member of several political parties, he served in the Chamber of Deputies from 1963 to 1967 and from April to August 1968, was a senator from 1975 to 1986 and from 1999 to 2007, and served as mayor of Rio de Janeiro from 1986 to 1989.
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Manuel de Araújo Porto-Alegre
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- art historianjournalistteacherdiplomatpolitician
- Biography
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Manuel José de Araújo Porto-Alegre, Baron of Santo Ângelo, was a Brazilian Romantic writer, painter, architect, diplomat and professor, considered to be one of the first Brazilian editorial cartoonists ever. He is the patron of the 32nd chair of the Brazilian Academy of Letters.
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Humberto Teixeira
- Occupations
- politicianlawyerwritercomposerpoet
- Biography
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Humberto Cavalcanti de Albuquerque Teixeira was a Brazilian lawyer, politician, musician, and composer, mostly known for his partnership with musician Luiz Gonzaga. Together, they wrote one of the most important songs of their era, Asa Branca, in 1947. Teixeira is recognized as a specialist in baião as well as a "master of costumes and popular North-Eastern trends."
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Alceu Amoroso Lima
- Occupations
- literary criticwriterteacherreligiouspolitician
- Biography
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Alceu Amoroso Lima, also known under the pen name Tristão de Athayde, was a Brazilian essayist, literary critic, journalist, and activist.
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Moreira Alves
- Occupations
- judge
- Biography
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José Carlos Moreira Alves was a Brazilian Roman Law scholar and magistrate. He served as Prosecutor General of the Republic from 1972 to 1975 and was a Minister of the Supreme Federal Court from 1975 to 2003.
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Evandro Lins e Silva
- Occupations
- lawyerjudgejournalist
- Biography
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Evandro Cavalcanti Lins e Silva was a Brazilian lawyer, journalist, writer and politician. He was Prosecutor General of the Republic, Chief of Staff, Minister of Foreign Affairs, and Justice of the Supreme Federal Court.
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Adriana Behar
- Occupations
- beach volleyball player
- Biography
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Adriana Brandão Behar is a Brazilian former volleyball player of Jewish descent. She was inducted into the Volleyball Hall of Fame in 2010.
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Osvaldo Aranha
- Enrolled in the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
- In 1916 graduated with Bachelor of Laws
- Occupations
- diplomatlawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Oswaldo Euclides de Souza Aranha was a Brazilian politician, diplomat and statesman, who came to national prominence in 1930 under Getúlio Vargas.
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Roberto Gurgel
- Occupations
- lawyer
- Biography
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Roberto Monteiro Gurgel Santos is a Brazilian lawyer and a former Prosecutor General of the Republic.
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Benedito Gonçalves
- Occupations
- judge
- Biography
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Benedito Gonçalves is a Brazilian magistrate, currently a minister of the Superior Court of Justice (STJ). He was also a minister of the Superior Electoral Court (TSE) for the 2021-2023 biennium, as well as corregidor-general of the Electoral Justice.
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Graças Foster
- Enrolled in the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
- Graduated with master's degree in nuclear engineering
- Occupations
- chief officerchemical engineerbusinessperson
- Biography
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Maria das Graças Foster, commonly known as Graça Foster, is a Brazilian business executive and chemical engineer. She was the CEO of Petrobras-Petróleo Brasil, Brazil's state-controlled oil company, which is located in Rio de Janeiro. She was the first woman in the world to head a major oil-and-gas company. In April 2012, she was listed on the Time 100 list of the most influential people in the world. In 2014, she was recognized as the 16th most powerful woman in the world by Forbes magazine. She was ranked by Fortune in 2013 as "the Most Powerful Woman in Business" (outside the U.S.) for the second year in a row.
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Edgar Roquette-Pinto
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- anthropologistessayistteacherethnologistphysician writer
- Biography
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Edgar Roquette-Pinto was a Brazilian writer, ethnologist, anthropologist, and physician. He was a member of the Academia Brasileira de Letras and is regarded as the father of radio broadcasting in Brazil.
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Marcio Braga
- Occupations
- association football playerpolitician
- Biography
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Marcio Baroukel de Souza Braga, usually known as Marcio Braga was president of Flamengo until the end of the 2009 season. He was born in Rio de Janeiro. Márcio Braga was previously president of the club from 1977 to 1981, 1986 to 1989 and from 1991 to 1992. In 2009, Braga left Flamengo's presidency due to medical issues and after being suspended by the Court of Sporting Justice (TJD), he was replaced by Delair Dumbrosck.
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Affonso Eduardo Reidy
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- painterurban plannerarchitect
- Biography
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Affonso Eduardo Reidy was a Brazilian architect. He was the son of an English father and a Brazilian mother. Reidy entered the Escola Nacional de Belas Artes in Rio de Janeiro at age 17. He apprenticed with the French urban planner Alfred Agache (1875-1959) during his studies. Reidy graduated and became an architect in 1930. Lúcio Costa appointed him as a teaching assistant to the architect Gregori Warchavchik (1896-1972) at the Escola Nacional de Belas Artes in the same year.
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Esther Dweck
- Enrolled in the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
- 2002-2006 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
- Occupations
- writerresearcherprofessorpolitician
- Biography
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Esther Dweck is a Brazilian economist, professor and writer. As of 2022, she is a professor at the Institute of Economics of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. In December 2022, she was nominated the Minister of Management and Innovation in Public Services by the president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
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José Gomes Temporão
- Occupations
- politicianphysician
- Biography
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José Gomes Temporão is a Brazilian public health physician and politician, formerly of the Brazilian Democratic Movement Party, who later joined the Brazilian Socialist Party. He was Brazilian Minister of Health from 2007 to 2010, during the second term of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's administration.
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San Tiago Dantas
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- lawyerjournalistdiplomatpolitician
- Biography
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Francisco Clementino San Tiago Dantas was a journalist, lawyer, teacher and congressman, as well as Minister of Foreign Affairs during the presidency of João Goulart. He is considered one of the forerunners of the "Independent Foreign Policy", which sought to diversify Brazil's international relations and refused automatic alignments with any country or bloc. He was born and died in Rio de Janeiro.
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Beto Sicupira
- Occupations
- entrepreneur
- Biography
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Carlos Alberto Sicupira is a Brazilian billionaire businessman, a partner in 3G Capital, which owns or has major stakes in Burger King, H.J. Heinz Company, Anheuser-Busch InBev and Lojas Americanas. He lives in Switzerland.
